La Linea - The Line Full series DVD Menő manó - a teljes sorozat / Created by Osvaldo Cavandoli (Cava) / Voice of Carlo Bonomi / Italian animated series / ER1008

UPC 5999557442409 / 5999016350214

REGION 2 PAL DVD

MADE IN HUNGARY

AUDIO:  MONO

TOTAL TIME: 146 MINUTES

English Summary:

La Linea ("The Line") is an Italian animated series created by the Italian cartoonist Osvaldo Cavandoli. The series consists of 90 episodes, which were originally broadcast on the Italian channel RAI between 1971 and 1986. All episodes were short subjects, ranging from 2:28 to 6:37 in runtime. Over the years the series aired in more than 40 countries around the world. Due to the short length of episodes, the series have often been used in many networks as an interstitial program. The background tune for the series was created by Franco Godi.

The cartoon features a man (known as "Mr. Linea") drawn as a single outline around his silhouette, walking on an infinite line of which he is a part. The character encounters obstacles and often turns to the cartoonist, represented as a live-action hand holding a white grease pencil, to draw him a solution, with various degrees of success. One recurring obstacle was an abrupt end of the line. The character would often almost fall off the edge into oblivion and get angry with the cartoonist and complain about it. He was voiced by Carlo Bonomi in a mock version of Milanese that resembled gibberish as much as possible, with occasional Italian or English words, giving the cartoon the possibility to be easily exported without dubbing. The voice resembles Pingu's, the Swiss-British animated penguin, which was also voiced by Bonomi.

The first 8 episodes of the series were, in fact, created to publicize Lagostina kitchenware products, and the accompanying narration identified Mr. Linea as "Agostino Lagostina, a sharp little man with a truly expressive nose." After the 8th episode, however, the series broke its association with Lagostina.

Hungarian Summary:

A Menő Manó (eredeti cím: La linea) egy olasz rajzfilmsorozat, amit az olasz Osvaldo Cavandoli készített, és eredetileg a RAI nevű csatornán sugározták Olaszországban. Az animált figura könnyűszerrel tudott különböző nemzetek televízióiban megjelenni, köszönhetően annak, hogy felirat és szinkron igénye nem volt, történetei univerzálisak, így a legtöbb kultúra számára egyértelműek.

A sorozat nagy sikerre tett szert Magyarországon is, televízióban az M2 csatornán találkozhattak vele a nézők, otthoni visszanézésre pedig DVD-n is kiadták egyes epizódjait (lásd a lenti táblázatban). A 2010-es évek elején az egyik kereskedelmi bank (K&H) felélesztette a manót, így a közönség a televíziós reklámszünetekben találkozhatott vele újra, ahol a bank éppen aktuális ajánlatait segített eljuttatni a nézőkhöz.

Alternative titles

The show is known by different names around the world, including:

• "Bay Meraklı" (Mr. Curious) and "Çizgi Adam" (Line Man) in Turkey
• "Aghaaye Khat" / "آقای خط" (Mr. Line) in Iran
• "Linus på linjen" (Linus on the line) in Sweden
• "Linus linjalla" (Linus on the line) in Finland
• "Linea" or "Badum Badum" in Slovenia
• "Balum balum" and sometimes "Złośniczek" in Poland
• "Menő Manó" (Walking Dwarf or Cool Dwarf) in Hungary
• "Mar Kav" / "מר קו" (Mr. Line) in Israel
• "Barum Badum" in Albania and Kosovo
• "Streken" (The Line) in Norway
• "Stregen" (The Line) in Denmark
• "Línan" (The Line) in Iceland
• "Бајум Бајум" in North Macedonia
• "Барум Барум" / "Barum Barum" or "Абаракандиши Ди Фјури" / "Abarakandiši Di Fjuri" in Serbia
• "Lineman" in the United States
• "La Linéa" in France
• "A Linha" in Brazil
• "Abelardo" in Argentina
• "La ligne" in Québec, Canada
• "Bajum Badum" in Croatia
• "Μπαρούμ Μπαρούμ" - Barúm Barúm Greece
• "AlSeyed Khat" / "السيد خط" (Mr. Line) in Saudi Arabia
• "Xiàntiáo xiānshēng" / "線條先生" (Mr. Line) in China

Epizódok / Episodes

Az előző táblázatból kitűnik, hogy hazánkban a második etapba sorolt részek jelentek meg; egyszer "A teljes sorozat" megnevezéssel, ami így félrevezető lehet. Az itthon kiadott részek címei az alábbi táblázatban olvashatóak.