Pikku Kakkonen


Pikku Kakkonen is an ongoing Finnish magazine-type children's TV show shown on Yle TV2. The first episode aired on January 11, 1977. It finished with a bedtime story read by the late Lasse Pöysti and an East German Sandman animation, setting the format for hundreds of later episodes.
The Pikku Kakkonen show is based in Tampere, and its signature melodies have been made into mobile phone ringing tones. On October 25, 1983, Pikku Kakkonen introduced a new logo that consists of a moon, a flower, a teddybear, a doll, a ghost, a fish, and a bird which together form the number 2; which also matches the frequency for Yle's secondary channel, although Pikku Kakkonen's current intro animation is illustrated by Camilla Mickwitz who were responsible to design and animate the stop-motion opening and ending sequences. However, this logo becomes Pikku Kakkonen's current logo as a trademark symbol and it shall permanently remain a long use throughout today.

Characters and series

Many of these have been spun off as separate TV shows, theatre films or books.