Bassie & Adriaan
| Bassie & Adriaan | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Aad van Toor Bas van Toor Joop van den Ende |
| Starring | Aad van Toor Bas van Toor Paul van Gorcum and others |
| Country of origin | Netherlands |
| No. of episodes | 144 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 25 minutes (without commercials) |
| Original release | |
| Network | Nederland 2 (TROS) (1978-1990) TV 2 (TROS) (1992-1996) |
| Release | 1978 – 1996 |
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Bassie & Adriaan was a television program series focusing on the adventures and lives of a circus duo consisting of clown Bassie and acrobat Adriaan, played by real-life circus duo Bas and Aad van Toor.
Written by Aad van Toor and originally produced by Joop van den Ende, the first series became a television hit in the Netherlands in the spring season of 1978. At its peak, the show attracted over three million viewers, which was noted to be "a lot" for a children's program. The show ran for nine series, with the last original episode airing in 1996. Between 1980 and 1982, the Van Toor brothers ran their own independent circus, named Circus Bassie & Adriaan, which later became a subsidiary of Circus Renz.