Very nicely done video! I think the folks at Defunctland would really enjoy seeing this, and proud for its inspiration. This would be a great mini-series for anyone else who wants to explain the international co-productions to those interested.
@@sindrelf i am working on a video (on a different channel I am starting) where i go through each international co-production of sesame street as sort of a history and awareness thing. So this video was very cool to find and very useful. I myself am Canadian (which i am surprised to find out also had its own co-production of Sesame Street called Sesame Park)
The algorithm is spreading this video around to Norwegians recently it seems, judging by all the recent comments. What a blast from the past this was. The production quality we had for children's entertainment in the 90's was baffling, especially since the golden age of animation was around the same time. Very surprised and sad to hear they published so little material from this show.
Yeah, this really made me nostalgic for good barne-tv programs, plus a bit homesick since I lived relatively close to Lørenskog as a child. They'd stopped filming there by the time I was old enough to take the train alone, but man that train station was beautifully colourful and gloriously fun to look at. I hope both that all the episode made will be released eventually, and I hope they maintained the stations colour scheme.
Benny finally realized he was too old to do crime, and settled for legit work with NSB. Low risk, decent pay, and nobody at the station would call him an amateur, or a droopy ass. Fair trade-offs 😂
@@DrakeKillah Pretty sure it was Witness Protection. All that business with Dynamitt Harry got classified as terrorism, and the whole gang went down for life (i.e. 21 years in Norway). Benny flipped and got a new name.
I actually took this train quite a few times, as it would go from Lillehammer to Hunderfossen Family Park. You would be robbing a lot of kids and their parents, who would likely not bring a lot of valuables.
No. It is, as the word says, a right. If you create something (and/or are artistic/financially responsible) you have the right to decide on its availability. Because making it in the first place and putting it to market (again) will cost something. Time, effort, money. And unless you are doing it on a charitable motif, you might want to make sure you at least break even on the costs. However fond people can be of what you have created, does not entitle them to 'have' it. And even if people are waving their money at you, it may not be a simple 1 + 1 = 2. Depending on the original contracts or current day sensibilities, actors, writers and other creatives might have a shared interest in any future money you're about to make. So there's a few things to consider.
@@jjwubs1638 in this example they are not going to make money on it. It's a tax founded channel that makes everything they make freely available on the internet. Except for stupid stuff like this where they spend lots of money creating a show that they don't have the right to share freely to those that paid for it with their taxes What is a right is just something that some people have agreed upon and made it a law or a rule. It's not something that is universally morally or logically true or false. We should try to follow it since we live in a society with other people. But we should also try to change fucked up stuff that needs to be changed. Stuff like copyright stopping people being able to buy an old show, or geo blocking stopping people from being able to buy something, or game companies taking down their services stopping people from playing the game they bought.
@@jjwubs1638 Nobody should have practically permanent right to an idea just because they put it together first. Even less so when its become a part of a culture. Rights should last long enough that money is earned, but should be released to public domain BEFORE it becomes culturally irrellevant and forgotten. What good is public domain if it contains only IPs thats already been milked by a single IP-holder for 100+ years and changed so much that theres nobody alive that remember the original anymore? I think there should be laxer rules for creating derived works and stricter for practically straight-up reselling copies, but that complicates the copyright rules a lot.
My grandmother, rest her soul, lived in Oslo and we used to take with her from Gardermoen to Oslo and the train passed Sesam Stasjon on it's way to Oslo. Seeing this video sent me down memory lane and made me think of all of those trainrides with my gram. Put a smile on my face :)
I love how Sesam Stasjon was made so different from the other regional versions of Sesame Street. Max Mekker was my favorite character by far. I still have the Max Mekker plushie I got as a kid!
Nothing like going on a family car vacation, and having the smallest one insisting on playing the soundtrack on repeat. We even had to stop and buy a new tape, after the old one was worn out.
Sometimes the youtube algorithm actually recommends something great, and this is one of those days. This video, and your library in general, was an extremely cozy suprise of high quality. It is a damn shame that I haven't seen anything from you before. I was born in 1989, so I was at the perfect age when Sesam Stasjon ran on NRK. I loved the show and had a toy train, books and a stuffed Max Mekker (that's still at my parents' house) and even got to ride the train one time when it visited my town. There was also a person in a less-than-stellar Max Mekker-costume that even kid-me could see wasn't the real one, but I felt bad after pointing it out, as I wondered if he got sad. XD By the time Py showed up I was getting a bit too old for the show, and her inclusion really didn't help, but I was still sad to see the show go. I understand that there is probably way too much legal mumbo jumbo for it to ever happen, but it would be great if NRK at the very least became able to stream this show. It really is an important part of Norwegian TV-history, and still a quality kids-show that I'm sure kids today will also enjoy.
Yeah, NRK definitely has this in full in their archives. Just a shame they don't have the rights to display the Norwegian version anymore, if only the genuinely Norwegian segments (without the dubbed English clips)
Ble faktisk trist å litt rørt når jeg forstod hvorfor det er så vanskelig å finne noe sesam stasjon relatert på internett. Det var et veldig gledelig gjensyn i filmen her med masse god fakta og underholdene innslag. Håper at flere deler denne filmen og at det kommer på plass en løsning som gjør at sesam stasjon igjen kan sees på tven av mindreårige ❤
I took it during the Summer of 92 in Lillehammer. It went from the edge of town to Hunderfossen family park, as it only went between those two spots iirc
There's nothing more precious than the nostalgia of one's childhood. We have to get it back. Seeing the pinball animation again made the hairs at my back stand up!
Hadde vært så gøy om Sesam kom ut på dvd/blu ray en dag. Var i fjor så knallheldig å finne nesten alle cdeene som ble gitt ut en gang i tiden på Finn, og gud skal vite de har blitt spilt siden! ^^ Veldig leit at serien lider under disse copyright-issuene som de har gjort i så mange år. Vet om flere, meg selv sterkt inkludert, som hadde satt pris på å få sett serien opp igjen i sin fulle helhet!
Ja, vi er mange som hadde satt pris på å få sett og hørt serien ☺️ Har gjort alt jeg kan og brukt tusenlapper på digitalisering 🎬 Virkelig imponert over SESAM cd-samlingen din ⭐️ Vi kan fortsette å glede fansen om du skriver inn Google Drive-link etc. til mp3-filene, så kan jeg legge ut cd-ene i sin fulle helhet 😍
Det er lite interessant for nrk eller noen i kringkastningøverigheta å bringe frem igjen eller sett ved lys noe som helst som kan bevise at for at for bare få år siden var Norge et ekstremt mye mindre "multikulturelt" samfunn enn det som er viktig å få frem i dag. "Uffamei, nei alt for mange blonde og blå øyde mennesker foran kameraet her. Brenn alt"
I ADORED the pinball counting song and video my entire childhood! 🤩 And I loved Sesam Stasjon as a whole. But especially the short videos. Like the "Fire elementer" (Four Elements) song 😂 I agree with the comment saying that this gives Defunctland vibes. And I love Defunctland, so... Great job! 😃
Eyvind Skeie also was a writer for "Portveien 2" which you probably know if you're Norwegian and old enough to remember Sesam Stasjon. He is also actually a Lutheran priest and hymn writer, and many of his hymns as well as his children's TV work was scored by the composer Sigvald Tveit. "Visst skal våren komme", a choral work by Skeie and Tveit, is supposedly the most performed choral work in Norway. It's a work both bleak and beautiful, and catches the mood of the eighties in Norway pretty well, both the hope and the ever present threat of nuclear war (and it also has wonderfully 80s orchestration with guitars, marimba and accordeon)
Thing about the railway system in Norway is that you can only go halfway up the country by train. And many train stations further north just have really poor facilities. So the show is more indicative of southern Norway.
I disagree. First of all the train goes 2/3rd of the country. And most stops far north dont look rundown. Its the stops that are secluded that may look rundown. Down south most stop are in highly populated places. I feel like sesam stasjon is a village up north
@@kingkongkoalabjrn8050 Are there trains from the south that go further than Bodø? I couldn’t get further by train. I’d argue it looks a lot like areas a few areas just outside Trondheim which does have secluded areas.
@@alexbutnobody785 jupp around Trondheim and a little further north has these small train stop that reminds me of it. I live in trondheim atm and take the train both north and south every year so many small places reminde me of it. I know we have a data storage in Mo i Rana(in the mountain) where the show might have been stored aswell(a copy) . I have 2 friends working there. Maybe i can ask. I know alsmot all Norwegian media is copied and stored there, from old shows to every newspaper for a long long time
Nostalgia pang! Sesam Stasjon traff rett i min aldersgruppe, super kjekt å se gjengen igjen. Håper det blir noe interesse i å skaffe rettigheter til streaming eller blu-ray, trist hvis alt blir mistet.
Really cool seeing someone making video essays on Norwegian television. I think there's a lot of shows that could be really cool to show the rest of the world 🥰 I've wanted to make a video essay about the show Mot I Brøstet for years, because it's so near and dear to me and a big part of my childhood growing up. But I fear I lack the necessary editing and production skills to make anything that would be enjoyable to watch 😆
I want to make a video about Brødrene Dal, but I have social anxiety so I don't dare to record my voice... 😢 While I could hire someone, will I be able to tell them how to pronounce Norwegian words through text only?
I rember the show and cried when it ended, loved the show so much and if the seris come on DVD I'll spend what ever it takes to get is home. thank you so much for making this video
I grew up right outside Oslo (Oppgegård), next to the train tracks going out to Østfold, and would often watch the Sesam Stasjon train pass by. My dad still has some photographs of them I think. It felt so magical seeing them in real life
Sharing is caring! It really should be possible to access the series somehow. Many fond memories, and the production was usually very good all over! Bra video, mange gode minner dukker opp:)
9:55 This! Great video. I grew up with this show. I remember those good ol' days. And still, to this day, I sometimes have some of the jingles and songs pop into my head.
