Babbelgamm
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Babbelgamm |
| Country of production | Germany |
| Year (s) | 1977-1985 |
| length | 30 minutes |
| genre | Children's program |
| Theme music | Babbelgamm |
| idea | Justus Peacock |
| Moderation | Peter Rapp |
| First broadcast | January 1, 1977 on ZDF , ORF |
Babbelgamm was a multi-part German television program from 1977 designed for children's programs. It was commissioned by ZDF in coproduction with the Austrian television broadcaster ORF . It was subtitled “ Stories of Laughing and Lies with Peter Rapp ”. This also led through the show as a moderator.
The title is a Germanization and at the same time corruption of the English word bubblegum , which means both chewing gum and refers to a popular form of pop music at the time the series was produced .
In Babbelgamm , mainly children and young people acted who performed skits and performed dance and performing choreographies for the musical guests appearing in the program. Recurring characters in the series were a pair of twins consisting of two boys and a teenage girl in costume as a singer, who, based on Maria Callas , made glasses and mirrors shatter with a high-pitched singing voice.
The title melody of the same name was composed by Gershon Kingsley . In the opening credits, children can be seen in a studio setting and a. shimmy on a climbing frame. In this prologue, the German actor and show master Thomas Ohrner had one of his first television appearances as a youth with a leg in plaster, who taps the beat of the theme song.
Babbelgamm was broadcast in Germany by ZDF as part of the “ ZDF Ferienprogramm ” broadcast in the summer . The last broadcast date was the summer of 1985.