[1] The show focuses on the adventures of Patty Rabbit, Bobby Bear and their families, in a small city inhabited by anthropomorphic animals named Maple Town.

[8] VHS compilations of Maple Town appeared in North America, Europe and Japan during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

As of 2013, official DVDs of the show had surfaced in Japan, Spain[9] and Hungary,[10] with no release plans announced for other territories.

Soon, the Rabbit Family settles in Maple Town as mail carriers and the bitter, yet sweet friendship of Patty and Bobby begins to blossom.

[1] It served as one of the first projects for Kunihiko Ikuhara, who later joined the crew of Sailor Moon and Revolutionary Girl Utena.

[17] An English-dubbed version, airing in tandem with the toy promotion, starred actress Karen Hartman (credited as Janice Adams), known previously for her other children's TV role as Talkatoo Cockatoo on Zoobilee Zoo, as Mrs.

The voice cast included Reba West as Patty Rabbit and Steve Kramer as Wilde Wolf.

In France, the series was distributed by IDDH and broadcast from May 3, 1987, on FR3 in the program Amuse 3 under the name Les Petits Malins.

[citation needed] During the 1990s, Toei Video released a ten-tape collection of Maple Town, each consisting of three episodes in their original airing order.

In 2013, TC Entertainment released the original series in DVD box sets as part of Toei's Recollection Anime Library lineup.

[25] Multicom Entertainment Group, who owns the US dub (by the way of their acquisition of The Kushner-Locke library in 2013), currently has no plans to release the entire series on home media or onto any streaming service, likely due to them having a hard time licensing the rights to use the cartoons from Toei.