Pat & Mat
Encyclopedia
Pat & Mat is a Czech
stop-motion animated series featuring two handymen
, Pat and Mat (Czech for "Stalemate
" and "Checkmate
", respectively). It was created by Lubomír Beneš
and Vladimír Jiránek
.
According to the authors, it is the manual ineptitude that inspires the stories. The humour is not the only feature of the show, another feature is having an optimistic approach towards life. The two characters always get into problematic situations, but they never give up until they solve the problem in imaginative ways.
The show is also memorable for its soundtrack, composed by Petr Skoumal
, of which the main parts consist of the theme song and a harmonica
tune.
The show was concluded in 2004. The 78th episode, "The Strawberries" (2003), became the final episode released on DVD.
While creating the two characters, the authors had in mind especially entertainment for adults, but the show became popular with all audiences. However, in former Czechoslovakia
, the first 35 episodes of the series could have been produced as children's TV programme only, in the short's format of 7 minutes.
The show became popular throughout the world, being aired in nations that include Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic
and Slovakia
), Sweden
, Syria
, Iraq
, Poland
, Yugoslavia
, Iceland
, Germany
, Switzerland
, Brazil
, Finland
, Netherlands
, Croatia
, Japan
, Norway
, Spain
, Iran
, Hungary
, Serbia
, Slovenia
, Jordan
, South Africa
, South Korea
.
In 1990, shortly after Czechoslovakia became open (and later the Czech
and Slovak
republics), Lubomír Beneš (who died in 1995) founded his own AIF Studio in Prague
(production) and Zürich
(marketing, sales, financing), where he and his team produced 14 more episodes, and introduced all 49 of them to the international market.
From the latest ones directed by Lubomír Beneš, the 38th episode The Cyclists, animated by Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly, participated at the "Annecy '93" (Annecy
, France) animation festival competition, and has been invited to a number of other world festivals.
The Cyclists has also been included in the selection "The Best of Annecy '93" by Cinémathèque Québécoise
(Montreal
), Museum of Fine Arts
(Boston
), Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley
), Museum of Modern Art
(New York
) and presented by these institutions in their autumn '93 show.
The 44th episode The Billiards, animated by František Váša, has been selected for the "Annecy '95" competition, and invited to almost all otherworld film festivals.
The Billiards got two prizes at the World Animation Celebration in Agoura (CA
), March '97:
Czechoslovakia
, the authors had to explain their "subversive
" characters and stories to the Prague
watch-dogs of the regime
, e.g. one of the questions was if they chose the t-shirt colours, red and yellow, to make fun of the Soviet-Chinese tensions. However, their explanations were "unsatisfactory", and so the "ideologic
impurity" and the ban on Pat & Mat production remained. Yet, the Slovak
colleagues from Czechoslovak TV
in Bratislava
gave Pat & Mat the necessary support, assigned them production means, so the production began and went on in the same Czech
studio in Prague where Lubomír Beneš and his crew worked, under their Slovak cover
(28 episodes, 1979–1985). However, Mat's T-shirt was changed from red to a neutral grey. It was changed again to red in 1989.
excluded some of the episodes from broadcasting, as they deemed them "too dangerous", while the French and Italian channels had no such problems.
s released with episodes from the 1976-1990 and 2002-2004 era. As of 2004, 78 episodes were made in total, with the idea and characters taken over by partially new studios. Among the new studios, there was also Patmat s.r.o., headed by Marek Beneš, Lubomír Beneš's son.
Original:
Other countries, languages (in alphabetic order):
), was slightly longer (lasting approximately 12 minutes), had a dialogue, a new soundtrack and new opening and closing sequences. The plan was to make 52 episodes of the new series and a feature film. Its implementation, however, did not come into effect (due to lack of money), and it was the only episode filmed that was not distributed or released. Lubomír Beneš died in 1995, and AIF Studio didn't have the rights to the characters anymore, because Marek Beneš and Vladimír Jiránek left the studio. AIF planned to get the rights from Lubomir Beneš's heirs, but soon after they completed the episode they went into bankruptcy. This is the reason why this episode has never been released and remains a mystery to all. It was directed, animated and written by František Váša.
The only thing from this episode published was a screenshot that was posted on the AIF Studio Pat & Mat website. However, one Czech animation studio called Animation People (http://www.animation.cz/ap_en.htm) saw the episode and posted more screenshots on their website. The screenshots disappeared in the middle of September 2010 when the studio modified their website. A 4:3 version also exists.
