Bassie & Adriaan Online

Series cast summary:
	Bas van Toor	-	Bassie / - 99 episodes, 1978-1996
	Aad van Toor	-	Adriaan / - 99 episodes, 1978-1996
	Paul van Gorcum	-	De Baron / - 55 episodes, 1979-1994

(series 8) B100 carries his name because he is the 100th thief hired by the Baron.

(series 6) While making Bassie & Adriaan (1978), the part of De Baron was played by Aad van Toor. But while he changed clothes, make-up and wig from De Baron to Adriaan or vice versa, he couldn't direct. So the whole set stood still for that time. That's why Paul van Gorcum took over the part of De Baron.

(series 7) As the two previous Bassie & Adriaan adventures ("The Secret Of The Treasure Map", "The Missing Crown") were actually based on earlier radio plays, this one had the first original story since the fourth season ("The Crying Professor"). In a twist, the story of this series was later used as the basis for a third radio play, to complete the trilogy more or less.

(series 6) Like the previous series, this series was based on the Bassie & Adriaan radio play. However, the treasure from the previous was replaced by a crown and police inspector De Vries was replaced by adjudant Van der Steen.

(series 7) In the scene where Vlugge Japie and B2 are in Bassie and Adriaan's hotel room, they have to jump out of the window. Offscreen they would land on a few pillows. Joop Dikmans, who played B2, didn't land on the pillows and hurt his neck.

(series 6) Police officer Van der Steen, played by Dick Rienstra, had appeared in earlier series of Bassie and Adriaan, but his name had not been mentioned before. In one season he was simply adressed as "officer" ("agent" in Dutch) and in another he was adressed as inspector. For this series, his rank changed again, since the scenes were shot at a station of the Dutch national police corps (dissolved in 1993), which didn't have the rank of inspector.

(series 9) Despite the title, the series in fact covers two journeys. The first arc is about Bassie and Adriaan traveling to Curaçao, being lured by the Baron. Halfway the third episode, this arc is wrapped up and Bassie and Adriaan start a new journey through the United States.

(series 5) The story for this series was based on a radio play which Bassie and Adriaan had made a year earlier. It had included a Chinese character named Ping Poen as one of the baddies, but when the play was turned into a TVseries, this character was dropped and replaced by B2, who was already well known from two earlier televised adventures. The reason for dropping Ping Poen was that Aad van Toor thought the character too unrealistic for TV.

(series 7) The hotel room Bassie and Adriaan are in is not in Greece, but was filmed in the Netherlands.

(series 9) Shoots on foreign locations were done in two parts. First, the scenes in Curaçao, Sint-Maarten and Florida were shot, after which cast and crew returned to the Netherlands. All other scenes in the United States were shot during the second row. Due to scheduling conflicts, Paul van Soest was unable to go on the first trip and therefore wasn't present in these locations.

(series 7) The mystical stone is based on the stone of Phaistos, an old relic, that to this day is still unknown for what purpose it served, in ancient times.

(series 3) When Guus Verstraete, who had directed the two previous Bassie & Adriaan adventures, was unavailable for this one, another director was hired, who also brought an entirely new crew with him. However, after only a few days of shooting, this director left the project after a series of arguments. As no other directors were available, Aad van Toor was offered the chance to direct, which he accepted. Upon doing so, he also replaced most of the new crew with people who had worked on the earlier series, including cinematographer Mark de Blok and editor Rob Klein.

(series 9) Because Paul van Soest was unable to attend the first shooting trip in Curaçao, Sint-Maarten and Florida, the script was re-written so that his character stayed in the hotel. All hotel room scenes were shot in the Netherlands. Other scenes had Harry being away to get a car or sitting in the back and therefor being unseen.

