Blasphemy.

Thinking back to when I was a kid, I always remembered Basil being on Sesame Street as the CBC bear, I think he would always talk about CBC television. But it just hit me today that Sesame Street was an American television show, and wouldn't have had anything to do with the CBC.

Am I just thinking wrong or was Basil on the original sesame street, or was he just on Sesame Park. if he was I guess I just watched that show for longer than I thought I did.

Thanks in advanced.

fresnelly

Basil was created for Sesame Park and not on the original Sesame Street. He did have a special called Basil Hears a Noise that also had Elmo in it, so maybe that's where you're mixing things up.

I've had the privilege of visiting the Sesame Park set (not during production) and that was really neat to see.

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Sticky

I don't remember Basil.
Maybe it is becuase I was probably watching Sesame Street on the nearby US PBS channel.

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cellophanedeity

I remember Basil! He had his friend Luis too! ^_^

Baraka_Guru

The CBC took over Sesame Street years before it was reformatted to Sesame Park. It was known for a while as Canadian Sesame Street. I've never seen Sesame Park, but I do remember Basil. I think I stopped watching the program several years before the ill-fated reformat. I remember the Canadian takeover distinctly because they replaced the Spanish lessons with French lessons. Oh, and I seem to remember Basil being a new character during this change and I think he spoke French. I first started watching the American version when I was really young, so I witnessed all these changes taking place.

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Charlatan

The Children's Television Workshop (the producers of Sesame Street) have created a number of localized versions of Sesame Street (usually in cooperation with a local production company or broadcaster). Some examples of Sesame Street around the world:

Sisimpur -- Sesame Street Bangledesh features Ki Khobo


Zhima Jie -- Sesame Street China featuring Big Bird's cousin, Da Niao


Alam Simsim -- Sesame Street Egypt featuring Nimnim


Sesamestrasse -- from Germany features Samson


Sippuray Sumsum (also Shalom Sesame)- from Israel features Noah and Brosch


Hikayat Simsim - from Jordan features Juljul and Tonton


Plaza Sésamo from Mexico features Abelardo (another cousin of Big Bird) and Lola


Sesamstraat is from the Netherlands and features Pino and Leniemienen


Hikayat Simsim is from Palestine and features Kareem and Haneen


Ulitsa Sezam is from Russia and features Businka


Takalani Sesame is from South Africa and features Kami


There are also the following versions:

Vila Sésamo (Brazil), Sesame Park (Canada), Iftah Ya Simsim (Kuwait), Sesam Stasjon (Norway), Sesame! or Batibot (Philippines), Rua Sésamo (Portugal), Barrio Sésamo (Spain) and Susam Sokaği (Turkey).


EDIT: I just found out that CTW is now called Sesame Workshop.

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Daniel_

In England we just seem to get US Sesame Street.

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streak_56

I remember all of those versions... the US version... the Canadian version and seaseme park. Personally... they were all the same to me.

Baraka_Guru

Except, only the U.S. version had.... Mr. Hooper.... [Now I'm feeling all verklempt... talk amongst yourselves...]

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Charlatan

When Mr. Hooper was alive, there really only was one version of Sesame Street.

That was so long ago.

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snowy

When I was a kid, I could watch two different versions of Sesame Street where I lived--the American version on PBS and the Canadian version on CBC. I usually watched both; the only really noticeable difference to me as a child was that Canadian Sesame Street taught you French and American Sesame Street taught you Spanish.

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Cynthetiq

damn... if you didn't know when Mr. Hooper died they made a special episode to deal with it...

damn, brings tears to my eyes to see it...

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Skogafoss got to work on Sesame English not too long ago which was designed to help teach english as a second language to other countries.

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Sir Granite

I remember him on Seseme Street...but I guess he wasn't on there...another time that my memory has served me useless...

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breid

Sorry that wsa a long time ago and all those memories are drunk away.

Shwang

I never thought that I'd be able to bring this up, but my dad went to highschool with the man who voiced Basil the Bear. His name was Tim Gosley, and he still does puppetry work, as well as puts on performances for charity. I barely remember sesame street, and never noticed a distinction between the American and Canadian versions.

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