Seabert
Seabert is an animated television series from 1985. It was created by BZZ films in Paris and originally aired in French before being translated into different languages around the world. In the United States, the show aired on HBO starting in 1987. There were 26 episodes (x 2 segments). The author is Marc Tortarolo for the theme, Philippe Marin for the design and Jacques Morel and Eric Turlot for the stories.
Episodes
Uncle Smokey takes Tommy to Greenland. Tommy meets a baby seal he names Seabert. Finding that his uncle is a baby seal hunter, Tommy leaves his side and takes Seabert to safety.
Smoky and his sidekicks prepare a seal hunt. These scoundrels intend to sell the furs of the baby seals and poor Tommy has not yet understood his uncle's evil plans.
Tommy and Seabert meet Aura and the three are given an important job to protect wildlife by the Eskimos. Meanwhile, Smokey and his gang give up trying to win Tommy's trust and try to hunt baby seals.
Tommy, Aura and Seabert follow a helicopter to a seal poaching camp ran by a man named Graphite. They sabotage Graphite's helicopter successfully, giving Graphite and his men the slip.
Tommy, Aura and Seabert are at home in Greenland. Tommy has decided to make a shortwave radio. Thanks to its equipment, our friends can be contacted from all over the world if animals are in danger.
Tommy, Aura and Seabert, now a team, are captured by Graphite and his men and locked up in the seal fur camp. Seabert, able to fit through tight spaces, goes off in search for help, but falls in a canyon crevice after being chased there by a polar bear. The Eskimos find Seabert and rescue him then proceed to confront Graphite's poaching camp to not only rescue Tommy and Aura, but also rescue the countless baby seals that are held captive there.
Smokey and his crew, running out of money, meet a professor who specializes in mimicry, and obtain a whistle that can mimic the sound of a seal in the hopes of catching more seals to profit from.
The Professor unwittingly gave three infamous characters the means to capture baby seals. Even Seabert falls into the trap. Tommy and Aura try to intervene before it's too late.
Graphite burns the fur warehouses and hold multiple villagers hostage and force them to hunt baby seals, in hopes of monopolizing the sealskin market.
Aura's family and friends are in danger. They were kidnapped by unscrupulous bandits who are taking them who knows where...
Tommy is troubled by the news about whale poachers. Tommy vows to stop the whale hunting solo and tells Aura to stay. Aura argues that she is useful to the team and Tommy decides to take her along. Tommy educates Aura on whale facts while Seabert films the whales under the water with Tommy's new video camera.
The whalers are distraught by Tommy swimming with the whales. Seabert helps to stop the whaler's by teaching the whales how to defend themselves against the boats. Tommy gets knocked unconscious by a whale accidentally. Using the opportunity the whalers kidnap him. Tommy escapes and discourages whalers to give up by being persistently annoying.
Tommy decides to turn over his footage from their previous adventure of discouraging the whalers. Tommy radios a man named "Watching Panda" and they meet up with a fellow wildlife protector. Tommy decides to turn over his footage to the UN but "Panda" asks them to help him rescue the turtle eggs from poachers.
Tommy devises a plan to prevent the turtles from coming onto the beach, but the turtles break through. The poachers return and Tommy confronts them. The poachers tie up and silence Tommy and Aura. The poachers knock Panda out, but the police is also there. They arrest the poachers and then proceed to rescue the kids.
Tommy tries to escape an underground hideaway after he is captured by Graphite, while Seabert searches for him.
Tommy is in big trouble. He is trapped 6 meters below the surface of the ice floe, in the secret cave of Graphite. Aura has no idea of the situation he finds himself in and Seabert is undoubtedly Tommy's one and only hope.
Tommy, Aura and Seabert enjoy a well-deserved rest after their tough fight against the seal hunters. They plan to spend the day playing with their snow scooter but we don't always do what we want...
The inhabitants of a peaceful little village in the depths of Greenland have no idea of the drama playing out nearby. Once again, Graphite and his acolytes are up to no good. Somewhere in an old factory, Seabert is in danger, just like a hundred other seals. Tommy has managed to track down his friend but the hardest part remains: freeing the baby seals before it is too late...
Seabert, Tommy and Aura are beginning to be known for their fight for the defense of animals. The whole world has heard about their adventures. They have already protected seals, turtles and whales. Whose turn is it now?
In the heart of Africa, Tommy and Seabert learn that ivory traffickers are massacring elephants. These men will do anything to get what they want, and if Tommy stands in their way, he will be in very grave danger...
Tommy decides to keep the promise he made to Seabert during the pursuit of the ivory traffickers. There is more than one water point in the reserve and in this heat, a good bath is very pleasant.
Tommy and Seabert are in a big hurry. They will join Harry King to warn him that he can arrest those responsible for the leopard massacre. But you have to act quickly, the culprits are moving away from minute to minute, hurry up Tommy!
Tommy and Seabert travel to a conference in Africa to show the film they made about saving animals, but a saboteur, hired by a mysterious man, tries to ruin the conference by stealing the film and replacing it with a film focusing on hunters killing animals.
There are problems on the horizon and Seabert is the only one who knows about them. He tries to make Tommy and Professor ?? understand what is happening.
Tommy and Seabert are out taking photos of Leopards at the waterhole and notice there are hardly any Leopards there. Tommy and Seabert go back to Harry's headquarters to relax. During the night, two thieves steal some paperwork. Tommy and Seabert chase after the thieves only to run out of gas.
Tommy and Seabert, on their way to pick up Aura from the docks, stumble upon the same thieves and board their ship looking for their stolen paperwork. After the ship takes off, they discover there are leopards in cages on board being smuggled. Tommy radios Harry but is caught by the smugglers and handed over to Graphite and his men. Aura and Seabert come to the rescue, they release the captured leopards and foil Graphite's plan yet again!
