1, Rue Sésame is the original French Sesame Street co-production, which premiered on January 4, 1978.

The French Muppet characters are Toccata the large Albatross, Mordicus the saxophone-playing blue Grouch, and Trepido (a pink snail).

The series was executive produced by Michel Berthier from TF1 and Lutrelle Horne from CTW. The show ran for a total of 80 episodes and ceased production in June 1982.

A similarly titled French co-production debuted in 2005, called 5, Rue Sésame.

Contents 1 Character Translations and Voices 2 Cast 2.1 Puppeteers 2.2 Actors 3 See also 4 External links

Character Translations and VoicesEdit

As with other co-productions, most of the characters were renamed. A few had different voices on certain albums than on the show, and sometimes multiple names were used for the same character.

English Name	French Name	French Voice Actor
Ernie	Ernest	Philippe Dumat
Bert	Bart	Henry Djanick
Cookie Monster	Macaron	Georges Atlas
Grover	Grover also known as Magribleu	Francis Lax
Count von Count	Le Comte	Philippe Dumat
Herry Monster	Hyacinthe (Lhorrible in some books)	Unknown
Kermit the Frog	Kermit la grenouille	Jacques Ebner
Betty Lou	Gertrude	Béatrice Delfe
Roosevelt Franklin	Roosevelt	Unknown
Guy Smiley	Guy Sourire
Frazzle	Farfelu	Not Applicable
Farley	Frédéric	Unknown
Twiddlebugs	Vibrillons
Oscar the Grouch	Oscar le Grincheux

CastEdit

PuppeteersEdit

• Lucien Morisse as Toccata
• Georges Mosca as Mordicus
• Catherine Coste as Trepido

ActorsEdit

• Roger Elcourt as Roger
• Maxime Arcos as Maxime
• Edith Garnier as Odile
• Monique Tarbes as Clemence
• René Lafleur as Dominé
• Fabienne Dauvin as Fabienne
• Rodrigue Mallet as Rodrigue

See alsoEdit

• 1, Rue Sésame Merchandise

External linksEdit

• French fansite