104 episodes of the series were manufactured from either 1986 onwards. For each one episode was 5 proceedings hanker. A series was directed & animated by Otmar Gutman for Swiss TV (Trickfilmstudio) using claymation techniques.

One of a features that mass produced Pingu an international profits was a fact that there was there are no dialogue in and of itself. Completely dialogue was given within the sort of penguin language ("Pinguish"), performed (forgoing script) by Carlo Bonomi.

Within 2004, Hit Entertainment bought the UK rights to the series (including the original 104 episodes), & freed the farther 52 episodes, starting in the equivalent season. These feature newly voice actors Marcello Magni and David Sant, as Bonomi, currently around his sixties, was considered as well old. Too, 2004 saw the release of a freshly Pingu DVD.

Although Pingu was placed in the south pole, he & his personal sleep in an igloo, which are noticed northward Pole simply, inhabited by native Inuits.

Inside 1989, David Hasselhoff released (in Switzerland lone) a lone "Pingu Dance", a rap song based on the Pingu shorts & featuring a total of samples of Pinguish.