A nice little retrospective that aired about two months after Frans van Dusschoten passed on, over the Christmas holidays. Best known as André van Duin's straight man, Frans finally got top billing, even though he still had to share it with André.
The show starts with a segment of the NOS Journaal aired the day after Van Dusschoten's death, an item containing several errors, which are dutifully corrected over the course of the program. First of all, newscaster Philip Freriks, already famous for flubbing his lines, mistakingly calls Frans' main voice-character from the long running and well remembered children's show "De Fabeltjeskrant" 'Meneer Den Uil' instead of 'Meneer de Uil'. Even more indirectly, the news team claimed Van Dusschoten did not start his career on stage/on camera before joining up with Van Duin in the mid seventies. Actually, Frans was performing on stage and television as a comic, impressionist and singer as early as 1951 and had his own Revue until Joop van den Ende, probably Holland's biggest and best known producer, decided to team him up with young Van Duin, then best known for pulling faces to a collection of music and sounds played back from a tape recorder.
Within a year, Van Duin's name became the most prominent on the marquee, but it was the more seasoned Van Dusschoten who taught André how to act and behave in front of a live audience, (if not how to use his real voice). Van den Ende had found a golden couple that lasted until Frans' retirement in 1993. Only once during their many years together did Van Dusschoten tire of being second banana, and tried to put together his own variety show. Frans also kept himself busy providing voice overs for children's programs as "Paulus de Boskabouter", and the Dutch versions of "The Smurfs" (De Smurfen) and "Fraggle Rock" (De Freggels). Another character of his from "De Fabeltjeskrant", 'Ed Bever' even scored a number two position in the hit parade in 1972. All of these times are fondly remembered by André, Joop and leading ladies Corry van Gorp and Simone Kleinsma, and are accompanied by assorted clips of his work (focusing mainly on the André van Duin Revues, naturally).
On a side note, this tribute was one final chance for Tros Television to look back on the seventies and eighties, when they still had the sole rights to broadcast Van Duin's comedy shows. During the early nineties, André followed Joop van den Ende and his production partner John de Mol to the commercial channel RTL4, and in august of 2005, when De Mol began broadcasting his own channel "Talpa", the rights of all of Van Duin's work automatically went with him. Less than a week after this show aired, Talpa debuted a very similar 'I love the seventies' type program, "Typish Van Duin", in which André was joined by colleagues and admirers in looking back on his forty year career in television and stage (naturally including lots of stuff with Frans van Dusschoten).
8 out of 10
The show starts with a segment of the NOS Journaal aired the day after Van Dusschoten's death, an item containing several errors, which are dutifully corrected over the course of the program. First of all, newscaster Philip Freriks, already famous for flubbing his lines, mistakingly calls Frans' main voice-character from the long running and well remembered children's show "De Fabeltjeskrant" 'Meneer Den Uil' instead of 'Meneer de Uil'. Even more indirectly, the news team claimed Van Dusschoten did not start his career on stage/on camera before joining up with Van Duin in the mid seventies. Actually, Frans was performing on stage and television as a comic, impressionist and singer as early as 1951 and had his own Revue until Joop van den Ende, probably Holland's biggest and best known producer, decided to team him up with young Van Duin, then best known for pulling faces to a collection of music and sounds played back from a tape recorder.
Within a year, Van Duin's name became the most prominent on the marquee, but it was the more seasoned Van Dusschoten who taught André how to act and behave in front of a live audience, (if not how to use his real voice). Van den Ende had found a golden couple that lasted until Frans' retirement in 1993. Only once during their many years together did Van Dusschoten tire of being second banana, and tried to put together his own variety show. Frans also kept himself busy providing voice overs for children's programs as "Paulus de Boskabouter", and the Dutch versions of "The Smurfs" (De Smurfen) and "Fraggle Rock" (De Freggels). Another character of his from "De Fabeltjeskrant", 'Ed Bever' even scored a number two position in the hit parade in 1972. All of these times are fondly remembered by André, Joop and leading ladies Corry van Gorp and Simone Kleinsma, and are accompanied by assorted clips of his work (focusing mainly on the André van Duin Revues, naturally).
On a side note, this tribute was one final chance for Tros Television to look back on the seventies and eighties, when they still had the sole rights to broadcast Van Duin's comedy shows. During the early nineties, André followed Joop van den Ende and his production partner John de Mol to the commercial channel RTL4, and in august of 2005, when De Mol began broadcasting his own channel "Talpa", the rights of all of Van Duin's work automatically went with him. Less than a week after this show aired, Talpa debuted a very similar 'I love the seventies' type program, "Typish Van Duin", in which André was joined by colleagues and admirers in looking back on his forty year career in television and stage (naturally including lots of stuff with Frans van Dusschoten).
8 out of 10