Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures

Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures
Genre	Children's television series Animation Clay animation Cartoon series
Created by	Sesame Workshop
Based on	Bert and Ernie by Sesame Street
Starring	Eric Jacobson Steve Whitmire Stephanie D'Abruzzo Joey Mazzarino Tyler Bunch Kevin Clash
Country of origin	United States Italy
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	52
Production
Running time	4-5 minutes
Production companies	Sesame Workshop Misseri Studio
Original release
Network	PBS (PBS Kids) (U.S.) KI.KA/Das Erste (Germany) Five (Milkshake!) (UK)
Release	August 11, 2008 (2008-08-11) – December 30, 2010 (2010-12-30)
Related
Sesame Street Elmo's World Play with Me Sesame Sesame Beginnings Elmo the Musical The Furchester Hotel Abby's Flying Fairy School The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo Mecha Builders Super Grover 2.0

Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures, originally promoted as The Adventures of Bert and Ernie, is a claymation animated children's television series and segment on Sesame Street in which Bert and Ernie use their imaginations to travel to faraway places. The series is produced by Sesame Workshop in co-production with Misseri Studio, Norddeutscher Rundfunk and Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited, and aired from August 2008 to December 2010, with two seasons and 52 episodes.

The shorts air in the United States as inserts on Sesame Street beginning with season 39 and internationally as a standalone series in various overseas markets, with the first season debuting in September 2008. The episode "Secret Agents" won the Gold Award in the Children's Animation category at the 2009 World Media Festival,^[1] and the series was a nominee at the 2009 Annecy Animation Festival.^[2]

Format

Each episode begins with Bert and Ernie getting ready for bed when Bert's bed comes to life and flies out of their apartment, taking them on a new adventure. Sometimes accompanied by Bert's pigeon friend Bernice or Ernie's toy rubber duck, they also make new friends and enemies during their adventures.

Voices

• Eric Jacobson as Bert
• Steve Whitmire as Ernie
• Stephanie D'Abruzzo as various characters
• Joey Mazzarino as various characters
• Tyler Bunch as various characters
• Kevin Clash as Elmo

Episodes

Season 1

1. "Tiny Town" (August 11, 2008)
2. "Pirates" (August 13, 2008)
3. "Planet Bert" (August 18, 2008)
4. "Bakers" (September 24, 2008)
5. "Cavemen" (October 2, 2008)
6. "Rainforest" (October 10, 2008)
7. "Penguin" (October 20, 2008)
8. "Wild West" (October 30, 2008)
9. "Three Wishes" (November 3, 2008)
10. "Inventors" (November 5, 2008)
11. "Museum Guards" (February 16, 2015)
12. "Mountain Climbers"
13. "Deep Sea"
14. "Pigeonia"
15. "Ernlock Holmes"
16. "Superheroes"
17. "Kung Fu"
18. "Wizards With Elmo"
19. "Beach"
20. "Invisible"
21. "Piano Movers"
22. "Cliptecs"
23. "Knights"
24. "Secret Agents"
25. "Rodeo"
26. "Chariot"

Season 2

1. "Maltese Ducky" (November 10, 2009)
2. "Flower Shop" (November 12, 2009)
3. "Gopher Broke" (November 18, 2009)
4. "Dr. Bird Whistle" (November 20, 2009)
5. "Raiders Lost Duckies" (November 27, 2009)
6. "Raincloud" (December 11, 2009)
7. "Car Mechanics" (December 28, 2009)
8. "Under the Sea" (January 1, 2010)
9. "Lost Elephant" (February 18, 2010)
10. "The Three Ducketeers" (September 28, 2010)
11. "Loch Ness" (September 29, 2010)
12. "Super-Frog" (September 30, 2010)
13. "The Dogsitters" (October 4, 2010)
14. "The Bird Olympics" (October 12, 2010)
15. "Dustbusters" (November 1, 2010)
16. "Magicians" (November 5, 2010)
17. "The Platypus" (October 29, 2010)
18. "Rocks" (December 27, 2010)
19. "Deserted Island" (December 30, 2010)
20. "Donnie Quixote" (July 15, 2017)
21. "Butterfinger" (2011)
22. "The Computer Bug" (2011)
23. "The Extraterrestrials" (2011)
24. "The Quiz Show Planet" (2011)
25. "The Yeti" (2011)
26. "Bert the Pigeon" (2011)

Video releases

In the United States, the DVD Sesame Street: Count on Sports included the episodes "Tiny Town", "Inventors", and "Mountain Climbers", the DVD Pirates: Elmo and the Bookaneers included the episode "Pirates", and the DVD Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days included the episode "Penguin". On April 6, 2010, the series was released for the first time on DVD in the United States by Warner Home Video, with the episodes "Pirates", "Deep Sea", "Tiny Town", "Planet Bert", "Cavemen", "Mountain Climbers", "Penguins", "Ernlock Holmes", "Rainforest", "Bakers", "Wizards", "Three Wishes", and "Kung Fu".

In the United Kingdom and Australia, thirteen episodes were released on the DVD Bert & Ernie's Great Adventures: "Pirates", "Mountain Climbers", "Wizards With Elmo", "Penguin", "Three Wishes", "Wild West", "Rainforest", "Deep Sea", "Ernlock Holmes", "Cavemen", "Bakers", "Pigeonia", and "Cliptecs". The DVD was distributed in the United Kingdom by Abbey Home Media and in Australia by Madman Entertainment.

References

1. "Winner | WorldMediaFestival 2009". archive.worldmediafestival.org. Retrieved 2024-07-29.
2. Zahed, Ramin (March 16, 2009). "Annecy 2009 Announces Official Selection". Animation Magazine. Retrieved 29 July 2024.

External links

• Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures at IMDb
• Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures on Muppet Wiki