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The Smurfs (actual title of the show does not use "the" as part of it) was a Hanna-Barbera cartoon series which aired on NBC from 1981 until 1990. It was based on the Belgian comic series The Smurfs by Peyo which features the group of blue people called Smurfs. It originally aired for one hour of programming time in its first season, then it was expanded to 90 minutes for the following seasons until 1988, when it returned to its original one-hour show length. It spawned a 30-minute syndicated version of the show called Smurfs Adventures in 1986, when it first debuted on various independent stations, and is now being aired on the Boomerang cable network. Each season featured its own separate intro sequence, depicting various changes in the show for that season.

History

In 1976, Stuart R. Ross, an American media and entertainment entrepreneur who saw the Smurfs while travelling in Belgium, entered into an agreement with Editions Dupuis and Peyo, acquiring North American and other rights to the characters. Subsequently, Ross launched the Smurfs in the United States in association with a California company, Wallace Berrie and Co., whose figurines, dolls and other Smurf merchandise became a hugely popular success. NBC television executive Fred Silverman's daughter had a Smurf doll of her own, and Silverman thought that a series based on the Smurfs might make a good addition to his Saturday-morning lineup.

The Smurfs secured their place in North American pop culture in 1981, when the Saturday-morning cartoon The Smurfs, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in association with SEPP International S.A., aired on NBC from 1981 to 1990. The show became a major success for NBC, spawning spin-off television specials on an almost yearly basis. The Smurfs was nominated multiple times for Daytime Emmy awards, and won Outstanding Children's Entertainment Series in 1982–1983. The Smurfs television show enjoyed continued success until 1990, when, after a decade of success, NBC cancelled it due to decreasing ratings.

The series currently airs in reruns on Boomerang, and 26 selected episodes were aired in DiC Entertainment's syndicated programming blocks. The series is still being shown regularly on many channels throughout the world. The cartoon was formerly distributed by Television Program Enterprises (later Rysher Entertainment), Tribune Entertainment (for DiC) and Worldvision Enterprises. The cartoon is now distributed direct from Warner Bros. Television; Time Warner is the current owner of all Hanna-Barbera properties (now known as Cartoon Network Studios), having inheirited them in their 1996 merger with Turner Broadcasting.

Warner Bros. has released Season 1 of Smurfs cartoon series on two DVD volumes in the United States in 2008, with the original intention of later seasons following the same trend. However, only five episodes from Season 2 were released on three single-disk sets each in 2009 and in the following years. At present, most of the episodes from Seasons 3 to 9 are available for download and streaming by Amazon Instant Video, Apple iTunes, and the Zune media service.

The animated versions of Papa Smurf and Brainy Smurf were featured in Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue along with Hefty Smurf, who had one speaking line in the beginning which was "Who Smurfed the bell?." Though Smurfette is on the cover of the poster and VHS with the other cartoons, she is the only cartoon character and Smurf to not have appeared at all in the special. Harmony Smurf made a small cameo as the Smurfs comic book was flipping through pages.

The Season 2 introduction's lyrics for the Smurf song are used in the 2011 Smurfs movie and also in the Smurfs Dance Party video game.

In October 2014, IMPS (International Merchandising, Promotion & Services) has made a deal with ODMedia and Expoza to digitalise and remaster the entire series in full HD and also cropped in widescreen for the official Smurfs YouTube channel. The "remastered" episodes presented are actually cropped into widescreen and sourced from the 1990s international restoration, as used on non-USA DVD releases, whereas the original American editions are still currently under restoration process.

