Talis and the Thousand Tasks

Title: TALIS AND THE THOUSAND TASKS
Year: 2000/2001
Genre: 2D animated TV-series
Duration: 52 x 13 min
Age-Group: 8 - 12 years
Languages: English, German and French
Production: Millimage S.A./ CINE Cartoon/ France 3/ ZDF/ ZDF Enterprises/ ORF
Distribution: France Television, Millimage S.A
Written by: Isabeau Merle and others
Director: Frederic Mege
Design by: Sasha Bubnov
Synopsis: Talis lives in Arthurian times and is a knave who aspires to be a knight of the Round Table. But to achieve this he must fulfil a thousand tasks assigned to him by Merlin. Due to an unfortunate turn of events Talis enters the "Forbidden Gates of Time" and is unwittingly catapulted through the warps of time, from Dark Ages to the 21st century suburb of Purlieu. Mistaken for a foreign exchange student he is welcomed by the Field family and resides with them in their suburb home. From this moment on the Field family's life changed irrevocable, as does Talis!

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