Super kiddie animation from the early days of cable. I remember watching this show while my mother dressed me for kindergarten. Delightfully entertaining for little tykes. Someone should make it available on DVD. It originally ran in the US on the long gone Calliope cable channel around 1988. The show concerned tiny cute-drawn mice which sang opera and engaged in hi-jinx. I found some references to Video tapes in a French Video catalog, but the internet links were no longer valid, and in a wider search I could not locate any material. The Pilis were produced in Belgium by its director, Ray Goosens, and were originally known as 'Les Pilis'. Ray Goosens (1924-1998), who passed away in 1998, was an animator who left behind a good sized and well respected body of imaginative work, most of which was geared to children. Among some of his better known works was, 'Pinocchio in Outer Space' and 'Astérix le Gaulois' (Asterix the Gaul).His career spanned over 40 years (1940-1984).