Tommy calls Aura to Paris to investigate a case of missing pets. They devise to use a rabbit named "Big Foot" to attract the attention of the petnappers. Seabert follows an ice block salesman who uses Seabert as a mascot to sell his ice.
Our two friends continue the adventures that brought them to this part of the world. For now, they are trying to solve the mystery behind the disappearance of all the pets in Paris. Seabert has vanished too. Tommy and Aura fear that the little seal has fallen into the hands of criminals conducting illegal experiments on small pets.
Tommy, Aura and Seabert visit Tommy's uncle in the Alpine mountains to learn how to ski. Meanwhile, poachers trick Tommy's uncle and convince him to hire them as working mechanics so they can hunt animals during the day.
Tommy and Seabert investigate after Aura spots an elk being shot. After losing their rifle to Seabert, the poachers try to head towards the border to avoid the authorities, but an avalanche causes them to be caught.
Tommy, Aura and Seabert are on their way home to Greenland on a ship. While vacationing, Aura is kidnapped by someone on the boat who is working for Graphite.
Seabert rescues Aura and then a popular band named "The Offenders" give hand to Team Seabert. They all foil Graphite's plans to keep team Seabert away from Greenland.
Tommy, Aura and Seabert home in Greenland, receive a distress call from a ship called the Borealis. The ship begins to sink while the Seabert team comes to the rescue.
The ship, the Borealis, was struck and severely damaged by a strange iceberg off the coast of Greenland. Tommy, Aura, and Seabert joined the Coast Guard in the search. They are intrigued by the curious behavior of the seals in the area. Meanwhile, Graphite and his men are catching baby seals in their ship which has been disguised to look like an iceberg. Seabert comes to the rescue and foils Graphite's plans.
Tommy, Aura and Seabert go with their friend to Africa to protect a rhino from being poached by ivory hunters. Smokey and his gang mess up a shipment of ivory by dropping a rhino horn into the bay and they have to replace it.
Seabert, Tommy, and Aura are in Africa with their friend Harry King. While trying to spot a rhinoceros, our friends come across something extremely curious.
Smokey and his gang set off in a submarine to capture sea otters. Meanwhile, Tommy and Aura notice that the sea otter population has been disappearing and investigate.
Smokey, Sulfuric and Carbonne become trapped at the bottom of the ocean in their submarine. Sulfuric is sent to the surface to get them help and he runs into the authorities. They rescue the sea otters along with Smokey and Carbonne.
Tommy, Aura and Seabert are sent to the Himalayas to answer the mystery of the disappearing white hares. The mountain locals claim that the Yeti is responsible, the trio go off in search of the Yeti.
Tommy, Aura, and Seabert found themselves face-to-face with an Abominable Snowman known as the Yeti. It appears he was killed by mysterious strangers.
While looking at the newspaper, Tommy notices an article about Panda hurting wildlife. The team then decide to head back to the village to prepare for an investigation. On their way there, a mysterious plane flies above them and chases the crew into a cave. The plane lands and a recording of baby seals lures the group into the plane.
Tommy, Bibifoc, and Ayma were kidnapped by Graphite. He intends to frame the children by showing the world photos of them hurting wildlife like they have already done to their other kidnapped friends. As they escape, they rescue Harry King, Panda, and Aura's father.
Sulfuric plants a bug on Tommy's shoe to listen in on the mission given to Tommy and Seabert. Sulfuric is sent to get a getaway vehicle while Smokey and Carbone get on the train that's transporting a Panda Bear.
Tommy and Seabert are traveling across Russia by train. They are heading to Paris with a special cargo: a giant panda! But a few hours after setting off, the train was stopped and our friends were kidnapped.
Tommy gets a radio call from a local named Don Ramon from Guatemala about bird poachers. Meanwhile, Smokey's crew is capturing tropical birds so they can sell to collectors. Back at the local's village, Tommy and Aura are told the Mayan lore of the Quetzal feathers. Smokey's gang, looking for the same birds, stumble onto a Mayan temple sanctuary with many of the birds surrounding the area.
Team Seabert catches up to Smokey's gang and save the village boy named Raul who was guiding them. They all get trapped in the temple sanctuary maze. Aura and Raul are separated from Tommy and Seabert, which fall into a trap. When Aura and Raul catch up to Smokey's gang, Raul warns Smokey about the curse of Quetzalcoatl. After a Mayan light show, a figure in a bird costume scares Smokey's gang leading them to release all the captured birds. The costumed man turns out to be Don Ramone. The day is saved again thanks to team Seabert.
Tommy, Aura, and Seabert are deep in the jungles of Zaire with Harry King. They have come to film gorillas in their natural habitat. But they have no idea that there are hunters in the area. Neither the gorillas nor our friends are aware of the danger that threatens them.
While filming a movie about gorillas in Africa, Tommy, Aura, and Harry King are captured by hunters. Our friends are tied up, and red ants are closing in. Seabert is their only hope.
Tommy, Aura and Seabert are camping in the heart of the Venezuelan forest, along the Orinoco River. They have come to photograph the the wildlife, but Graphite and his henchmen are chopping down the rain forest.
Seabert, Tommy, and Auraa find themselves in an Amazonian forest. They discover that some people have no qualms about destroying trees in order to get diamonds. After several adventures, our friends end up trapped in a tunnel where water—teeming with piranhas—begins to rise.
Graphite hires Uncle Smokey to unknowingly dump poison in the ocean. Meanwhile, Seabert is poisoned after eating a dead fish who fell victim of the poison.
Tommy, Aura, and Seabert have discovered that some criminals intend to poison the river and kill all the animal life. Our friends alert Tommy’s uncle, but he remains skeptical—and just then, the villains arrive on the scene.
