Big Bird in China (1983)
May 29, 1983Release Date
Big Bird in China (1983)
May 29, 1983Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Caroll Spinney
Big Bird / Oscar the Grouch (voice) / Story
Brian Muehl
Barkley (voice)
Lianzi Ouyang
Xiao Foo (as Lien-Tze Quyang)
Frank Oz
Bert / Grover / Cookie Monster (voice)
Jerry Nelson
Two-Headed Monster (voice)
Richard Hunt
Two-Headed Monster (voice)
Martin P. Robinson
Telly Monster (voice)
Jim Henson
Ernie (voice)
Cheryl Blaylock
Additional Muppet Performer (voice) (as Cheryl Blalock)
Edward G. Christie
Additional Muppet Performer (voice) (as Ed Christie)
Arabella Hong
The Shopkeeper
Ziu Ping Hua
The Storyteller
Quan She-Zhen
Monkey King
Liu Xio-Shen
Monkey King
Xu Tien-Ed
Monkey King
Fu-Hai Lu
Monkey King
Chi-Lian Wu
Monkey King
Li Jiang
Monkey King
Yi-Ping Chou
Monkey King
Zhang Xin-Tien
Monkey King
Wang Kwan-Wei
Lion Dog
David Liu
Producer
Bao Yi-Ting
Lion Dog
Lu Ja-Lin
The Dancing Phoenix
Katherine Lakoski
The Singing Phoenix (voice)
Jon Stone
Director / Executive Producer / Writer
Victor DiNapoli
Art Direction
Tish Sommers
Associate Producer
Dick Lieb
Original Music Composer / Conductor
Ken Gutstein
Editor
Kuo Bao-Xiang
Producer
Xu Ja-Cha
Producer
David Liu
Producer
Joseph A. Bailey
Writer
Brooks Fountain
Production Supervisor
Ozzie Alfonso
Assistant Director
Larry Jameson
Special Effects
Kermit Love
Special Effects
Susan Moore
Special Effects
Don Sahlin
Special Effects
Debra Spinney
Special Effects
Richard Termine
Special Effects
Caroly Wilcox
Special Effects
Dick Maitland
Sound Effects
Blake Norton
Sound
Bob Schlott
Sound
Ken Hahn
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Sam McLean
Animation
Susan Milano
Post Production Assistant
Peter Chow
Location Coordinator
Margot Breier
Research Assistant
Liu Hui
Translator
Wang Jing-Po
Production Assistant
Zhang Fu-Gang
Production Assistant
Yu Pei-Xia
Production Assistant
Li Zhung
Production Assistant
Shari Roman
Production Assistant
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Big Bird in China is a 1983 television special based on the children's television series Sesame Street produced by Children's Television Workshop and China Central Television. It was originally broadcast on May 29, 1983, on NBC. Big Bird, Barkley and Little Xiao Fu travel through China to find Feng Huang, the Phoenix bird.
The production was released on VHS from Random House Home Video in 1987, and on VHS and DVD from Sony Wonder on February 10, 2004. Although the voice of Telly Monster was Brian Muehl, Martin P. Robinson re-dubbed Telly's lines for the 2004 VHS and DVD releases when Big Bird goes to China. Also, it lacks about a minute of the original production, in which Big Bird is looking for someone who speaks "American", though it can be seen on early VHS releases.
This television special had a sequel known as Big Bird in Japan.