The Three Musketeers - Episode One: "The Littlest Musketeer"

The musketeers are watching D'Artagnan fencing with the young lad Toulee. Toulee decides that as he cannot better the musketeer he will resort to underhand methods. He hits D'Artagnan on the foot and so sort of wins the fight as the Musketeer hops around on one foot. Constance does not approve of this and marches Toulee away. Toulee goes off in search of someone to fence with. He soon realises he has bitten off more than he can chew with this fellow. Whilst hiding, Toulee overhears some bad guys talking about a plot.

Toulee is discovered and taken away as a prisoner. Constance comes looking for Toulee and suspects something is wrong. She asks the Musketeers for help. They finally locate Toulee and free him. He tells them of a plot and they take swift action to stop it.

All for one and one for all - The Three Musketeers!

This takes me back to those holidays when school finished back in the 1970s. Part of the kids TV line up on BBC1 was The Banana Splits. The three Musketeers were one of the core cartoons of the Banana Splits. The cartoon concerned the adventures of four Musketeers and their constant battle against enemies of the state who would try to topple the reigning Monarch. Porthos, Athos and Aramis were the Three Musketeers plus D'Artagnan who later became their leader. Constance provided the female element as was supposedly D'Artagnan's girl. She was often accompanied by Toulee (spelling ?) who was a young boy who was often getting up to mischief in his pursuit of becoming a Musketeer.