Pat & Mat
| Pat & Mat | |
|---|---|
Pat and Mat logo (in VAG Rounded) | |
| Genre | Animation Comedy Slapstick |
| Created by | Lubomír Beneš Vladimír Jiránek |
| Written by | Lubomír Beneš Vladimír Jiránek Jiří Kubíček Vendulka Čvančarová Marek Beneš others |
| Directed by | Lubomír Beneš Marek Beneš others |
| Theme music composer | Petr Skoumal |
| Composers | Luboš Fišer (ep. 1) Petr Skoumal (ep. 2–91) Zdeněk Zdeněk (ep. 92–130) |
| Country of origin | Czechoslovakia Czech Republic Slovakia Germany Netherlands China (outsourced, episodes 92-130) |
| Original languages | None Dutch (dub) |
| No. of episodes | 130 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 6–9 min. |
| Production companies | Krátký film Praha aiF Studio Patmat film Ateliéry Bonton Zlín others |
| Original release | |
| Network | ČST (1979–1992) ČT (1992–2020) STV (1993–2011) ČT :D (2013–2020) TV JOJ (2016) |
| Release | 12 August 1976 – 2020 |
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Pat & Mat (Czech and Slovak: Pat a Mat) is a Czechoslovak slapstick stop motion silent animated series created by Lubomír Beneš and Vladimír Jiránek. The characters first appeared in the theatrically released short Kuťáci (Tinkers) in 1976, while the first made-for-TV episode "Tapety" ("Wallpaper") was produced for ČST Bratislava three years later.
The main characters of the series are two handymen, Pat and Mat, who are inventive and extremely clumsy. As of 2025, 130 episodes of the show have been released, and it has been syndicated in a large number of countries due to its lack of dialogue (except in the Dutch version, which is dubbed).