Sesame!

Sesame! was the Filipino co-production of the American children's television program, Sesame Street. It ran for a single season in 1983, after which it was replaced by Batibot.

Production

Sesame Street first aired in the Philippines in 1970.[1][2]

Negotiations for a localized production began in 1983, and the series was jointly created by Children's Television Workshop and the Philippine Sesane Street Project (PSSP), which was funded by the Philippine government.[3][4] The English segments were filmed in the United States, while the Tagalog segments were filmed in the Philippines.[5]

The choice was made to have turtle and monkey muppets due to those animals' frequent appearances in Philippine folk tales.[1]

Cancellation

Government support for the show was pulled in 1984 after the Philippine economy collapsed.[2][3] The Philippine producers were unable to afford their half of the co-production, and the arrangement dissolved.[3]

Much of the show's crew and cast created the Philippine Children's Television Foundation, Inc. (PCTVF).[3] This foundation went on to create Batibot, which maintained much of the Sesame Street formula while being produced solely by a Filipino team. The show was able to retain use of the Pong Pagong and Kiko Matsing puppets due to an agreement with Children's Television Network.[5]

Content

The show ran for an hour, with one half in English and one half in Tagalog.[3][4][5][6]

Messaging focused in part on teaching children a "sense of nationhood".[4]

Characters

Muppets

Humans

References
  1. Lohr, Steve (1985-07-24). "HOME-GROWN VALUES REPLACE KERMIT IN FILIPINO VERSION OF 'SESAME STREET'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
  2. "Filipino Sesame Street facing tough times - UPI Archives". UPI. Retrieved 2023-03-23.
  3. Cipanas (1991). "Batibot : towards the development of supplementary modes of education for Filipino children". AMIC ICC Seminar on Children and Television: 8.
  4. Gettas, Gregory J. (1990). "The Globalization of "Sesame Street": A Producer's Perspective". Educational Technology Research and Development. 38 (4): 60, 62. ISSN 1042-1629 – via JSTOR.
  5. Cana, Paul John (7 September 2020). "Here's the Real Story of Batibot's Pong Pagong and Kiko Matsing". Esquire Magazine. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
  6. Grana, Rhia D. (11 October 2020). "Nostalgia: The untold stories of 'Batibot,' according to Kuya Bodjie". ABS-CBN News. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
  7. Yanoria, Luigene (18 September 2014). "Susan Africa is not your typical poor nanay on TV". Yahoo News. Retrieved 2023-03-24.
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