Telemiezen

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Tele chicks is a cartoon series of the Südwestfunks that from 1972 in succession of the Puss cat (1959-1971) as bumpers was used. It is about a family of two adult cats , two kittens and a little mouse .

Content and development

The mother cat is purple, the kittens dark pink or medium blue, the mouse green and the father cat in two shades of brown (trunk and head sand brown, limbs dark brown). In most of the episodes, the mouse cat daddy plays nasty tricks. At first, the kittens saved the mouse from its predicament, but later the cat father was more and more often tricked by the mouse and washed down once in the bathtub with the bathwater. At the end of his presence in the spots, the cat father mostly only showed his torso and arms, but no longer his head and face, almost filling the screen.

The figures were drawn in a simple style and for many years only gave off natural tones or noises. From the beginning of the 1980s, the figures were designed a little more realistically, with the exception of the mouse, which practically did not change, and the father of a cat was given an oval instead of the previous rhombus-shaped head with a rounded nose.

As with Äffle and Pferdle, the Telemiezen produced short second-hand spots as well as small short films, which often contained musical performances. While Äffle and Pferdle of popular music (for example, to blues and rock but) tried the tele chicks preferred classical music, especially opera - parodies , including Semper libera degg'io the opera La traviata .

Over time, the composition of the family changed. While the cat mother disappeared from the spots very early (around 1975) and the cat father later (around 1986), in the last phase before the spots were discontinued, a brown-dotted dog with very long, floppy ears that could also speak was added. The two little cats spoke from then on.

Charisma

In the ARD regional program of Südwestfunk (SWF) and Süddeutschem Rundfunk (SDR), the Telemiezen of the SWF alternated with the duo Äffle and Pferdle of the SDR .

The series was replaced at the end of the 1980s by Bessi & Bingo , a series about a dog-cat duo produced by the Baden-Baden animation company Studio 88 .