Ulica Sezamkowa

*Ulica Sezamkowa*
Ulica Sezamkowa
Genre	Children's television series
Created by	Joan Ganz Cooney (concept); Jim Henson (concept)
Starring	Andrzej Buszewicz
Country of origin	Poland
Original language	Polish
No. of episodes	52
Original release
Network	TVP2
Release	October 27, 1996 –; 2001

Ulica Sezamkowa is the Polish co-production of the children's television series Sesame Street.^[1] It first aired in late 1996.^[2]

Production[edit]

Sesame Street had previously been aired in Poland, with a Polish voiceover.^[2]

The Muppets seen in the series were designed in the United States by Jim Henson Productions, using Polish children's sketches as references.^[2]

Characters[edit]

Characters exclusive to Ulica Sezamkowa include:

Smok Bazyli (Bazyli the Dragon), a jovial, furry dragon.^[3]
Owieczka Beata (Beata the Lamb), a lamb who thinks she knows everything.^[3]
Pędzipotwór (Speedmonster), a turquoise monster who is similar to Cookie Monster.

Sezamkowy Zakątek[edit]

Beginning in 2006, the Polish kids' channel MiniMini began airing a one-hour Sesame programming block, Sezamkowy Zakątek. The original Polish co-production of Sesame Street, Ulica Sezamkowa, is no longer in production.

Other languages (Sezamkowy Zakątek)[edit]

Croatian: Ulica Sezam
Czech: Sezamová Ulice
Hungarian: Szezám Utca
Italian: Gioca con Sesamo
Romanian: Stradă Sesame
Russian: Улица Сезам
Slovenian: Ulica Sesame
Ukrainian: Вулиця Сезам‎
Uzbek: Sezam Ko'Chasi

References[edit]

^ "Polish version of Sesame Street". The Gadsden Times. December 20, 1996. p. A6. Retrieved April 25, 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c "G" is for growing : thirty years of research on children and Sesame Street. Shalom M. Fisch, Rosemarie T. Truglio. New York: Taylor & Francis. 8 April 2014. pp. 154, 161–162. ISBN 978-1-135-66495-4. OCLC 910845333.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
^ ^a ^b "Sesame Street expands in four countries". United Press International. 30 August 1996.