Episode Listings

Season 1

1. The Astro Smurf (9/12/1981)
2. Jokey's Medicine (9/12/1981)
3. Vanity Fare (9/12/1981)
4. St. Smurf And The Dragon (9/19/1981)
5. The Magical Meanie (9/19/1981)
6. Sorcerer Smurf (9/19/1981)
7. Bewitched, Bothered, And Be-Smurfed (9/26/1981)
8. King Smurf (9/26/1981)
9. The Smurfs And The Howlibird (9/26/1981)
10. Soup A La Smurf (10/3/1981)
11. All That Glitters Isn't Smurf (10/3/1981)
12. Dreamy's Nightmare (10/3/1981)
13. Romeo And Smurfette (10/10/1981)
14. The Magic Egg (10/10/1981)
15. Smurphony In 'C' (10/10/1981)
16. Sideshow Smurfs (10/17/1981)
17. Supersmurf (10/17/1981)
18. Paradise Smurfed (10/17/1981)
19. Sir Hefty (10/24/1981)
20. The Baby Smurf (10/24/1981)
21. The Fake Smurf (10/24/1981)
22. Painter And Poet (10/31/1981)
23. Haunted Smurfs (10/31/1981)
24. The Purple Smurfs (10/31/1981)
25. The Fountain Of Smurf (11/7/1981)
26. The Magnifying Mixture (11/7/1981)
27. Foul Weather Smurf (11/7/1981)
28. The Hundredth Smurf (11/14/1981)
29. The Abominable Snowbeast (11/14/1981)
30. Gargamel The Generous (11/14/1981)
31. The Smurfette (11/21/1981)
32. Now You Smurf 'Em, Now You Don't (11/21/1981)
33. Spelunking Smurfs (11/21/1981)
34. The Smurf's Apprentice (11/28/1981)
35. Smurf-Colored Glasses (11/28/1981)
36. The Clockwork Smurf (11/28/1981)
37. Fuzzle Trouble (12/5/1981)
38. Smurfette's Dancing Shoes (12/5/1981)
39. The Smurfs And The Money Tree (12/5/1981)

Season 2

40. The Smurf Who Couldn't Say No (9/18/1982)
41. The Adventures Of Robin Smurf (9/18/1982)
42. The Cursed Country (9/18/1982)
43. S-Shivering S-Smurfs (9/25/1982)
44. Sister Smurf (9/25/1982)
45. The Black Hellebore (9/25/1982)
46. Revenge Of The Smurfs (9/25/1982)
47. The Three Smurfketeers (10/2/1982)
48. Heavenly Smurfs (10/2/1982)
49. It Came From Outer Smurf (10/2/1982)
50. The Sorcery Of Maltrochu (10/2/1982)
51. Squeaky (10/9/1982)
52. The Kaplowey Scroll (10/9/1982)
53. The Goblin of Boulder Wood (10/9/1982)
54. Gormandizing Greedy (10/9/1982)
55. Waste Not, Smurf Not (10/9/1982)
56. Johan's Army (10/16/1982)
57. The Lost City Of Yore (10/16/1982)
58. Magic Fountain (10/16/1982)
59. The Imposter King (10/23/1982)
60. For The Love Of Gargamel (10/23/1982)
61. The A-Maze-Ing Smurfs (10/23/1982)
62. The Haunted Castle (10/23/1982)
63. Smurfs At Sea (10/30/1982)
64. One Good Smurf Deserves Another (10/30/1982)
65. The Blue Plague (10/30/1982)
66. The Last Laugh (10/30/1982)
67. The Raven Wizard (11/6/1982)
68. The Ring Of Castellac (11/6/1982)
69. The Sky Is Smurfing! The Sky Is Smurfing! (11/6/1982)
70. Turncoat Smurf (11/6/1982)
71. The Return Of Clockwork Smurf (11/13/1982)
72. The Littlest Giant (11/13/1982)
73. Bubble, Bubble, Smurfs In Trouble (11/13/1982)
74. Smurf Van Winkle (11/13/1982)
75. The Prince And The Peewit (11/20/1982)
76. The Enchanted Baby (11/20/1982)
77. Clumsy Smurfs The Future (11/20/1982)
78. Sleepwalking Smurfs (11/27/1982)
79. Smurf Me No Flowers (11/27/1982)
80. The Good, The Bad, And The Smurfy (11/27/1982)
81. A Mere Truffle (11/27/1982)
82. The Stuff Dreams Are Smurfed Of (12/4/1982)
83. The Box Of Dirty Tricks (12/4/1982)
84. Papa's Wedding Day (12/4/1982)
85. All's Smurfy That Ends Smurfy (12/4/1982)

