Monster Rancher, known in Japan as Monster Farm (モンスターファーム), is a 73-episode anime series based on Tecmo's Monster Rancher video game franchise. It originally aired on Japanese television on TBS from April 17, 1999 to September 30, 2001. An English language version by Bohbot Entertainment aired in North America on Fox Kids. In Japan, the program existed as two separate series; Enbanseki no Himitsu (円盤石の秘密 The Secret of the Stone Disk) for episodes 1-48 and Densetsu e no Michi (伝説への道 The Legendary Path) for episodes 49-73.