(series 9) The shooting on Curaçao was plagued by trouble. Due to a mistake, the camera crew arrived one day late, while the second day it was raining, making a shoot impossible. The third day, Bas van Toor broke his ankle when making a jump, which seriously threatened the production of the series and therefor the finances of the Van Toor brothers. Bas van Toor solved this by cutting the cast from his foot and resumed shooting for six weeks. The script was re-written so that Bassie walked as little as possible. Back in the Netherlands, Van Toor got surgery, after which shooting was resumed.

(series 8) Paul van Gorcum designed the Baron's suit himself and had it custom made.

(series 5) Because Harry Dikmans, who played B2 in the previous two Bassie and Adriaan series, was unavailable to portray this popular character, his brother Joop Dikmans was hired to play B2 in seasons 6 ("The Missing Crown"), 7 ("The Sunken City") and this one.

(series 8) This series was made in order to educate children about the (then) 12 nations of the upcoming European Union.

(series 4) This is the last series of Bassie and Adriaan to be produced by Joop van den Ende. After this, Bas and Aad van Toor produced all their TV-shows themselves.

(series 8) The previous season featured a song about the Greek language. For this series about the founding nations of the EU, variations upon the same song were made for the many different native languages. However, there were several exceptions, apart from the Netherlands, possibly due to the lack of one clear native language: these are Ireland (English being the main spoken language), Belgium and Luxembourg (both having multiple spoken languages). Despite having a spoken language of its own, the Denmark episode instead featured a song about Vikings. Belgium featured a song about the ability to fly, while Ireland featured a song about the fairies from Irish folklore. The Netherlands and Luxembourg did not feature a song at all.

(series 5) Harry Touw was the first choice to play Vlugge Japie. When he could not play the part, Bas van Toor played the role himself.

(series 8) Only Bassie & Adriaan series in which the villains remain at large and continue their criminal ways.

(series 4) Many of Bassie's dream sequences were cut from the final edit of the series, due to many problems on the set.

(series 5) The replacement of Harry Dikmans by Joop Dikmans as B2 is often attributed to scheduling conflicts. A different story was told in a YouTube documentary about the 35th anniversary of Bassie and Adriaan on television, in which Bas van Toor claimed that Harry Dikmans's demands were too expensive.

(series 5) According to Aad van Toor, the two new thieves introduced in this series (B2 being an already existing character) were both based on real people. The Baron was based on a bearded tramp who was similarly nicknamed because he used to walk around with a cane in a dignified way. Vlugge Japie ("Quick Japie") was based on Van Toor's former sound technician, who was ironically called "quick", since he always made the same relaxed reply when asked to do something really quickly.

Near the end of the 90s new music was produced. In 2003 this music was edited into reruns of the show. The new music was arranged by Bert Smorenburg.

(series 3) An extensive shoot of Bassie and Adriaan looking for the thieves while flying in a glider was cut from the series, due to the cameraman being visible in the reflection of the glider's window.

(series 5) Dick Engelbracht also had taken part in the Bassie & Adriaan radio play, in which he also played the role of Inspecteur De Vries, combined with the role of Chinese thief Ping Poen, who was written out of the television remake. According to Aad van Toor, Engelbracht was very comfortable when working on the radio play, but turned out to be extremely nervous when acting in front of the camera. This was the reason that Engelbracht did not reprise the role for any later series.

(series 4) Originally, Robin's voice was done by Guus Verstraete in falsetto. In later appearances Robin's voice was done by Ina van Toor, Aad's wife. For a re-release of this show Ina re-dubbed Robin's voice.

(series 3) Paul Meyer did not return as the thieves' leader due to his poor health. After recasting the role with Frans Kokshoorn, the character received a much more active part in the story.

(series 4) While most of the time, Bassie and Adriaan's antagonists are gangs of thieves, this series puts them up against a super villain in the form of Professor Saggerijn.

(series 3) Paul van Gorcum played the role of the diamond tradesman in this series, which would be the start of a long co-operation with Bas and Aad van Toor. For the next series, he would play the villainous Professor Chagrijn and later he would play Bassie and Adriaan's nemesis, the Baron.

