Bassie & Adriaan 

Bassie and Adriaan work in a circus. They seem to attract criminals and when Adriaan and Bassie manage to get a few arrested one criminal in specific devotes his life to making sure the two will never be able to do that again.

Stars:

Bas van Toor, Aad van Toor, Paul van Gorcum

Cast

Series cast summary:
Bas van Toor	...	Bassie / ... 135 episodes, 1978-1996
Aad van Toor	...	Adriaan / ... 135 episodes, 1978-1996
Paul van Gorcum	...	De Baron / ... 55 episodes, 1979-1994

Storyline

Clown Bassie and acrobat Adriaan work in a circus. They seem to attract criminals and when Adriaan and Bassie manage to get a few arrested one criminal in specific devotes his life to making sure the two will never be able to do that again.

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Plot Keywords:

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Taglines:

Whatever happens, keep smiling

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Genres:

Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Family | Musical

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Did You Know?

Trivia

(series 2) Of all Bassie & Adriaan TV-serials in which the villains are a gang of thieves, this is the only one in which the gang has more than three members, with B3 and B4 playing minor roles.

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Goofs

As a running gag throughout the series, Bassie can't tell the ringing of the door bell, the alarm clock and the telephone in the hotel room apart. But even if they would sound the same, wouldn't he still be able to hear from which direction the ringing is coming?

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Crazy Credits

The show's leader contains several scenes which were only shot for the leader, in order to make the viewer curious about the story, while never appearing in the series itself.

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Alternate Versions

In the mid-1980s, there were two episodes missing, episode 2 and 7 of season 2. So Aad van Toor re-edited the series, to make the story work without those episodes. All reruns, videos and DVDs until 2004 are missing about three episodes because of this. (Aad had to delete about one episode of material to remove any references to the missing episodes.) One of the two missing episodes was rediscovered in 2004 (episode 2). It was put back in again, together with some of the material referring to it.

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Connections

Featured in Honderd Maal Bassie & Adriaan (1987)

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Soundtracks

Hallo Vriendjes
(opening song)
Written by Aad van Toor
Arranged by Aad Klaris
Performed by Bas van Toor (as Bassie) and Aad van Toor (as Adriaan)
Featured in seasons 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10

User Reviews

kids will love this

This is a great movie/episode of Bassie en Adriaan. When I was younger I always loved this particular one, it was thrilling for me then. Why I don't know, perhaps because it has the Halloween theme music all the time during this movie/episode. Well I would advise you to see this when it is on the television even if you aren't a kid anymore.

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Netherlands] Show Sinterklaas & Zwarte Piet

Country:

Netherlands Belgium

Language:

Spanish French German Greek Italian Chinese Dutch English

Release Date:

10 January 1978 (Netherlands)

Also Known As:

Bassie en Adriaan en de diamant

Filming Locations:

Vlaardingen, South Holland, Netherlands

Box Office

Budget:

NLG30,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Adrina Produkties, Joop van den Ende TV Produkties, Bassie Produkties

Technical Specs

Runtime:

25 min 5 min (36 episodes)

Sound Mix:

Stereo Mono (Dolby 2.0)

Color:

Color Black and White (seasons 1-3) Color (seasons 4-10)

Aspect Ratio:

4:3