Who is David Sicherman? Bim Bom

BimBom, the brainchild of Irving J.W. Fishlipz (often known as the Aaron Spelling of Israeli Public Television), came to see the light of day after many years of fruitless campaigning by Fishlipz and Otterbinder Productions to the Israeli Board of Health. After countless dismissals from the board, citing its lack of

connection to the Israeli Broadcasting Commission -- and innumerable health code violations contained within the pilot script alone, Fishlipz and Otterbinder, at the time no more than a small catering concern, took it upon themselves to create a television production company and in doing so inadvertently founded the workhorse now known as Israeli Childrens' Television. The misplaced apostrophe in the company name is due to Fishlipz's near illiteracy. Still, the company in order, Fishlipz and Otterbinder were able to realize their dream of developing and producing children's programming of midrange quality.

The concept was simple. Grab a bunch of Jewish kids from American suburbs, tell them they're going to summer camp, and under heavy supervision put them in indescribable danger day after day for as many years as the world would allow them to do so.

Sicherman came to the cast in its second season (the original first season cast having "gone their own route" in the infamous "Alligator River Log Throw Competition"). "Sicherman was born for this kind of work," Fishlipz said in a recent interview. "If you don't believe me I have the papers from his uncle to prove it." This was not of course young David Sicherman's initial tenure working on the small screen, but it was his first taste of success in the arena, and with success inevitably comes controversy.

"The kids were okay," Sicherman told us, "I guess."

"Okay." Jonathan Brattenberg shared that success in the four seasons he was on the air with Sicherman and parlayed it into what would become a highly successful snake charming business before a shady savings and loan deal left him bankrupt and addicted to painkillers at the age of eleven.

"Okay." Zero Tottenhoof is best remembered for his role as Greeny the Gill in Alex Van Truth's Broadway production of This Is The Best I Can Do, but his star was on the rise long before that, thanks to his performance in Bim Bom #206 Sharks!!. It is thought that his early success may have created some of the original tension on the set.

"Okay." Benjamin Grossliver would appear along side young Sicherman in Ebony ShowerRoom, thought to be the breakout vehicle for both of them.

"I don't know, I just thought those kids were a bunch of punks," Sicherman says. "Maybe it's just me."