

Camping Episode: "A Detective Goes Camping" has the title character going out camping in the woods for a week to find new footprints for his book.It's often either his wife Jozette or the chef Soufflé to keep him in place. Big Eater: Archduke likes to eat a lot of food.Archduke lost the bet as the accidents on the railway were caused by Archduke's own mishap on making the train whistle at the highest pitch, though Archibald tells the mayor that he won't have to scrap the railway as he suggests adding a buffet car for the train so Soufflé can have a job to cook. "Stop That Train!" has Archduke and Soufflé betting on the new railway system being a success after the chef complains that the train doesn't stop at his restaurant."The Heatwave" has Edison and Miss Julie betting on what the weather forecast for the week is on the island.
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Adaptation Title Change: The original book series was called "The Adventures of Archibald the Koala on Rastepappe Island", but the cartoon was simplified to just the title character.

In the United States, it aired on Cartoon Network's preschool block Small World, then reran again on Sprout a year after the channel was formed until Comcast took over and removed all shows from HiT Entertainment, PBS, and Sesame Workshop.Īrchibald the Koala provides examples of the following tropes: The show originally aired in the United Kingdom on ITV's children's block, CITV. Because of the strange things happening on the island, the citizens rely on Detective Archibald to solve the cases. Its city, Koalaville, is filled with colorful characters including a nervous mayor, a hopeless inventor, a lazy fisherman, a short-tempered chef, and a bossy painter. The show takes place on a secluded island called "Rastepappe", which is populated by anthropomorphic koalas and badgers.

Actor Richard Griffiths voices the title character. It was originally a series of children's books written and illustrated by French artist Paul Cox in the early 1990s and was known as "The Adventures of Archibald the Koala on Rastepappe Island". Archibald the Koala is a 13 minute 52-episode British cartoon that aired from September 1998 to July 2000, produced by Millimages and HIT Entertainment.
