Did any of you ever watch a cult classic cartoon from back in the 1990's called Madeline? It's based on an old series of kids books nobody gives a crap about anymore about an orphan girl in Paris living in a boarding school and being all braver than the other girls there n stuff. For being an adaptation of an old book, I'm amazed at how much care everyone's favourite staunch union hating risk taker Andy Heyward put into it. Instead of the characters being loud, in your face, using dated 90's slang that made "Cowabunga dudes" sound fresh and relevant, having a cringy rap theme song or selling product tie ins with shallow plots that only aged well because of their cheese factor, the show was lighthearted, vibrant, and overall therapeutic. For the time it came out, it managed to stand out amongst all the more relevant shows of the time. Unfortunately, it's not as well remembered because when it aired on The Family Channel (Now FreeForm respectively), it aired on a competing time slot when something obviously better was on Nickelodeon (I having rural cable back then have no idea what that something better was as the rural cable package I grew up with didn't carry Nick until much later). Anyway, I've recently brought this show up in retro groups only to find out how very few people remember it (in all fairness, it tried to compete with Nickelodeon. Bad idea when you know something better can obviously crush you) and really, that's to our loss. Not often we get standout shows like this. Even then, they're lucky if they make it past one season. At least Madeline ran its course past one (even if it has a very convoluted broadcast history). Anyway, here's the Madeline cartoon all y'all might or might not have missed out on back in the day. Let me know what you think

Some Madeline trivia and its broadcast history in the replies 

i remember around the early 2000s the disney channel got some new episodes and had new voices for the girls as well.

@Benjanime - There's a reason for that. In the early 90's, a few years after Andy Heyward did a leverage buyout of Dic Entertainment from Jean Chalopin, the company now under Heyward's control struggled financially. He tried selling his company in hopes of getting it a more stable future. He went through Polygram Entertainment but that deal fell through quickly when they reviewed Andy's notorious track record when it came to taking risks. Eventually, he would find a potential buyer in Capitol Cities Group whom was the parent company of ABC and its subsidiary ESPN. Seeing how much of a money maker ESPN was, The Walt Disney Corporation bought out CCG and its subsidiaries in early 1996. This involved Dic. By this time, Madeline had long since moved to ABC. Immediately wanting nothing to do with Dic, they madr the best of the situation by moving Madeline to the Disney Channel and replacing the voice cast minus Christopher Plummer as the Narrator to Playhouse Disney. In 2000, Andy Heyward along with backing from Bain and Chase Capital Partners bought Dic from Disney Corporation whom had desperately tried to get rid of Dic since day one. Despite this, Disney would own most of their library at that point for another year until 2006 when Andy bought it back completely including Madeline. In 2002, Disney pulled the plug on it to make way for other pre school stuff. However, Nickelodeon aired a made for tv movie of it that year that unofficially concluded the series

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