Original title
Hlapićeve nove zgode
Released
9/1/2002
Origin country
HR
Genre
Animation, Family
Production companies
Croatia Film, HaffaDiebold, EM.TV & Merchandising AG
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
1
Number of episodes
26
Lapitch the Little Shoemaker is an animated television series from Croatia Film and EM.TV/HaffaDiebold, with animation by Neptuno Films of Barcelona, Spain. It is a spin-off from the 1997 film of the same name. Returning from the film are the title character, Lapitch the mouse, and his girlfriend Lisa, along with their pets Brewster and Pico. For the series, a character called Melchior replaces Master Scowler's role. As of 2009, the show airs on Tiny Pop in the United Kingdom.
Lapitch goes looking for Brewster, who is in the care of the Pazinskis to participate in a dangerous circus stunt.
Dirty Rat (who originally perished in the 1997 film but actually survived) steals Lapitch's magic boots. However in a secret squirrel village, the boots have other plans.
Lapitch and Lisa participate in a cross country race. Dirty Rat wants Melvin Raccoon to win as his ticket to getting the prize.
Lapitch and Lisa decide to help Lerbil take care of the tyrant Shoe Queen Buchinksi who is in league with Dirty Rat.
Dirty Rat has the Pazinskis kidnap Melchior to make him magic boots. Melchior however has other ideas.
Lapitch and Lisa gather ingredients for a magic potion to cure Melchior's illness. This potion also interests Dirty Rat and the Pazinskis.
Cinderella II goes with Lisa to Mr. Blower to make a glass slipper, while Dirty Rat helps the evil Princess Enid to marry Prince Rupert.
Dirty Rat steals Melchior's secret candy recipe and hands it to the Candy Man Schelqior, who is Melchior's cousin.
Lapitch, Lisa and Melchior get stranded in a hot air balloon while Yanna, Pico and Brewster have trouble with Melchior's shoemaking machine.
Dirty Rat and the Pazinskis run a ball dance to frame Lapitch of theft. Lisa helps Lapitch to clear his name.
Melvin finds a goldfish named Joshua who can grant a wish. Dirty Rat sees this as a golden opportunity, but Lapitch helps protect Joshua.
Dirty Rat and his cronies head off to a castle in the hopes to find treasure. Coincidentally Lapitch and his friends are heading there to deliver some mended shoes.
A pig named Percival comes to the village, but the next day the town-square is trashed. Percival blames it on the Pazinskis, but they are innocent this time, so who could the real culprit be?
Melchior has created a key that can open virtually anything, but Dirty Rat finds out, placing the key in danger. Pico tries to hide the key, but talks too much that his voice dies, and worse, the key is taken anyway.
Melchior goes to Daimond Mountain to talk about creating magic-boots, but Melvin seems intent on getting those boots.
While Melchior is stargazing, he hears rumors that a meteor will strike the earth, terrifying the populace. Yanna however, has a strange bowl that she believes will save the day.
One night Otis and Elmer break into Lapitch's workshop, but he catches them red-handed. Word however spreads, and Dirty Rat and the Pazinskis wish to find out what the villagers are up to.
One day Yanna was cleaning her house and tells Lapitch her books are "worth more than gold", unfortunately the three eavesdropping Pazinskis took this statement a little too seriously, and the next day Yanna's books disappear.
Yanna and Melchior are practising for the big music festival, as the famous musicians the Violinskys are coming. Unfortunately the Pazinskis steal their violins in exchange for magic butterbeans. Can the violins be saved?
Lisa receives a golden whistle from Yanna should she ever get lost. Meanwhile Melchior has hurt his foot, forcing him to sit out the party Lisa and Lapitch are going to.
The famous writer Grimsdale comes to the village to finish a book, and Lapitch gets to be his assistant, however Grimsdale cannot write while there's so much noise going on, complicating matters.
Yanna receives a visit from her former school-teacher Esmeralda Rottwart, who has come to test Yanna's medical-skills.
The War of the Weeds will make Melchior and Yanna sleep.
The Great Bombasto comes to the village, and claims to make literal magic boots, but is he being honest, or is this one big scam?
Brewster gets a toothache, and is in so much pain he howls the whole night, preventing anyone from sleeping, but he refuses to see a dentist.
Lapitch has to repair Melchior's favorite shoes, which are so old they disintegrate by simply being touched, so Lapitch tries to replace them with so-called magic boots.
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