The Jem cartoon TV-series has been aired several times
in Italy. In January 1987, the first of 15 episodes (probably
the same as the American "Super Saturday"), each of 7
minutes of running time (or 15 minutes with commercials)
and it's own title, were aired on the Italia 1 network every Sunday
at 7pm, with the american Jem opening theme song.
In September of the same year, the same channel re-aired the 15 first short episodes put together as 5 episodes of 20 minutes of running time (or 25 minutes with commercials), where each episode got the title of the first of the 3 short episodes it contained, and then 48 "new" episodes, each with a frame with the Italian title. This time the american Jem theme song were replaced by the Italian Jem theme song. In 1987 Jem was aired 4 days of the week, Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 5pm in the children's program "Bim Bum Bam". In 1989, Retequattro network (Channel 4) re-aired the 15 episodes of 15 minutes of running time, then the 53 episodes, and for the first time the last 12 episodes introducing the Stingers. In October 1990, till the end of August 1991, Jem was aired only on Italia 1 on Sundays around 8 am, from the beginning (but not necessarily the first episode) until "Alone again", with the exception of the episodes: "The Music Awards" part 1 and 2, "The Jem Jam" part 1 and 2, and "Glitter and Gold", instead of this they aired "The rock fashion book". The episode "The battle of the bands" was the last time when the original Jem Theme Video appeared. In 1992, from the 7th of July to the 9th of September, Jem was aired on Italia 1, from Mondays to Saturdays at 8:35 am, and Sundays at 8:50 am. For the first time without commercials inside. Only 64 episode were aired, since they didn't want to air the episode "Glitter and Gold", instead they put "Culture clash" on twice in two days. In 1996, from the 18th of June, all 65 episodes were aired on Italia 1, every day, in the morning. In the 13th of July, the episode "Glitter and Gold" was aired. When the show was over in August, they re-aired it promptly, not all episodes, but for sure until "The Treasure Hunt". In the spring of 1999, Jem was aired in the mornings from Monday to Friday on Italia 1. On Friday 16th of April the episode "The Stingers Hit Town part 2" was aired, so the airing probably started in the end of January in 1999. Both of these TV channels are part of Mediaset-Fininvest networks, property of Silvio Berlusconi, the politician. [Information by Enzo Gervasio and Marco Valli] Episode list:
Here's a list of all the Italian episode titles,
and the original american title in parenthesis so
that you'll be able to recognize what episode it is,
and then a translation since the Italian titles aren't
always a direct translation of the american titles.
The episodes "In Search Of The Stolen Album" and
"Treasure Hunt" has the same Italian title "CACCIA AL
TESORO", the first one wasn't translated directly from
the original american title but named from the story
of the episode.
When you find "Stinger" without "s" that's not a mistake,
since in Italy the plural of English nouns miss the final "s".
So "the Holograms" become "the Hologram" and so on.
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The episodes were dubbed into Italian, in Milano,
Italy, at the Deneb Film studio. Federico Danti was
the dubbing director in the first and second season,
and Donatella Fanfani took over in the third season.
Some of the voice actors were listed in the end of the
episodes.
The Italian voices makes the characters sound more
adult, about 25-27 years old.
Except for Danielle Duvoisin who had a light french
accent, none of the characters that had an accent in
the original american version, had an accent in the
Italian dubbing. In Italy, German accent is more
commonly used by comedians, so if Minx would talk
with a German accent, it most likely wouldn't sound
trustworthy.
"Synergy" is called "Energy", "Pizzazz" became "Pizza", "Raya" were pronounced as
"Raja", and "Jetta" as "Yetta". When Jerrica become Jem, she says "All'opera
Energy" ("It's work time Energy"), and when she turns
back to Jerrica she says "Basta Cosi'. Energy" ("It's
enough. Energy"). The phrase "Truly Outrageous" is not
translatable, so it was translated as "E' fantastico"
("It's fantastic").
Voices:
All other Starlight Girls were dubbed by different actors every time: Valeria Falcinelli, Roberta Federici, Daniela Fava, Donatella Fanfani, Tullia Piredda, Dania Cericola, Patrizia Salmoiraghi, Marcella Silvestri, Emanuela Pacotto, and Alessandra Karpoff. [Information by Enzo Gervasio]
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None of the songs were dubbed into Italian, except for the Jem theme in a commercial. The Italian Jem theme song consisted of clips from the episodes with new music and text in Italian. Composed by A. Valeri Manera and N. Carucci. Sung by Cristina D'Avena.
[Information by Marco Valli]
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Videos, 1988-1989 by Stardust:
Video:
[Information by Enzo Gervasio] Dolls: All the first edition dolls and some of the second editions were released at the same time in 1987, before the cartoon. The dolls included one of three different posters, featuring Jem and the Holograms, the Misfits or Glitter 'n Gold Jem. In the same year, two different Jem's doll commercials were shown on the TV channel Italia 1. In the first commercial two young girls play with the Jem's dolls, and the second included a short version of the Jem theme song, without the Misfits. [Information by Enzo Gervasio and Marco Valli] Books:
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TV photos:
Other:
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