History Series / ClubDorothee

For [[GatewaySeries better]] or [[{{Macekre}} worse]], this show introduced France to a number of {{anime}} and [[{{Toku}} tokusatsu series]] -- French audiences got their first taste of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', ''Anime/SailorMoon'', ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and countless others there. Anime were already broadcast on French TV in TheEighties, but not on such a massive scale. It did not go without some infamous AnimationAgeGhetto controversies that involved a fair share of CulturalPosturing on the detractors' part, and the dubs and French songs left a lot to be desired, but undeniably contributed to shape France's [[UsefulNotes/TheJapaneseInvasion modern appetite for anime and manga]].

* ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}''

* ''Anime/DragonBallZ''

* ''Franchise/LesMiserables'' (1992)

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: Happened all the time to Japanese and American cartoons broadcast here. The opening songs for them were sung by people from the show, most (in)famously Bernard Minet and Ariane Carletti a.k.a. Ariane, one of Dorothée's five regular co-hosts. Although, for some of the anime series listed above (such as ''Captain Tsubasa'', ''Attacker You'', or ''Creamy Mami''), the alternative openings were not made by this show, because these anime originally aired on ''La Cinq'', a now defunct channel which also had its own alternative theme songs for anime series.

* InconsistentDub: Notorious victims of this, sometimes giving the impression that the dubbing actors only had a vague idea of what was going on, let alone having adequate translation work done for them.

* ThinlyVeiledDubCountryChange: Along with the name changes, the dialogue was also rewritten to imply those anime were set in France, despite the very Japanese look of the environment. An infamous example is ''Manga/AiShiteNight'', which namedrops many parts of Paris (such as the Bercy concert complex) in a painfully obvious Tokyoite landscape.

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: Happened all the time to Japanese and American cartoons broadcast here. The opening songs for them were sung by people from the show, most (in)famously Bernard Minet and Ariane Carletti a.k.a. Ariane, one of Dorothée's five regular co-hosts. Although, for some of the anime series listed above (such as ''Captain Tsubasa'', ''Attacker You'', or ''Creamy Mami''), the alternative openings were not made by this show, because these anime originally aired on ''La Cinq'', a now dead channel which also had its own alternative theme songs for anime series.

* ThinlyVeiledDubCountryChange: Along with the name changes, the dialogue was also rewritten to imply those anime were [[WeAllLiveInAmerica set in France, despite the very Japanese look of the environment]]. An infamous example is ''Manga/AiShiteNight'', which namedrops many parts of Paris (such as the Bercy concert complex) in a painfully obvious Tokyoite landscape.

It was essentially a {{variety show}} that combined {{game|show}}s for children, {{edutainment}}, concerts, {{music video|tropes}}s, comedic skits and broadcasting of animated and live-action series, and was hosted by the eponymous Dorothée ({{stage name|s}} of Frédérique Hoschedé, born July 14th 1953), who built up a gigantic network of ancillary co-stars, music bands, gags, sets etc. She previously hosted some kids shows on Antenne 2 in TheEighties with much success, but none was as big as this one would become. The show also launched the careers of quite a few French acting and show business personalities.

* GenkiGirl: Ariane Carletti was a living version.

* CelebrityStar: The late famous hawaiian shirts-wearing singer and BigFun celebrity Yvan-Chrysostome Dolto a.k.a. Carlos was a sponsor of the show and regularly showed up in it over its ten years of existence. He even had [[CelebrityToons his own animated series]], which was broadcast in the show.

* ''Anime/MagicalAngelCreamyMami'' (as ''Creamy, merveilleuse Creamy'')

* ThinlyVeiledDubCountryChange: Along with the name changes, the dialogue was also rewritten to imply those anime were set in France, despite the very Japanese look of the environment. An infamous example is ''Manga/AiShiteNight'', which namedrops many parts of Paris (such as the Bercy concert complex) in a painfully obvious Tokyoite landscape.

* BadassBeard: The late Corbier had a big bushy beard, that became some kind of trademark of his, even being subject to a wacky novelty song he did.

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: Happened all the time to Japanese and American cartoons broadcast here. The opening songs for them were sung by people from the show, most (in)famously Bernard Minet and Ariane Carletti a.k.a. Ariane, one of Dorothée's five regular co-hosts. Although, for some of the anime series listed above (such as ''Captain Tsubasa'', ''Attacker You'', or ''Creamy Mami''), the alternative openings were not made by this show, because these anime originally aired on ''La Cinq'', a now dead channel which also had its own alternative theme songs for anime series (such as ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'', called ''Lady Oscar'' there).

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: Happened all the time to Japanese and American cartoons broadcast here. The opening songs for them were sung by people from the show, most (in)famously Bernard Minet and Ariane Carletti a.k.a. Ariane, one of Dorothée's five regular co-hosts. Although, for some of the anime series listed above (such as ''Captain Tsubasa'', ''Attacker You'', or ''Creamy Mami''), the alternative openings were not made by this show, because these anime originally aired on ''La Cinq'', a now dead channel which also had its own alternative theme songs for anime series.

* ''Anime/AliceInWonderlandJP'' (as ''Alice au Pays des Merveilles'')

* ''Manga/DragonQuestTheAdventureOfDai'' (as ''Fly'')

For [[GatewaySeries better]] or [[{{Macekre}} worse]], this show introduced France to a number of {{anime}} and [[{{Toku}} tokusatsu series]] -- French audiences got their first taste of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', ''Anime/SailorMoon'', ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and countless others there. Anime were already broadcast on French TV in TheEighties, but not on such a massive scale. It did not go without some infamous AnimationAgeGhetto controversies that involved a fair share of CulturalPosturing on the detractors' part, but undeniably contributed to shape France's [[UsefulNotes/TheJapaneseInvasion modern appetite for anime and manga]].