Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks

Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks
Title card (Series 1 and 2)
Created by	Mike Young Liz Young
Starring	Peadar Lamb Maile Flanagan Russi Taylor Tara Strong Charles Adler Nika Futterman Melissa Disney Pamela Adlon Mel Brooks Joan Rivers Fernando Escandon
Theme music composer	Harriet Schock
Country of origin	United States United Kingdom Ireland
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	53 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Entara Ltd. Mike Young Productions Crest Communications Limited
Distributor	PBS
Release
Original network	PBS Kids (US) CBeebies (UK)
Original release	September 7, 2003 – January 24, 2007

Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks (or Jakers in Europe) is an American-British-Irish computer-animated children's television series. The series was broadcast in the United States on PBS Kids. It was also broadcast in Australia on ABC Kids.

The show chronicles the boyhood adventures of Piggley Winks, an anthropomorphic pig from Ireland, and how he relates these stories to his grandchildren as a grandfather in the present day.

The word "jakers" was originally a euphemism for "Jesus" in much of Ireland during the 1950s and 1960s, and was an exclamation of surprise, delight, dismay, or alarm. Piggley and his father use it to express their delight when they discover something on their adventures.

Notably, the show contains voice work by both Joan Rivers and Mel Brooks.

Jakers! takes place in two different settings, in two different time periods.

In the present time (the frame story), Piggley Winks lives in the United States of America (or Great Britain, according to different versions) and tells stories of his childhood in a rural area in the south of Ireland to his three grandchildren. In flashback, he is seen as a child, playing with his friends and going to school in rural Ireland in the mid-1950s. Most of the main characters are anthropomorphic animals—including Piggley and his family, who are all pigs. However, there are normal, non-anthropomorphic animals in the show as well.

Piggley Winks lived with his parents Padrig and Elly and his younger sister Molly at Raloo Farm in Ireland during the 1950s. His best friends are Dannan O'Mallard, a duck who lives in a hut by a pond with her rarely seen grandmother, and Fernando Toro, known as Ferny, a young bull who lives with his father, the Spanish blacksmith Don Toro in the village of Tara. His rival is the main antagonist, Hector McBadger.