Czechoslovakian children's television from Barrandov studios
When I remember my childhood (late 70s and 80s), there were surprisingly many fictional serials from Czechoslovakia on both West and East German channels, and some of them are still shown today. Some examples:
Lucie, postrach ulice / Luzie, der Schrecken der Straße (Lucie, spectre in the streets), 1980
A very cute 6-part series about a little girl who gets bored in the summer before her school enrolment. She snatches a box of play dough in a department store, and the dough turns into two figures, Friedrich & Friedrich. The little guys play all kinds of pranks, getting Lucie into trouble because her parents think she's responsible for the mess...
The series was hugely popular among us kids. It was co-produced by Czech and West German television. Some scenes were filmed in the streets of Cologne, complete with German number plates on the cars. It never ran on East German TV. In Czechoslovia, the six 30-minute episodes were edited into a 75-minutes film that premiered in 1983 or 84.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpN4PAIR6ho (recap of episodes 1&2 in German)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToXyIZJkdKQ (trailer for the German DVD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVOxumwSecQ (entire film in Czech)
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzie,...er_Stra%C3%9Fe
Návštěvníci / Die Besucher / Expedition Adam '84 (The Visitors), 1984
A children's sci-fi series with 15 episodes about scientists from the year 2484 who travel back to 1984, looking for a mathematical formula that could help prevent a disaster. A little boy (who will grow up to become a famous mathematician) has scribbled the formula into his excercise book which is going to be destroyed in a fire...
This was a funny and entertaining serial with some hilarious (and cheap-looking) special effects. It was shown in both East and West Germany. The title was "Die Besucher" on ARD and "Expedition Adam '84" on DDR-Fernsehen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VtA3y2ekck (episode 1, West German version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wDT4LNhfTM (episode 1, Czechoslovakian version)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A...28TV_series%29
Pan Tau (Mr. Tau), 1966-88
A very well-known series but I only have faint memories of it. Wiki says:
The protagonist Pan Tau, who generally didn't speak and communicated through pantomime, was played by Otto Šimánek (1925–1992). [...] The stories were generally funny, but contained some kind of problem for a child, and here Pan Tau found the way to solve the problem. The series was shown in both parts of Germany.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAfzYOqjBlA (Series 1, episode 1, West German version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynOSKn7rv1Y (Series 2, episode 2, Czech version)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Tau
All of the above serials were written & directed by Ota Hofman and Jindřich Polák. And they actually produced a lot more. A lot of actors also took part in various of these projects.
I guess these shows didn't find their way to the UK but maybe someone remembers watching them in other countries?