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The Numtums

The Numtums
Genre Toddlers, Pre-school
Created by Barry Quinn
Written by Katie Simmons
Directed by Steve Smith, Mark Taylor
Voices of Simon Greenall, Kate Fleetwood.
Opening theme Theme Tune
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 3
No. of episodes 77 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Tony Reed
Producer(s) Lotte Elwell, Katherine McQueen
Running time 5 minutes (2012) 11 minutes (2014)
Production company(s) Beakus (series 1) A Productions (series 2)
Release
Original network CBeebies
Original release 27 February 2012 (2012-02-27) – 16 December 2014 (2014-12-16)
External links
Website

The Numtums is a children's television show about a group of ten small creatures called Numtums, each with a number from one to ten on their tummy. BBC, ZDF, France Télévisions and TF1 aired in 2013-2015, and is designed as an interactive programme to help a young audience learn about numbers.

The first series was a simple introduction to numbers for toddlers, second and subsequent series are story-based and aimed at older children.

The first series was animated by Beakus, a London animation studio set up in 2010 and run by the programme director Steve Smith. This series was aimed at toddlers.

A second CG animated series was created for CBeebies by Bristol-based A Productions in 2014. This version was aimed at older children and is notable for giving the characters names and voices.

For the second series, producer Barry Quinn chose to use an Australian theme: the Numtums are based on numbats (hence the Numtums' fondness for eating termites), and alongside Super Numtum, side characters include Billy, a 'rock and roll' echidna, Larry, a lyrebird, Fluffy McTuffy, Super Numtum's new enemy and a koala with plans for world domination along with Frilly Lizzy, her new sidekick and a smart, timid, silent and somewhat stoic frilled lizard and Dennis, Finley and Trixie, their other sidekicks and three small rubber ducks. The Numtum characters' names are based on Australian place names. Along with Super Numtum now getting his own show, while Gladdy (4), Flinders (6), Hobart (9) and Nimbin (10) are the four oldest numtums, Bendy Go (1), Dar Dar (2), Champer (3), Humpty Do (7), Little Sandy (5) and Coogee (8) are the six youngest Numtums, known as the Numpups. They eat Termite Treats in their café the Tasty Termite and live in Gumnut Gorge. Even though they come from Australia, each of the characters, except Gladdy, Little Sandy, Hobart, Nimbin, Super Numtum, Frilly Lizzy, Dennis, Finley, Trixie and Larry all are particularly British.

The Numtums' names and numbers are:

Note: Episodes 21-25 are compilations with scenes from previous episodes.


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