Forest Friends [SEP] original network
Forest Friends
Forest Friends () is an animated television series initially broadcast on TF1, and later rerun on French children's network TiJi. Along with the CGI series "The Odd Family", this was one of the first shows produced by Timoon Animation. a company created by Philippe Mounier.
Several of the show's tie-in books have been written by Valérie Baranski, the screenwriter for another TF1 cartoon, "The Bellflower Bunnies".
Synopsis.
In the series, a wildfire has driven away
only 1,200 members by 1926. By the 1950s it had ceased to have a major public presence. It still exists (2016) as a semi-formal network of personal friends with historic family links to the original formal organisation, with little interest in publicity and few surviving overt connections with the Woodcraft Folk or the Forest School Camps.
The Order accepted many premises of Neopaganism. It has been suggested by writer Steve Wilson that it provided the basis for the New Forest coven, and through that the Neopagan religion of Wicca