Pikku Kakkonen

Pikku Kakkonen (Little Two)
Genre Children
Country of origin Finland
Original language(s) Finnish
Production
Running time 60 minutes
Production company(s) Yle
Release
Original network Yle TV2
Original release 1977
External links
Website

Pikku Kakkonen (Finnish for "the little two") is an ongoing Finnish magazine-type children's TV show shown on Yle TV2. The first episode aired on January 11, 1977. It finished with a bedtime story read by Lasse Pöysti and an East German Sandman animation, setting the format for hundreds of later episodes.

The Pikku Kakkonen show is based in Tampere, and its signature melodies (The Pikku Kakkonen mail tune and the main title tune) have been made into mobile phone ringing tones. The intro animation by Camilla Mickwitz was made in 1983.

Characters and series

  • Käytöskukka
  • Kössi Kenguru
  • Pat ja Mat
  • Pelle Hermanni from 1978
  • Nalle Luppakorva from 1979
  • Lohikäärme Justus
  • Taikuri Savinen
  • Karvakuonot: Ransu, Eno-Elmeri and Riku, from 1978
  • Timo Taikuri from 1979
  • Rölli from 1986
  • Ti-ti-nalle from 1989
  • Taikuri Luttinen from 1995

Many of these have been spun off as separate TV shows, theatre films or books.

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