[S] "The Adventures of Franck and Friends"

I am willing to bet it wasn't successful all that much & was likely only shown in like, 2 countries before this Brazilian Portuguese dub was put on VHS in 1993.

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Darn! I thought this would be something that would be easy to find, but nothing so far. The closest thing to the title is a French series from 1989 called "Les Aventures de Franck et Foo Yang" but it isn't animated.

youtu.be/_MSk_xzol08?si=xLAVc4TObIfNTvLN

I tried searches in Portuguese and in Spanish for the title in those languages, but there is nothing like it. Maybe the fact that it was made for Children's Day could give a clue as to its origin? The only problem is that it varies from country to country.

Ironically the text on the top right says it was made for Children's Day in over 100 countries, but there is nothing showing up on Internet searches.

I'm 95% sure this is the case.

You see, back in the day, on the covers of VHS tapes (or even on TV too), usually some fact about the movie in question was emphasized a lot in efforts to try to attract customers/viewers and sell copies. The problem is that most of the time they were lies or something exaggerated beyond comprehension. Things like: "This film was shown in more than 75 countries and won 12 awards in Europe!" were common to see. In fact, this was a fairly common practice in Brazil. I have some examples:

1) This is the cover of a Brazilian VHS of "The Elmchanted Forest" (Čudesna šuma), a Croatian animated film from 1986. It wasn't very successful internationally (as far as I know...), but the cover still states that this was "a success at the Madrid International Film Festival and was in the 6th place among the best-selling films in Europe". I couldn't find any sources proving that this is true.

 

2) In the 90s, UNICEF, in partnership with TV Cultura, held an annual Children's Day television special on the latter's TV station. It featured cartoons from all over the world. Among them was this one, called "The Lion's Dream," which was falsely labeled at the time as "a stop-motion musical produced by UNICEF made especially for World Children's Day." It turns out that its original name was recently discovered, "Les Bestioles" featuring Henri Salvador. As expected, there was never anything related to UNICEF, much less Children's Day. Watch it here:

This whole thing, alongside the cover art not actually looking like the source material, is not surprising. It's a VERY common thing around the world:
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CoversAlwaysLie