Pan Tau_Episode 01

Pan Tau (Czech for "Mr. Tau") is a character created for a children's television series. There were 33 episodes made by the Czechoslovak Television (ČST). A pilot film was shot in 1966, 33 episodes were made from 1969 until 1978. The project ended with a feature film in 1988. The protagonist Pan Tau, who generally didn't speak and communicated through pantomime. 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. Pan Tau always had a gentle expression and a friendly smile, he was elegantly dressed in a stroller, with an umbrella and a white carnation in the lapel. Foremost, he was famous for his magic bowler hat. By tapping on his hat, Pan Tau was able to change his appearance into a puppet, to conjure up miscellaneous objects or to do other magic.