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Pong Pagong is an anthropomorphic turtle, similar to Big Bird of Sesame Street, standing over six feet tall and towering over human co-stars and aged to be around six years old. Together with its co-muppet, Kiko Matsing , the characters were custom made in New York for Sesame . [ 1 ]
An arrangement with CTW was made in order for the characters Pong Pagong and Kiko Matsing to continue their appearance including one human character Kuya Mario. Airing on weekdays with a time slot of 10:30 AM, [ 10 ] [ 11 ] the series consistently ranked in 1985 among the top 10 daytime shows in the Philippines, outdoing the ratings of Sesame ...
It featured a turtle muppet named Pong Pagong (the show's counterpart of Big Bird) and a monkey muppet who lived in an abandoned jeepney named Kiko Matsing (patterned after Oscar the Grouch). Sesame ran for less than year when CTW decided to cancel its co-production in 1984 for unspecified reasons. [36] [37]
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 Sesame Street Project (PSSP), which was funded by the Philippine government.
Louis – A French-Canadian otter; Basil – A polar bear; Dodi – A Muppet who is essentially a Jack-Of-All-Trades, though most commonly known as a bush pilot.; Katie – A girl who uses a wheelchair.
Luisito "Bodjie" Fernandez-Pascua [1] (born March 2, 1955) is a Filipino stage and film & TV actor and former children's television host. He is best known as "Kuya Bodjie" ("Big Brother Bodjie"), the iconic character he portrayed on the children's educational television program Batibot.
1896 Kalayaan (GMA Network); Batang Batibot (GMA Network); Batibot (RPN, ABS-CBN, PTV, GMA Network and TV5); Bulilit (GMA Network); Koko Kwik Kwak (GMA Network); Pin Pin (PTV) - very first Chinese language children's show on Philippine TV
Long-running cast member Bob McGrath, who played Bob on Sesame Street from its premiere in 1969 until 2016. Since the premiere of the children's television program Sesame Street on November 10, 1969, it has included what writer Malcolm Gladwell has called "the essence of Sesame Street—the artful blend of fluffy monsters and earnest adults". [1]