Jimbo and the Jet-Set
| Jimbo and the Jet-Set | |
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Jimbo
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| Created by | Peter Maddocks |
| Voices of |
Peter Hawkins Susan Sheridan |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 25 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Maddocks Cartoon Productions |
| Running time | 5 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC One |
| Original release | 6 January 1986 – 6 February 1987 |
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| Related shows | |
Jimbo and the Jet-Set (often shortened to simply Jimbo) is a British animated cartoon series broadcast in the 1980s, featuring the adventures of the eponymous Jimbo, an anthropomorphic aeroplane. Created by Maddocks Cartoon Productions, it originally ran for 25 episodes between 1986 and 1987. The premise of the cartoon is that Jimbo was originally intended to be a Jumbo Jet, but his designer could not tell the difference between inches and centimetres, resulting in his diminutive size.
The television series features various anthropomorphic airport ground vehicles: Tommy Tow-Truck, Claude Catering, Amanda Baggage, Phil the Fuel Truck, Sammy Steps and Harry Helicopter. Other plane characters appear from time to time, such as Old Timer, a Vickers Wellington bomber who gets into the story while flying to or from an airshow; and Gloria, a female counterpart to Jimbo. The story is based at a fictional "London Airport", under the command of an irate controller who frequently ends episodes screaming "I want words with you, Jimbo!"
In 1986, after its debut on the BBC, twelve episodes were released on BBC Video, then reissued by 'Paradox Films' distributed Total Home Entertainment under licence from BBC Worldwide Ltd (Cat. No. THE 20003) in 1995.
In 1999, Castle Home Video released all 25 episodes on two videos but reissued on DVD by Rights Entertainment (distributed by Universal Pictures (UK) Ltd) in 2004 since the VHS versions became out of print in 2002.
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