History WesternAnimation / BlakeAndMortimer

** Mortimer's orginal catchphrase "By Jove!" (in other words, a synonym of "Oh my God!") became "By the tartan of Clan [=McGregor=]!".

* CatchPhrase: Mortimer's was "By the tartan of Clan [=McGregor=]!". At one point Olrik even [[CatchPhraseInterruptus interrupts him]] when he says it and says "yes, yes, don't you have ''something else'' to say?"

* AnimatedAdaptation: Of the ''Blake and Mortimer'' books who existed at the time (from ''The Secret of the Swordfish'' to ''The Francis Blake Affair'', inclusive). The four last stories ("The Viking's Bequest", "The Secret of Easter Island", "The Alchemist's Will", "The Druid") were made especially for the animated series. The series counts 26 episodes, for nine comic book stories and four new ones, each one being divided into two episodes. NB: in this series, the stories covering more than one album (''The Secret of the Swordfish'', ''The Mystery of the Great Pyramid'', ''Professor Satō's Three Formulae'') are no longer than the shorter ones.

* AnimatedAdaptation: Of the ''Blake and Mortimer'' books who existed at the time (from ''The Secret of the Swordfish'' to ''The Francis Blake Affair'', inclusive). The four last stories ("The Viking's Bequest", "The Secret of Easter Island", "The Alchemist's Will", "The Druid") were made especially for the animated series. The series counts 26 episodes, for nine original stories and four new ones, each one being divided into two episodes. NB: in this series, the stories covering more than one album (''The Secret of the Swordfish'', ''The Mystery of the Great Pyramid'', ''Professor Satō's Three Formulae'') are no longer than the shorter ones.

* OvertookTheManga: Only one of the continuation albums (''The Francis Blake Affair'') was adapted when the series was done adapting the Edgar Pierre Jacobs canon, due to the others not existing at the time it was made (the next one, ''The Voronov Plot'', was published in 2000, over one year after the end of the animated series). As a result, the remaining episodes are original stories.

* OvertookTheSeries: Only one of the continuation albums (''The Francis Blake Affair'') was adapted when the series was done adapting the Edgar Pierre Jacobs canon, due to the others not existing at the time it was made (the next one, ''The Voronov Plot'', was published in 2000, over one year after the end of the animated series). As a result, the remaining episodes are original stories.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: In the adaptation of ''The Secret of the Swordfish'', the [[YellowPeril Yellow Empire]] becomes simply "TheEmpire", all its members are now Caucasian, they no longer wear UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-[=era=] Japanese uniforms, they no longer wield Nazi-era guns, their flag isn't the Japanese-looking flag from the comic book, and there aren't any references to their geographic origin. In short: the original ones were a transparent {{expy}} of both UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan and UsefulNotes/NaziGermany, explicitly described as being Tibet and refered with a racist name, while the animated version are generic (and politically correct) bad guys. The Emperor is TheUnseen and his hand is that of a Caucasian, so he's very much not the Tibetan Basam Damdu. Also counts as PragmaticAdaptation.

* BaitAndSwitchCredits: Minor one. The opening features three Swordfish fighter/bomber rocket planes flying over Mortimer and Blake. At no point in ''The Secret of the Swordfish'' do we see more than one Swordfish flying (unlike the comics, in which a squadron of them nukes the Yello Empire's heardquarters). There's only the mention by Blake that the free world nations plan to mass-produce it at the end of the episode.

* TheYellowMShoutOut: Each episode titlse screen is a recreation of ''The Yellow M'' cover, with the circled "M" replaced by the shadow of a clock (cf. page image).

''Blake And Mortimer'' is a French-Canadian AnimatedAdaptation of the [[ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer eponymous]] Belgian ComicBook series by Edgar Pierre Jacobs. It was made in 1997-1998 by Ellipse (which previously co-created ''WesternAnimation/{{The Adventures of Tintin|1991}}'') and Cactus Animation.

!!Blake And Mortimer contains examples of:

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In ''The Secret of the Swordfish'', two prototypes of the eponymous rocket plane have already been built before the Empire's global offensive, with Blake testing one right away as the episode starts and the other being blown up during the offensive to avoid capture. The Swordfish first appears much later in the comic book album, at the base in the Strait of Hormuz (it is the third Swordfish in the episode). Blake ''does not test it'' in the comics, he inaugurates it by flying it in battle.

