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Production Notes:

This TV series ran for 91 episodes.

The success of this award-winning series led to "Shin Konchu Monogatari Minashigo Hutch" (New Hutch) (1974), a second series, with new designs by Yoshitaka Amano. Characters in the series (which ran for 26 episodes) included Hutch's sister, wasps, a firefly, butterflies and a ladybug.

The story was remade by Akira Suzuki into a 55-episode series in 1989. Many of the scripts from the original 1970 version were reused. However, the animation was all-new.

Alternate Title: "Mitsubachi Monogatari: Minashigo Hutch."

Foreign Language Titles: "Hacou l'Abeille" (French) and "L'Ape Magà" (Italian).

Alternate Series Titles: "昆虫物語みなしごハッチ," "Insect Story: Honey Bee Hutch," "Hutch The Honeybee," "Bee Story: Hutch The Orphan."

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