Telecat

Telecat

1983 · 3 seasons · 234 eps · ★ 7.9 · Kids, Comedy, Family

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Created by French surrealist artist Roland Topor and director Henri Xhonneux, Telecat is a news show parody hosted by a tomcat named Groucha (who always had his arm in plaster) and an ostrich named Lola. It featured a variety of sentient objects and revolved around the idea that the real-life elementary particles known as gluons were “the souls of objects”.

Created by Roland Topor, Henri Xhonneux

Networks: La Une, Antenne 2

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