Jungle Junction

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Jungle Junction
Jungle Junction Logo.jpg
GenreChildren's Adventure
Educational
Comedy
Preschool
Music
Created byTrevor Ricketts
Written byCraig Carlisle
Dan Chambers
Gillian Corderoy
Jill Cozza-Turner
Stan Cullimore
Paul Dawson
Carin Greenberg
Samantha Hill
Mark Holloway
Bridget Hurst
Paul Larson
eaura Beaumont
James Mason
Allan Neuwirth
Trevor Ricketts
Claudia Silver
P. Kevin Strader
Andy Yerkes
Directed byMorgan Francis
Voices ofBilly West
Janet James
Keith Wickham
Jess Harnell
Laraine Newman
Dee Bradley Baker
Jimmy Hibbert
Amanda Symonds
Ron Orbach
Lauren Tom
Tom Kenny
Utkarsh Ambudkar
Narrated byJanet James
Opening theme"Deep inside the Jungle" written and performed by Peter Lurye
Ending theme"Deep inside the Jungle" (Instrumental)
ComposerMark Blackledge
Country of originUnited States
United Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series2
No. of episodes47 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producerErica Darby
Production locationsPenzance, Cornwall
EditorMark Edwards
Production companySpider Eye Productions
DistributorDisney-ABC Domestic Television
Release
Original networkPlayhouse Disney (2009–11)
Disney Junior (2011–13)
First shown inSpain
Original release5 October 2009 (2009-10-05) –
2 November 2013 (2013-11-02)
External links
Official website
Production website

Jungle Junction is a CGI interactive computer-animated children's television series created by Trevor Ricketts. In the United States, it was originally part of the Playhouse Disney daily block intended for preschoolers. On 14 February 2011, it was moved to the Disney Junior block, serving as Playhouse Disney's replacement. A second season of 27 episodes was ordered by Disney, and premiered on 2 April 2011.[1] A total of 47 episodes were produced.[2]

It aired on Disney Junior in the United States and in the Netherlands, as well as in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and in most of Asia. It was produced in the UK by animation company Spider Eye Productions.

Episodes[]

Main article: List of Jungle Junction episodes
SeasonEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast aired
PilotMarch 31, 2008 (2008-03-31)
120October 5, 2009 (2009-10-05)February 14, 2011 (2011-02-14)
227April 4, 2011 (2011-04-04)October 26, 2012 (2012-10-26)

Christmas special[]

A Christmas special called "The Night Before Zipsmas" aired 5 December 2009 showing the wheelers getting ready for Christmas and trying to get to read the book "The Night Before Zipsmas". The other Christmas special was called "A Gift for Zooter" and aired the same day. It shows Ellyvan trying to find a gift for Zooter.

Characters[]

Main[]

  • Zooter (voiced by Janet James) – A pink pig who is the jungle messenger. She is very fast and is Ellyvan’s best friend. Zooter has a British accent.
  • Ellyvan (voiced by Billy West) – A blue elephant van who carries deliveries around the jungle. He is Zooter's best friend. Ellyvan has an American accent. He is able to suck improbable quantities of liquids up his trunk and spray them with distances of up to half a mile or more.
  • Bungo (voiced by Keith Wickham) – A yellow rabbit with a raccoon tail who loves to make signs and put them all over the jungle. He is also the only wheeler that is good at jumping, being able to leap many times his own height into the air. His catchphrase is "Oh, carrot sticks!" Like Zooter, Bungo speaks with a British accent.

Supporting[]

  • Taxicrab (voiced by Jess Harnell) – A red crab who loves to dance and make smoothies. He is the only wheeler that is able to drive sideways.
  • Carla (voiced by Laraine Newman) – An orange koala who owns a grocery shop. She mostly speaks with an American southern accent. Carla is seen in season 1. However, she never appears in any Season 2 episodes for an unknown reason. It might be because she moved out of Jungle Junction and she’s never mentioned in any of the episodes in Season 2.
  • Crocker (voiced by Keith Wickham) – A green crocodile fire chief who works at a fire station. He speaks with a lisp because of his teeth.
  • Miss Jolly (voiced by Amanda Symonds) – A zebra school teacher who wears glasses. She is the Beetlebugs’ teacher.
  • The Beetlebugs are cute little bugs. They are Wheelers whose speeches are mostly synchronized. Their names are Vertie, Rosie, Goldie, Nicky, and Greg. Greg, Vertie, and Nicky are male while Goldie and Rosie are female. It is currently unknown who voices them. Sometimes they speak with words, and sometimes they chatter.
  • Hippobus (voiced by Amanda Symonds) – A yellow hippopotamus school bus who carries the Beetlebugs to school.
  • Lance (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker) – A purple rhinoceros ambulance. He works in a hospital in a treehouse.
  • Bobby (voiced by Jimmy Hibbert) – A blue toucan police chief. He is the only wheeler who can fly.
  • Dozer (voiced by Keith Wickham) – An ox construction worker. His talent is digging and repairing roads with his dozer blade. He is the only one to have different wheels than all the others.
  • Toadhog (voiced by Ron Orbach) – A grumpy but friendly green toad who likes worms and flies. His water wheel powers the generator for all of the lights (including the traffic lights) and he has a supplementary generator that is used to power the Zipsmas lights.

Broadcast[]

The series aired in the United Kingdom, Ireland, United States, Portugal, Latin America, Spain, Sri Lanka, Canada, Poland, The Netherlands, Japan, Turkey and Russia.[citation needed]

References[]

  1. ^ "Disney Channel Orders Second Season of 'Jungle Junction'". Disnology. 31 March 2010. Archived from the original on 4 April 2010. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  2. ^ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 158. ISBN 9781476672939.

External links[]

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Special Agent Oso 		Playhouse Disney Shows
2009 		Succeeded by
Where Is Warehouse Mouse?
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