Heidi (2015 TV series)

Characters

• Heidi Meier : The title character, a 5 year old and cute and innocent orphan girl, who's taken to her grandfather, like its base, as well as the base novel. She loves her grandfather very much.
• Ernst Meier : Heidi's grandfather, a gentle angerable and turned-grump old man who works as a carpenter.
• Peter : 11 year old goatherd. He owns the goat Goldfinch, who becomes a mother to baby Mischief.
• Dete Meier : Heidi's maternal aunt who forcibly leaves Heidi with her grandfather and shows sacchranine self-righteousness with those around her, including her own niece. She works as a partly cooking maid in the Sesemann household, with bulter Sebastian who she eventually falls in love with and marries, though where is not actually specified.
• Karl Traber : Used to call Peter "Billy goat" until an incident where he saved Karl's life.
• Theresa Keller : Owns the goat Sweetheart. Theresa is often mean to Heidi and Peter, along with Karl and William but accepts them in episode 33 with Clara and starts being a lot nicer.
• William : A short and obese member of the trio-turned-duo, tends to be distracted by thoughts of food and gets easily filled with fear and has a goat owned by his own family.
• Clara Sesemann : 12 year old daughter of Mr Sesemann. Rich girl used to be in a wheelchair, but in episode 37 she starts walking for the first time.
• Josef: Heidi's grandfather's Saint Bernard.
• Miss Vera Rottenmeier : The Sesemann household's strict governess, who has an overblown worry of Clara's health, focus on the kids' education and reactions towards animals, highly conformist and attemptively enforcing of it, the most on "Adeleid", and refuses other's opinions more often than not, in useless stubbornness.
• Sebastian : The Sesemann household's butler.
• Mr. Sesemann : Clara's father.
• Joan Keller : Dorfli's grocer, and Theresa's father, Alda's husband.
• Alda Keller : Theresa's snobby mother. A mean person and Joan's wife.
• Tobias Meier: Heidi's deceased father, who never built the Devil Bridge over a mountain gap he and his son worked on.
• Adelaide Meier: Heidi's dead mother, and Dete's sister.
• Anna Meier: Heidi's grandfather's late wife.
• Brigette : Peter's mother.
• Suzanne : Peter's blind grandmother.
• Barbel : A friend of Dete's, and William' mother.
• Hans: Barbel's husband, the village blacksmith. William's father.
• Grandmamma : Clara's kind and youthful grandmother. She is an actress in the theatre.
• Haans Bakker: A frustratable home school teacher who excessively punishes Heidi for her confusions and whose own teaching method includes torture involving physical pressure, the latter mentioned which gets him fired from teaching at Sesemann's.
• Mr. Traber: Karl's father, who is a school teacher. He and Karl move before Clara's visit.
• Rudy: A boy in Frankfurt who plays a barrel organ in the street. Owns the kittens Socks and Star.
• Dr. Bankman: The Sesemann family doctor.
• Mr. Dinkelmann: In one episode he came to the Sesemann's house to be regarding a adoption for Heidi to be Clara's sister
• Friedrich: Vera's close friend.
• Rico: Heidi's bestest friend.

  Episode list

1. Up to the Mountain
2. First Day in the Mountains
3. The Challenge
4. Save Chippy
5. The Treehouse Oath
6. A Night Out
7. For a Loaf of Bread
8. Trapped in the Manor
9. Beware of the Wolf
10. Peter's Treasure
11. Attack the Treehouse!
12. Save Sweetheart
13. The End of Spring
14. Clara
15. The Bell Tower
16. The Promise
17. Papa Returns
18. Home Schooled
19. Let's Make a Show
20. At the Park
21. Clara Stands
22. Goats in the City
23. The Resignation
24. A Tree for Shelter
25. The Ghost
26. The Letter
27. Back to Dörfli
28. A New Goat in the Herd
29. The Broken Statue
30. The Brooch
31. The School Test
32. Scavenger Hunt
33. Goat's Hour
34. The Storm
35. The Devil's Bridge
36. Friedrich
37. The Wheelchair
38. Forgiven
39. The Edelweiss

1. My Best Friend
2. Goodbye Snowflake
3. Rico
4. The Hike
5. The Competition
6. Bridgette's Secret
7. The Violin
8. Francesco
9. The Watch
10. The Resolution
11. The Choice
12. The Operation
13. The Lady in Red
14. The Matchmakers
15. A Mariage is announced
16. Reunited
17. A Question of Time

    Production

Changes

• The characterizations were heavily simplified; with Heidi, her emotions were more prominent and her friendship with Peter is less affected by his beating tendencies of the goats, partly because they are stopped at once, when Heidi sees that and does her action.
• Sub-plots, from Heidi's relationship with the fir trees to the eventual living in the winter home, are either altered or removed entirely or even created for this series: of the last one, partway through Heidi learning how to read, Clara and her grandmother inform Heidi of: "Princess and the Frog", which they turn to making performance out of; based on that fairy tale being one of those shown with its illustration to Heidi, while Clara's grandmother first encouraged her to learn how to read, that night.
• Many of the base series' more episodic plots are re-told; the "Sad News-Snowflake" two-parter is told as: "Save Sweetheart", where the butcher is independent of the goat, the plants searched for saving the goat are in a singular place and adds the sub-plot of Theresa trying to keep one of the flock at bay, while Peter and Heidi climb the nearby mountains for the plants.
• Clara's training to being walking begins while Heidi's still in Frankfurt and progresses from there to episode thirty-eight.
• Elements from the two-part novel, including the religious elements are returned, sometimes loosely; Heidi's tendend prayers to the little star is based on her praying to God, to find a way to get her home to the Alm, inspired by Clara's grandmother's advice.
• A "terrible trio" group of villains are introduced, most prominent in the first third of the series, where they usually try to get Peter's secret cabin to themselves, especially from Heidi. Their trio ends when Karl moves away.

  Critical reception

Worldwide titles

• : Heidi - London Live, Tiny Pop