| Genre: | Children's television series Educational |
| Director: | Laurenti M. Dyogi[1] [2] |
| Starring: | see cast |
| Theme Music Composer: | Idonnah C. Lopez |
| Opentheme: | "ATBP Theme Song" by Justine de Jesus, Jeanneth Peralta, Herchel Baliwas and Celso Portentado |
| Composer: | Idonnah C. Lopez |
| Country: | Philippines |
| Language: | Filipino |
| Executive Producer: | Gilbert G. Perez |
| Animator: | Joy Cosme Camille de Leon |
| Editor: | Carmelo Espiritu Gilbert Perez Maribel Trumata Boloy Malapira |
| Runtime: | 30 minutes |
| Company: | ABS-CBN Production |
| Network: | ABS-CBN |
ATBP: Awit, Titik at Bilang na Pambata is a Philippine educational children's television series that was aired on ABS-CBN from June 5, 1994 to March 29, 1998.
Dubbed as the "Filipino Sesame Street", the show aims to help and teach Filipino children love and values in their native language.
In the show's first year, the opening animated sequence begins with a seven-note tune before the egg hatches into a bird on the tree where the kids playing hide-and-seek before the theme song plays, the kids running with the cat and the dog to see the castle made of building blocks seeing the show title. Animated characters Pito, Mr. Sulat and Maestro are also appearing in the first OBB; the theme song ended with the line "Awit, titik, bilang at iba pa" two times before the chant "At iba pa!" to reveal the show title which is like the song liners in music sheets. Later in 1995 coinciding the reformat of the show, the theme song was later orchestrated with a newer animated OBB sequence featuring the animated versions of its puppets, Pipo, Tingting, Bebong, Kapitan Bilang, Donya Kilatis and Smokey and the Boondocks. Animated characters Pito, Mr. Sulat and Maestro from the first OBB returned for the new billboard. The billboard ends with the line "Awit, titik, bilang at iba pa" two times (from the first OBB); but with adding a newer line "Awit, Titik, Bilang...." before the chant "At iba pa!" and a CGI blocks to reveal the show title.
Following the playing of "Alphabetong Filipino" song, they tell the letter featured on the program (Example: Letter A); some episodes may also appearing with puppets like Donya Kilatis or animated characters like Mr. Sulat wanted to write the letter featured.
The Letter of the Day portion had preceded on the show with the singing of the song Alphabetong Filipino; which is sung by the puppets or cast members, sometimes, celebrity guests may also appear in singing the song on some occasional episodes.
The show also including the Number of the Day portion of which what number is featured (Example: Number 8); some episodes may include the Number of the Day in the "Kaptian Bilang" segments; as well as the singing the featured number performed by the puppet band Ook Band. The segments where preceded on the show with singing of the "Awit ng Bilang".
The Number segment appears with the singing of the "Awit ng Bilang" performed by the kids, the puppets, cast members or celebrity guests. There are two different lines in the song; Numbers 1-10 includes the line "Bililang ba Ninyo, Sige na, Ulit-Ulitin Nyo!" (lit. "Do You Remember, Come on, Repeat Again!") and Numbers 1-15 or 1-20 may included the line "Magbilang mula sa umpisa, Sige na, Ulit-Ulitin Pa!" (lit. "Count from the beginning, Go on, Repeat Again!").
Smokey and the Boondocks, the fictional puppet pop music group of the show, sings their different topics related to every episode. Most songs appears with voiceover opening line "(song name) aawitin sa inyo ng Smokey and the Boondocks!" (lit. "(song name) proudly perform by Smokey and the Boondocks!").
The show was aired on weekdays from 1994 onwards. But in 1997, it was moved to Sunday morning. It also expanded to 1 hour with its reformat as a weekly children's program. As of 2020, the show was aired re-run on A2Z.
| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 9th PMPC Star Awards for Television | Best Children Show | Cast and Crew | |
| Best Children Show Host | Isay Alvarez | |||
| 1996 | 10th PMPC Star Awards for Television | Best Children Show | Cast and Crew | |