Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures
Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures | |
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Genre | Children's television series Animation Clay animation Cartoon series |
Created by | Sesame Workshop |
Based on | Bert and Ernie by Sesame Street |
Starring | Eric Jacobson Steve Whitmire Stephanie D'Abruzzo Joey Mazzarino Tyler Bunch Kevin Clash |
Country of origin | United States Italy |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 52 |
Production | |
Running time | 4-5 minutes |
Production companies | Sesame Workshop Misseri Studio |
Original release | |
Network | PBS (PBS Kids) (U.S.) KI.KA/Das Erste (Germany) Five (Milkshake!) (UK) |
Release | August 11, 2008 (2008-08-11) – December 30, 2010 (2010-12-30) |
Related | |
Sesame Street Elmo's World Play with Me Sesame Sesame Beginnings Elmo the Musical The Furchester Hotel Abby's Flying Fairy School The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo Mecha Builders Super Grover 2.0 |
Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures, originally promoted as The Adventures of Bert and Ernie, is a claymation animated children's television series and segment on Sesame Street in which Bert and Ernie use their imaginations to travel to faraway places. The series is produced by Sesame Workshop in co-production with Misseri Studio, Norddeutscher Rundfunk and Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited, and aired from August 2008 to December 2010, with two seasons and 52 episodes.
The shorts air in the United States as inserts on Sesame Street beginning with season 39 and internationally as a standalone series in various overseas markets, with the first season debuting in September 2008. The episode "Secret Agents" won the Gold Award in the Children's Animation category at the 2009 World Media Festival[1], and the series was a nominee at the 2009 Annecy Animation Festival.[2]
Format
Each episode begins with Bert and Ernie getting ready for bed when Bert's bed comes to life and flies out of their apartment, taking them on a new adventure. Sometimes accompanied by Bert's pigeon friend Bernice or Ernie's toy rubber duck, they also make new friends and enemies during their adventures.
Voices
- Eric Jacobson as Bert
- Steve Whitmire as Ernie
- Stephanie D'Abruzzo as various characters
- Joey Mazzarino as various characters
- Tyler Bunch as various characters
- Kevin Clash as Elmo
Episodes
Season 1
- "Tiny Town" (August 11, 2008)
- "Pirates" (August 13, 2008)
- "Planet Bert" (August 18, 2008)
- "Bakers" (September 24, 2008)
- "Cavemen" (October 2, 2008)
- "Rainforest" (October 10, 2008)
- "Penguin" (October 20, 2008)
- "Wild West" (October 30, 2008)
- "Three Wishes" (November 3, 2008)
- "Inventors" (November 5, 2008)
- "Museum Guards" (February 16, 2015)
- "Mountain Climbers"
- "Deep Sea"
- "Pigeonia"
- "Ernlock Holmes"
- "Superheroes"
- "Kung Fu"
- "Wizards With Elmo"
- "Beach"
- "Invisible"
- "Piano Movers"
- "Cliptecs"
- "Knights"
- "Secret Agents"
- "Rodeo"
- "Chariot"
Season 2
- "Maltese Ducky" (November 10, 2009)
- "Flower Shop" (November 12, 2009)
- "Gopher Broke" (November 18, 2009)
- "Dr. Bird Whistle" (November 20, 2009)
- "Raiders Lost Duckies" (November 27, 2009)
- "Raincloud" (December 11, 2009)
- "Car Mechanics" (December 28, 2009)
- "Under the Sea" (January 1, 2010)
- "Lost Elephant" (February 18, 2010)
- "The Three Ducketeers" (September 28, 2010)
- "Loch Ness" (September 29, 2010)
- "Super-Frog" (September 30, 2010)
- "The Dogsitters" (October 4, 2010)
- "The Bird Olympics" (October 12, 2010)
- "Dustbusters" (November 1, 2010)
- "Magicians" (November 5, 2010)
- "The Platypus" (October 29, 2010)
- "Rocks" (December 27, 2010)
- "Deserted Island" (December 30, 2010)
- "Donnie Quixote" (July 15, 2017)
- "Butterfinger" (2011)
- "The Computer Bug" (2011)
- "The Extraterrestrials" (2011)
- "The Quiz Show Planet" (2011)
- "The Yeti" (2011)
- "Bert the Pigeon" (2011)
Video releases
In the United States, the DVD Sesame Street: Count on Sports included the episodes "Tiny Town", "Inventors", and "Mountain Climbers", the DVD Pirates: Elmo and the Bookaneers included the episode "Pirates", and the DVD Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days included the episode "Penguin". On April 6, 2010, the series was released for the first time on DVD in the United States by Warner Home Video, with the episodes "Pirates", "Deep Sea", "Tiny Town", "Planet Bert", "Cavemen", "Mountain Climbers", "Penguins", "Ernlock Holmes", "Rainforest", "Bakers", "Wizards", "Three Wishes", and "Kung Fu".
