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Křemílek and Vochomůrka want to grow a flower. They try and try but the seed refuses to grow. Finally, they fall asleep from all their work. When they wake up, they are amazed: the sun has helped the seed grow into a tall mullein. And all the way at the top is Vochomůrka’s hat, with which he had covered the seed so it wouldn’t be cold. He climbs up to get it, but slips and falls down. Luckily, the sun sends a butterfly to save the little dwarf.

The Poppy-Seed Fairy is visited by an acorn that has lost its little cap. She asks Emanuel the butterfly to lend him a hat. Suddenly the little mossy robber Burásek appears, searching for his lost acorn. Emanuel and the fairy hide the runaway, but the robber spies him all the same. In the end, the Poppy-Seed Fairy has to hide the little acorn man in a pit in the ground. And in that spot a giant tree grows, covered in acorns….

The Little Man is looking for something to eat in his prehistoric natural surroundings. When a bolt of lighting strikes a dried tree, he learns the usefulness of fire. But then the rain comes and puts out the fire. By chance, the Little Man discovers that fire can be started by striking a spark. With fire, he is safe and warm.

It is night, and everybody at Kulík Castle is asleep. But the castle warden Mr. Krbec is snoring so loudly that it bothers not only his tomcat Kokeš, but also the ghost of the castle’s former lord, Ruprecht. When the snoring shakes his painting off the wall, Ruprecht gets angry and starts to wake up Mr. Krbec in the most indiscriminate manner. And so they start to chase each other throughout the castle.

One day while on his way to school, Lucas passes a poster with a boy who looks like his spitting image. The two become friends and have exciting adventures while exploring various other posters hanging on the wall. And that’s not all – for instance, the boy from the poster occasionally goes to school in Lucas’ place, and so it comes as no surprise that he wants to be rewarded for their good grades…

Jonas’ parents are getting ready for a costume party. Kanafásek mistakenly puts grandma to sleep although she was supposed to baby-sit Jonas. And so Jonas asks Kanafásek to go with him to the party, where a contest for best costume and dancer is under way. The Dream-Master and Sleepy-Bye have to get involved – after all, you can’t just run around like that and not go to bed. But they can’t find Jonas: He is hiding in the prize basket, which the winners take home with them. 

Macourek and Canfourek are two curious and playful little kittens who listen less to their mother than to the older and craftier Klever Kat.

At first, Klever Kat and the kittens draw pictures on the road, but then they paint the entire house. A storm comes, but the house – angry at being scrawled on – refuses to let them in.

Rumcajs and Manka give birth to little Cipísek, and so they move from Jičín back to Řáholec Forest. The fresh air does the robber’s son good, and Rumcajs sets to cobbling him his first pair of shoes. He sends Manka to find jay feathers for decoration, and although she counters that it is still early for shoes, she goes. When she returns to their cave, Cipísek is no longer in his cradle. But he wasn’t carried off by a fox or a badger – and not even by the squirrel, in whose nest Rumcajs eventually finds him...

Ever since Katie found the little dog Škubánek in the pram into which she had placed a chocolate egg with the wish that it might hatch something for her, the two of them have been inseparable friends. They share fun and suspenseful adventures and take part in many games and contests. Everything would be for the best, if it wasn’t for the malicious tomcat Lucius, who is jealous of their friendship.

Joseph and Václav are more than ordinary blackbirds who merely fly about carefree. They also go on pilgrimages, are so desperate for cherries that they join the mole in building an underground tunnel, visit the zoo, and even like to eat pancakes.

One day, they have nothing to do and so they just go for a walk. When they see a wall with graffiti, they draw a devil on it. At first it was just for fun and he fulfils all their wishes, but soon he is nothing but trouble.

Zephyr and Robátko trip over Líčko the badger, but Robátko immediately rubs some plantago ointment on his face and apologizes. The badger promises to help Robátko if he should ever need it. Around the same time, Kotrč convinces Barbara the water sprite that he might not be so angry all the time if he got himself a woman to do his housework for him. Barbara uses some pearls to ensnare Josephine, while Mr. Kotrč peers out from behind the willows to see if she will take the bait…

Merry tales of a hard-working professor and the abominable snowman Hugo, whom he brought home from an expedition to the mountains. Hugo finds himself among people, tries to learn their habits, and makes friends with children, but is glad to go back home in the end. The encounter between an abominable snowman and the world of people offers an opportunity for many merry tales.

Tapir Zbynko is ill and nobody knows what to do. Finally, Sophie decides to send someone to the tapir homeland for advice. Irene the fly, who had previously only bugged everyone at the zoo, flies on a successful mission, and everyone realizes that even small and annoying flies have a right to live.

