Merlin The Magical Puppy is a 2001 English-language series developed by Lauren Faust directed by Jayson Thiessen, James Wootton and Jim Miller and produced by Devon Cody and Sarah Wall under the banner of Allspark Animation in collaboration with DHX Studios Vancouver. airing on Discovery Family. The series is based on My Little Pony by Bonnie Zacherle. The music was composed by William Anderson along with Daniel Ingram, Caleb Chan and Steffan Andrews. The series has a running time of 22 minutes for each episode. The show has a total of 222 episodes during it's run of 9 seasons. Distribution rights for the series were acquired by Allspark.