Pinocchio in Outer Space

Pinocchio in Outer Space is a 1965 Belgian-American animated film which sets Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio character on a rocketship adventure. Peter Lazer does the voice of Pinocchio. The film was produced by Ray Goossens at Belvision Studios, with American involvement from Norm Prescott (Filmation) and Fred Ladd.

The French version was titled Pinocchio dans l'espace and the Dutch version was known as Pinocchio in de ruimte.

The film was released in the USA by Universal Pictures. It was Universal's second animated film that it distributed (the first was The Snow Queen) and its last one until 1981's Topia, which is the first one it produced.

The talking cricket character was not present in this production. Instead, Pinocchio's sidekick was Nurtle, an alien Twertle (voiced by Arnold Stang), sent by his government to investigate an unusual increase of radiation on Mars. Together they do battle against Astro, a marauding intergalactic whale who was seeking revenge after being abducted by a mysterious race of Martians.

Cast

 * Peter Lazer - Pinocchio
 * Arnold Stang - Nurtle the Twurtle.
 * Jess Cain - Mister Geppetto
 * Conrad Jameson - G. Godline / Sharp
 * Mavis Mims - The Blue Fairy
 * Ray Owens - Groovy
 * Minerva Pious - Blue Fairy's Mother
 * Norman Rose - Fedora
 * Kevin Kennedy - Astro the Space Whale