Theo Uittenbogaard

{{short description|Dutch radio & TV-producer}}

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Theo Uittenbogaard (born Amstelveen, Nieuwer-Amstel, Netherlands, 1946 – 22 April 2022{{Cite web |last=de Goede |first=Anton |date=2022-04-26 |title=In Memoriam: Theo Uittenbogaard |url=https://www.vpro.nl/lees/nieuws-vpro/2022/in-memoriam-theo-uittenbogaard-pom-pom-pe-pom.html |access-date=2025-01-04 |website=VPRO |language=nl}}) was a Dutch radio and television producer who worked for almost all nationwide public networks in the Netherlands from 1965.

==Career==

Uittenbogaard's training was on-the-job, since no school or academy geared to that profession existed in the Netherlands at that time. He started as a 19-year-old apprentice reporter for a daily radio news-show and he made radio documentaries and variety shows. In 1969, he was invited to contribute to a television magazine, which portrayed interesting ordinary people. He remained working for television over the next decades for a wide variety of shows, as a director, as a contributor, as an editor, as an executive-producer alternately. He created the game show Één van de acht ("One of the Eight"), which became the basis for the BBC game show The Generation Game.

Uittenbogaard traveled the world from Siberia{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apbN2qypLM8&list=PL3tFrp-3cLmoZ6ouuMrx7kpeVIwIP1oi6|title=GOLD - lost in Siberia / GOUD - vergeten in Siberië / ЗОЛОТО/БОЛЬ - потеряно в Сибири (1994)|date=22 November 2018 |accessdate=May 12, 2023|via=www.youtube.com}} to the Marshall Islands{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sLq85o_wgg|title=THE END OF THE WORLD / HET EINDE VAN DE WERELD Marshall Islands (1995)|date=2 December 2017 |accessdate=May 12, 2023|via=www.youtube.com}} to report, from Panama{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm2rbOxm3cw|title=THE TREATY / HET VERDRAG The Panama Canal Treaty (1976)|date=20 November 2018 |accessdate=May 12, 2023|via=www.youtube.com}} and Morocco{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFW4rq3flew&list=PL3tFrp-3cLmq6OdBCkXkIOl_ll-GtgjTg|title=De Toestand in Marokko -1- Chefchaouen (1997)|date=9 December 2017 |accessdate=May 12, 2023|via=www.youtube.com}} to just around the corner.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZrIUdY7kVM|title=HOLLAND -3- Tegen de waterwolf / Fighting the Waterwolf (2003)|date=5 February 2018 |accessdate=May 12, 2023|via=www.youtube.com}} He did shows and documentaries on countries, people, history, politics, dance and music.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSXJ2eY1XVw|title=The BEST of CLAXON-FESTIVAL (VPRO/1984) -improvised and avant-garde music-|date=19 November 2018 |accessdate=May 12, 2023|via=www.youtube.com}} In 1984, he directed for VPRO-tv an iconic concerto by Ástor Piazzolla,{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuy51H55Fns&list=PL3tFrp-3cLmp6PyYyP9_bjkwpVV527IMq|title=ASTOR PIAZZOLLA y su Quinteto Tango Nuevo -live in Utrecht (1984)|date=8 November 2017 |accessdate=May 12, 2023|via=www.youtube.com}} the renowned bandoneon-player from Argentina. He did a documentary on Boat People from Vietnam.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfTXQ0JHFSc|title=Boatpeople 1979 -Viet Nam / Vung Tau - ?Bootvluchtelingen 1979 / (VPRO/2004)|date=5 February 2018 |accessdate=May 12, 2023|via=www.youtube.com}} He made a 16-episodes series on Dutch language.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2MjcvObQwI|title=Politiek Correct (1994)|date=21 January 2019 |accessdate=May 12, 2023|via=www.youtube.com}} He wrote a comedy on housekeeping{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4VbrzI8Mk8|title=HOEKSTEEN & GROENSTROOK -1- PIEPSCHUIM (1993)|date=19 November 2018 |accessdate=May 12, 2023|via=www.youtube.com}} and about 250 more productions. He retired in 2013, after a 50 year career in media.