BB3B
| BB3B | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Will Brenton, Iain Lauchlan, Mike Gordon |
| Starring | Teresa Gallagher, Stefan Ashton Frank, Gary Martin |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 13 episodes (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 20 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network |
BBC, ABC Rai 2 (Italy) |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Original release | 1 January 2005 |
BB3B was an animated UK children's television series produced by Tell Tale Productions in 2005. The entire series consists of thirteen episodes of twenty minutes each. It is shown on CBBC in the UK and ABC in Australia. It first went on air in 2005. It was voted the best section of Dick and Dom in da Bungalow and Smile by viewers in two separate polls.
It was created by Iain Lauchlan and Will Brenton, who also created and produced Tweenies, Boo!, Fun Song Factory and Jim Jam and Sunny. Original characters created by Mike Gordon at gordonillustration.com
The series centres on the life of twin children, a brother and sister, Lucy and Louie, and their fears about their new baby brother, Billy Bob. BB3B actually stands for Billy Bob Third Baby. The plot generally involves a circumstance where the twins suspect the brother as usual of being an extraterrestrial, and they go on a wild adventure trying to prove it and stop him from launching an invasion. The twins are babysat by Chubba, a teenage boy with a fondness for pizza. Chubba often goes along with the idea of an alien brother, sometimes very seriously, and at one point he cracks and tells the parents of the twins plans to build a time machine. The show is set in the fictional American city of Sunnyfield, which is shown as having a central urban area and outer suburban area, the latter being the home of the family portrayed. The twins' grandmother lives in a trailer in the house's front garden.
Each episode begins with the local postman attempting to deliver a piece of mail to the family mailbox. This ends in him being disfigured or attacked somehow by some strange force within the box – for instance, being turned into a fish. He reappears sometimes later in the episode. The first time he appears is followed by the opening credits.
The series is set in America, where, according to the plot, the father's mother moved from Rochdale. The children's grandmother has affections for the man who lives across the street, Mr. Wienburger, and there is a running gag in that his face is never visible; the viewer seeing either just a silhouette or the back of his head.
The Sprogs (registered trademark owned by Dawn Melvin 2000) are baby-like creatures who emit green foul smelling gas. The series never features a real invasion, though it does go across the threshold of science fiction from reality when the postman appears during the episode and at the end the Sprogs always appear to be coming towards the Earth, however generally the theories of the twins are disproved.
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