Bassie and Adriaan (born Bas and Aad van Toor) are a popular
clown and
acrobat duo who had their own television series, taped between
1976 and
1993 and are still
household names in both
the Netherlands and
Belgium. Prior to their television adventures Bassie and Adriaan were successful acrobats (The Crocksons) performing in circuses
home and abroad. The first three series feature a parrot called Sweety as the first in a row of non-human
sidekicks, it was
subsequently replaced by Lara (Adriaan's dog, who died in 1992) and Robin, a
robot born out of Bassie's attempt to fix a radio and an alarm clock. Bassie and Adriaan were long time
fixtures on public broadcaster
TROS but from the early Nineties on re-runs of the series were shown on commercial children's channel Kindernet; it's follow-up, the Dutch version of the
American children's channel
Nickelodeon continued to do so.
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Bassie en Adriaan (
Bas van Toor en
Aad van Toor) was een Nederlands artiestenduo, dat vooral bekend werd via de
televisieserie Bassie en Adriaan. Daarvoor waren Bas en Aad al 25 jaar wereldwijd actief als acrobaten. Bassie is een clown die vooral te herkennen is aan zijn rood geruite pak en zijn groene broek, ook is hij opvallend door zijn platte rode neus. Adriaan is een acrobaat en is vooral te herkennen aan zijn paars/blauw blouse met ruches in de stijl van de jaren 70 van de 20e eeuw.
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