Season 3

86. Once In A Blue Moon 9/17/1983
87. All Creatures Great And Smurf 9/17/1983
88. The Smurf Fire Brigade 9/17/1983
89. The Winged Wizard 9/17/1983
90. Every Picture Smurfs A Story 9/17/1983
91. The First Telesmurf 9/24/1983
92. Handy's Kite 9/24/1983
93. The Magic Earrings 9/24/1983
94. The Last Smurfberry 9/24/1983
95. A Little Smurf Confidence 10/1/1983
96. Hogatha's Heart Throb 10/1/1983
97. Born Rotten 10/1/1983
98. The Tear Of A Smurf 10/1/1983
99. The Miracle Smurfer 10/1/1983
100. The Smurf Who Would Be King 10/8/1983
101. How To Smurf A Rainbow 10/8/1983
102. Smurfette For A Day 10/8/1983
103. Peewit Meets Bigmouth 10/8/1983
104. Lumbering Smurfs 10/8/1983
105. Handy's Sweetheart 10/15/1983
106. Speak For Yourself, Farmer Smurf 10/15/1983
107. A Hovel Is Not A Home 10/15/1983
108. Forget Me Smurfs 10/15/1983
109. The Grumpy Gremlin 10/15/1983
110. Clumsy Luck 10/22/1983
111. Willpower Smurfs 10/22/1983
112. Baby Smurf Is Missing 10/22/1983
113. The Smurfs' Time Capsule 10/22/1983
114. Wedding Bells For Gargamel 10/29/1983
115. To Smurf A Thief 10/29/1983
116. Greedy And The Porridge Pot 10/29/1983
117. Harmony Steals The Show 10/29/1983
118. The Golden Smurf Award 10/29/1983
119. The Moor's Baby 11/5/1983
120. Hefty's Heart 11/5/1983
121. A Hug For Grouchy 11/5/1983
122. The Magic Rattle 11/5/1983
123. All Hallows' Eve 11/5/1983
124. The Littlest Witch 11/5/1983
125. April Smurf's Day 11/12/1983
126. The Magic Stick 11/12/1983
127. Baby's First Christmas 11/12/1983
128. Beauty Is Only Smurf Deep 11/12/1983
129. Wolf In Peewit's Clothing 11/12/1983
130. A Bell For Azrael 11/12/1983
131. The Chief Record Smurf 11/19/1983
132. Smurfing In Sign Language 11/19/1983
133. A Chip Off The Old Smurf 11/19/1983
134. A Gift For Papa's Day 11/19/1983
135. Good Neighbor Smurf 11/26/1983
136. The Smurfstone Quest 11/26/1983
137. Hats Off To Smurfs 11/26/1983
138. The Noble Stag 11/26/1983
139. Smurfy Acres 11/26/1983
140. No Time For Smurfs 11/26/1983

Season 4

141. Symbols Of Wisdom 9/15/1984
142. Blue Eyes Returns 9/15/1984
143. The Secret Of The Village Well 9/15/1984
144. Stop And Smurf The Roses 9/15/1984
145. The Gingerbread Smurfs 9/15/1984
146. Jokey's Shadow 9/15/1984
147. Jokey's Funny Bone 9/22/1984
148. Tick Tock Smurfs 9/22/1984
149. The Master Smurf 9/22/1984
150. Tailor's Magic Needle 9/22/1984
151. The Traveler 9/22/1984
152. A Pet For Baby Smurf 9/22/1984
153. The Incredible Shrinking Wizard 9/29/1984
154. Breakfast At Greedy's 9/29/1984
155. The Secret Of Shadow Swamp 9/29/1984
156. The Trojan Smurf 9/29/1984
157. Smurf The Other Cheek 9/29/1984
158. A Float Full Of Smurfs 10/6/1984
159. Smurfette's Sweet Tooth 10/6/1984
160. Smurf On Wood 10/6/1984
161. The Smurfomatic Smurfolator 10/6/1984
162. Petrified Smurfs 10/6/1984
163. Papa's Worry Warts 10/13/1984
164. Lazy's Slumber Party 10/13/1984
165. The Pussywillow Pixies 10/13/1984
166. The Bignose Dilemma 10/13/1984
167. The Smurfbox Derby 10/13/1984
168. A Circus For Baby 10/20/1984
169. Babes In Wartland 10/20/1984
170. The Smurf-Walk Cafe 10/20/1984
171. The Smurfiest Of Friends 10/20/1984
172. Never Smurf Off 'Til Tomorrow 10/20/1984
173. Bigmouth Smurf 10/27/1984
174. Baby's Enchanted Didey 10/27/1984
175. The Man In The Moon 10/27/1984
176. Smurfette's Golden Tresses 10/27/1984
177. The Whole Smurf And Nothing But The Smurf 10/27/1984
178. Gargamel's Giant 10/27/1984
179. The Patchwork Bear 11/10/1984
180. Hefty And The Wheelsmurfer 11/10/1984
181. Hopping Cough Smurfs 11/10/1984
182. The Little Orange Horse With The Gold Shoes 11/10/1984
183. Monster Smurfs 11/10/1984
184. The Bad Place 11/10/1984
185. Smurfing For Ghosts 11/17/1984
186. The Gargoyle Of Quarrel Castle 11/17/1984
187. Smurfiplication 11/17/1984
188. Gargamel's Misfortune 11/17/1984

