Jungle Junction
American-British children's animated television series
Jungle Junction is a kids' television series created by Trevor Ricketts. The show started as part of its Playhouse Disney block. The show 1st aired on October 5, 2009 on Disney Junior in the United States. The show centers around animal-vehicles on their very awesome, important, brilliant, cool, amazing and wonderful adventures.
| Jungle Junction | |
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| Genre | Adventure Educational Comedy Musical |
| Created by | Trevor Ricketts |
| Written by | Laura Beaumont Paul Larson |
| Directed by | Morgan Francis |
| Voices of | Billy West Janet James Keith Wickham Jess Harnell Laraine Newman Dee Bradley Baker Jimmy Hibbert Amanda Symonds Ron Orbach |
| Opening theme | "Deep Inside the Jungle" written and performed by Peter Lurye |
| Ending theme | "Deep Inside the Jungle" (Instrumental) |
| Composer | Mark Blackledge |
| Country of origin | United States United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 60 |
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| Production locations | Penzance, Cornwall |
| Editor | Mark Edwards |
| Production company | Spider Eye Productions |
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| Network | Disney Junior (2009-2012) Discovery Kids (United Kingdom) |
| Release | October 5, 2009 – October 26, 2012 |
The show's broadcast on Disney Junior in the United States and in the Netherlands. It is also broadcast in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and in most of Asia. It was made in the UK by animation company Spider Eye Productions.
Characters
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change- Zooter (voiced by Janet James) is a pink pig scooter. She speaks with a British accent. She's the jungle messenger. She also says the title of every episode. She zooms so fast.
- Ellyvan (voiced by Billy West) is a blue elephant van. He brings the deliveries around the jungle. He's the biggest animal in the jungle. He's Zooter's best friend. He's able to suck large amounts of liquids up his trunk and spray them distances of up to half a mile or more. He speaks with an American accent. He's Evelyn's love interest.
- Bungo (voiced by Keith Wickham) is a golden yellow bunny cargo with brown ears. He can make signs or put them all over the jungle. He's good at geography. He knows the jungle better than anyone else. He is also the only vehicle that is good at jumping. Bungo can jump many times his height into the air. Bungo is a bunny, but he has a long raccoon tail. At the beginning of every episode, he carries a sign with the title of the episode. During the credits at the end of every episode in Season 1, he zooms up with signs or asks the viewers for help finding the right sign. He also speaks with a British accent. He always has tried to be saying "Oh, carrot sticks!".
Other websites
change- Jungle Junction Official Site[dead link]
- Jungle Junction Archived 2009-09-24 at the Wayback Machine at Disney.co.uk
- Junction[dead link] at Disney.es
- "Jungle Junction" at the Internet Movie Database