, announced on their website that they have secured the rights to Pat and Mat to create a video game of the same name. The game was released in Czech Republic
on October 1, 2009. It was released in other EU countries in 2010. The game is available in English and Czech. It is also available for purchase via Steam.
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
stop-motion animated series featuring two handymen
Handyman
A handyman is a person skilled at a wide range of repairs, typically around the home. These tasks include trade skills, repair work, maintenance work, both interior and exterior, and are sometimes described as "odd jobs", "fix-up tasks", and include light plumbing jobs such as fixing a leaky toilet...
, Pat and Mat (Czech for "Stalemate
Stalemate
Stalemate is a situation in chess where the player whose turn it is to move is not in check but has no legal moves. A stalemate ends the game in a draw. Stalemate is covered in the rules of chess....
" and "Checkmate
Checkmate
Checkmate is a situation in chess in which one player's king is threatened with capture and there is no way to meet that threat. Or, simply put, the king is under direct attack and cannot avoid being captured...
", respectively). It was created by Lubomír Beneš
Lubomír Beneš
Lubomír Beneš was a Czech animator, director and author who lived in Roztoky, near Prague. He was married, and had a son and daughter....
and Vladimír Jiránek
Vladimír Jiránek
Vladimír Jiránek is a Czech illustrator, film director and cartoonist.In 1962 he graduated from Philosophical faculty of Charles University in Prague, where he studied journalism. He closely cooperated with magazines . After the Velvet revolution he joined Lidové noviny...
.
The show
The show features the two characters facing mostly self-made problems, trying to solve them using any possible and impossible tools and construction gadgets. This leads to even more problems and yet, eventually, the two manage to get a working result with a mostly surprising solution.According to the authors, it is the manual ineptitude that inspires the stories. The humour is not the only feature of the show, another feature is having an optimistic approach towards life. The two characters always get into problematic situations, but they never give up until they solve the problem in imaginative ways.
The show is also memorable for its soundtrack, composed by Petr Skoumal
Petr Skoumal
Petr Skoumal is a Czech musician and composer.Skoumal focuses on film music. He also composes music for animated shorts . In the past he made several stage performances with Jan Vodňanský in The Drama Club in Prague. After the break-up of the duo he made several albums for adults, echoing the...
, of which the main parts consist of the theme song and a harmonica
Harmonica
The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
tune.
The show was concluded in 2004. The 78th episode, "The Strawberries" (2003), became the final episode released on DVD.
History
The two characters first appeared in a 1976 short film entitled Kuťáci (The Tinkers). Later, the characters appeared in more shorts, making their own TV series called ... A je to! (... And it's done!), where they got their final look. The two handymen got their names Pat and Mat in 1989, and this became the name of the show.While creating the two characters, the authors had in mind especially entertainment for adults, but the show became popular with all audiences. However, in former Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...
, the first 35 episodes of the series could have been produced as children's TV programme only, in the short's format of 7 minutes.
The show became popular throughout the world, being aired in nations that include Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
and Slovakia
Slovakia
The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...
), Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
, Syria
Syria
Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....
, Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
, Iceland
Iceland
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, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
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, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
, Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
, Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
, Croatia
Croatia
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, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, Norway
Norway
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, Spain
Spain
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, Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
, Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
, Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
, Slovenia
Slovenia
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, Jordan
Jordan
Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...
, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
, South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
.
In 1990, shortly after Czechoslovakia became open (and later the Czech
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
and Slovak
Slovakia
The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...
republics), Lubomír Beneš (who died in 1995) founded his own AIF Studio in Prague
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
(production) and Zürich
Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
(marketing, sales, financing), where he and his team produced 14 more episodes, and introduced all 49 of them to the international market.
Festivals, awards, prizes
Several Pat & Mat episodes have received prizes and awards at world animation festivals during the years.From the latest ones directed by Lubomír Beneš, the 38th episode The Cyclists, animated by Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly, participated at the "Annecy '93" (Annecy
Annecy
Annecy is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.It lies on the northern tip of Lake Annecy , 35 kilometres south of Geneva.-Administration:...
, France) animation festival competition, and has been invited to a number of other world festivals.
The Cyclists has also been included in the selection "The Best of Annecy '93" by Cinémathèque Québécoise
Cinémathèque québécoise
The Cinémathèque québécoise is a film conservatory in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1963, its mission is to "preserve and document film and television heritage in order to make it available to an ever-growing and diversified public."...
(Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
), Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the largest museums in the United States, attracting over one million visitors a year. It contains over 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas...
(Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
), Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley
Berkeley, California
Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...
), Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
(New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
) and presented by these institutions in their autumn '93 show.
The 44th episode The Billiards, animated by František Váša, has been selected for the "Annecy '95" competition, and invited to almost all otherworld film festivals.