Season 5

1. The Smurflings (Season Premiere)
2. Sassette (Season Premiere)
3. Puppy
4. Alarming Smurfs
5. All Work And No Smurf
6. Baby's First Word
7. Bigmouth's Friend
8. Brainy Smurf, Friend To All The Animals
9. Brainy's Smarty Party
10. The Comet Is Coming
11. The Dark Ness Monster
12. Dreamy's Pen Pals
13. Educating Bigmouth
14. Gargamel's Time Trip
15. The Great Slime Crop Failure
16. The Grouchiest Game In Town
17. Happy Unhappiness Day To You
18. Have You Smurfed Your Pet Today?
19. He Who Smurfs Last
20. Kow-Tow, We Won't Bow
21. Love Those Smurfs
22. Marco Smurf And The Pepper Pirates
23. The Masked Pie Smurfer
24. The Mr. Smurf Contest
25. Mud Wrestling Smurfs
26. Mutiny On The Smurf
27. Papa's Day Off
28. Papa's Family Album
29. Papa's Flying Bed
30. Papa's Puppy Prescription
31. Poet's Writers' Block
32. Queen Smurfette
33. The Sand Witch (Beach Blanket Smurfs)
34. Smurf A Mile In My Shoes
35. Smurfette's Rose
36. Stuck On Smurfs
37. They're Smurfing Our Song
38. Things That Go Smurf In The Night
39. Unsound Smurfs
40. Wild And Wooly

Season 6

1. Smurfquest (Parts 1 to 4) (Season Premiere)
2. All The Smurf's A Stage
3. Baby's New Toy
4. Bookworm Smurf
5. Bringing Up Bigfeet
6. Can't Smurf The Music
7. Calling Dr. Smurf
8. Clumsy's Cloud
9. The Color Smurfy
10. Crying Smurfs
11. Dr. Evil And Mr. Nice
12. Don Smurfo
13. The Enchanted Quill
14. Essence Of Brainy
15. Farmer's Genie
16. Fire Fighting Smurfs
17. Future Smurfed
18. The Gallant Smurf
19. Gargamel's Dummy
20. Gargamel's New Job
21. Greedy Goes On Strike
22. Grouchy Makes A Splash
23. Handy's Window-Vision
24. Head Over Hogatha
25. Heart Of Gold
26. The Horn Of Plenty
27. I Smurf To The Trees
28. It's A Puppy's Life
29. Jokey's Cloak
30. Journey To The Center Of The Smurf
31. The Last Whippoorwill
32. Lazy's Nightmare
33. The Littlest Viking
34. A Loss Of Smurf
35. Lure Of The Orb
36. Master Scruple
37. The Most Popular Smurf
38. The Most Unsmurfy Game
39. A Myna Problem
40. No Smurf Is An Island
41. Papa's Last Spell
42. Papa Smurf, Papa Smurf
43. The Prince And The Hopper
44. Put Upon Puppy
45. Reckless Smurfs
46. The Root Of Evil
47. The Royal Drum
48. Sassette's Tooth
49. The Scarlet Croaker
50. Scruple's Sweetheart
51. Smurfette's Flower
52. Smurfette's Gift
53. Smurf On The Run
54. Smurfs On Wheels
55. Snappy's Way
56. Sweepy Smurf
57. The Tallest Smurf
58. Tattle-Tail Smurfs
59. The Village Vandal
60. The World According To Smurflings

