Pikku Kakkonen (1977)

Genre

children's television series, magazine format program

Country

Finland

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This Finnish children's show mixes short live-action and animated segments in a magazine format. It airs twice on weekdays and once on weekends, and always ends with a bedtime story and a Sandman animation.

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What happens

Pikku Kakkonen (Finnish for "the little number two") is an ongoing Finnish magazine-type children's TV show shown on Yle TV2. The first episode aired on 11 January 1977. It finished with a bedtime story read by the late Lasse Pöysti (1927–2019) and an East German Sandman animation, setting the format for hundreds of later episodes. Currently the series airs twice a day (mornings and evenings) on weekdays and once a day (mornings only) on weekends. The Pikku Kakkonen show is recorded in Tampere, and its signature melodies (The Pikku Kakkonen mail tune and the main title tune) have been made into mobile phone ringtones. On October 25, 1983, Pikku Kakkonen introduced a new logo that consists of a crescent moon, a flower, a teddybear, a doll, a ghost, a fish, and a bird which join together to form the number 2 (to denote TV2). Pikku Kakkonen's intro animation was created by Camilla Mickwitz (1937–1989) who was responsible for designing and animating the stop-motion opening and ending sequences. This logo has become a trademark symbol of Pikku Kakkonen and has not changed since. A variety of live-action and animated television series, both domestic and imported, air as part of Pikku Kakkonen. The imported series are mainly animated and have all been dubbed and localized into Finnish. The domestic series are mainly live-action. Pikku Kakkonen is targeted at an audience of preschool and elementary school-aged children. Since 2005, it has a counterpart for older children called Galaxi which also airs on Yle TV2. Galaxi broadcasts live-action and animated television series both from Finland and overseas, all in the Finnish language. Pikku Kakkonen was awarded the Golden Venla (Kultainen Venla) in 2011 and 2012 as the "best children's TV show of the year". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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