History
It was created for television by the Croatian animator Zlatko Grgić at the Zagreb Film studio, Croatia. 59 episodes of the cartoon were made between 1967 and 1974.
It has been shown in subsequent years in several countries beside the former Yugoslavia, including Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Spain, Iran, Greece, Canada and Zimbabwe. It was also shown in the United States in the 1980s on Pinwheel as well as on the ABC in Australia.
A CGI revival was planned in the late 1990s and was completed in 2007.
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