Pingu is a Swiss animated television series created by Otmar Gutman, about a family of penguins who live at the South Pole. The main character is their son and title character, Pingu. The episodes were written by Silvio Mazzola, and directed and animated by Otmar Gutmann using clay animation, at Trickfilmstudio in Switzerland, first appeared in 1986. (From Wikipedia)
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