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produced by Banco Productions and first aired on TF1's TFOU television program on January 12, 2002.The series is about the adventures of Oscar who is a private detective and tries to uncover the secret of Providence alongside his friends the energetic Kate and the inventor Martin.

Plot

Before the birth of ice and fire, and many-many years before the existence of the first tribes, seven wise men buried a treasure in an enchanted land, to keep it away from evil forces. But today that treasure is in danger, and the only one who can protect it is the one who reads the parchment and confronts the evil powers, to uncover the secret of Providence.

Oscar

Oscar, who was a sea-captain in his youth, works as a private detective and is surely recognized from the fact that he wears a red bowler hat and a green suit every day. He's an accurate, polite, smart pig, who even notices a hair amiss. Formerly he traveled the world; he saw a lot of things, so it's not very easy to fool him. Because of this, he does his job very well. Oscar is the one who reads the parchment and is therefore chosen by the Seventh Wise Man to protect and uncover the secret of Providence.

Martin

Martin is an eccentric inventor, who uses his strange inventions to help Oscar and Kate to uncover the secret of Providence. If they need an airplane, he'll pilot it, if they need an underwater vehicle, he'll build it, if they need to record a video secretly, he'll slap together the mini-camera. Martin is Oscar's childhood friend alongside Kate and tries to help them uncover the secret of Providence using his intellect, however he is also a coward and prefers to stay away from trouble and direct confrontation with the series' villains as best as he can.

Kate

Kate is a beautiful, cool, spirited, clever fox-girl and the only one of the three who does not believe in the secret of Providence. She is skeptical about this whole mess, however she still help's her friends to uncover the secret of Providence. Kate believes that all of the supernatural creatures appearing in Providence are in fact insane villains dressed in costumes and all the supernatural things going on in Providence are in fact made up stories, despite the fact that she along with Oscar and Martin have faced supernatural creatures a lot of times.

Seventh Wise Man

The only surviving member of the seven wise men who buried the treasure in an enchanted land to keep it away from evil forces, he chooses Oscar and his friends to be the new protector of the treasure once he reads the parchment, however he first must test them to see if they are indeed worthy and capable of protecting the treasure. He is behind all of the strange phenomenon's that are happening in Providence and all the strange creatures that are appearing. He is millions of years old and has strange magical abilities. He dies in the final episode after giving the heroes three magical staff's containing all his magical powers to fight Auguste Gagliari.

Griffon

The Griffon is an ancient mystical creature who takes possession of the body of Stanley the librarian with the help of the Seventh Wise Man, and asks questions from the citizens of Providence. If they fail to answer his questions then the Griffon sends them inside the various books in Stanley's library. They remain there until Oscar frees them and Stanley by answering all of the Griffon's questions correctly as well as receiving an item that will help him uncover the secret of Providence in the final episode.

Auguste Gagliari

An evil wizard who belongs to a secret organization of men who want the power of the secret of Providence, so they can rule the world. Not much is explained about this organization or Auguste himself, however it is revealed that they have been looking for the treasure for years. He appears in the final episode and must fight Oscar and his friends to get the treasure, he transforms into a demon to go after Oscar and creates two other clones of himself to go after Kate and Martin. He is defeated by the heroes however and his body transforms into dust.

Citizens of Providence

Because Providence isn't always that charming little place that it appears like at first glance it is revealed that its residents are up to no good, for example they form allies with the dark world, they steal a golden statue worth millions, or they enrage the Griffon and later become the prisoners of the Griffon. But does the Griffon really exist, and if it does, how can one escape from its claws? One thing's for sure, the Seventh Wise Man uses the dark side of Providence's citizens to test the three heroes in various ways.

List of episodes

1. The Secret of the Lake
2. The Black Hawk
3. The Beauties of the Sun
4. Emergency
5. Twig-friend
6. The Wonderful Mr. Trout
7. It's Last Day
8. Dolly Doll
9. Fair of Illusions
10. The Novel of Gontran
11. The Thief of Glory
12. The Price of Bombay
13. Travelling, while staying in one place
14. The throat of Quetzacoatl
15. The Heart-robber
16. Teo's Rose
17. The Vow of Adrenaline
18. Nasty thoughts
19. Vampire-symphony
20. The Lies of Don Karlito
21. The Automaton
22. The Infernal Mine
23. The Prisoners of the Griffon
24. The Phantom of Truth
25. The Sinister Circle
26. The Solution of the Secret

When they were close to solving the secret

Here are two occasions, when our heroes were close to solving the secret of Providence:

I. In the part “The Automaton”

In this part, Martin builds a robot who gets possessed by the Seventh Wise Man. Oscar commands the robot to lead them to the secret of Providence, and the robot leads them to the old castle (in the last episode it turns out, that there is the entrance to the cave of the Seventh Wise Man), but before they could take a better look around, the robot gets crazy and runs away.

II. In the part “The Infernal Mine”

At the end of this episode Oscar and his friends spot a small tunnel that goes underwater. There are paintings of the Seventh Wise Men painted above the tunnel. Oscar goes down into the tunnel with a scuba gear, but the Seventh Wise Man summons a vortex into the tunnel, which causes it to collapse, so Oscar must turn back. The tunnel probably led to the cave of the Seventh Wise Man.

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