Oggy and the Cockroaches | |
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French: Oggy et les Cafards | |
Genre | Animated series Comedy-adventure Slapstick[1] |
Created by | Jean-Yves Raimbaud |
Directed by | Olivier Jean-Marie |
Voices of | Ben Small Keith Wickham Wayne Forester Tim Whitnall Marc Silk Nick Mercer Maria Darling Tamsin Heatley |
Music by | Hervé Lavandier (seasons 1–2) Hugues Le Bars (seasons 1–4) Vincent Artaud (season 5–7) |
Country of origin | France |
No. of seasons | 7 |
No. of episodes | 169 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer | Marc du Pontavice |
Producer | Marc du Pontavice |
Animators | Mathilde Mathieu Antoine Maucourt Aurélie Monteix Alyce Dion Cécilia Dermy Clélia Martini Raphaël Loriller (season 6–7) Lisa Martin Alexandre Vinot Thibaud Adam Zoé Hivert-Mallet Anaïs Poilpré Anaïs Patillat Manon Blateau Stella Jaimond Eric Bréchant Thomas Ferry Sovan Mono Var Zoé Jolly (season 7) |
Editors | Laure Charossuett Lou Bouniol Patrick Ducruet |
Running time | 6-14 minutes |
Production companies | Gaumont Multimedia (seasons 1–2) Xilam Animation (season 3–7) |
Original release | |
Network | France 3 (seasons 1-2) Canal+ Family (seasons 3-4) Gulli (season 5–7) Cartoon Network (season 2-3) Nickelodeon Sonic (season 3-7) Apple TV+ (season 1-3) |
Release | September 6, 1998 January 30, 2019 | –
Related | |
Oggy Oggy Oggy and the Cockroaches: Next Generation | |
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Oggy and the Cockroaches is a French animated television series. It was created in 1997 by Jean-Yves Raimbaud. The main characters are Oggy, Joey, Marky, Dee Dee and Jack. Season 4 onwards include the additions of Olivia and Bob. It is slapstick comedy with a good deal of comic violence.[2] The 5th and 6th seasons premiered on June 30, 2017 and on May 16, 2017 based off of the chronological themes of the movie. Season 7 premeired on March 19, 2018 while season 8 premeired on May 7, 2020 remaking previous episodes.
The show got adapted into a film in 2013, titled Oggy and the Cockroaches: The Movie, centering around Oggy's adventures in four timelines. In September 2020, the show was reported to be rebooted as Oggy and the Cockroaches: Next Generation, a series about Oggy taking care of a seven-year old female elephant named Piya from India. In August 2021, a CGI spin-off centering around a younger Oggy was made for younger children, called Oggy Oggy.