(series 10) Because the TROS thought that "Songs From Times Gone" would not be a success they only wanted to air the first two episodes. After the ratings of these airings, the massive success of the home video release and a lot of viewers asking the TROS to air the third episode, a year later the third and final episode was aired.

All of the seasons have received many re-editings for television, home video and internet. For example seasons 8 and 9 were edited as episodes of 10 minutes in length (for television channel RTL 8 in 2010) while season 10 was edited as episodes of 5 minutes in length (for television channel Nickelodeon in 2003 and internet in 2012).

Every season Bassie and Adriaan try to have a vacation without any villain trying to mess up their holiday. It actually takes them 10 seasons to be able to celebrate a quiet holiday, and even then they have to take the time to save animals from a huntsman.

(series 1) The story was originally written without the boogeyman character. Aad van Toor was against adding this character. He wanted to add three thieves he had made up called B1, B2 and BB. The reason to add this villain was that the TROS broadcasting company wasn't fond of the pilot and wanted an element of excitement in the show.

(series 1) Actor Jaap Stobbe was also involved in writing the script. Producer Joop van den Ende originally asked him to write the pilot, since the story ideas by Aad van Toor were written in poor Dutch and therefore not suited to be used as suggestions to a broadcasting company.

(series 1) In a YouTube documentary celebrating the 35th anniversary of their work on television, Aad van Toor and Bas van Toor explained they did not feel very comfortable during production of their first show, due to their limited experience on television.

(series 1) For Bassie's daydreams, Bas van Toor and Aad van Toor thought of Bassie's imagination being shown in a thought bubble. Jaap Stobbe came up with the idea of Bassie closing his eyes and saying he is going to watch the idea "on the inside of his eyes".

(series 1) Bas van Toor and Aad van Toor were not entirely happy with their first series. After buying the rights to the series in 1993, they planned to stop any reruns of it. The series was re-released in 1996 anyway, to celebrate its 20-year anniversary. It was re-edited and received its new, current title.

(series 2) The three thieves, B1, B2 and BB were originally thought up for season 1.

(series 2) In an oversight by the production company, director Guus Verstraete, had not been contracted to supervise post production. Because of this, Aad van Toor had to do this himself, even mostly editing the episodes on his own when editor Rob Klein fell ill. In the end, Van Toor received a credit as director for his efforts, making this the only Bassie & Adriaan adventure to have two credited directors.

(series 2) The gang of thieves all bear code names, starting with "B" followed by a number. On his website, Aad van Toor stated that the "B" simply stood for "boef", the Dutch word for a crook or thug. Only the gang's ringleader is never mentioned by a code name in the series: his henchmen simply address him as their boss, while other characters sometimes refer to him as "de boevenbaas" ("the crooks boss").

(series 2) Of all Bassie & Adriaan TV-serials in which the villains are a gang of thieves, this is the only one in which the gang has more than three members, with B3 and B4 playing minor roles.

(series 2) The series had to be re-edited in 1984 after two episodes went missing. In 2005, one of the lost episodes had been found and was released on DVD.

(series 2) This series was originally titled "De nieuwe avonturen van Bassie en Adriaan" for merchandising.

(series 2) Actor Jaap Stobbe decided not to return in his role as Douwe, who had become the circus's ringmaster by the end of the first series. To fill up the role of a friend of Bassie and Adriaan in the circus, the character of magician André du Lord was introduced.

(series 2) Magician and key-master André was played by Aart de Heer, the half-brother of Bas and Aad van Toor.

(series 2) Actor Paul Meyer was in very bad health during production. This is why in almost all of his scenes his character is simply sitting in a room, communicating with his henchmen over the radio.

(series 2) Actors Paul Meyer and Wil Sibbelee both returned from the previous series, yet in new roles, respectively as the thieves' boss and thief B1. In the previous series, Meyer had played the circus director who hires Bassie and Adriaan at the end of the series, while Sibbelee played a policeman.