TV Series · 1976

Candy Candy

25 min · Kids, Drama, Animation · Ended

Composite

8.7

IMDb

8.0 / 10

2,232 votes

TMDB

8.5 / 10

728 votes

Local

— / 10

No votes

Synopsis

This story is about a girl, Candy, who is a orphan. She is a nice and optimistic girl and she has a warm heart. When she was a child, she lived in an orphanage called Pony's Home. She had a good friend called Ann. And she met the "handsome boy on the hill" who is a important person in her life, on the hill behind the orphanage. She was adopted by the Loka's family. What's awaiting her are the bad-hearted Leo and his sister, Eliza. One day, in the rose garden, she met a boy, who is identical to the "handsome boy on the hill" who she had met in her childhood. The boy is called Antony. Thereafter, a fantastic story that she has never expected begins.

Cast

Minori Matsushima

Candice White Ardlay (voice)

Makio Inoue

William Albert Ardlay (voice)

Kei Tomiyama

Terruce G. Granchester (voice)

Kazuhiko Inoue

Anthony Brown (voice)

Kaneta Kimotsuki

Alistair Cornwell (voice)

Yuji Mitsuya

Archibald Cornwell (voice)

Mami Koyama

Annie Brighton (voice)

Chiyoko Kawashima

Patricia O'Brien (voice)

Yumi Nakatani

Eliza Leagan (voice)

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Kiyoshi Komiyama

Neil Leagan (voice)

Taeko Nakanishi

Great-aunt Elroy

Nana Yamaguchi

Ms. Reine (voice)

Miyoko Aso

Mary Jane Headmistress (voice)

Sachiko Chijimatsu

Jimmy (voice)

Eken Mine

Garcia (voice)

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Kouko Kagawa

Susanna Marlowe (voice)

Crew

Seasons & episodes

Season 1 (1 ep)

115. Pony's Hill is a Flower and Full-bloomed

Feb 2, 1979 · 25 min

Candy is thunderstruck to discover that her benefactor "Grandfather" William Albert Ardley has been hiding in plain sight the whole time, ever since she was in anguish over Annie being adopted away from Pony's Home. Albert was too young to fill the desperately needed role of the head of the Ardley family, after his parents died and his aunt Elroy became his guardian, so he wisely applied the principle "Deceive your allies to fool your adversaries." As both recall memories of the past it becomes clear that Albert tried to be a guiding father to Candy as much as he could, while remaining hidden, not only from Candy, but all of the Ardley family. He adopted her as his daughter after Alistear, Archibald and Anthony did not want to put all their eggs in one basket by leaving it up to their great-aunt whether Candy was treated as a person or a pariah in the Ardley family. And Candy's eyes reminded him of his deceased older sister, Anthony's mother.