In 1981, this episode was made into anime ( called " Doraemon Comes Back "), and in 1998, this was released as an anime movie.

* Episode 25 of the 1981 anime series Superbook involves this story.

When the first movie was released on February 22, 1981, it was regarded as the beginning of a new age of anime.

* The Japanese-French anime Ulysses 31 ( 1981 ) updates the ancient setting into a 31st-century space opera.

An interesting phenomenon has been the continuing collaboration between French and Japanese animators, resulting in a series of French-Japanese cartoons / anime, including such titles as Ulysses 31 ( 1981 ), The Mysterious Cities of Gold ( 1982 ), and more recently, Ōban Star-Racers ( 2006 ).

Sunrise is especially known for their mecha anime series ( including Gundam ) such as Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3 ( 1978 ), Fang of the Sun Dougram ( 1981 ), the Armored Trooper Votoms and Aura Battler Dunbine series ( 1983 ), Blue Comet SPT Layzner ( 1985 ), Patlabor ( 1989 ), The Vision of Escaflowne ( 1996 ), The Big O ( 1999 / 2003 ), Overman King Gainer ( 2002 ), Zegapain ( 2007 ), and Code Geass ( 2006 / 2008 ).

The series was adapted into an anime TV series produced by Kitty Films and broadcast on Fuji Television affiliates from 1981 to 1986 over 195 episodes.

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An anime adaptation ( ニルスのふしぎな旅 Nirusu no Fushigi na Tabi ) consisting of fifty-two 25-minute episodes was broadcast on NHK from January 8, 1980 — March 17, 1981.

* The Swiss Family Robinson: Flone of the Mysterious Island —( 1981 ) anime series.

The manga was adapted into an anime series by Toei Animation that ran from 1981 to 1986 consisting of 243 episodes and a remake series consisting of 74 episodes that ran from 1997 to 1999.

The Dr. Slump manga was made into two separate anime TV series ; the first, Dr. Slump-Arale-chan ( Dr. スランプ アラレちゃん ) ran from 1981 to 1986 and spanned 243 episodes, and the second anime, Doctor Slump, ran from 1997 to 1999 and lasted seventy-four episodes.

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Although it carries a strong roster of action and science-fiction anime titles, Tatsunoko has nevertheless become known also for several widely-acclaimed fairy tale and fantasy-based series for younger children, such as Minashigo Hutch ( 1970 ), The Adventures of Pinocchio ( 1972 ), Temple the Balloonist ( 1977 ), The Littl ' Bits ( 1980 ), and the Bible-based Superbook ( 1981 ).

Although founded in 1981 Kyoto Animation has only produced seven anime series as of 2007 on their own, five of them being television series adaptations, and two self-produced OVAs ( Munto series ), and have been involved in the production of Kiddy Grade, InuYasha, Nurse Witch Komugi, Tenchi Universe, and Generator Gawl.

is an anime series aired from 1980 to 1981.

is a 75-episode anime television series, created by Ryosuke Takahashi and Sunrise, and aired in Japan from October 23, 1981 to March 25, 1983 on TV Tokyo.

Category: 1981 anime

Brearley retired from Test cricket in 1979 and was succeeded by Ian Botham, who started the 1981 series as England captain, by which time the WSC split had ended.

Ashes series have generally been played over five Test matches, although there have been four-match series ( 1938 ; 1975 ) and six-match series ( 1970 – 71 ; 1974 – 75 ; 1978 – 79 ; 1981 ; 1985 ; 1989 ; 1993 and 1997 ).

In 1981, a divisional series was held due to a split season caused by a players ' strike.

In 1981, a split-season format forced the first ever divisional playoff series, in which the New York Yankees won the Eastern Division series over the Milwaukee Brewers ( who were in the American League until 1998 ) in five games while the Oakland Athletics swept the Kansas City Royals in three games in the Western Division.

Previously, because of a players ' strike in 1981, a split-season format forced a divisional playoff series, in which the Montreal Expos won the Eastern Division series over the Philadelphia Phillies three games to two while the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Houston Astros three games to two in the Western Division.

Bixby directed one episode of the series, " Bring Me the Head of the Hulk " in 1980 ( original airdate: January 9, 1981 ).

Later series of new Conan material include the Bantam editions ( 1978 – 1982 ), Ace Maroto editions ( 1978 – 1981 ), and Tor editions ( 1982 – 2004 ).

* On November 20, 1981, the CBC Radio series Nightfall aired an adaptation of Carmilla written by Graham Pomeroy and John Douglas.

Kane is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Simka Dahblitz-Gravas, wife of Latka Gravas ( Andy Kaufman ), on the American television series Taxi, from 1981 to 1983, and also for her role as Allison Portchnik in Woody Allen's Annie Hall.

* The 1981 BBC series The Borgias, starring Oliver Cotton as Cesare Borgia.

Among the commercial successes for German films of the 1980s were the Otto film series beginning in 1985 starring comedian Otto Waalkes, Wolfgang Petersen's adaptation of The NeverEnding Story ( 1984 ), and the internationally successful Das Boot ( 1981 ), which still holds the record for most Academy Award nominations for a German film ( six ).

After the genre had started to go out of fashion with mainstream audiences in 1981, the mod revival scene went underground and successfully reinvented itself through a series of clubs, bands and fanzines that breathed fresh life into the genre, culminating in another burst of creative acceptance in 1985.

* 1981 – A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.