Season 7

1. Smurf On The Wild Side (Parts 1 to 2) (Season Premiere)
2. All The News That's Fit To Smurf
3. The Answer Smurf
4. Azrael's Brain
5. Baby's Marvelous Toy
6. Bad Luck Smurfs
7. Bouncing Smurf
8. Castaway Smurfs
9. Chlorhydris' Lost Love
10. Clockwork Smurfette
11. To Coin A Smurf
12. Crooner Smurf
13. Cut-Up Smurfs
14. Dancing Bear
15. The Fastest Wizard In The World
16. Flighty's Plight
17. Foul Feather Fiend
18. Gargamel's Last Will
19. Gargamel's Quest
20. Gargamel's Second Childhood
21. Gargamel's Sweetheart
22. Hefty's Rival
23. A Hole In Smurf
24. I Was A Brainy Weresmurf
25. Jokey's Joke Book
26. Legendary Smurfs
27. Little Big Smurf
28. Locomotive Smurfs
29. A Long Tale For Grandpa
30. The Magic Sack Of Mr. Nicholas
31. Nobody Smurf
32. Papa For A Day
33. Peewit's Unscrupulous Adventure
34. Poet The Know-It-All
35. Poet's Storybook
36. Poltersmurf
37. Predictable Smurfs
38. Prince Smurf
39. The Return Of Don Smurfo
40. Sassette's Bewitching Friendship
41. Sassette's Hive
42. Scruple And The Great Book Of Spells
43. Sing A Song Of Smurflings
44. Skyscraper Smurfs
45. Sleepless Smurfs
46. Smurfette's Lucky Star
47. Smurfette Unmade
48. Smurfing For Gold
49. Smurfing Out Of Time
50. Smurfing The Unicorns
51. The Smurflings' Unsmurfy Friend
52. Smurf Pet
53. The Smurfstalker
54. The Smurf Who Could Do No Wrong
55. The Smurfy Verdict
56. Snappy's Puppet
57. Soothsayer Smurfette
58. Stop And Go Smurfs
59. Swapping Smurfs
60. Timber Smurf
61. Vanity's Closest Friend
62. Vanity's Wild Adventure
63. Where The Wild Smurfs Are
64. Wild About Smurfette

Season 8

1. Lost Smurf (Season Premiere)
2. Archives Of Evil
3. Bigmouth's Roommate
4. Bungling Babysitters
5. Clockwork's Powerplay
6. Clumsy In Command
7. Don Smurfo's Uninvited Guests
8. Denisa's Greedy Doll
9. Denisa's Slumber Party
10. Grandpa's Nemesis
11. Grandpa's Walking Stick
12. A House For Nanny
13. It's A Smurfy Life
14. Land Of Lost And Found
15. Long Live Brainy
16. A Maze Of Mirrors
17. Memory Melons
18. Nanny's Way
19. Pappy's Puppy
20. Shutterbug Smurfs
21. Smoogle Sings The Blues
22. A Smurf For Denisa
23. Smurf The Presses
24. Stealing Grandpa's Thunder

Season 9

1. The Smurfs That Time Forgot (Parts 1 to 3) (Season Premiere)
2. Cave Smurfs
3. Hogapatra's Beauty Sleep
4. Mummy Dearest
5. Shamrock Smurfs
6. Karate Clumsy
7. Like It Or Smurf It
8. Papa's Big Snooze
9. A Fish Called Snappy
10. The Smurf Odyssey
11. Trojan Smurfs
12. Fortune Cookie
13. Imperial Panda-Monium
14. Smurfette's Green Thumb
15. Hefty Sees A Serpent
16. Phantom Bagpiper
17. Jungle Jitterbugs
18. The Clumsy Genie
19. Scary Smurfs
20. Sky High Surprise
21. Gnoman Holiday
22. Greedy's Masterpizza
23. The Monumental Grouch
24. Curried Smurfs
25. G'Day Smoogle
26. Grandpa's Fountain Of Youth
27. Big Shot Smurfs
28. No Reflection On Vanity
29. Papa Loses His Patience
30. Swashbuckling Smurfs
31. Painter's Egg-Cellent Adventure
32. Small Minded Smurfs
33. Bananas Over Hefty
34. The Smurfs Of The Round Table
35. Wild Goes Cuckoo
36. Brainy's Beastly Boo-Boo
37. The Golden Rhino
38. Hearts 'N 'Smurfs

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