This is a series that was way ahead of its time. Every episode has a message. The first episode plants seeds of compassion in anyone (young and old) who watches it. Those seeds are watered with each episode. My (now grown) son has wonderful memories of watching this series as a child. He now enjoys watching them with his 3 year-old son. I'm heartbroken that these episodes are not available on DVD. Even on VHS many of them are hard to find. I grab them on ebay and Amazon whenever I find them. More people need to see these. With the huge boost in awareness about animals and the environment, re-released on DVD this series would be hugely popular!

Another one of the international cartoons that I remember as a child...and one that is strange.For starters the theme is still stuck in my head and I remember that more vividly that I do the actual cartoon.And then there is the theme.Back in the '80s and most of the '90s environmentalism was bipartisan. Democrats and Republicans both agreed that we needed a world to live on and we shouldn't make animals extinct.Shows you how much time has changed because now Seabert and Captain Planet are considered "liberal propaganda." If it aired on FOX the new heroes would be the bad guys that poisoned your drinking water and Seabert would be clubbed to death.All that and Drill baby drill.Really though, it has the same theme as Captain Planet, a catchier theme song, but is otherwise not as blatantly stupid and warm and sweet enough to endure to it.

in the USA North America versions. I was the USA based English language release version casting director and supervisor; and I was proud to become the voice of Graphite, under my persona and the animation team development, as the series evolved in the US. The series for North America was named Seabert, and eventually went to HBO. The animation was contracted production to Mill Valley Animation at the time, while Image One had casting and voice tracking assignments. The home video episodes can still be found in many rental/retail market outlets. I'm giving it a warm vote 7 out of 10 and out of personal affinity, noting that most cartoons in the 80's had little to do with "green, socially rewarding and altruistic" content. Plus, we really had some fun.

Somewhere buried in my VHS collection is an episode of this show, which i have long since forgotten. I believe it used to air on HBO in the mid 80s, and I supposed was re-dubbed in English under the name "Seabert", since this apparently is a French cartoon. The basic plot was Tommy and Ayma and their friend Seabert the seal in the frozen North, always foiling the evil plots of Uncle Smokey, a fur trader. Uncle Smokey and his dimwitted thugs were always trying to capture Seaburt in an attempt to get his fur (which was never actually mentioned to be his plan on the show, but now seems pretty obvious....and a little grim.) Besides that plot line which kids probably didn't understand, it was a decent children's show. I hope i can dig up that tape.