Calimero
Sign in to saveCalimero is an animated television series about a charming but hapless anthropomorphized chicken; the only black one in a family of yellow chickens. He wears half of his egg shell still on his head. Calimero originally appeared on the Italian television show Carosello on July 14, 1963, and soon became a popular icon in Italy.
Key facts
- Character.series
- Calimero
- Character.name
- Calimero
- Character.image
- Calimero.jpg
- Character.caption
- Calimero poster showing two of the main characters.
- Character.creator
- Nino PagotToni PagotIgnazio Colnaghi
- Character.first
- Carosello
- Character.voice
- Ignazio ColnaghiDavide Garbolino (2013–present)
- Character.species
- Chicken
- Character.gender
- Male
- Character.lbl21
- Origin
- Character.data21
- Italy
- Animanga/Header.name
- Calimero
- Animanga/Header.ja_kanji
- カリメロ
- Animanga/Header.ja_romaji
- Karimero
- Animanga/Video.type
- TV series
- Animanga/Video.director
- Tsuneo TominagaShigeru Ueda
- Animanga/Video.studio
- Gaumont AnimationStudio Campedelli
- Animanga/Video.network
- TF1 (France)Rai 2 (Italy)TXN (TV Tokyo) (Japan)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country of origin
- Scotland
- Original language
- Japanese
- Creator
- Toni Pagot
- Duration
- 25
- Official website
- www.calimero.com
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- Commons category
- Calimero (cartoon series)
- start time
- 1974-10-15
- number of episodes
- 99
- number of seasons
- 2
- original broadcaster
- TV Asahi
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Characters
- 1974 series
- 1992 series
- 2013 series
- Legacy
- Mobile game
- Impact in popular culture
- References
- External links
Calimero is an animated television series about a charming but hapless anthropomorphized chicken; the only black one in a family of yellow chickens. He wears half of his egg shell still on his head. Calimero originally appeared on the Italian television show Carosello on July 14, 1963, and soon became a popular icon in Italy.
The characters were created by the animation studio Organizzazione Pagot and originated as a series of animated advertisements for Miralanza AVA soap products shown throughout Italy. The creators of the main character were Nino Pagot, Toni Pagot and Ignazio Colnaghi. At the end of each episode, it turns out that Calimero is not actually black, but only very dirty, and becomes white after being washed by the advertised soap products.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Calimero” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.