In 1987, HBO purchased the rights to the series and dubbed it into English. Production for the English version was done by the Montreal-based studio Cookie Jar Group (known then as Cinar). Actress Margot Kidder was hired as narrator, and the musical band Parachute Club provided songs for the series, which aired in the U.S. both in its original weekly episodic form and as a four-part mini-series edited from the TV episodes. This English version attempted to completely occlude the show's Japanese origins, going so far as to remove all Japanese names and studios from the credits and to credit key aspects of the animation to Westerners, which applied primarily to the CGI opening sequence. The English dub of the series aired in the United States on the Cookie Jar Toons block on This TV formerly.