Froutopia
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.
Cast
Dimitris Piatas
Pikos ApikosTasos Kostis
Policeman Krypsivoulos/OscarDina Consta
Pepper, the pharmacoglossaAnna Panagiotopoulou
Mata, the tomatoPavlos Kontoyannidis
Manolis, the greengrocerPavlos Haikalis
Sotiris the watermelon/Fondas, the hard walnut/ZupihtosThanos Papadopoulos
Aristomenis Sfihtocheris (The Director)Vasia Trifylli
Beatrice, the asparagus/DecibelJoyce Evidi
PresenterStavros Xenidis
Francis, the prickly pearDanis Katranidis
Emilius the apple, leader of FrutopiaFaidon Sofianos
Thanos the PumpkinMatina Karra
Marilita the lettuceMihalis Mitrousis
Archelaus the panting cabbageKostas Triantafyllopoulos
Kumasi the KumaroTasos Perzikianidis
Lakis the LotusRania Oikonomidou
Pepi the Sweet Potato