Noddy, Toyland Detective Noddy, Toyland Detective Noddy, Toyland Detective is a computer animated series featuring the character Noddy created by Enid Blyton. The series was produced by DreamWorks Animation Television and Gaumont Animation. Commissioned by France Télévisions, it premiered on March 26, 2016, on the platform Zouzous, and aired on France 5, on April 2, 2016. The series was produced by Gaumont Animation and Dreamworks Animation Television, with the participation of France Televisions and Piwi+. The show was developed by Heath Kenny and Myles McLeod. Series Two premiered on Channel 5 on 22 October 2018. In France, the series premiered on March 26,
Enid Blyton events in their local community. Blyton rewrote the stories so they could be adapted into cartoons, which appeared in "Mickey Mouse Weekly" in 1951 with illustrations by George Brook. The French author Evelyne Lallemand continued the series in the 1970s, producing an additional twelve books, nine of which were translated into English by Anthea Bell between 1983 and 1987. Blyton's Noddy, about a little wooden boy from Toyland, first appeared in the "Sunday Graphic" on 5 June 1949, and in November that year "Noddy Goes to Toyland", the first of at least two dozen books in the series, was published.