In the United Kingdom and Australia, thirteen episodes were released on the DVD Bert & Ernie's Great Adventures: "Pirates", "Mountain Climbers", "Wizards With Elmo", "Penguin", "Three Wishes", "Wild West", "Rainforest", "Deep Sea", "Ernlock Holmes", "Cavemen", "Bakers", "Pigeonia", and "Cliptecs". The DVD was distributed in the United Kingdom by Abbey Home Media and in Australia by Madman Entertainment.
References
External links
- Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures at IMDb
- Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures on Muppet Wiki
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- Fictional location
- Sesame Workshop
- Characters
- Educational goals
- Format
- Influence
- Licensing
- Recurring segments
- Accolades
- Fran Brill
- Kevin Clash
- Joan Ganz Cooney
- Ryan Dillon
- Louise Gold
- Jim Henson
- Richard Hunt
- Eric Jacobson
- Gerald S. Lesser
- Peter Linz
- Kermit Love
- Joey Mazzarino
- Lloyd Morrisett
- Jerry Nelson
- Carmen Osbahr
- Frank Oz
- Carol-Lynn Parente
- Joe Raposo
- Martin P. Robinson
- David Rudman
- Jon Stone
- Caroll Spinney
- Matt Vogel
- Steve Whitmire
- List of guest stars
- List of puppeteers
- Theme song
- "Bein' Green"
- "C Is For Cookie"
- "I Love Trash"
- "Mah Nà Mah Nà"
- "Monster in the Mirror"
- "One of These Things (Is Not Like the Others)"
- "Rubber Duckie"
- "Sesame's Treet"
- "Sing"
- Follow That Bird (1985)
- The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999)
Cameos |
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- Play with Me Sesame
- Sesame Beginnings
- Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures
- Elmo: The Musical
- The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo
- Mecha Builders
specials
- Julie on Sesame Street (1973)
- Out to Lunch (1974)
- Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (1978)
- A Special Sesame Street Christmas (1978)
- Big Bird in China (1983)
- Don't Eat the Pictures (1983)
- A Muppet Family Christmas (1987)
- Sesame Street, Special (1988)
- Big Bird in Japan (1989)
- Sesame Street... 20 Years & Still Counting (1989)
- Big Bird's Birthday or Let Me Eat Cake (1991)
- Sesame Street: 25 Wonderful Years (1993)
- Sesame Street Stays Up Late! (1993)
- Elmo Saves Christmas (1996)
- Elmopalooza (1998)
- The Best of Kermit on Sesame Street (1998)
- CinderElmo (1999)
- Elmo's Christmas Countdown (2007)
- Abby in Wonderland (2008)
- The Cookie Thief (2015)
- Once Upon a Sesame Street Christmas (2016)
- Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration (2019)
- Sesame Street: Elmo's Playdate (2020)
- The Monster at the End of This Book: Starring Lovable, Furry Old Grover (1971)
- Sesame Street Together Book (1971)
- Happy Birthday, Cookie Monster (1986)
- Sesame Street Magazine
- Children and Television: Lessons from Sesame Street
- The Sesame Street Dictionary
- Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street
- Sunny Days: The Children's Television Revolution That Changed America
- Big Bird's Egg Catch
- Alpha Beam with Ernie
- The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
- Elmo's A-to-Zoo Adventure
- Cookie's Counting Carnival
- Ready, Set, Grover!
- Once Upon a Monster
- Elmo's Musical Monsterpiece
- Kinect Sesame Street TV
- The World According to Sesame Street
- Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
- I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story
- Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
- Jim Henson Idea Man
- The Jim Henson Company
- Noggin (1999-2002)
- Sesame Street in the UK
- Sesame Street Live
- Comic strip
- Syndication packages
- The Muppets
- Big Bag
- Oobi (episodes)
- Panwapa
- Teletape Studios
- Kaufman Astoria Studios
- The Joan Ganz Cooney Center