Season 1 • Episode 13
LatestBlake and Mortimer is an animated television series, based on the Blake and Mortimer comic book by Edgar Pierre Jacobs. The series was directed by Stéphane Bernasconi, and produced by Ellipse, and shown in 1997. The first nine stories were used in this series, as well as four brand new stories, devised by the creators: The Viking's Bequest, The Secret of Easter Island, The Alchemist's Will, and The Druid. New writers, mostly connected to the production company as writers, dialogists or translators, were asked to come up with original plotlines which used the characters of Jacobs' stories, respected the magical/scientific Universe, but rang interesting changes.
Writing
Four original episodes expand canon respectfully
Creator
Edgar Pierre Jacobs
Michel Papineschi
Mortimer (Voice)
Jacques Frantz
Narrateur
Olivier Proust
Sharkey (Voice)
Gilbert Lévy
Commissaire Pradier (Voice) Nasir (Voice) Ahmed Rassim Bey (Voice) Magon (Voice)
Yves Barsacq
Dr Grossgrabenstein (Voice) Sir Deloraine (Voice) Colonel Dorian Cartwright (Voice)
Daniel Lafourcade
Abdul (Voice)
Pierre Baton
Abdel Razek (Voice)
Jean-Pierre Leroux
Prof Labrousse (Voice)
Hervé Bellon
Prof Sato (Voice) Dr Septimus (Voice)
Jean-Claude Sachot
Juge Calvin (Voice) Sadi (Voice) Freddy (Voice) Duranton (Voice) Sir Harold Smith (Voice) Sato (Voice)
Pierre Hatet
Le Général (Voice) Basileus (Voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ellipse also animated the 1991 Tintin series, explaining the uncanny visual twinning — same animators, same obsessions.
Jacobs created Blake and Mortimer in 1946 as explicitly Belgian competition to Hergé's Tintin; the 1997 series finally let them share a studio.
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