LUCKY LUKE (1991 TV series)

Title: LUCKY LUKE Volume 1: Who's Mr. Joesph?

Manufacturer: Magnum Video

Date: 1995

Title: LUCKY LUKE Volume 5: Caffe Ole!

Manufacturer: Magnum Video

Date: 1995

Lucky Luke is a Belgian comics series created by Belgian cartoonist Maurice De Bevere, better known as Morris, and for one period written by René Goscinny. Set in the American Old West, it stars the titular character, Lucky Luke, the cowboy known to "shoot faster than his shadow".
Along with The Adventures of Tintin and Asterix, Lucky Luke is one of the most popular and best-selling comic-book series in continental Europe.  About half of the series' adventures have been translated into English. Lucky Luke comics have been translated into 23 languages, including many European languages, some African and Asian languages.

Lucky Luke in other media

 

Animation

Four theatrical animated films were created. In 1990, Disney released one of them, The Ballad of the Daltons, on VHS. Three of the movies were part of a trilogy. The first of the films was titled Daisy Town (1971), followed by La Ballade des Dalton (1978) and finished by Les Dalton en cavale (1983), meaning The Daltons on the Loose in English. In addition to the theatrical animated movies, there was also an animated Lucky Luke television series: In 1983, Hanna-Barbera studios and Morris released 26 episodes, and in 1991, 26 more episodes were released. In 2001, Xilam produced a new series of 52 episodes known as Les Nouvelles aventures de Lucky Luke (Lucky Luke's New Adventures) currently being broadcast on Cinemoi. It is now available on 8 DVDs with French and English audio tracks. This series also featured colonel Custer, in this incarnation an Indian-hater and a dwarf. Xilam recently produced a theatrical animated film (the fourth film), Tous à l'Ouest: Une aventure de Lucky Luke (Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure), which was released in France on December 5, 2007.

Television

1. Hanna-Barbera Lucky Luke (1983)
2. Xilam Les Adventures De Lucky Luke (2001)
3. Xilam Rantanplan (2008)
4. Xilam Les Dalton (2010)

Live-action film and Live-action television

In 1991, two live-action films (Lucky Luke and Lucky Luke 2) and in 1992 a live-action television series (The Adventures of Lucky Luke) starring Terence Hill as Lucky Luke were produced.
In 2004, the film Les Dalton featured Til Schweiger as Lucky Luke.
In 2009, Yves Marmion and UGC (the producers of Les Dalton) produced the film Lucky Luke starring French actor Jean Dujardin as the gunslinger. The film was released on October 21, 2009 in Europe.