Pippi Longstocking is a Canadian-German-Swedish animated television series produced by AB Svensk Filmindustri, TaurusFilm, TFC Trickompany Filmproduktion, and Nelvana based on the book series drawn and written by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren.It was led by German director Michael Schaack. The story editor and chief writer for the series was Ken Sobol. His son John Sobol also wrote several episodes.


Melissa Altro as Pippi Longstocking
Richard Binsley as Mr. Nilsson
Noah Reid as Tommy Settergren
Olivia Garratt as Annika Settergren
Len Carlson as Thunder-Karlsson
Wayne Robson as Bloom
Rick Jones as Constable Kling
Philip Williams as Constable Klang
Ben Campbell as Captain Ephraim Longstocking
Chris Wiggins as Fridolf
Jill Frappier as Mrs. Prysselius
Karen Bernstein as Mrs. Ingrid Settergren
Ray Landry as Mr. Settergren


The show aired on Teletoon (Canada) starting the day the channel launched, October 17, 1997. It was also shown on HBO (United States), Nickelodeon Latin America and Brazil, Nickelodeon, Channel 4, Pop and Pop Girl (United Kingdom), Boing (Italy), Cartoon Network (Asia), Arutz HaYeladim (Israel), Cartoon Network and TV Tokyo (Japan), and Disney Channel (Germany). It later ran on YTV in Canada, Qubo in the United States, France 5 in France, Boomerang in Japan, and Disney Junior and KiKa in Germany.


The series aired for two seasons, with 26 half-hour episodes being made in total.