Le Manège enchanté (British English: The Magic Roundabout, American English: The Magic Carousel) is a popular French animated children's television series of hundreds of episodes each five minutes long, which premiered on October 5, 1963, on the first channel of the ORTF. Serge Danot created the series. The footage was used by the BBC to produce an English-language version, The Magic Roundabout, using scripts that bore little relation to the original story lines.