I Polykatoikia (The Block of Flats) (Greek: ), is a popular Greek Comedy television series, originally broadcast on Mega Channel and lasting for three seasons, from October 6, 2008 until May 27, 2011. It consists of 132 episodes. The script of each of the first 90 episodes was taken from the Spanish series Aquí no hay quien viva.
Plot This is a story of a "typical" apartment building at 19 Alamanas Street in downtown Athens. Thanasis Balafoutis (Pavlos Chaikalis) is the apartment manager and he's working hard to support his wife Margarita, his son Petros and his daughter Natali. Konstantinos, Natali's boyfriend, is a resourceful person who is currently unemployed and he doing Janitor services. Natali is also unemployed and kind of lazy.
Loukia works in a magazine as the manager of her boyfriend Takis but they keep their relationship as a secret at work. Tzovani is an immigrant from Albania with a wealthy job. He is married with Tzouli, ex Miss Albania and they have a daughter Romina who managed to pass the exams in medicine school. Markos and Hristos are a gay couple and Vasiliki(who also is still a virgin), Panagiota and Mary are the oldest tenants who are still looking to find their partners.
Eleni is a lyricist with a low income. She is insecure and believes that she has bad luck, especially with men. Everyone goes through difficult situations, which are presented to the public in a hilarious manner. On the surface, nobody likes anyone, but when they are in trouble, they come together for one purpose: "the good of the apartment building."
Cast Main Characters Actor RolePavlos Chaikalis Thanasis MpalafoutisVasiliki Andritsou Eleni SotiropoulouCharis AsimakopoulosMarkos Androutsos Vilma Tsakiri Mary StathatouVaso Laskaraki Loukia AsimakiGiannis Tsimitselis Takis Peristeris Antigoni Glykofridi Vasiliki StathatouMartha Vourtsi Panagiota PetrocheilouDimitris Kouroumpalis Manolis GalatsanosElena Asimakopoulou Aliki KontogiorgouNikos Poursanidis Christos leventisNikoleta VlavianouMargarita MpalafoutiAlexandros GiannouTzimis FitrosChristodoulos StylianouApostolis PetrocheilosKostas Flokatoulas Argyris GalatsanosAndreas Kontopoulos Stavros ZacharakisDespoina Mpougiatioti Natali MpalafoutiGiorgos Liatis Petros MpalafoutisGiannis Vouros Andreas MatsoukasYolanda Mpalaoura Elpida MatsoukaDimitris Tsoukalas Nikos Matsoukaskonstantinos Famis Giorgos MatsoukasEftychia Sideri AnnaNikoleta KarraTzouli SkrekiPavlos Orkopoulos Jovanni SkrekisEvgenia Tsaousi Romina SkrekiGiannis Papazisis Konstantinos SaltamourisDimitris Liakopoulos Stefanos
Cameo Characters Actor RoleEleni Krita Litsa Mpalafouti Eudokía RoumeliotiMpetti PolychroniouNefeli Orfanou Tzortzia SotiropoulouIlias Zervos Pantelis Asimakis Thanasis Tsaltampasis MiltosTitika Siriggouli -Apostolia Zoi StellaRea Karagiannidou KatiaGrigoris Stamoulis MichalisNatassa MarmatakiMeniTheofania PapathomaElektra AkrivouGiannis Evaggelidis Filippos Spiros Poulis Mechanic
External links MegaTV Polikatikia website List of programs broadcast by Mega Channel