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In ''The Secret of the Swordfish'', two prototypes of the eponymous rocket plane have already been built before the Empire's global offensive, with Blake testing one right away as the episode starts and the other being blown up during the offensive to avoid capture. The Swordfish first appears much later in the comic book album, at the base in the Strait of Hormuz (it is the third Swordfish in the episode).

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In ''The Secret of the Swordfish'', two prototypes of the eponymous fighter jet have already been built before the Empire's global offensive, with Blake testing one right away as the episode starts and the other being blown up during the offensive to avoid capture. The Swordfish first appears much later in the comic book album, at the base in the Strait of Hormuz (it is the third Swordfish in the episode).

* BaitAndSwitchCredits: Minor one. The opening features three Swordfish fighter/bomber jets flying over Mortimer and Blake. At no point in ''The Secret of the Swordfish'' do we see more than one Swordfish flying (unlike the comics, in which a squadron of them nukes the Yello Empire's heardquarters). There's only the mention by Blake that the free world nations plan to mass-produce it at the end of the episode.

The series follows the adventures of two friends, Welsh AcePilot and [=MI5=] agent Francis Blake and Scottish OmnidisciplinaryScientist Philip Mortimer, as they battle {{Diabolical Mastermind}}s and try to solve mysteries in a Cold War-esque world.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: In the adaptation of ''The Secret of the Swordfish'', the [[YellowPeril Yellow Empire]] becomes simply "TheEmpire", all its members are now Caucasian, they no longer wear UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-[=era=] Japanese uniforms, they no longer wield Nazi-era guns, their flag isn't the Japanese-looking flag from the comic book, and there aren't any references to their geographic origin. In short: the original ones were a transparent {{expy}} of both UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan and UsefulNotes/NaziGermany, explicitly described as being Tibet and refered with a racist name, while the animated version are generic (and politically correct) bad guys. The Emperor is TheUnseen and his hand is that of a Caucasion, so he's very much not the Tibetan Basam Damdu. Also counts as PragmaticAdaptation.

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In ''The Secret of the Swordfish'', two prototypes of the eponymous fighter jet have already been built before the Empire's global offensive, with Blake testing one right away as the episode starts and the other being blown up during the offensive to avoid capture. The Swordfish first appears much later in the comic book album, at the base in the Hormuz strait (the third Swordfish in the episode).

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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In ''The Secret of the Swordfish'', two prototypes of the eponymous fighter jet have already been built before the Empire's global offensive, with Blake testing one right away as the episode starts and the other being blown up during the offensive. The Swordfish first appears much later in the comic book album, at the base in the Hormuz strait (the third Swordfish in the episode).

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In ''The Secret of the Swordfish'', two prototypes of the eponymous fighter jet have already been built before the Empire's global offensive, with Blake testing one right away as the episode starts. The Swordfish appears much later in the comic book album.

* TheYellowMShoutOut: Each episode titlse screen is a recreation of ''The Yellow M'' cover, with the M replaced by the shadow of a clock (cf. page image).

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In ''The Secret of the Swordfish'', two prototypes of the eponymous fighter jet have already been built before the Empire's global offensive, with Blake testing one right away as the episode starts. The Swordfish appears much later in the album.

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In ''The Secret of the Swordfish'', a prototype of the eponymous fighter jet has already been built before the Empire's global offensive, with Blake testing it right away as the episode starts. The Swordfish appears much later in the album.

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In ''The Secret of the Swordfish'', a prototype of the eponymous fighter jet has already been built before the Empire's global offensive, with Blake testing it right away as the episode starts. The Swordfish appears much later in the comic book.

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In ''The Secret of the Swordfish'', a prototype of the eponymous fighter jet already built before the Empire's global offensive, with Blake testing it right away as the episode starts. The Swordfish appears much later in the comic book.

* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In ''The Secret of the Swordfish'', the eponymous fighter jet has a prototype already built before the Empire's global offensive, with Blake testing it right away as the episode starts. The Swordfish appears much later in the comic book.