Heidi: Girl of the Alps

About Heidi: Girl of the Alps

After becoming an orphan, Heidi is forced to live with her grandfather, who lives in the Alps. She learns he's a very bitter man who only accepted by force to take her in.

Heidi: Girl of the Alps is an animation series made for Fuji TV. It ran for one season of 52 episodes between January 1974 and December 1974.

Kazuko Sugiyama appears as Heidi (voice), Kohei Miyauchi as Alm-Uncle (voice), Noriko Ohara as Peter (voice), and Rihoko Yoshida as Clara Sesemann (voice). It is adapted from a novel.

Shelv files it under kodomo, shepherd, return to nature, and swiss alps. In the United States it streams on FilmBox Live Amazon Channel.

Nobody's Boy: Remi, Hello Anne: Before Green Gables, and Sword Art Online make useful companions to Heidi: Girl of the Alps. It scores 7.4 out of 10 from 227 TMDB voters.