The series centres on Walter, an inventor and fix-it specialist, and his friend Tandoori, a hyperactive chicken, who live together in the village of Trois-Montagnes (in the French version) or Hart's Landing (in the English version), and embark on various adventures designed to teach children about the environment and ecology.
[2] Created by Sylvain Viau for Image Entertainment Corporation, the series first aired on TV5 Québec Canada under the Walter title in 2005.
[3] In addition, the series has also produced cross-platform features for the web, including the shorter web series version Walter's World and interactive children's games,[5] as well as being franchised to books by children's author Bryan Perro[7] and a pedagogical package on the environment for use in schools.
[8] The film was released in separate French and English versions, with a French voice cast that included Benoît Brière, Michel Courtemanche, Bianca Gervais, Rick Jones and Benoit Rousseaux, and an English voice cast that included Sonja Ball, Rick Jones, Russell Peters and Philip le Maistre.
[9] The film also received a limited theatrical release outside of Canada, including a screening at the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur in September 2012,[10] and a brief run in Los Angeles in December of that year[11] in an unsuccessful attempt to garner an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature.