Teddy Trucks
Teddy Trucks is a British children's animated TV series based on the best-selling books by award-winning author and illustrator Michelle Cartlidge. The series was developed in conjunction with BBC Children's Television. The show follows a business company of bears who drive trucks and deliver cargo.
Characters
- Boss Bear – The coordinator of the Teddy Trucks company. He wears a checkered shirt, a red necktie and blue jeans.
- Mrs. Boss Bear – Boss' wife, who usually talks to him on the telephone. She wears a blue flowered dress, a pearl necklace and blue flowered hat.
- Dusty – The Boss' secretary who has to constantly remind him to use the other phone. She wears a yellow flowered dress and blue rims.
- Bella – The driver of the first truck. She wears a red head scarf, a pink shirt and red flowered overalls.
- Wilson – The driver of the second truck. He wears a pink shirt with yellow rims and checkered trousers.
- Jacko – The driver of the third truck. He wears a lilac shirt with pink rims and grey trousers.
- Gerry – The driver of the fourth truck. He wears a blue shirt with red rims and a brown striped trousers, and takes his mischievous dog, Nutley, wherever he goes.
- Rosie – The owner of the café, providing for the drivers during their break time. She wears a pink spotted dress and a yellow apron.
- Governor Bear – Boss Bear's father.
Episodes
Broadcasting
- The series was first broadcast on the BBC in 1994 as part of their children's programming strand Children's BBC and aired from 4 January to 7 April that year. It was later sold to various global markets and aired on several networks in different countries around the world, including ABC TV in Australia from 15 July 1994 to 12 February 1999, and was later shown on cable television on the Australian Fox Kids network, and on SABC 2 dubbed in Afrikaans on e.tv in South Africa.
- Teddy Trucks was also broadcast on satellite television on Sky One and later on TCC.