Jay Jay the Jet Plane
| Jay Jay the Jet Plane | |
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| Also known as | Jay Jay (for short) |
| Genre | Children's television series |
| Created by | David Michel Deborah Michel |
| Written by |
John Semper Eleanor Burian-Mohr |
| Voices of |
Mary Kay Bergman Gina Ribisi Chuck Morgan Marie Danielle Dee Dee Green Julie Renick C.W. Walken Donna Cherry Ashley Alvarez Whittaker Michael Donovan |
| Theme music composer | Parachute Express |
| Composer(s) | Stephen Michael Schwartz |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 60 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | David Michel |
| Producer(s) | David Michel |
| Location(s) | Tarrytown Airport in Tarrytown |
| Production company(s) |
PorchLight Entertainment Modern Cartoons Wonderwings.com Entertainment Knightscove Family Films |
| Distributor |
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Tommy Nelson |
| Release | |
| Original network |
The Learning Channel (USA; 1998–2001) PBS Kids (USA; 2001–05) |
| Original release | November 2, 1998 – November 25, 2005 |
| External links | |
| Production website | |
Jay Jay the Jet Plane is an American children's television series based at the fictional Tarrytown Airport. It has 73 episodes. The series is centered on a group of aircraft who live in the fictional city of Tarrytown. The episodes are commonly distributed in 25-minute-long (as without commercials) pairs, with one header sequence and one end credits for each pair. Each episode contains one or more songs.
The theme song and the majority of the other songs were written by well-known children's singer/songwriter Stephen Michael Schwartz and sung by his popular musical group, Parachute Express. Created by David and Deborah Michel, the series is intended to be educational and to teach life and moral lessons to children (and sometimes also to parents).
In 1994, a short live-action series was produced at AMS Production Company in Dallas, Texas, with real model plane characters and animated crafted human characters; they did not talk but had the same personalities as in the later series. This original series was narrated similarly to the first eleven seasons of Thomas and Friends or Theodore Tugboat. It contained three videos: Jay Jay's First Flight, Old Oscar Leads the Parade and Tracy's Handy Hideout. These three episodes were known as the "pilot series".
On November 2, 1998, the CGI/live-action series premiered on The Learning Channel. Debi Derryberry took on the role of Jay Jay after Bergman's death in 1999 with no new characters voiced by her. The Learning Channel removed the series in March 2000. On June 11, 2001, all episodes began broadcasting on PBS Kids; the end credits have changed and additional episodes were created in 2001 and 2005. Home video editions were released by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment through 2003 as part of their "Columbia TriStar Family Fun" collection. Additional distribution was added with Tommy Nelson, the children's division of book publisher Thomas Nelson, although the series is not overtly "Christian". Voice actress Mary Kay Bergman provided the original voice of Jay Jay and several other characters. After her death, Debi Derryberry replaced her.
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