Billie Lou Watt, et.al., remember Kimba, Astro Boy, Gigantor, and more

Recorded at a fan gathering in 1977, Billie Lou Watt, Ray Owens, Hal Studer, and Sonia Owens reminisce about their work on Kimba the White Lion, Astro Boy, Gigantor, and many other projects they dubbed into English.

Gilbert Mack was also part of their team, but he was not present for this recording. He had been there earlier, see this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN5jpGZAVns

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Film & Animation

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• Kimba
• the
• White
• Lion

[darkangel2347]

"Leo The Lion" aired in the US in 1984 on CBN (Christian Broadcasting Network) which is now ABC Family.

[iamstillmyself]

@darkangel2347 Right, but this clip was recorded in 1977, when the Leo the Lion series was still unavailable. It's a shame they didn't get Billie Lou Watt & Company to do the dubbing. They were great.

And I feel I should point out there is no relationship between the old CBN and ABC Family. CBN was bought by Fox (Fox Family), which was then bought by ABC. The only connection between the three companies is they used the same channel allocation on cable systems.

[darkangel2347]

I have now watched all 26 episodes of " Leo The Lion" on the uncut DVD set. And I loved it apart from the "wierd" English dubbing in the series. Still to this day, I still don't know who did the English dubbing on "Leo The Lion".