The Billiards got two prizes at the World Animation Celebration in Agoura (CA
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
), March '97:
- 1st prize - best animation for a daytime TV series
- 2nd prize - best stop motion professional animation.
Czechoslovakia
In socialistSocialism
Socialism is an economic system characterized by social ownership of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy; or a political philosophy advocating such a system. "Social ownership" may refer to any one of, or a combination of, the following: cooperative enterprises,...
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...
, the authors had to explain their "subversive
Subversion (politics)
Subversion refers to an attempt to transform the established social order, its structures of power, authority, and hierarchy; examples of such structures include the State. In this context, a "subversive" is sometimes called a "traitor" with respect to the government in-power. A subversive is...
" characters and stories to the Prague
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
watch-dogs of the regime
Regime
The word regime refers to a set of conditions, most often of a political nature.-Politics:...
, e.g. one of the questions was if they chose the t-shirt colours, red and yellow, to make fun of the Soviet-Chinese tensions. However, their explanations were "unsatisfactory", and so the "ideologic
Ideology
An ideology is a set of ideas that constitutes one's goals, expectations, and actions. An ideology can be thought of as a comprehensive vision, as a way of looking at things , as in common sense and several philosophical tendencies , or a set of ideas proposed by the dominant class of a society to...
impurity" and the ban on Pat & Mat production remained. Yet, the Slovak
Slovaks
The Slovaks, Slovak people, or Slovakians are a West Slavic people that primarily inhabit Slovakia and speak the Slovak language, which is closely related to the Czech language.Most Slovaks today live within the borders of the independent Slovakia...
colleagues from Czechoslovak TV
Czechoslovak Television
Czechoslovak Television was founded on 1 May 1953 in the former Czechoslovakia. Around its dissolution into Czechia and Slovakia in the end of 1992, ČST was abolished, and the new companies, public service broadcasters, emerged:...
in Bratislava
Bratislava
Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 431,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital that borders two independent countries.Bratislava...
gave Pat & Mat the necessary support, assigned them production means, so the production began and went on in the same Czech
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...
studio in Prague where Lubomír Beneš and his crew worked, under their Slovak cover
Undercover
Being undercover is disguising one's own identity or using an assumed identity for the purposes of gaining the trust of an individual or organization to learn secret information or to gain the trust of targeted individuals in order to gain information or evidence...
(28 episodes, 1979–1985). However, Mat's T-shirt was changed from red to a neutral grey. It was changed again to red in 1989.
Switzerland
In Switzerland, the children programmers of German Swiss TVSchweizer Fernsehen
Schweizer Fernsehen is the German language division of SRG SSR, in charge of production and distribution of television programmes in German for German-speaking Switzerland...
excluded some of the episodes from broadcasting, as they deemed them "too dangerous", while the French and Italian channels had no such problems.
Followers
Later on there were also six DVDDVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
s released with episodes from the 1976-1990 and 2002-2004 era. As of 2004, 78 episodes were made in total, with the idea and characters taken over by partially new studios. Among the new studios, there was also Patmat s.r.o., headed by Marek Beneš, Lubomír Beneš's son.
List of show title in other languages
Here is a list of what the series was called in different countries.Original:
