Albert and Sydney (Doraemon English Dub, 80s/90s)

Nearly 2 years later, I'm here to say your memory is incredibly sharp.

The CRTC approved the "Adventures of Albert and Sidney" as Canadian content on June 6, 1986. It's hard to believe that's referring to a different show, especially as it's been categorized by the CRTC as a dub (which is what the "D" in the certification number refers to). The only really strange thing is that the run time is listed as 6 and a half minutes per episode.

According to ''Television/Radio Age'' magazine, "The Adventures of Albert and Sidney" was produced by Cinar Films.

www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-TV-Radio-Age-IDX/IDX/80s/1986/1987-01-19-RTVA-OCR-Page-0371.pdf

Cinar was an animation studio based in Montreal. That library should be owned by WildBrain (fka DHX Media).

I have two ideas: Either come in contact with Montreal voice actors of the 1980's, or WildBrain itself.

I imagine that Cinar was originally going to release this dub in the USA or Canada, yet it only made its way to Barbados of all countries.

Great discovery, areyoutyler . I suspected it would've been recorded in Montreal as few '80s dubs from Canada were done anywhere else, but Cinar's involvement cinched it. That connection also led me to finding out two other things:

• Cinar was distributing the show as 150, 10-minute episodes. This came from the same issue of Television/Radio Age magazine, but in a section about Canadian companies attending NATPE 1987.
  
  
• Albert and Sidney was produced for Turner Broadcasting System. Canadian musician Jérôme Langlois lists The Adventures of Albert & Sydney as a project he worked on, crediting the series to Cinar and Turner Broadcasting.

I've updated the Wiki article to reflect all of this new information. The Wiki currently has a separate article for the TBS dub, but that should be deleted and re-directed to the Albert & Sidney page. I wouldn't be surprised if one of these old TV trade magazines has some advertisements for the show. I spotted some interesting unrelated things, like this cool promotional poster for a dub of Dancougar that AFAIK never happened (page 215) and a not so cool one for Saban's Macron-1 (page 101).

Turner did stuff like this a lot. I mentioned Ultra Seven and G-Force in the article, but they were also involved with The Bush Baby's dub, which never aired in the United States. Makes me wonder if there are more shows we just haven't discovered yet.

They don't have the rights to this. Given it never showed up on Canadian TV, even when Cinar owned part of Teletoon, I'm inclined to believe they didn't have the license for very long.