Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto!

Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto! is an animated children's television series, produced by Collingwood O'Hare Productions Limited for HIT Entertainment and currently distributed by Foothill Entertainment, which aired from 6 January 2003 until 29 August 2005 on CITV, and then aired on CBeebies from 6 January 2003 to 13 October 2006 and again from 26 January 2009 to 2 June 2013.[1]

Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto!
Yoko Jakamoko Toto
GenreChildren's TV series
Created byTony Collingwood
Written byJimmy Hibbert
Trevor Rickets
Tony Collingwood
Moya O'Shea
James Mason
Chris Drew
Directed byTony Collingwood
Andrea O'Tran
Voices ofAlex Kelly
Rob Rackstraw
Alistair McGowan
Gary Martin
Maria Darling
Colin McFarlane
Alan Marriott
Kate Harbour
Moya O'Shea
Theme music composerRoger Jackson
ComposerRoger Jackson
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languagesEnglish
None
No. of series2
No. of episodes56
Production
ProducerChristopher O'Hare
EditorFred Ziecker
Running time5 minutes per episode (approx.)
Production companiesCollingwood O'Hare Productions Limited
HIT Entertainment
Release
Original networkITV (CITV)
CBeebies
Original release2 June 2003 (2003-06-02) –
29 August 2005 (2005-08-29)

Plot

The television series is about a bird-of-paradise, an armadillo, and a spider monkey who live and go on adventures in the wilderness where they all live and can only communicate by saying each other's names.

Broadcast

An animated short film from the series made its American debut on 2 June 2003 as part of the New York International Children's Film Festival.

The show has aired on ABC in Australia (as well as its digital networks ABC Kids and ABC 2) from 24 February 2003 to 27 November 2006, TVOKids in Canada, Kids Central in Singapore, ATV in Hong Kong, e-Junior in the U.A.E., TBS in Japan, MiniMini in Poland, Super3 in Spain, Canal Once in Mexico, Super RTL in Germany, Pakapaka in Argentina, ETTV in Taiwan, SVT in Sweden, NRK1 in Norway, RTP2 in Portugal, Piwi in France and Cartoon Network (in the former Tickle-U block) in the US. Unlike most animated series, when the show was sold to several countries that don't speak English and have English as their first language it was never dubbed or translated into different languages or redubbed with a different range of voices as the characters in the show only had limited dialogue and can only communicate by saying anybody's names making all the voices retained and left alone.

Development

While the series was in production, the distribution was done by Gullane Entertainment (formally known as The Britt Allcroft Company, the company that made Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends) up until July 2002, when the company was bought by HIT Entertainment.

Awards

Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto! has won numerous industry awards including Best Pilot at the Annecy International Festival of Animation, Best Writer at the British Animation Awards and two British Academy Children's Awards, including Best Writer and Best Pre-School Animation.

UK Voice Cast

Episode listing

56 5-minute-long episodes were produced. Every episode title starts with "The", much like The Amazing World of Gumball, Wander Over Yonder, and Igloo Gloo.

Season 1 (2003-2005)
  • 1. The Special Thing/The Scary Monster/The Water-Hole/The Patient
  • 2. The Whale/The Night/The Shell/The Very Sticky Thing
  • 3. The Fly/The Egg/The Blip/The Visit
  • 4. The Naughty Noise/The New Best Friend/The Girlfriend/The Cave
  • 5. The Other Side/The Longest Day/The Lesson/The Song
  • 6. The Meal/The Windy Day/The Hiccups/The Copycat
  • 7. The New King/The Other Monkey/The Nightmare/The Oyster
  • 8. The Smell/The Babysitters/The Seeds/The Traveller
  • 9. The Hole/The Rival/The Island/The Voice
  • 10. The Beetle/The Coconut/The Puzzle/The Late Night
  • 11. The Sand/The Leaf/The Dreamers/The Migration
  • 12. The Tallest/The Snow/The Log/The Contest
  • 13. The Meerkats/The Mango/The Bad Word/The In-Crowd
  • 14. The Butterfly/The Dance/The Chicken/The Show

References
  1. "CBeebies Acquires Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto!".
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