In the Beginning: The Bible Stories (1997)
In the Beginning: The Bible Stories is an anime television series based on The Bible's Hebrew Scriptures created by Osamu Tezuka. The series was a coproduction between Nippon TV, Tezuka's Tezuka Productions, and Italy's government-owned broadcaster, Radiotelevisione Italiana. Although the series was in production during a period of several years in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was not aired in Japan until 1997, on the satellite channel WOWOW. The series has also been aired on TV in the United States, Italy, Spain and Germany. In the Beginning marked the fourth time Bible stories formed the basis of a Japanese-animated television series, following the two Superbook series and The Flying House, which were made for Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network by Tatsunoko Production in the early 1980s. In the Beginning features episodes devoted to most of the major Bible stories of the Old Testament, including the stories of the Creation, Cain and Abel, Noah's Ark, Abraham and Isaac, Joseph, Moses, David, and Solomon, with the final episode featuring the birth of Jesus Christ. As with the second Superbook series, some stories were stretched out over several episodes. Unlike Superbook and The Flying House, however, no contemporary characters from modern times were inserted into the stories, save for the series mascot and viewpoint character, Roco the fox .
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Episode 1 - The Creation
Release Date: 1997-04-01 -
Episode 2 - Cain and Abel
Release Date: 1997-04-02 -
Episode 3 - The Story of Noah
Release Date: 1997-04-03 -
Episode 4 - The Tower of Babel
Release Date: 1997-04-04 -
Episode 5 - Abraham, The Forefather
Release Date: 1997-04-07 -
Episode 6 - Sodom and Gomorrah
Release Date: 1997-04-08 -
Episode 7 - Isaac and Ishmael
Release Date: 1997-04-09 -
Episode 8 - Isaac's Destiny
Release Date: 1997-04-10 -
Episode 9 - Jacob's Children
Release Date: 1997-04-11 -
Episode 10 - Joseph's Triumph
Release Date: 1997-04-14 -
Episode 11 - Moses, The Egyptian
Release Date: 1997-04-15 -
Episode 12 - The Fire in the Desert
Release Date: 1997-04-16 -
Episode 13 - Moses and Pharaoh
Release Date: 1997-04-18 -
Episode 14 - The Exodus
Release Date: 1997-04-18 -
Episode 15 - Laws Carved in Stone
Release Date: 1997-04-21 -
Episode 16 - Israel's Treachery
Release Date: 1997-04-22 -
Episode 17 - New Alliance
Release Date: 1997-04-23 -
Episode 18 - Jericho
Release Date: 1997-04-24 -
Episode 19 - One King for Israel
Release Date: 1997-04-25 -
Episode 20 - King Saul
Release Date: 1997-04-28 -
Episode 21 - King David
Release Date: 1997-04-30 -
Episode 22 - King Solomon
Release Date: 1997-05-01 -
Episode 23 - The Exile of Israel
Release Date: 1997-05-02 -
Episode 24 - Release from Bondage
Release Date: 1997-05-06 -
Episode 25 - Prophets in the desert
Release Date: 1997-05-07 -
Episode 26 - The Birth of Jesus
Release Date: 1997-05-09The Birth of Jesus