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
Jim Henson
Ernie (voice)
Frank Oz
Bert / Grover / Cookie Monster (voice)
Richard Hunt
Two-Headed Monster (voice)
Jerry Nelson
Two-Headed Monster (voice)
Brian Meehl
Barkley / Telly (voice) (as Brian Muehl)
Lianzi Ouyang
Xiao Foo (as Lien-Tze Quyang)
Cheryl Blaylock
Additional Muppet Performer (voice) (as Cheryl Blalock)
Edward G. Christie
Additional Muppet Performer (voice) (as Ed Christie)
Jon Stone
Director / Executive Producer / Writer
Martin P. Robinson
Telly Monster (voice) / Telly (DVD Version) / Additional Muppet Performer (voice)
Tish Sommers
Associate Producer
Dick Lieb
Original Music Composer
Victor DiNapoli
Art Direction
Ken Gutstein
Editor
Joseph A. Bailey
Writer
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.