Kaj & Andrea

Kaj and Andrea is a Danish children's television show about two puppet characters, a male frog named Kaj and a female parrot named Andrea. They sing, play and talk with the human presenters. The show ran on DR TV 1971–1975 (83 episodes) and again 1996–2007 (100 episodes).[1]

Kaj & Andrea
Created byDR
Country of originDenmark
No. of episodes183
Production
Running time20 minutes
Release
Original networkDR
Original release8 March 1971 (1971-03-08) –
10 March 2007 (2007-03-10)

Andrea started out as a character on the children's programme Legestue and first appeared on 8 March 1971.[2] Kaj was introduced to the show later on after Jimmy Stahr, the head of pre-school programmes at Danmarks Radio, had seen the American TV children's show Sesame Street. He was generally unimpressed by the programme's content and decided not to buy it, but liked Kermit the Frog and suggested Legestue should have a frog of its own.[3]

Clips were featured in an episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.

Cast
  • Kjeld Nørgaard as Kaj
  • Hanne Willumsen as Andrea
  • Povl Kjøller as Narrator

References
  1. Dohrmann, Jan (3 March 2011). "Kaj & Andrea Turns 40 years". dr.dk (in Danish). Danmarks Radio. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
  2. Tillykke med de 40 år, Kaj og Andrea..., 11 March 2011, TV-Tid
  3. "American Television: Point of Reference or European Nightmare?", by Ib Bondebjerg, published in A European Television History, edited by Jonathan Bignell and Andreas Fickers, Blackwell Publishing, 2008, p.171-172


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