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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 ]
It aired in 1983 as a bilingual (Filipino and English) program. [5] [6] The series featured two Muppet-style characters Pong Pagong and Kiko Matsing. Both characters were inspired from a Filipino fable, "The Monkey and the Turtle", which was annotated to English by José Rizal in 1889. [7]
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.
It was bilingual (Tagalog and English) and featured Filipino human characters and Filipino content alongside Sesame Street material in English. 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).
In later episodes, she sounded more like Mrs. Falbo. She appeared on every channel on Elmo's TV during the Elmo's World segments which taught Elmo more about the subject. Lillian Craig Bartlett: 1990 A young girl who talks about her parents bringing a baby sister into her home.
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
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.