Yeah, I'm sorry. I didn't think about Northern Norway. But to be fair, NRK probably didn't either :P We unfairly forget about the difference up there a lot of the time. I have a Shorts video about Norwegian Christmas food, and the poll I got the stats from seemed to have completely forgotten to poll anyone in the North. So with that in mind, that could still be the reasoning for why they chose a train station as the setting.
I grew up in the 2000's in Norway and remember this show very vaguely from my childhood. Thank you for reminding me of it! I also wasn't aware that it was that huge of a show back in the day. Very interesting to know!
Enn at denne videoen kom på feeden min 3 år etter når jeg aldri her sett på noe lignende på youtube :P Godt laget dokumentasjon og 100%, min sønn er nå for gammel for dette, men som en som vokste opp med Sesam Stasjon hadde dette definitivt vært en DVD jeg hadde kjøpt til han som barn og kost meg med å se sammen med han.
My grandma had a Max Mekker plush at her house. That poor guy is well loved by grandchildren and great grandchildren alike 😅 even if some of us never got to see the show for ourselvs
I grew up watching the original version of the show, but I have seen my share of international co-productions of Sesame Street as a kid and later as a teen. My favorites being this, Iftah Ya Simsim in Kuwait, Sesamstraat in Holland, and Sesamstrasse in Germany (which I would regularly watch on a german online tv service I got on my smart tv). Sesame Street is just a wonderful tv show, and thanks for uploading this in-depth review of the norwegian version.
You forgot to mention that O'Tidemand is really just an alias for the former getaway driver of the notorious criminal gang called "Olsenbanden". Imagine his stress when the police rocked up... Poor guy.
I loved Sesam stasjon as a kid, as did all my friends. It was so well done, the humor, the characters, the warmth, and the intermitten shorts (all dubbed, of course) which I assume were from the orginal US Sesame Street, like Ernie and Bernt, and various cartoons.
Fantastisk video! Det er helt absurd hvor lite initiativ som blir tatt for å ivareta norsk popkultur. Strålende kritikk til NRK der. Like relevant nå som da videoen kom ut!
I literally grew up a few minutes walking distance from Sesame Station, lol. It was my local train station. So… the show was indeed relatable… too relatable 🤣
I loved Sesam Stasjon as a child and think a lot of people would appreciate the box set. But it really wasn't that insane. The sensationalistic title puts me a little on edge. But thanks for making content with heart
Glad you liked it :) Title was the only way to get RU-vid to show it around. It was The Norwegian Sesame Street for three years stuck at 10K, rest I've gotten in a week. Gotta play the game :/
I must’ve been 4-5 years old and my mother took me to Bergen from Trondheim. I remember going past this station as she yelled “sjå, det e Sesam Stasjon!» 😂 Haven’t thought about that memory in years and years 😅
I also grew up with this and lowed it so much! Sidenote: Its only when I see comparisons with international counterparts like this, that I realize how strange we Norwegians actually are😊I bet people from other countries would appreciate the Norwegian Sesamy Station as well, with subtitles or dub ofc.
Let's hope this gets the right amount of attention it needs! I think NRK has the responsibility to do something about the copyright lock and take contact with the owner. The owner would never see the actual value of this, and if they never get contacted about this no effort would be taken either.
6:40 - 6:47 I remember Harald Maele has norwegian voices for Mickey, Goofy, Bagheera, Scrooge McDuck, Bugs Bunny, Pumbaa and many more american characters.
Wow, I just happened to put in like number 1000. I'm a Dane, but being from near the border, I watched the German version of Sesame Street in the early 1970es. Which meant I knew the alphabet from A to Z when I was three or four. Later I learned about Æ, Ø and Å. 😂 Although I don't have that much nostalgia for it (certainly not compared to the all-German Mouse!) I think it would be a shame if the Norwegian version was forgotten. This has already happened to lots of TV of all kinds, like reuse of tape resulting in missing episodes of BBC's Doctor Who, and Danish TV productions from early days. To have things unavailable for petty copyright reasons, when they are cultural and historical significant, is just sad. I hope this video succeeds with its mission!
I was too young to remember much from this show, but its a real shame its almost wholly lost media now. Also trippy watching clips from this as i live in the town where the station was located.
It's also one of few Norwegian franchises to have actual merchandise. I remember having a duvet cover and an Alfa plush, but there was more than that. I miss the series a lot sometimes.
Still remember i had a ride on the train. My classmate was the nephew of "Alfa". And once dad brought me to see th station irl. I was so shocked when i walked around the corner and saw it
I remember watching this as a child and it always cheered me up. Such a lovely program ❤️ even though I no longer live in Norway, this is a show that reminds me of happier times. Thanks for making this video ❤️
