Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures


Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures is an animated series developed by Sesame Workshop in which clay-animated versions of Bert and Ernie use their imaginations to travel to strange places and into entertaining situations. The shorts are shown in the United States as inserts on Sesame Street. Internationally, the shorts are shown as a stand-alone series in various overseas markets. The animation for the series was produced by Italy's Misseri Studio. Two seasons of 26 five-minute episodes each had been produced.
The "Secret Agents" episode has received the Gold Award for the Children's Animation category at the 2009 World Media Festival, as well as being a selection at the 2009 Annecy Animation Festival.

Format

Each episode begins with Bert and Ernie climbing into their beds for a good night's sleep. Suddenly, Bert's bed starts shaking and tapping, and Ernie hops aboard as the bed flies out of their apartment and into their next great adventure. Each adventure has Bert and Ernie in a new location and a new situation. Sometimes they're accompanied by Bert's trusted pigeon-friend Bernice, or Ernie's toy Rubber Duckie. Often they encounter new and old friends, and also adversaries, along the way.

Voices

Season 1

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

    Season 2

  27. "Maltese Ducky"
  28. "Flower Shop"
  29. "Duckie Search"
  30. "Dr. Bird Whistle"
  31. "Wise Old Duck"
  32. "Raincloud"
  33. "Car Mechanics"
  34. "Under the Sea"
  35. "Lost Elephant"
  36. "The Three Ducketeers"
  37. "Loch Ness"
  38. "Super-Frog"
  39. "The Dogsitters"
  40. "The Bird Olympics"
  41. "Dustbusters"
  42. "Magicians"
  43. "The Platypus"
  44. "Rocks"
  45. "Deserted Island"
  46. "Donnie Quixote" October 5, 2010)
  47. "Butterfinger"
  48. "The Computer Bug"
  49. "The Extraterrestrials"
  50. "The Quiz Show Planet"
  51. "The Yeti"
  52. "Bert the Pigeon"

    Video releases

In the United States, six episodes were released on Sesame Street: Count on Sports, Pirates: Elmo and the Bookaneers and Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days. On April 6, 2010, Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures was released for the first time on DVD in the United States by Warner Home Video. The episodes on the 2010 DVD release of Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures includes "Pirates", "Deep Sea", "Tiny Town", "Planet Bert", "Cavemen", "Mountain Climbers", "Penguins", "Ernlock Holmes", "Rainforest", "Bakers", "Wizards", "Three Wishes" and "Kung Fu". If "Play All" is selected, the opening only appears at the beginning of the program, but the opening appears before each sketch if selected individually. Each segment also begins with the segment's title appearing.
In the United Kingdom and Australia, thirteen episodes were released on Bert & Ernie's Great Adventures: Pirates. The DVD was distributed in the United Kingdom by Abbey Home Media and in Australia by Madman Entertainment.