- Czech Republic, Slovakia, Czechoslovakia: Kuťáci, A je to!, Pat a Mat
followers: Pat a Mat se vracejí
Other countries, languages (in alphabetic order):
- Arabic: زينغو و رينغو
- Brazilian Portugese: Zeca e Joca
- Croatian: A je to! Pat i Mat
- Dutch: Buurman en Buurman (Neighbor and Neighbor), De twee stuntels (The two clumsies) (formely)
- English: ...and that's it!, Pat and Mat
- Finnish: Hupsis!, Pat ja Mat (Oops!, Pat and Mat)
- German: ...und fertig!, Peter und Paul, Pat und Mat
- Hungarian: Kétbalkezesek (Fumblers) (literally "2 Left Handers"), Pat és Mat
- Icelandic: Klaufabárðarnir (The clumsy guys)
- Japanese: パットとマット
- Korean: 패트와 매트
- Dutch: Buurman en buurman (Neighbour and neighbour)
- Norwegian: To gode naboer (Two Good Neighbours)
- Persian: پت و مت
- Polish: Sąsiedzi (Neighbours), Pat i Mat
- Russian: Тяпа и Ляпа, Пат и Мат, Соседи (Neighbors)
- Slovenian: A je to! Pat in Mat
- Spanish: Pat y Mat
- Swedish: Två snubbar (Two lads)
- Switzerland: Sepp und Heiri
- Welsh: Now a Ned
List of episodes
| N/e | Year of production | English Title | Czech Title (Slovak in 1979-1985) |
Episode Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pilot produced in the Barrandov animation studios, Prague |
||||
| 1 | 1976 | Tinkers | Kuťáci | Lubomír Beneš |
| ...A je to! produced in the Barrandov animation studios, Prague, courtesy of Czechoslovak Television, Bratislava) |
||||
| 2 | 1979 | Wallpaper | Tapety | Lubomír Beneš |
| 3 | 1979 | Workshop | Dielňa | Lubomír Beneš |
| 4 | 1979 | Carpet | Koberec | Lubomír Beneš |
| 5 | 1979 | Rocking Chair | Hojdacie kreslo | Lubomír Beneš |
| 6 | 1979 | Picture | Obraz | Lubomír Beneš |
| 7 | 1979 | Garage | Garáž | Lubomír Beneš |
| 8 | 1979 | Light | Svetlo | Lubomír Beneš |
| 9 | 1981 | Gramophone | Gramofón | Lubomír Beneš |
| 10 | 1981 | Grill | Grill | Lubomír Beneš |
| 11 | 1982 | Moving Day | Sťahovanie | Lubomír Beneš |
| 12 | 1982 | Water | Voda | Lubomír Beneš |
| 13 | 1982 | Jumpers (Aerials) | Skokani | Lubomír Beneš |
| 14 | 1982 | Garden | Záhradka | Lubomír Beneš |
| 15 | 1982 | Decorating | Maľovanie | Lubomír Beneš |
| 16 | 1982 | Crossword Puzzle | Krížovka | Lubomír Beneš |
| 17 | 1983 | Gym | Telocvičňa | Lubomír Beneš |
| 18 | 1983 | Bird House | Búdka | Lubomír Beneš |
| 19 | 1983 | Big Laundry | Veľké pránie | Lubomír Beneš |
| 20 | 1983 | Breakfast In Grass | Raňajky v tráve | Lubomír Beneš |
| 21 | 1983 | Washing Machine | Práčka | Lubomír Beneš |
| 22 | 1983 | Rain | Dážď | Lubomír Beneš |
| 23 | 1984 | Trip | Výlet | Lubomír Beneš |
| 24 | 1984 | Winemakers | Vinári | Lubomír Beneš |
| 25 | 1984 | Skates | Korčule | Lubomír Beneš |
| 26 | 1984 | Piano | Klavír | Lubomír Beneš |
| 27 | 1985 | Potters | Hrnčiari | Lubomír Beneš |
| 28 | 1985 | Malfunction | Porucha | Lubomír Beneš |
| 29 | 1985 | Apple | Jablko | Lubomír Beneš |
| Pat & Mat produced in the Barrandov animation studios, Prague (Krátký Film Praha) |
||||
| 30 | 1989 | Key | Klíč | Lubomír Beneš |
| 31 | 1989 | Furniture | Nábytek | Lubomír Beneš |
| 32 | 1990 | Lawnmower | Sekačka | Lubomír Beneš |
| 33 | 1990 | General Cleaning | Generální úklid | Lubomír Beneš |
| 34 | 1990 | Door | Dveře | Lubomír Beneš |
| 35 | 1990 | Roof | Střecha | Lubomír Beneš |
| Pat & Mat produced in the authors' AIF Studio, Prague |
||||
| 36 | 1992 | Biscuits | Sušenky | Marek Beneš |
| 37 | 1992 | Garage Door | Vrata | Lubomír Beneš |
| 38 | 1992 | Cyclists | Cyklisti | Lubomír Beneš |
| 39 | 1992 | Tiles | Dlaždice | Lubomír Beneš |
| 40 | 1992 | Parquet | Parkety | Lubomír Beneš |
| 41 | 1992 | Gutter Pipe | Okap | Marek Beneš |
| 42 | 1992 | Convertible | Kabriolet | Lubomír Beneš |
| 43 | 1994 | Accident | Nehoda | Lubomír Beneš |
| 44 | 1994 | Billiards | Kulečník | Lubomír Beneš |
| 45 | 1994 | Hedgerow | Živý plot | Lubomír Beneš |
| 46 | 1994 | Safe | Trezor | Lubomír Beneš |
| 47 | 1994 | Fender | Blatník | Lubomír Beneš |
| 48 | 1994 | Model Builders | Modeláři | Lubomír Beneš |
| 49 | 1994 | Windsurfing | Windsurfing | Lubomír Beneš |
| episode not released for distribution (produced by part of the former Lubomír Beneš's team without his heirs' consent) |
