Froutopia (Φρουτοπία)

Overview

Children's series with dolls which is the television adaptation of the comic of the same name (1983) by the writer Evgenios Trivizas and the cartoonist Nikos Maroulakis. The series is about the adventures of journalist Pikos Apikos, who travels to the distant land of Fruitopia to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Manolis of Manavis. The comic was also transferred to television in 1985, by the Sofianou family, visualized with puppets and achieving great success. The series began airing on November 8,1985, on the ERT channel and now also plays on ERTFLIX. Despite the fact that the finale of Fruitopia never aired, due to cutbacks in the programming zone in which the series aired, with a total of 48 episodes, were aired several times in the following years.

Key Crew

Top Cast

Dimitris Piatas

Pikos Apikos

Tasos Kostis

Policeman Krypsivoulos/Oscar

Dina Consta

Pepper, the pharmacoglossa

Anna Panagiotopoulou

Mata, the tomato

Pavlos Kontoyannidis

Manolis, the greengrocer

Pavlos Haikalis

Sotiris the watermelon/Fondas, the hard walnut/Zupihtos

Thanos Papadopoulos

Aristomenis Sfihtocheris (The Director)

Vasia Trifylli

Beatrice, the asparagus/Decibel