In a small junkyard near the town of Vizovice in Moravia, in the middle of the Wallachian Kingdom, there live two rats – Hubert and Hodan. They have one friend together, the plaster garden gnome Louis, with whom they live in the drawers of an old sewing machine. On one of their walks, they meet Ed, a laboratory rat from Prague, who finds temporary refuge with them.

Denise and Philip’s farmer uncle leaves for the county fair and leaves the children a list of things that need to be done – the perfect job for Alva’s multifaceted agricultural robot. The idea is that he will turn their farm work into a piece of cake. But the opposite happens, as the remote control ends up under the hooves of a herd of cows and the robot gets out of control. In just a few minutes, everything at the farm is in chaos.

Our two inseparable earthworm friends are blowing bubbles when all of a sudden they hear someone crying in the field of grain. They follow the sound and discover a sad little hare, whom they try to cheer up with a bottle of milk and by blowing bubbles. It is harvest time, and a giant combine is approaching. Their blackbird friend Blackie can’t get the hare to move aside, but luckily the Little Earthworms change themselves into balloons and carry the hare to safety.

Mrs. White is the only person who can manage to look after quadruplets Barnabas, Matthew, Tobias and Uriah. And why shouldn’t she be? After all, she is a ghost – a real White Lady from an old castle. Today, the boys want to go for a walk in town, but the playground chaperone refuses to let them in so they go to play at the “Animal Paradise”. Soon, however, the game gets out of control and the White Lady and the boys must expend all their efforts (including her magic powers) to set things right again.

The new episodes of the popular puppet series The Little Cabin on the Hill tell the story of life in a picturesque foothill village in the olden days, from January to December.

The cobbler’s family is expecting a baby, and the father, Matthew, is sitting in front of the cabin. Johnny, Annie and Apollena are keeping an eye out for the stork, but it seems strange to them – who has ever heard of a stork coming in January? Grandpa Koudelka explains that storks don’t bring children; children are born when Daddy and Mommy love one another.

Frederick is a little elephant boy who never grew up much, and so he barely reaches normal elephants up to their ankles. But he won’t be discouraged. Because he is smart, has a good heart, and friend he can rely on, he can do everything that the big strong elephants can. 

His father is constantly wondering whether there might still be a way to get Frederick to grow a little more, and so he decides to mix a magic potion according to an ancient recipe.

Living in one house are not only its human inhabitants, but also an original mouse family. Worrywart Grandpa Whiskers, his oldest grandson Ferda, younger brother Bellybutton and their fashionable sister Ribbon. The three grandchildren discover a secret underground passage that lets them explore the entire house, and so they experience many adventures, surprising situations, and lots of fun. It’s a good thing that Grandpa’s wise intervention towards the end of the episode prevents a catastrophe. 

The popular series about Racochejl the goblin is built around Zdeněk Smetana’s exceptional artistic style. This morning, Racochejl was awakened by a loud splashing noise. Taking a bath in the tub is a strange magician. Nearby the Muddies are throwing mud at Shrew and forcing him to sing and dance, but the mud turns him into a clay statue. Racochejl asks the magician to intervene, and he punishes the Muddies.

The Lord of Jičín is getting ready to marry off his daughter to her foppish groom. The young countess is beautiful, but no wedding dress is good enough for her. The footboy offers to find her a dress from the finest fabric. He lays in wait for a fairy from Řáholec Forest, and steals it from her. The poor fairy is left alone in the forest, naked like the day she was born. When Manka comes along, she sees that she cannot leave the fairy just like that. And besides, what if her husband Rumcajs ran into her? 

It is New Year’s Eve and Bob and Bobek are having a champagne toast when they notice that their hat (their home) has disappeared. They go in search of it, and discover that Pokuston the magician is getting ready for a show. They sneak backstage and cause chaos and confusion... only to hide in his hat during the grand finale.

Instead of catching a butterfly as he had planned, the hunter in his elegant summer outfit manages to catch a fine-looking lady in the bushes. After a lover’s romp, our hunter runs off to the pond for a little dip. Well, and on the other side of the pond is a house, and it are Ája and her talking dog Maxipes Fík, who have found an advertisement in the newspaper looking for a large, intelligent dog. It’s a good thing they went – the film studio has never witnessed such a day.

Short animated clips by Czech animators on “the phenomenon of television”.

Short animated clips by Czech animators on “the phenomenon of television”.

Short animated clips by Czech animators on “the phenomenon of television”.

Short animated clips by Czech animators on “the phenomenon of television”.

Short animated clips by Czech animators on “the phenomenon of television”.

Short animated clips by Czech animators on “the phenomenon of television”.

Short animated clips by Czech animators on “the phenomenon of television”.

Short animated clips by Czech animators on “the phenomenon of television”.

Short animated clips by Czech animators on “the phenomenon of television”.

Short animated clips by Czech animators on “the phenomenon of television”.