Gaspard and Lisa (TV series) facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Gaspard and Lisa
Gaspard and Lisa title card
Genre	Children's Animated
Created by	Anne Gutman
Starring	Connor Fitzgerald Kisholi Perera-Merry
Country of origin	France United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	51 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	22 minutes
Production company(s)	Chorion
Release
Original network	Disney Junior CITV Channel Canal+ Family
Original release	1 May 2011 (2011-05-01) – 13 July 2013 (2013-07-13)

Gaspard and Lisa is an animated entertainment series aimed at pre-school children. The series is based on the books written by Anne Gutman and illustrated by Georg Hallensleben. The series was made as a co-production between Chorion and animation company Impossible TV.

Overview

Gaspard and Lisa engage in various adventures and activities. Though they try to do good deeds, their behavior sometimes causes disturbance to other people, especially Mr. Huget (pronounced hoo-zhay). When they learn that they have created a problem, they say, "Uh oh! Catastrophe!" But when they fix the problem, they shout, "Yes, triumph!"

Characters

What follows is a listing of the characters in Gaspard and Lisa:

Gaspard's family

• Gaspard (voiced by Connor Fitzgerald (UK), Peter Harris (US and Asia)): Gaspard is an anthropomorphic black dog who is the protagonist of the series. He wears a blue scarf, and lives in a high rise apartment. Like children his age, he attends school, and that school happens to be the same one attended by Lisa. Gaspard originated from a town outside Paris. He and his family moved to Paris a few years later. When he entered the Parisian school, it was there he met Lisa. He is also the newest member in his school. During his early days in class, he was a shy fellow whom the children laugh at because he brought a large bag with a lot of props. Thankfully, Lisa made him look special in front of them, and he got over his shyness. While he is a judo practitioner, Gaspard does have a slight fear of chickens.
• Charles: Charles is Gaspard's older brother. He is a chess enthusiast, and always wears headphones around his neck. Though he acts like a snob to Gaspard and Lisa sometimes, he also shows some acts of kindness.
• Gaspard's Dad (voiced by Simon Greenall): Gaspard's Dad wears a blue and green striped tie. He works as a newspaper columnist, and is even a competitive cyclist. He is also allergic to cats.
• Gaspard's Mom (voiced by Teresa Gallagher): Gaspard's Mom is a housewife and wears a purple pearl necklace.
• Granny Mathilde (voiced by Teresa Gallagher): Granny Mathilde is Gaspard's paternal grandmother. She lives in a blue house far from the city of Paris with a pet dog named Prince.

Lisa's family

• Lisa (voiced by Kisholi Perera-Merry (UK), Charlotte Cohen (US And Asia)): Lisa is an anthropomorphic white dog who is Gaspard's best friend. She wears a red scarf, and lives in the Pompidou Centre. Wherever Gaspard goes, Lisa is often with him, even on Gaspard's visits to his grandmother. She also likes to sing and dance, especially when it comes to cheering up Gaspard whenever he gets glum. Whenever she sobs, she sniffs but sheds no tears.
• Victoria (voiced by Bessie Cursons): Victoria is Lisa's older sister. Both she and Charles share the distinction of being occasionally snobbish to Gaspard and Lisa, although Charles is slightly nicer. She also seems to resent Lisa when she pushed her little sister's books off the shelf or scatter the puzzle Lisa made. Her only compliment to Lisa occurred when Lisa learned to ride a bicycle without training wheels.
• Lila (voiced by Teresa Gallagher): Lila is Lisa's baby sister. She wears a purple onesie. A full-length episode of the series tells the story of when Lila was born and how Lisa was jealous at first but then began to love her sister.
• Lisa's Papa (voiced by Tim Whitnall): Lisa's Papa wears a gray jacket.
• Lisa's Mama (voiced by Teresa Gallagher): Lisa's Mama Lisa's mother is a housewife and wears a green necklace.
• Lisa's Grandfather: Lisa's deep-voiced maternal grandfather wears a brown vest. He enjoys biscuits and is a bit of a magician. He also has a wife whom he has been married to for four decades.

Other characters

• Mlle Baladi: Gaspard and Lisa's teacher. She travels on a yellow bicycle. She also has a pet dog named Jean Claude whom she sometimes brings to her outings.
• Monseur Huget: An old man who happens to live in the same apartment Gaspard lives. He is often the brunt of trouble caused by Gaspard and Lisa's naivete.
• Bastian: One of Gaspard and Lisa's classmates.
• Adrian: A French boy of African heritage, and another of Gaspard and Lisa's classmates.
• Erica: The only known girl at the school.
• Victoria: One of Victoria's two friends, and the only one named. She gave a kitten to Lisa who in turn gave it to Monseur Huget.
• Madame Perrault: Mlle Baladi's colleague who has a passion for art.
• Monseur Delphy: The pet store owner.
• Madame Merosh: The baker.

Episodes

The episode titles are spoken by either Gaspard or Lisa. Every episode is approximately ten minutes long, except for Lisa's Little Sister which is about twenty minutes in length.

Broadcast

Gaspard and Lisa aired on ABC 4 Kids in Australia (29 July 2011 – 8 May 2015), TVOKids in Canada, TVNZ Kidzone24 in New Zealand, Nick Jr. in Southeast Asia, Disney Junior and CITV in the United Kingdom, and Nick Jr. and Disney Junior in the United States.

International Broadcast

• Australia
  • ABC 4 Kids
• Hong Kong
  • TVB Pearl

See also

In Spanish: Gaspard y Lisa para niños