The Smurfs

About The Smurfs

Classic Saturday-morning cartoon series featuring magical blue elf-like creatures called Smurfs. The Smurfs, named for their personalities, inhabit a village of mushroom houses in an enchanted forest.

The Smurfs is an animation, comedy, and kids series made for NBC. Don Messick leads the cast as Papa Smurf (voice), Lucille Bliss as Smurfette (voice), Frank Welker as Hefty Smurf (voice), and Michael Bell as Handy Smurf (voice).

It ran for 9 seasons and 422 episodes between September 1981 and December 1989. That is around 47 episodes a season. It is adapted from a comic.

Members will find playful, cat, single father, and wizard in it. In the United States it streams on Philo and YouTube TV. It scores 7.0 out of 10 from 603 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-G rating.

Garfield and Friends, Shameless, and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch make useful companions to The Smurfs, all filed under big family.