Fantadroms

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Fantadroms is a Soviet and Latvian children's cartoon by the production company Studio Dauka. It first aired in the Soviet Union in 1985. The show has no dialogue and drama unfolds through pantomime and expressive noises such as grunts, groans, and laughter. This allows the show to cross language barriers.

The episode "Salt" won the Lielais Kristaps award for best animation in 1985,{{cite web|url=http://www.lielaiskristaps.lv/laureati|title=Laureāti|work=LielaisKristaps.lv}} and further episodes were made sporadically until 1995.

In the early 1990s, Streamline Pictures was planning to release Fantadroms in the United States, but it was scrapped because the company thought the series was too bizarre for American audiences and that the person representing it did not actually have the rights to it.{{cite web|url=http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/streamline-pictures-part-2/|title=Streamline Pictures-Part 2|work=Cartoon Research}}

Plot

The main character of the show is a yellow shape-shifting robot called Indriķis XIII, who usually takes the form of a cat. He flies through the universe mediating various disputes between the other characters or saving them from disaster. One recurring dynamic in the show is the love triangle between Indriķis, Receklīte ("clot" in Latvian, a flying purple cat-octopus with whom Indriķis is in love), and The Rat (who is in love with Indriķis). Other recurring characters include a cow, two young humans, and an amorphous pink blob.

Episode list

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|Title =Takeoff Field of Fantasy

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|Title =The Laugh

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|Title =The Fire

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|EpisodeNumber = 4

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|Title = Flowers

|WrittenBy =Ansis Bērziņš

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|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 5

|EpisodeNumber2 = 5

|Title = Milk

|WrittenBy =Ansis Bērziņš

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|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1993}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 6

|EpisodeNumber2 = 6

|Title = Ice Cream

|WrittenBy =Ansis Bērziņš, Uģis Segliņš

|DirectedBy =Aivars Rušmanis

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1993}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 7

|EpisodeNumber2 = 7

|Title =The Contest

|WrittenBy =Uģis Segliņš

|DirectedBy =Dzintars Krūmiņš

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1993}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 8

|EpisodeNumber2 = 8

|Title = Earthquake

|WrittenBy =Uģis Segliņš

|DirectedBy =Jānis Kārkliņš

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1993}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 9

|EpisodeNumber2 = 9

|Title = Feeding Bottle

|WrittenBy =Uģis Segliņš, Ansis Bērziņš

|DirectedBy =Aivars Rušmanis

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1994}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 10

|EpisodeNumber2 = 10

|Title =A Little House

|WrittenBy =Ansis Bērziņš, Aldis Linē

|DirectedBy =Jānis Kārkliņš

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1994}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 11

|EpisodeNumber2 = 11

|Title = Rainbow

|WrittenBy =Ilze Skrastiņa, Ansis Bērziņš

|DirectedBy =Dace Liepa

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1994}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 12

|EpisodeNumber2 = 12

|Title = Cocoa

|WrittenBy =Ansis Bērziņš, Aldis Linē

|DirectedBy =Ilze Ruska

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1995}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 13

|EpisodeNumber2 = 13

|Title = Daddy

|WrittenBy =Ansis Bērziņš, Aldis Linē

|DirectedBy =Ilze Ruska

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1995}}

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Episodes "Takeoff Field of Fantasy", "The Salt" and "The Fire" got another cut a few years after release, being shortened as a result. "Takeoff Field of Fantasy" was renamed into "The Laugh" on that release.

References

External links

{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20161220061755/http://www.pasakas.net/pasaku_kino/fantadroms/?page=1 Pasakas.net]}} {{in lang|lv}}

Category:1985 animated television series debuts

Category:Pantomime

Category:1980s children's television series

Category:1990s children's television series

Category:1980s animated television series

Category:1990s animated television series

Category:1980s Soviet television series

Category:1990s Latvian television series

Category:Latvian animated television series

Category:Latvijas Televīzija original programming

Category:Animated television series about robots

Category:Animated television series about cats

Category:Animated television series about shapeshifting