Junglies
Junglies | |
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Genre | Cartoon series Children's Comedy |
Written by | Bernie Kay |
Directed by | Terry Ward |
Starring | Gary Wilmot Jessica Martin |
Voices of | Gary Wilmot Jessica Martin |
Narrated by | Gary Wilmot |
Opening theme | "We're the Junglies" |
Ending theme | "We're the Junglies" (Reprise) |
Composer | Mark London |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 13 |
Production | |
Producer | Terry Ward |
Editor | Morgan Daniels Ltd |
Camera setup | FilmFex Services |
Running time | 5 minutes per episode (approx.) |
Production company | Flicks Films Ltd |
Release | |
Original network | TV-am (UK) |
Original release | 1991 1992 | –
The Junglies is a short-lived British animated series by Terry Ward, lasting from 1991 to 1992 on TV-am.
Overview[]
The series is set on the fictitious Junglie Island, an island somewhere near Africa.[1] Each episode follows the adventures of several anthropomorphised animals called the Junglies, all of whom are portrayed as young children.[1]
A total of 13 episodes were made, and aired between 1991 and 1992 exclusively in the United Kingdom, some of which were released straight-to-video.[2] The series has never been released on DVD, although one episode, "Flying South", was featured on the VHS and DVD versions of A Day Full of Animals and Songs.
Characters[]
Like Nellie the Elephant, another series by Ward, all the characters were only voiced by two actors, in this cast, all voices were provided by Gary Wilmot and Jessica Martin.
- Tyrone - An orange, energetic and mischievous tiger who is the leader of the Junglies.
- Marvin - A red, mischievous and cheeky monkey.
- Geraldine - An orange bucktoothed giraffe who loves butterflies.
- Lester - An orange and brown outspoken lion.
- Penny - A red parrot who speaks with a Scouse accent.
- Sebastian - A green snake who speaks with a lisp.
- Henrietta - A blue hippopotamus. Her mother is a school teacher.
- Ethel - An elephant.
- Zoe - A zebra who speaks with a French accent.
- Albert - A green alligator who lives in a houseboat.
- Graham - A gorilla who only appears in the last episode.
- The Sun - An unnamed, anthropomorphised sun. He is not always seen, has hands and arms and a face like vertebrate animals, and wakes up (and goes to sleep) at the beginning and middle of various episodes.
- The Moon - A real, voiceless moon. The moon is not always seen, but it appears every night of the year on Junglie Island, even Christmas Day.
- Firefly - A minor character on Junglies who appears every night of the year on Junglie Island. She is seen in the episodes "Say Cheese Everyone" and "A Journey To The Moon".
Episodes[]
- 1. "First Day at School"
- 2. "Hide And Seek"
- 3. "Penny's Little Brother"
- 4. "Echo Valley"
- 5. "Albert's Tooth"
- 6. "Journey To The Moon"
- 7. "Where's Zoe"
- 8. "Say Cheese Everyone"
- 9. "Heavy, Heavy, Heavy"
- 10. "Down the River"
- 11. "Flying South"
- 12. "The Great Storm"
- 13. "A Very Big Monkey"
Australian VHS releases[]
- Roadshow Entertainment (1998)
VHS Title | Release Date | Episodes |
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Junglies - First Day at School (101368) | 4 November 1991 | First Day at School, Penny's Little Brother, Albert's Tooth, Where's Zoe, Heavy, Heavy, Heavy and Flying South |
Junglies - Hide and Seek (101372) | 3 August 1992 | Hide and Seek, Down the River, Say Cheese Everyone!, Echo Valley, The Great Storm and Journey to the Moon |
See also[]
- Nellie the Elephant - Another programme with similar animation designs, also by Ward
References[]
- ^ a b Toonhound - Junglies
- ^ "BabyFirstTV". Archived from the original on 25 February 2008. Retrieved 29 March 2008.
External links[]
- Junglies at IMDb
- Junglies at the Big Cartoon DataBase
- 1991 British television series debuts
- 1992 British television series endings
- 1990s British animated television series
- 1990s British children's television series
- British children's animated comedy television series
- English-language television shows