Robocar Poli | |
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Some of the characters
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Genre | Animated, children, educational, preschool |
Created by | Lee Dong-woo (RoiVisual) |
Starring | English: Marc Thompson, Rebecca Soler |
Theme music composer | Shin Seung-jun |
Country of origin | South Korea |
Original language(s) | Korean, English (US) |
No. of seasons | 4 (5 and 6 seasons coming soon) |
No. of episodes | 104 per season (list of episodes) |
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Executive producer(s) | Eom Jun-yeong |
Producer(s) | Kim Seon-goo Bak Jeong-min Nam Han-gil Kim Rae-gyeong Park Jung-min |
Running time | 11 minutes per episode |
Production company(s) |
RoiVisual Educational Broadcasting System Hyundai Motors Benex Investment Korea Creative Content Agency |
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Original network | Piwi Plus (France) TV Tokyo (Japan) Educational Broadcasting System (South Korea) ETTV Yoyo (Taiwan) Nickelodeon (United States) Nick Jr. Too (United Kingdom) Nick Jr. (Israel) RTV (Indonesia) |
Picture format | 1080i |
Audio format | Dolby Digital |
Original release | February 28, 2011 | – present
Chronology | |
Related shows |
Super Wings Cars Toons |
External links | |
Website | |
Production website |
Robocar Poli (Hangul: 로보카 폴리; RR: Ro-bo-ka Polli) is a South Korean animated children's television series created by RoiVisual. The series released its first episode on Educational Broadcasting System in 2011, and has aired for four seasons. Robocar Poli currently consists of 104 eleven-minute episodes.
While in production, this series was selected for the section of full-length animation at Global Animation Project 2009 hosted by Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA), under the title of Piyo Piyo Friends.
In the latter half of 2011, the films were exported from South Korea to France. Internationally, the program currently airs on French and Taiwanese channels. It is also scheduled to air in Japan, on TV Tokyo.
On March 12, 2013, Korea Post issued commemorative stamps for the series. As the third installment of the "Korean-Made Characters Series Stamps", Robocar Poli was introduced, following the introduction of Pororo the Little Penguin and Pucca. Two million copies of the stamps were printed for sale (10 copies per set).
In Brooms Town, a small town with a strong rescue team, there are always accidents and troubles such as a car sliding off a cliff in the rain, a car crash, a child locked in a firehouse, and so on. In every episode, the town's rescue team saves characters. At the end of each episode, the rescue team strongly advises the characters who are in danger and children.
Traffic Safety with Poli (Hangul: 폴리와 함께하는 교통안전 이야기; RR: Polli-wa Ham-kke-ha-neun Gyo-tong-an-jeon Yi-ya-gi) is a spin-off of the original series. As part of Hyundai Motors' global corporate social responsibility project with RoiVisual and EBS, the series was produced for educating children on the importance of traffic safety, and has aired for two seasons. The first season of the spin-off was shown as six 11-minute episodes, in each of which two segments were combined into one episode. In Canada The series was Produced By Treehouse TV'