Froutopia
Φρουτοπία
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.
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Cast
Tasos Kostis
as Policeman Krypsivoulos/Oscar
Thanos Papadopoulos
as Aristomenis Sfihtocheris (The Director)
Danis Katranidis
as Emilius the apple, leader of Frutopia
Matina Karra
as Marilita the lettuce
Vasia Trifylli
as Beatrice, the asparagus/Decibel
Joyce Evidi
as Presenter
Faidon Sofianos
as Thanos the Pumpkin
Kostas Skokos
as Narrator
Dimitris Piatas
as Pikos Apikos
Anna Panagiotopoulou
as Mata, the tomato
Pavlos Kontoyannidis
as Manolis, the greengrocer
Stavros Xenidis
as Francis, the prickly pear
Mihalis Mitrousis
as Archelaus the panting cabbage
Kostas Triantafyllopoulos
as Kumasi the Kumaro
Tasos Perzikianidis
as Lakis the Lotus
Dina Consta
as Pepper, the pharmacoglossa
Pavlos Haikalis
as Sotiris the watermelon/Fondas, the hard walnut/Zupihtos
Rania Oikonomidou
as Pepi the Sweet Potato
