Professor Balthazar

Professor Balthazar
Professor Balthazar is able to solve all problems by using his magic machine.
Also known as	'Profesor Baltazar'
Genre	Animated television series
Created by	Zlatko Grgić
Directed by	Zlatko Grgić Boris Kolar Ante Zaninović
Composer(s)	Tomica Simović
Country of origin	Croatia (Yugoslavia)
No. of series	4
No. of episodes	59
Production
Running time	5–10 minutes
Production company(s)	Zagreb Film Windrose Film
Release
Original release	1967 – 1978

Professor Balthazar is a Croatian animated television series for children about an old inventor that was produced between 1967 and 1978. It was created by animator Zlatko Grgić.

The series was created for television by the Croatian animator Zlatko Grgić at the Zagreb Film studio. Fifty-nine episodes of the cartoon were made between 1967 and 1978.

The cartoon has been shown in subsequent years in several countries besides the former Yugoslavia, including United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Finland, France, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Spain, Iran, Greece, Canada and Zimbabwe.

From 1971 to 1973, episodes were featured on the American ABC-TV children's program Curiosity Shop. The cartoon inventor was the basis for the show's puppet character, Baron Balthazar, and the cartoons were shown as animated sequences of the Baron's tales of his adventures and inventions back in "downtown Bosnia".

The cartoon was also shown in the United States in the 1980s on Pinwheel as well as on the ABC in Australia.

In 2011, 59 episodes have been restored by DVDlab, and published on DVD.