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Barrio Sésamo is the Spanish co-production of the American children's television series Sesame Street, produced by Televisión Española (TVE) and Children's Television Workshop (CT…
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Barrio Sésamo ('Sesame Neighborhood') is the Spanish co-production of the American children's television series Sesame Street, produced by Televisión Española (TVE) and Children's Television Workshop (CTW) from 1979 to 2000. All characters adopted Spanish names while for the title of the series a more appropriate Spanish name was chosen: barrio (neighborhood) instead of street (calle).
Barrio Sésamo is the Spanish co-production of the American children's television series Sesame Street, produced by Televisión Española (TVE) and Children's Television Workshop (CTW) from 1979 to 2000. All characters adopted Spanish names while for the title of the series a more appropriate Spanish name was chosen: barrio (neighborhood) instead of street (calle).
Barrio Sésamo ('Sesame Neighborhood') is the Spanish co-production of the American children's television series Sesame Street, produced by Televisión Española (TVE) and Children's Television Workshop (CTW) from 1979 to 2000. All characters adopted Spanish names while for the title of the series a more appropriate Spanish name was chosen: barrio (neighborhood) instead of street (calle).
From 3 November 1974 to 29 March 1978, sketches of the original American Sesame Street were acquired by Televisión Española (TVE) and dubbed into Spanish to be aired with the title Ábrete Sésamo (es. Open Sesame) as part of its program "container" called Un globo, dos globos, tres globos.
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The first Barrio Sésamo season was cancelled by TVE in 1981 when they denied the Spanish designers to keep their rights on the characters. An agreement had been reached where they granted full commercial rights to the station except the right to be mentioned as designers and the right to deny the use of the muppets for commercial advertising of carbonized drinks and unhealthy products for children, the same rights that Jim Henson kept with all his own characters. The station fired the first creators and banned the characters from appearing in a new season.
From 1981 to 1983, a different TVE children's program, La cometa blanca, included some dubbed sketches from Sesame Street. This program was directed by Muppet fan Lolo Rico and featured some actors who would later appear in Barrio Sésamo, mainly Luz Olier, Alfonso Vallejo, and the child-actress Ruth Gabriel.
The Sesame Street sketches in La cometa blanca were so successful with their young audience that Barrio Sésamo was given another chance in 1983. Only José Riesgo returned from the first season as Julián. Caponata and Perezgil were replaced by two new full-body Muppets totally designed and constructed by CTW: Espinete and Don Pimpón. Espinete was a large, pink hedgehog operated and voiced by Chelo Vivares. He became famous for sleeping in pajamas in spite of being "naked" the rest of the day. Don Pimpón was a brown monster of an unknown species who works as a farmer and has traveled all around the world, operated and voiced by Alfonso Vallejo.
Other characters included:
Chema (Juan Sánchez): The baker of Barrio Sésamo.
Ana (Isabel Castro): The young friend of everybody.
Don Julián (José Riesgo): The old owner of a mobile news stand.
Matilde (Mari Luz Olier) and Antonio (José Enrique Camacho): married owners of an horchata shop
Roberto (Roberto Mayor) and Ruth (Ruth Gabriel, as Ruth Abellán): Matilde and Antonio's children
In 1983, one year after the second season started, a new government won the elections in Spain and José María Calviño was appointed as Director General of RTVE. The new staff fired those involved in the cancellation of the original series. The creator of the banned first season was called by the station and was appointed as new Head of the Children' Programmes Unit and later Director of the TVE-2 channel.
The show finished around April 1988 and was replaced by Los mundos de Yupi, a similar program fully produced by TVE, featuring two extraterrestrial characters.
In 1996, the show returned to TVE, this time being produced in both Catalan and Spanish in its production center in Catalonia.
New characters included Bluki (a blue full-body cat-like Muppet), Vera (a female yellow monster Muppet who speaks in the third person, similar to Elmo), Bubo (an owl Muppet), and Gaspar (a red-haired human Muppet). Additional characters that made occasional appearances included a wild monster with red fur and a healthy appetite — portraying a role similar to Cookie Monster's — and a tan Anything Muppet that could be turned into characters (such as a baby, a human girl friend of Vera's, a clumsy man with a mustache, and a pig). The show's directors were Enrique Nicanor, Antonio Torets, and Jose María Vidal (co-director).
Since 2006, Juega conmigo, Sésamo, the Castilian Spanish dub of Play with Me Sesame, has been broadcast on Antena 3.
Since 2008, Las grandes aventuras de Epi y Blas, the Castillian Spanish dub of Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures, has been broadcast on Playhouse Disney.
Since 2012, Super Healthy Monsters is a 5 to 7-minute series focuses on activities and foods that keep one healthy. Sesame Workshop produced 26 episodes in English, which initially aired dubbed in Spain on Antena 3 as a Barrio Sésamo mini-series called Monstruos Supersanos.
On April 28, 2016, El Hotel Furchester, the Castilian Spanish du
