Saturday 26 January 2013
Who is PINGU ...?
Pingu is a BAFTA award-winning
British-Swiss stop-motion claymated television series created by Otmar Gutmann.
The series was produced by The Pygos Group and Trickfilmstudio for Swiss
television, and centres on a family of anthropomorphic penguins living at the South
Pole. The main character is the family's son and title character, Pingu..
The show originally ran for four seasons from 28
May 1986 to 9 April 2000 on SF DRS. In 2001, there were 2 Pingu episodes made
(one of them being "Pingu & the Doll") that did not air during
the original run. The episodes were run later, in 2000, as part of a Pingu
marathon. HiT Entertainment's request for more episodes convinced Pygos to
bring back the show in 2003, with two more series. Of note, season 1
(1986-1990) and season 2 (1991-1994) were run consecutively but took 4 years
for each season to complete, while season 3 (1995-1996) and season 4
(1998-2000) took 2 and 3 years to complete - the show was not cancelled in
between.
Pingu
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Genre
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Children's stop motion comedy
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Created by
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Otmar Gutmann
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Written by
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Silvio Mazzola
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Starring
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Carlo Bonomi (series 1-4)
Marcello Magni and David Sant (series 5-6) |
Composer(s)
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Pygos Group
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Country of origin
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Switzerland
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No. of seasons
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Original series: 4
Revived series: 2 6 (total) |
No. of episodes
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Original series: 105
Revived series: 52 157 (total) |
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