AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS DVD SERIES

Our rewards will be sweet, if we keep our world neat.ĭon't let your thoughts get in a rut the knife which spreads may also cut. We always help ourselves whenever we help others. To win life's game without a fall, keep your eyes open and on the ball. The little things in life are like links in a chain: they never seem important by themselves. There is a time and a place for everything.Īlways think a problem through, before deciding what to do. On the other hand: If you're over confident, you might miss the boat. The motto of the wise is, be prepared for surprises.ĭon't jump to conclusions, or conclusions may jump on you.ĭoubting your chances before you're done, may cost you the race you might have won. Places and proverbs in each episode Number of chapter

The episode ends with Fogg saying 'Good show, Passepartout!'.

The proverb Fogg introduced at the beginning of the episode also proves to be essential for their success.

Eventually, all the items Fogg and Passepartout took with them prove to be essential.

During the journey, Fogg finds the time to explain the history and geography of the locations they visit.

Fogg and Passepartout follow their itinerary, while Fix tries to stop them.

Fix describes aloud about his plan to stop Fogg.

Fogg asks Passepartout to pack the bag with a seemingly random collection of items.

Fogg describes their destination to Passepartout.

įogg manages to complete his journey by the end of the programme's single-season run, winning Belinda's hand with little time to spare. Unlike his counterpart in Verne's novel, Fix is not a Scotland Yard detective attempting to arrest Fogg on suspicion of bank robbery. Fix ( Max Osbiston), to interfere with Fogg and Passepartout's journey. Fogg and Passepartout dispense geographical knowledge to the audience at each of their stops. They employ all the methods of transportation available in the late 19th century-balloons, trains, elephants, and steamships-in the course of their journey. The two men also make a side bet of £20,000.įogg is accompanied by his valet, Jean Passepartout ( Ross Higgins), and Passepartout's pet monkey, Toto. Fogg proposes a wager: if he can travel around the world in eighty days, then Lord Maze will give him Belinda's hand in marriage if Fogg fails, he will abandon her. In this story, Fogg is passionately in love with Belinda Maze ( Janet Waldo), whose uncle, Lord Maze ( Owen Weingott), sternly disapproves of the commoner Fogg marrying his niece. More comedic in tone than Verne's novel, the motives of Phileas Fogg ( Alastair Duncan) differ from those of his literary forerunner. Leif Gram directed all 16 episodes, and the stories were loosely adapted by Chester 'Chet' Stover from the 1873 novel by Jules Verne. It was the first Australian-produced cartoon to be shown on American network television.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS DVD SERIES

Around the World in Eighty Days is an animated television series that lasted one season of 16 episodes, broadcast during the 1972–1973 season by NBC.

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