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A page for the old an young fans of Ti-ta-tovenaar: Tika's page




After more than 3 decades I still meet many grown-ups, telling me how they used to enter fully in the fantasy world of Ti-ta-tovenaar when they were a child. The story of the magician who lived with his daughter in their castle in the air, made a great impression on them. While daddy was taken up with his efforts to change a strawberry - nature berry-  into a camel, the blond daughter tried to find her way in the ordinary-people world. This led her daily into tricky situations from which she had to escape with the magic she'd learned from her father. Such as slapping her hands to freeze everything around her and flying on her broom.




Maroesja Lacunes als Tika met grobbekuikens op de bezem
Maroesja Lacunes as Tika with Grobbechickens.
The costume and wig are exhibited  in
'Beeld en Geluid'  in Hilversum

Maroesja Lacunes als Tika met tovertaart
Maroesja Lacunes asTika with Ti-ta-magic cake.


Ti-ta-tovenaar

was first broadcast in 1972.
Every day at five to seven a 5 minute story.
Till 1975.
Later on Ti-ta-tovenaar was repeatedly broadcast in half hour compilations. By Belgium television and by Tros television.
So the original series run only for two years.
Still, it made an indelible impression on many kids, now grown up.

I thank all fans for the many different, but always enthusiastic words about the series of the past. For compliments that make me blush and moving stories. People in their forties and thirties relive their childhood memories. They describe the reactions of their children and grandchildren, with whom they watch the videotapes and DVD's now.


For me it is great to hear the grown-ups of today explain how they believed  in the fairy-tale when they were kids. I know that  the series was watched by nearly everyone and I played my part with pleasure, always with the young audience on my mind.

But at the time I was not aware of the depth of the impression we made.


Still I know how it works. My great adventure was "Morgen gebeurt het" ("It happens tomorrow").  A radio-  and later television- series in the fifties with Ton Lensink in the main part as professor Plano. We replayed  the journey to the moon in the street with passion.
How could I suspect that 18 years later my hero professor would be my magic father.


However I enjoy the fan mail, however I seriously I intend to answer all, it is without success. Like the magicians efforts to change strawberries into camels. Time does - luckily - not   freeze for me.




So here is my effort to give an answer to the most frequently asked questions, See if yours is one of them.

faq
And then there is a box full of pictures to scramble in.

A list of actors and crew
who regularly or less often played a part. It is certainly not complete.


And one can here a piece of the openings song  in MP3 by clicking on the text to the right. Have fun.


With a slap in her hands

she used to freeze everything and everyone. Clicking her fingers made it all move again. She could fly on a broom, with her magic flute she learned to bring her monkey to her. Every episode she ended with: "dat zien we morgen dan wel weer" ("tomorrow is another day"), repeated by the end of the week by Dad with his deep voice. But it used to begin with:

mijn vader is een tovenaar
Even horen in mp3 ?

Mijn vader is
een tovenaar,
't is echt, 't is heus,
't is raar maar waar,
een Ti-ta-tovenaar,
't is raar, 't is raar, 't is raar
Hij heeft het ook aan mij geleerd, maar soms gaat het
wel eens verkeerd
en gaat het niet
zoals ik wil,
dan doe ik dit......
en alles staat stil

text: Lo Hartog van Banda   music: Joop Stokkermans.
It means something like this:
My father is a magician,
it 's really  truly, weird, but true
a Ti-ta-magician
It's strange, strange, strange
he taught me some magic too
but sometimes I fail
and if it does go my way,
I do this...
and everything stops