* Thompson's poem was the inspiration for a series of 23 paintings by the American painter R. H. Ives Gammell ( 1893 – 1981 ).

In June 1981, the Army awarded AM General a contract for development of several more prototype vehicles to be delivered to the U. S. government for another series of tests, and the company was later awarded the initial production contract for 55, 000 HMMWVs to be delivered in 1985.

When the PC was introduced in 1981, it was designated as the IBM 5150, putting it in the " 5100 " series, though its architecture was not directly descended from the IBM 5100.

He resigned the captaincy after a loss and a draw in the first two Tests of the 1981 Ashes series.

* Giants ' Star ISBN 978-0-345-32720-8-July 1981 ( 3rd book in Giants series )

The Royals returned to the post-season in 1981, losing to the Oakland Athletics in a unique divisional series resulting from the split-season caused by the 1981 Major League Baseball strike.

* Fang of the Sun Dougram ( 1981 )

Issue # 100 of Marvel Comics Master of Kung Fu ( 1981 ) featured a story titled " Red of Fang and Claw, All Love Lost ".

Other chart hits during this period included Parton's chart-topping cover of the 1969 First Edition hit " But You Know I Love You " and " The House of the Rising Sun " ( both 1981 ), " Single Women ", " Heartbreak Express " and " Hard Candy Christmas " ( 1982 ) and 1983's " Potential New Boyfriend ", which was accompanied by one of Parton's first music videos, and which also reached the U. S. dance charts.

3Com shipped its first 10 Mbit / s Ethernet 3C100 transceiver in March 1981, and that year started selling adapters for PDP-11s and VAXes, as well as Multibus-based Intel and Sun Microsystems computers.

Laura Mulvey, in response to these and other criticisms, revisited the topic in “ Afterthoughts on ‘ Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema ’ inspired by Duel in the Sun ” ( 1981 ).

* 1893 – Soong Ching-ling, Chinese wife of Sun Yat-sen ( d. 1981 )

Smith's fielding play prompted the Yuma Daily Sun to use the nickname " The Wizard of Oz " in a March 1981 feature article about Smith.

Up to version 3. 7 of vi, created in October, 1981, UC Berkeley was the development home for vi, but with Bill Joy's departure in early 1982, to join Sun Microsystems, and AT & T's UNIX System V ( January, 1983 ) adopting vi, changes to the vi codebase happened more slowly and in a more dispersed and mutually incompatible ways.

* January 27 – Soong Ching-ling ( 宋慶齡 ), one of the Soong sisters, wife of Chinese president Sun Yat-sen ( 孫逸仙, 孫文 ) ( d. 1981 )

* It Happened the day the Sun Rose, and Other Stories ( 1981 )

* 1981 — NASA retrieves data from 1978 that shows a comet crashing into the Sun

In 1981, Miró's The Sun, the Moon and One Star — later renamed Miró's Chicago — was unveiled.

In 1981 Lily Sun took a trip to Sun Yat-sen mausoleum in Nanjing, People's Republic of China.

*** Soong Ching-ling 宋慶齡 / 宋庆龄 ( 1893-1981 ; Wenchang, Hainan ; born in Kunshan, Jiangsu ; Hakka pronunciation: Soong Khin Lin ), Second of the Soong Sisters ; Wife of Sun Yat-sen ; Honorary President of the People's Republic of China, 1981

* Land Of the Rising Sun ( 1981 )

*" House Of The Rising Sun " / " Buckfast Tonic " / " Let It Roll " ( 1981 )

Initially intended as a relaunch of the Bond book series following the death in 1964 of the character's creator, Ian Fleming, Colonel Sun instead ends up being the final book of the series ( discounting a " biography " of Bond and a pair of film script adaptations ) until John Gardner revives the literary James Bond in 1981.

Soong Ching-ling ( 27 January 1893 – 29 May 1981 ), also known as Madame Sun Yat-sen, was one of the three Soong sisters — who, along with their husbands, were amongst China's most significant political figures of the early 20th century.

* Shoot the Sun Down ( 1981 )

Published in 1981, it is one of Pratchett's first novels and one of only two purely science fiction novels he has written, the other being The Dark Side of the Sun.

Since appearing in the widely-popular Sound of Music, Plummer has appeared in a vast number of notable films, including Inside Daisy Clover ( 1965 ), The Night of the Generals ( cameo as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ) ( 1967 ), Oedipus the King ( 1968 ), The Royal Hunt of the Sun ( 1969 ), Battle of Britain ( 1970 ), Waterloo ( 1970 ), The Man Who Would Be King ( 1975 ), The Return of the Pink Panther ( 1975 ), The Silent Partner ( 1978 ), International Velvet ( 1978 ), Murder by Decree ( 1979 ), Somewhere in Time ( 1980 ), Eyewitness ( 1981 ), Dragnet ( 1987 ), Shadow Dancing ( 1988 ), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ( 1991 ), Malcolm X ( 1992 ), Wolf ( 1994 ), Dolores Claiborne ( 1995 ), 12 Monkeys ( 1995 ), Syriana ( 2005 ), The New World ( 2005 ), and The Lake House ( 2006 ).

In 1981 Perez was featured in a musical revue entitled Sun which enjoyed a long run in the Mexican capital.

* Place in the Sun ( 1981 )

Both Catching the Sun and Carnaval were gold selling albums ; Carnaval would become Billboard's # 7 jazz album of 1981.