Editing Maple Town (section)

==Broadcast history==
The original ''Maple Town'' series aired on Sunday mornings in Japan on TV Asahi, from January 19, 1986, until January 11, 1987.<ref name=mapletv/> Following its 52nd episode, its follow-up, {{Nihongo|''New Maple Town Story: Palm Town Chapter''|新メイプルタウン物語-パームタウン編 |Shin Maple Town Monogatari: Palm Town Hen}}, aired in the same time slot.{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}}

The first ten episodes of the English dub by Saban Entertainment and The Maltese Companies premiered in [[Broadcast syndication|barter syndication]] in 1987<ref name=tv-age/><ref name=Erickson/> as a trial run on US television,<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KeUCAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Maple+Town%22&pg=PA181|title=Television Listings: Weekdays, April 22–24 and 27–28|page=181|date=April 27, 1987|volume=20|issue=17|access-date=2009-12-31|journal=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|publisher=New York Media LLC}}</ref> then sixteen more episodes premiered on [[Nickelodeon]],<ref name=tv-age/> where it aired until September 1, 1989. It then aired on [[Freeform (TV channel)|The CBN Family Channel/The Family Channel]] from September 4, 1989<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZURPAAAAIBAJ&pg=4470,4901057|title=Today's listings|date=September 4, 1989|website=Toledo Blade|access-date=2019-09-20}}</ref> until September 13, 1990.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gUVPAAAAIBAJ&pg=6401,3296297|title=Tomorrow's daytime programs|date=September 12, 1990|website=Toledo Blade|access-date=2019-09-20}}</ref> A 65-episode run was originally announced,<ref name=ad-age/><ref>{{cite book|last1=Eitzen|first1=D. Stanley|title=Society's Problems: Sources and Consequences|date=1989|publisher=Allyn and Bacon|location=Boston|isbn=0205119794|page=321}}</ref> but only 39 ever reached US television.<ref name=":1" />

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, European stations aired ''Maple Town'' in their various native languages. In Spain, [[Televisión Española|TVE]] aired the program under the title ''La aldea del arce'',<ref name=zonadvd/> starting in 1987. In France, the series was distributed by IDDH and broadcast from May 3, 1987, on FR3 in the program Amuse 3 under the name ''Les Petits Malins''. It also aired on [[RTL 4|RTL Veronique]] in the Netherlands (as ''Avonturen in Maple Town'');<ref name=mapletown-nl/> in Finland under the title ''Seikkailumetsä''; in Sweden as ''Äventyrsskogen'';<ref name="mapletown-nl">{{cite web|url=http://www.kindertv.net/series/2174?task=view|title=''Maple Town'' show information|date=16 October 2004|website=kindertv.net|publisher=KinderTV|language=nl|access-date=20 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002150632/http://www.kindertv.net/series/2174?task=view|archive-date=October 2, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> and on Hungary's [[RTL Klub]] channel as ''Juharfalvi történetek''.

As with Japan, several other countries aired both series of the ''Maple Town'' franchise. In Italy, [[Mediaset]]'s [[Italia 1]] broadcast both iterations of ''Maple Town'' during the late 1980s (under the titles ''Maple Town: Un nido di simpatia'' and ''Evviva Palm Town'').<ref name=antoniogenna>{{cite web|url=http://www.antoniogenna.net/doppiaggio/anim/mapletown.htm|title=''Maple Town, un nido di simpatia'' / ''Evviva Palm Town''|language=it|access-date=2010-01-06|work=Il Mondo dei Doppiatori|publisher=Antonio Genna}}</ref> The combined series aired as ''Les petits malins'' on [[FR3]] in France at the time.<ref name=malins>{{cite web|url=http://www.planete-jeunesse.com/sources/series.php3?cle=242&sec=1|title=''Les Petits Malins: Les aventures de Malinville'' show description|language=fr|date=September 25, 2009|access-date=2010-01-06|publisher=Planète Jeunesse}}</ref> On [[TV4 (Poland)|Nasza TV]]'s showings in Poland, the show was known as ''Opowiesci z Klonowego Miasteczka'' and ''Opowiesci z Palmowego Miasteczka''.<ref name=anime-pl>{{cite web|url=http://anime.info.pl/index.php?open=o&title=maple|author=Nowakowski, Witold and Mariusz Jarczewski|title=''OPOWIEŚCI Z KLONOWEGO MIASTECZKA''|date=December 26, 2002|access-date=2010-01-06|work=Anime in Poland: Complete Guide|publisher=anime.info.pl|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301145440/http://anime.info.pl/index.php?open=o&title=maple|archive-date=March 1, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref> In [[Hong Kong]], ''Maple Town'' aired on the [[ATV Home|ATV]] network during 1991.<ref name=rxblack>{{cite web|url=http://suganet.org/~rxblack/index.php?start=450&o=5|script-title=zh:香港播放動畫特攝中日名稱對照表|language=zh|page=10|access-date=2010-01-06|publisher=RXBlack}}</ref> Both shows also aired in [[Arab world|Arabic speaking nations]] with the first series broadcast under أرنوبة ودبدوب (Arnoba Wa Dabdoob, Arnoba and Dabdood) and second airing under مدينة النخيل (Madina Al Nakheel, Palms Town).{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}}