Betty Toons

Betty Toons is a Colombian animated television series was produced by RCN Televisión in 2002, based on Fernando Gaitán's soap opera Yo soy Betty, la fea, retrofitting all the characters to make them children living in a primary school. After the great success of the transmission of this telenovela in 1999 until 2001, the idea of the production of the animated series by RCN Televisión came about. The series lasted a year on the air.[1]

Betty Toons
Genre	Animated series Comedy
Created by	Liliana Guzmán Héctor Moncada (adaptation)
Based on	Yo soy Betty, la fea by Fernando Gaitán
Directed by	Hernan A. Zajec Maribel Echeverri
Music by	Juancho Pulido (original)
Country of origin	Colombia
Original language	Spanish
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	60
Production
Producers	María del Pilar Fernández Raúl Tinjacá
Production locations	Bogotá, Colombia
Editor	Edwin Lopez
Production companies	Conexión Creativa RCN Televisión
Release
Original network	RCN
Original release	2002 (2002) – 2003 (2003)
Related
Yo soy Betty, la fea (original series)

The voice direction was done by Hernán Zajec and Maribel Echeverría. The musical direction was by Juancho Pulido and the logistics were in charge with Paula Arenas.

In the United States, Betty Toons aired on Telefutura from 2004–2008 in Spanish.[2]

The cartoon version recreates the era of the protagonists in childhood, when everyone attends the same school, including Beatriz Pinzón or Betty, Armando Mendoza, "La Peliteñida", Marcela Valencia, the teacher Gutierrez, who sometimes uses English words when he is talking.

This is the first time that a Colombian animated series is aired on Cartoon Network and Boomerang in Latin America, on November 7, 2004 and ended on December 17, 2006.

In Mexico the series was shown by Canal de las Estrellas in 2004 and 2005.

The series was redisplayed on February 17, 2018 and January 6, 2019 again by RCN, was also shown Tacho Pistacho channel.