Two years after Disney's adaptation, Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid was given another go, this time by Saban, and originally produced for audiences in Japan & France before being imported to the US by independent syndicator Allen Bohbot.
However, Saban's Adventures of The Little Mermaid was a bust, with just 1 season of 26 episodes. Disney's series version, released a year later, got 3.
Saban, having brought in former DIC co-founder Jean Chalopin and another former DIC staffer, Bruno Bianchi, made the mermaid a blonde, renaming her Marina. Yes, there were musical numbers, same as with the Disney version, but the names were changed to avoid copyright infringement and, well, total embarrassment.
How this never made it to Nickelodeon, which was a primary business partner of Saban in those days, I'll never know. I never saw the show, so there's no rating. We'll leave you with the intro.
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