The day we discovered that the Three Wise Men were the parents, an illusion fell flat on our faces. In the same way, that child that we were, and that we carry under the skin of serious adults, will be shocked to learn some of these anecdotes…
1 And he has just turned 100 years old.Waldemar Bonsels conceived a story for children in which an obedient, tenacious and optimistic bee became a model for the entire hive. It was bedside book for many German soldiers of the First World War and achieved stardom in Nazi Germany. The Maya bee in the story, for example, despises ants because they are black. Over the years, German television, ZDF, and Austrian, ORF, were looking for a story to commission Nippon Animation. Veterans remembered the bee from the war and commissioned a series that altered the book’s message, stripping away any retrograde and military stink. Maya the 70’s bee became a rebel and was accompanied by Flip and other new characters. In Clan its review is now issued in 3D.
2 Neither Pixie and Dixie were Latino.Producer Hanna Barbera made her adaptation of Tom and Jerry in 1958 and turned it into a menage a trois with more dialogue than the initial pair. The dubbing in Spanish was done in Puerto Rico and for this trio the nicest topics were chosen. Pixie, the one with the bow tie, was given a Mexican accent by actress Amparito Garrido. Dixie, the one in the vest, became Cuban with Carmita Arenas. And the Spanish accent, the Andalusian, was given by Florencio Castello, according to wikipedia. Thus they covered all the flanks. The series were not dubbed in Spain until 1973 and hence these peculiar voices were kept in the reruns. Jinks utters “Hate those mice to pieces”… In Andalusia: “damn roedore”.
3 But the robot is eternal.Two recent books, that of Aurelio Sanz and that of Jesus Romero Recio, analyze the impact that the premiere of Mazinger Z had on children’s audiences in 1978. The first animated series that breaks the schemes of adults and that ignited the criticism of progressive viewers and carcas. Despite all the complaints, the robot manipulated by Koji Kabuto is part of the collective memory of that generation and remains on a pedestal of memory. TVE was the first European network to acquire this Japanese series from 1972, which came after the sweet Heidi and Marco. It premiered on Saturday, March 4, 1978, and 27 episodes were broadcast (a selection of almost a hundred made in Japan by the Toei production company) until it was canceled without notice on September 16 by Orzowei. The auction of another 5 episodes was scheduled in January 79.
4 I take the program from the director.In 1978 the children discovered Mazinger Z and the adults Lauren Postigo, always so affected from El Corral de la Pacheca, to give way to the tonadilleras of Cantares. The program was the idea of ​​the Flamenco producer, Miguel de la Hoz, and he selected that chronicler to make his debut as presenter on TVE. Postigo took the place from the director and finally took over the reins of the program and was criticized for campaigning against the referendum on Andalusian autonomy. De la Hoz, without Cantares, went on to a children’s program, La mansion de los Plaff, with Maria Luisa Seco. The director died tragically after a fight in a bar in 1981.
5 In a Roman orgy.Before being selected by Antonio Mercero to play the teenager he fell in love with in Verano Azul, the young Pilar Torres had made her first steps in the cinema. He made his debut at the age of 12, in 1974, alongside Fernando Rey and Catherine Deneuve in The Woman with Red Boots. Two years later she participated in La lozana andaluza, the great blockbuster of the uncover cinema, of the films classified S. The jovial Pilar, long before becoming Bea, participates as an actress in a little theater during a bacchanal presided over by the prostitute embodied by Maria Rosaria Omaggio, an ephemeral diva thanks to her Renaissance shower. Pilar Torres and her sister Cristina (Desi) endured the year and a half of filming in Nerja. Pilar had a son by Carlos de las Heras, cameraman of the series, and moved away from TV.
6 And He Was The Opening Man For The Beatles. Long before dividing us between tigers and lions in Sabadabada, Walter Rocco Torrebruno was signed by the director of the Moulin Rouge in Paris, two decades before Norma Duval emigrated there. The Italian twenty-something was entertaining a cruise through Morocco when the director of that nightclub, Muslim and striptease pioneers, wanted to have the talkative balladeer. That experience opened the doors of RAI for him and with his self-confidence he came to Spain, to the pioneer TVE at the end of the 50s, throwing a cable every time the direct failed. After passing through Argentina, he returned to our country to give him time to be the opening act for the Beatles at their Madrid concert in 1965. He made a living on TVE as a presenter and joke teller before landing on the first children’s program on Saturday mornings. , Today is also a holiday, in 1970. From there he went on to Fiesta, La guagua, El recreo, 003 y medio, with his bunch of songs until he left the facet on TVE in the evening Dabadabada, at the time when Sonia Martinez was fired for appearing nude on Interviu . Berlanga signed him to play a delirious character in the movie Todos a la carcel.
7 Although they said he died. Oscar Banegas, the creator of Antena infantil, was not very convinced that his star character, Locomotoro, played by Paco, Paquito, Cano, had his own skittles and generated income on his account. When in 1973 TVE played Los Chiripitiflauticos, Locomotoro was missing. On the street, when there were no social networks to turn on or off, the rumor spread that Paquito had died. Yes, he had a traffic accident, but not with such a deadly outcome. Cano anyway had a real estate business that his children inherited and has been able to live (very well) outside the interpretation. In 1981 he participated with his colleagues from Antena infantil in La cometa blanca, now deceased Banegas, to get even.
8 Still Lives To Bend Them. In September 1975, he caused havoc before a Spanish audience that was not used to live programs. Jose Maria Inigo invited the Israeli illusionist Uri Geller to Directisimo and there he began to bend and break spoons and repair clocks. The suggested audience also experienced similar sensations according to the testimonies that reached Prado del Rey. Geller used substances for this trick, impregnated in his fingers and that degraded the metal when cold, according to chemical experts who he came to sue. Uri, who recently passed through El Hormiguero and Neox, continues to make a living folding cutlery.
9 One year before moving on to ‘Sesame Street’. In a sauna scene and bare breasts from the erotic film Sweden, Hell and Paradise, in 1968, a song by Piero Umiliani appears for the first time, Mah-na, Mah-na, an expression that means nothing and that perhaps That’s why it caught on among North Americans, being a discreet musical success of that summer. The glory would come a year later, in 1969, when Jim Henson turned it into a Sesame Street skit for a character named Bip Bippadotta and her friends. From there, to be a plush classic.
10 It belongs to Pipo Pescador.“In dad’s car…” was one of the singing bombshells that came from the Aragon family when they opened TVE’s The Great Circus in 1973 (under the name of Los Clowns). Although almost all the songs are by Miliki, El auto de papa is by an Argentine animator, Pipo Pescador. They adopted her from her last stage in America. Hence, Fofo spoke of a “cake” instead of a “cake”.
