De Club van Sinterklaas (1999)
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Release DateNovember 1, 1999
StatusEnded
Seasons10
Episodes225
Running Time10m
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De Club van Sinterklaas (English literal title: The Club of Sinterklaas, international title: St. Nicholas & Friends) was a Dutch seasonal children's telenovella between 1999 and 2009 based on the legend of Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet. Since 2010, De club van Sinterklaas continues as a YouTube channel and a film series.
The series attracted mass popularity in the Netherlands during its television running time. Several of the series theme songs charted in the Dutch Single Top 100 and its 2005 and 2006 theme songs even topped the charts. It became the only Sinterklaas-related children's programme to be ever nominated for a Gouden Stuiver, where it lost out to Het Huis Anubis.
In the wake of the zwartepietendiscussie, the original series was disregarded by its right holders RTL Nederland due to the use of black face paint on white actors and the traditional depiction of Zwarte Piet.