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(lit. "Journey to the West"), also known by its English title ''Monkey'', also commonly referred to as "''Monkey Magic''" (the show's title song's title), is a Japanese television drama based on the Chinese novel, ''Journey to the West'', by Wu Cheng'en. Filmed in north-west China and Inner Mongolia, the show was produced by Nippon Television (NTV) and International Television Films in association with NHK, and broadcast from 1978 to 1980 on Nippon Television. == Release == Two 26-episode seasons ran in Japan: the first season ran from October 1978 to April 1979, and the second one from November 1979 to May 1980, with screenwriters including Mamoru Sasaki, Isao Okishima, Tetsurō Abe, Kei Tasaka, James Miki, Motomu Furuta, Hiroichi Fuse, Yū Tagami, and Fumio Ishimori. Starting in 1979, ''Saiyūki'' was dubbed into English by the BBC, with dialogue written by David Weir. The dubbed BBC version was broadcast under the name ''Monkey'' and broadcast in the United Kingdom by the BBC, in New Zealand by TVNZ and in Australia on the ABC. However, only 39 of the original 52 episodes were dubbed and broadcast by the BBC: all of series 1 was, but only half series 2 was. In 2004, the remaining episodes were dubbed by Fabulous Films Ltd by the original voice acting cast, following a successful release of the English-dubbed series on VHS and DVD; later these newly dubbed episodes were broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK. A Spanish-dubbed version of ''Monkey'' aired in Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay and the Dominican Republic in the early 1980s. While the BBC-dubbed ''Monkey'' never received a broadcast in the United States, the original Japanese-language version, ''Saiyūki'', was shown on local Japanese language television stations in California and Hawaii in the early 1980s. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Monkey (TV series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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