||||
| 50 | 1998 | The Cards | Karty | František Váša |
| Pat a Mat, Pat a Mat se vracejí (followers, with Marek Beneš or his consent) |
||||
| 51 | 2003 | Roast Sausages | Opékají špekáčky | Ladislav Pálka |
| 52 | 2003 | Repairing the Roof | Opravují střechu | Ladislav Pálka |
| 53 | 2003 | The Black Box | Černá bedýnka | Vlasta Pospíšilová |
| 54 | 2003 | Wheels | Kolečka | Vlasta Pospíšilová |
| 55 | 2003 | The Dog House | Psí bouda | Milan Šebesta |
| 56 | 2003 | Lacquering the Floor | Natírají podlahu | Ladislav Pálka |
| 57 | 2003 | The Greenhouse | Skleník | Marek Beneš |
| 58 | 2003 | The Swing | Houpačka | Marek Beneš |
| 59 | 2003 | The Unwelcome Guest | Nezvaný návštěvník | Marek Beneš |
| 60 | 2003 | Bodyguards | Bodygárdi | Marek Beneš |
| 61 | 2003 | Painting the Windows | Natírají okna | Marek Beneš |
| 62 | 2002 | Puzzle | Puzzle | Marek Beneš |
| 63 | 2003 | The Easter Egg | Velikonoční vajíčko | Vlasta Pospíšilová |
| 64 | 2003 | Slim Figure | Štíhlá linie | Vlasta Pospíšilová |
| 65 | 2003 | The Vending Machine | Automat | Marek Beneš |
| 66 | 2003 | The Autodrome | Autodráha | Marek Beneš |
| 67 | 2003 | The Aquarium | Akvárium | Marek Beneš |
| 68 | 2003 | Pumpkins | Zavařují | Ladislav Pálka |
| 69 | 2003 | Hang Glider | Rogalo | Ladislav Pálka |
| 70 | 2004 | Playing Golf | Hrají golf | Ladislav Pálka |
| 71 | 2004 | Bottle Cap | Někam to zapadlo | Vlasta Pospíšilová |
| 72 | 2004 | Digging the Pool | Kopají bazén | Marek Beneš |
| 73 | 2004 | Hanging the Landscape | Věší krajinu | Marek Beneš |
| 74 | 2004 | The Christmas Tree | Vánoční stromeček | Marek Beneš |
| 75 | 2003 | The Christmas Cake | Vánočka | Milan Šebesta |
| 76 | 2003 | Flu | Stůňou | Ladislav Pálka |
| 77 | 2003 | The Fax Machine | Fax | Josef Lamka |
| 78 | 2003 | The Strawberries | Jahody | Vlasta Pospíšilová |
50th episode
50th episode The Cards (original name Karty) completed in 1998 by AIF Studio, was to be the beginning of a new series of the show. It was different from earlier episodes. It was filmed in widescreen format (16:916:9
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), was slightly longer (lasting approximately 12 minutes), had a dialogue, a new soundtrack and new opening and closing sequences. The plan was to make 52 episodes of the new series and a feature film. Its implementation, however, did not come into effect (due to lack of money), and it was the only episode filmed that was not distributed or released. Lubomír Beneš died in 1995, and AIF Studio didn't have the rights to the characters anymore, because Marek Beneš and Vladimír Jiránek left the studio. AIF planned to get the rights from Lubomir Beneš's heirs, but soon after they completed the episode they went into bankruptcy. This is the reason why this episode has never been released and remains a mystery to all. It was directed, animated and written by František Váša.
The only thing from this episode published was a screenshot that was posted on the AIF Studio Pat & Mat website. However, one Czech animation studio called Animation People (http://www.animation.cz/ap_en.htm) saw the episode and posted more screenshots on their website. The screenshots disappeared in the middle of September 2010 when the studio modified their website. A 4:3 version also exists.
Books
Two books with the series' characters were written:- Jiří Michl: Pat & Mat : …a je to! (Egmont ČR, 1994)
- Pavel Sýkora: Pat a Mat dokážou všechno (Pat and Mat can do anything) (Albatros, 1st edition published in 2006, 2nd edition published in 2008)
Video game
On August 1, 2007 a Czech computer development company, Centauri ProductionCentauri Production
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, announced on their website that they have secured the rights to Pat and Mat to create a video game of the same name. The game was released in Czech Republic
Czech Republic
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on October 1, 2009. It was released in other EU countries in 2010. The game is available in English and Czech. It is also available for purchase via Steam.