Bassie & Adriaan
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Bassie & Adriaan was a television program series focusing on the adventures and lives of a circus duo consisting of clown Bassie and acrobat Adriaan, played by real-life circus duo Bas and Aad van Toor.
Bassie & Adriaan | |
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Created by | Aad van Toor Bas van Toor Joop van den Ende |
Starring | Aad van Toor Bas van Toor Paul van Gorcum and others |
Country of origin | Netherlands |
No. of episodes | 144 |
Production | |
Running time | 25 minutes (without commercials) |
Original release | |
Network | Nederland 2 (TROS) (1978-1990) TV 2 (TROS) (1992-1996) |
Release | 1978 (1978) – 1996 (1996) |
Written by Aad van Toor and originally produced by Joop van den Ende, the first series became a television hit in the Netherlands in the spring season of 1978.[1] At its peak, the show attracted over three million viewers, which was noted to be "a lot" for a children's program.[2] The show ran for nine series, with the last original episode airing in 1996. Between 1980 and 1982, the Van Toor brothers ran their own independent circus, which was named Circus Bassie & Adriaan, which later became a subsidiary of Circus Renz.