Alfred J. Kwak

Alfred J. Kwak
Logo of Alfred J. Kwak
Created byHerman van Veen
Written byAkira Miyazaki
Directed byHiroshi Saitō
Starring
Music by
Country of origin
  • Netherlands
  • Germany
  • Japan
  • Spain
No. of episodes52
Production
Executive producers
Producers
  • Kazuo Tabata
  • Sumio Takahashi
  • Manabu Tamura
  • Mutsuo Shimizu
Running time22−23 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkTV Tokyo
Release3 April 1989 (1989-04-03) 
29 March 1990 (1990-03-29)
NetworkVARA
Release24 December 1989 (1989-12-24) 
16 March 1991 (1991-03-16)
NetworkZDF
Release13 October 1990 (1990-10-13) 
16 February 1993 (1993-02-16)
NetworkTVE 1
Release20 April 1991 (1991-04-20) 
1992 (1992)

Alfred J. Kwak is a children's animated comedy-drama television series based on a Dutch theatre show by Herman van Veen, produced by Telecable Benelux B.V. in co-production with VARA, ZDF, Televisión Española, TV Tokyo, and animated by Telescreen Japan, and first shown in 1989. It consists of 52 episodes. The series characters were designed by Harald Siepermann. There are also toys and a comic based on the animated series.

The series has been broadcast in many countries and has been dubbed and subtitled in Dutch, French, Japanese, Greek, English, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic, Hungarian, Finnish, Serbian, Polish, German, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, Chinese, Czech, Romanian, Korean and Norwegian.

In 1991, Herman van Veen won the Goldene Kamera award for the cartoon.