In the Beginning: The Bible Stories (1997)
In the Beginning: The Bible Stories is an anime television series based on The Bible's Hebrew Scriptures created by Osamu Tezuka. The series was a coproduction between Nippon TV, Tezuka's Tezuka Productions, and Italy's government-owned broadcaster, Radiotelevisione Italiana. Although the series was in production during a period of several years in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was not aired in Japan until 1997, on the satellite channel WOWOW. The series has also been aired on TV in the United States, Italy, Spain and Germany. In the Beginning marked the fourth time Bible stories formed the basis of a Japanese-animated television series, following the two Superbook series and The Flying House, which were made for Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network by Tatsunoko Production in the early 1980s. In the Beginning features episodes devoted to most of the major Bible stories of the Old Testament, including the stories of the Creation, Cain and Abel, Noah's Ark, Abraham and Isaac, Joseph, Moses, David, and Solomon, with the final episode featuring the birth of Jesus Christ. As with the second Superbook series, some stories were stretched out over several episodes. Unlike Superbook and The Flying House, however, no contemporary characters from modern times were inserted into the stories, save for the series mascot and viewpoint character, Roco the fox .
In the Beginning: The Bible Stories: Season 1 - 26 Episode s
1x1 - The Creation
April 1, 1997
1x2 - Cain and Abel
April 2, 1997
1x3 - The Story of Noah
April 3, 1997
1x4 - The Tower of Babel
April 4, 1997
1x5 - Abraham, The Forefather
April 7, 1997
1x6 - Sodom and Gomorrah
April 8, 1997
1x7 - Isaac and Ishmael
April 9, 1997
1x8 - Isaac's Destiny
April 10, 1997
1x9 - Jacob's Children
April 11, 1997
1x10 - Joseph's Triumph
April 14, 1997
1x11 - Moses, The Egyptian
April 15, 1997
1x12 - The Fire in the Desert
April 16, 1997
1x13 - Moses and Pharaoh
April 18, 1997
1x14 - The Exodus
April 18, 1997
1x15 - Laws Carved in Stone
April 21, 1997
1x16 - Israel's Treachery
April 22, 1997
1x17 - New Alliance
April 23, 1997
1x18 - Jericho
April 24, 1997
1x19 - One King for Israel
April 25, 1997
1x20 - King Saul
April 28, 1997
1x21 - King David
April 30, 1997
1x22 - King Solomon
May 1, 1997
1x23 - The Exile of Israel
May 2, 1997
1x24 - Release from Bondage
May 6, 1997
1x25 - Prophets in the desert
May 7, 1997
1x26 - The Birth of Jesus
May 9, 1997
The Birth of Jesus
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