Mr. Men in French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Greek, Icelandic, Hebrew, Mandarin, Korean, Irish and others. These stories were published as Little Owl Storytime – "The Children's Choice". The Mr. Men characters were adapted into two animated television series in 1974 that consisted a total of 28 episodes. They were produced by Terry Ward's company, Flicks Films (formerly known as 101 Film Productions) in partnership with Trevor Bond and broadcast by the BBC. The voices and narration were provided by Arthur Lowe, best known from his role as Captain Mainwaring in the sitcom "Dad's Army," who used regional accents for some of
Mr. Men agreement to acquire the rights to the Mr. Men and Little Miss characters from Chorion after the company was forced into administration. This marked the first time that Sanrio had licensed a third-party character since owning the rights to Osamu Tezuka's Unico character in the late 1970s and early 1980s, which was returned to Tezuka Productions after Tezuka's death in 1989. They also own the rights to the Peanuts characters in Japan. In 2016, four new characters were launched to celebrate the series' 45th anniversary, Mr. Marvellous, Mr. Adventurer, Little Miss Fabulous and Little Miss Sparkle. In addition, Adam Hargreaves