Het Manneke
Het Manneke | |
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Genre | Sketch show |
Created by | Jef Cassiers |
Directed by | Herman Wuyts |
Country of origin | Belgium |
Original language | Dutch |
Production | |
Running time | 3 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | BRT (nowadays the VRT) |
Release | 1961 – 1963 |
Het Manneke (The Little Man) was a Flemish TV sketch show broadcast on the BRT (nowadays VRT) between 1961 and 1963.
Concept
Het Manneke was a series of slapstick sketches starring Flemish comedian Jef Cassiers as the titular character. Cassiers always wore a long coat, a black hat, a long scarf and frequently carried a ladder around. [1] Most sketches centered only around him, though his brother Cois Cassiers and Doris Van Caneghem sometimes had supporting roles. All episodes were directed by Herman Wuyts. [2]
On the BRT the episodes were used as a bumper before their news reports started. [3]
In 2012 the old episodes were rebroadcast on New Year's Eve, after the BRT organized a viewer's poll to find out which of their old shows ought to be rebroadcast during that special time of the year. "Het Manneken" surprisingly ended first place. [4]
Comic strip adaptation
In 1962 the character was adapted into a gag-a-day comic strip. Cassiers wrote the gags, while artist Pil (Joe Meuleplas) provided the drawings. [5] [6] Later Mark Payot and Paul Ausloos [7] [8] took over. The gags were published in Kwik and Het Laatste Nieuws and later collected in about 20 albums by publishing company Zuid-Nederlandse. [9]
Sources
- ^ http://www.vrt.be/tijdslijn/het-manneke
- ^ ADRIAENS, Manu, Blijven kijken! 50 jaar televisie in Vlaanderen, Uitgeverij Lannoo, Tielt, 2003
- ^ ADRIAENS, Manu, Blijven kijken! 50 jaar televisie in Vlaanderen, Uitgeverij Lannoo, Tielt, 2003
- ^ http://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20121217_00405683
- ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/pil.htm
- ^ KOUSEMAKER, Kees en Evelien, "Wordt Vervolgd- Stripleksikon der Lage Landen", Uitgeverij Het Spectrum, Utrecht, Antwerpen, 1979, page 121.
- ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/a/ausloos_paul.htm
- ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/payot_mark.htm
- ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/a/ausloos_paul.htm
External links
- Flemish television programmes
- 1961 Belgian television series debuts
- 1963 Belgian television series endings
- Belgian television sketch shows
- Television programs adapted into comics
- Black-and-white Belgian television programmes
- Fictional Belgian people
- Comedy television characters
- Belgian comics
- Belgian comics characters
- Male characters in comics
- Gag-a-day comics
- Pantomime comics
- 1962 comics debuts
- 1962 comics endings