Willy Fog (Phileas Fogg in the original book) is depicted as a lion, while Rigodon (Passepartout) is a cat, and Romy (Aouda) is a panther.

[4] An English dub of the series was directed by Tom Wyner, which featured the voices of Cam Clarke (Rigodon), Gregory Snegoff (Inspector Dix), Steve Kramer (Constable Bully), Rebecca Forstadt (Romy), and Mike Reynolds (additional voices).

A sequel series, Willy Fog 2 (1993), adapts Verne's novels Journey to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.

Rigodon is not impressed to hear the news of their impending trip, having spent his life travelling with the circus, but he dutifully accompanies his master as they set out.

Six songs were crafted for the series, composed by Italian background score writers Guido and Maurizio De Angelis and performed by the group Mocedades.

Due to the success of Around the World with Willy Fog, BRB Internacional and Televisión Española, with animation by Wang Film Productions in Taiwan and Shanghai Morning Sun Animation in China, produced a sequel series titled Willy Fog 2.

The series ran for 26 episodes, and consists of two separate serialized stories that are based on Verne's novels Journey to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.

[12] From 3 October 1988 to 10 September 1990, select episodes were released in the United Kingdom on PAL VHS tapes by Video Collection International.

Notably, the Village Productions dub for the first film was able to secure use of Intersound's English-language version of the theme tune.

In 2004, Revelation Films released all twenty-six episodes of Around the World with Willy Fog on DVD in the UK, across five Region-0-encoded discs.

[16] La vuelta al mundo de Willy Fog: El Musical was released in 2008 in celebration of the show's 25th anniversary in its home country of Spain.

Scripted by original series creator Claudio Biern Boyd and directed by Ricard Reguant, the musical ran twice a day in the Teatro Häagen-Dazs Calderón in Madrid from October 2008; although originally intended only to run until the end of the year, the show's success saw its run extended first until early February 2009, after which it proved so successful that it went on tour around the country until the end of the year.