Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum

Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum (Portuguese pronunciation: [kaʃˈtɛlu ʁa.tʃĩˈbũ]) was a Brazilian children's program produced and broadcast by TV Cultura and the Network Service of Television. Targeted toward children and youth, and following a teaching approach, the program premiered on May 9, 1994 and stopped production in 1997. Partially inspired by the educational program Rá-Tim-Bum, it gave rise to a television franchise, which is part of Island Rá-Tim-Bum. Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum is a creation of the playwright Flavio de Souza and director Cao Hamburger, with scripts Jacob Dionisio (Tacus), Cláudia Dalla Verde, Anna Muylaert, among others.

Because of its educational nature, the production was part of a partnership between Fiesp and TV Cultura, such as other educational programs for children that the station aired.

Nino is a 300-year-old boy who lives with his uncle, Dr. Victor, a sorcerer and scientist who is 3,000 years old, and his great-aunt Morgana, a witch who is 6,000 years old. The three live in a castle in the middle of the city of São Paulo. A sorcerer's apprentice, Nino never went to school because of his age. His parents let him live with Victor and Morgana because they needed to travel on an expedition to outer space, taking Nino's two younger brothers. Although he had supernatural and animal friends in the castle, Nino, missing friends like him, decides to make a spell he learned from his uncle Victor, bringing three children who had just left school to the castle. Free of loneliness, Nino receives the visit of the three daily, in addition to special visits of an old friend, the pizza man Bongo, the flamboyant TV reporter Penelope, the folk legend Caipora, and an alien called Etevaldo. To fill the evil side of the story is Dr. Abobrinha (Dr. Zucchini), a real estate speculator who wants to demolish the castle and, in its place, erect a building of a hundred floors.

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