The Littl' Bits

The Littl' Bits (森の陽気な小人たち ベルフィーとリルビット, Mori no Yōki na Kobitotachi: Berufi to Rirubitto; lit. Cheerful Dwarves of the Forest: Belfy & Lillibit) is a Japanese anime television series with 26 episodes, produced in 1980 by Tatsunoko Production in Japan in cooperation with Tokyo Channel 12. The series' Saban-produced English translation was featured on the American children's television network Nickelodeon as part of its Nick Jr. block from May 1, 1991, to April 30, 1995, alongside other children's anime series such as Adventures of the Little Koala, Maya the Bee, Noozles, and Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics. This dub was also shown in Australia on Network Ten, in New Zealand on TV3 and later TV2, in Canada on YTV and in the UK on BBC2 among other territories. In the interim, the series also enjoyed popularity across Europe, the Middle East and the Spanish-speaking world. Due to their similar size and naming scheme (a creation of the English dub; no such naming scheme existed in the original version), the Littl' Bits has been compared to the Smurfs.