Jungle Junction

Jungle Junction is an American-British CGI interactive computer-animated children's television series created by Trevor Ricketts. In the United States, it was originally part of the Playhouse Disney daily block intended for preschoolers. On February 14, 2011, it was moved to the Disney Junior block, serving as Playhouse Disney's replacement. A second season of 27 episodes was ordered by Disney, and premiered on April 2, 2011.[1] A total of 47 episodes were produced.[2]

Jungle Junction
Genre	Children's Adventure Educational Comedy Preschool Music
Created by	Trevor Ricketts
Written by	Craig Carlisle Dan Chambers Gillian Corderoy Jill Cozza-Turner Stan Cullimore Paul Dawson Carin Greenberg Samantha Hill Mark Holloway Bridget Hurst Paul Larson Laura Beaumont James Mason Allan Neuwirth Trevor Ricketts Claudia Silver P. Kevin Strader Andy Yerkes
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
Narrated by	Janet James
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	2
No. of episodes	47 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Erica Darby
Production locations	Penzance, Cornwall
Editor	Mark Edwards
Production company	Spider Eye Productions
Distributor	Disney-ABC Domestic Television
Release
Original network	Playhouse Disney (2009–11) Disney Junior (2011–12)
First shown in	Spain, September 26, 2009
Original release	October 5, 2009 – October 26, 2012
External links
Official website
Production website

It aired on Disney Junior in the United States and in the Netherlands, as well as in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and in most of Asia. It was produced in the UK by animation company Spider Eye Productions.

Episodes

Season		Episodes		Originally aired
				First aired	Last aired
	1	20		October 5, 2009	February 14, 2011
	2	27		April 4, 2011	October 26, 2012

Christmas special

A Christmas special called "The Night Before Zipsmas" aired 5 December 2009 showing the wheelers getting ready for Christmas and trying to get to read the book "The Night Before Zipsmas". The other Christmas special was called "A Gift for Zooter" and aired the same day. It shows Ellyvan trying to find a gift for Zooter.

Characters

Main

• Ellyvan (voiced by Billy West) – A blue elephant van who carries deliveries around the jungle. He is Zooter's best friend. He is able to suck improbable quantities of liquids up his trunk and spray them distances of up to half a mile or more.
• Zooter (voiced by Janet James) – A pink pig who is the jungle messenger. She is very fast and is Ellyvan’s best friend. Zooter has a British accent.
• Bungo (voiced by Keith Wickham) – A yellow bunny with a raccoon tail who loves to make signs and put them all over the jungle. He is also the only wheeler that is good at jumping, being able to leap many times his own height into the air. His catchphrase is “Oh carrot sticks!” Like Zooter, Bungo speaks with a British accent.

Supporting

• Taxicrab (voiced by Jess Harnell) – A red crab who loves to dance and make smoothies. He is the only wheeler that is able to drive sideways.
• Carla (voiced by Laraine Newman) – An orange koala who owns a grocery shop. She mostly speaks with an American southern accent. Carla is seen in season 1. However, she rarely appears in any episodes in season 2 due to her moving out of Jungle Junction.
• Crocker (voiced by Keith Wickham) – A green crocodile fire chief who works at a fire station. He speaks with a lisp due to his teeth.
• Miss Jolly (voiced by Amanda Symonds) – A zebra school teacher who wears glasses. She is the Beetlebugs’ teacher.
• The Beetlebugs are cute little bugs and are also junior Wheelers whose speech is mostly synchronized. Their names are Bluey, Reddie, Greenie, Goldie, and Orangy. Bluey, Greenie, and Orangy are male while Goldie and Reddie are female. It’s unknown who voices them. Sometimes they speak with words, and sometimes they chatter.
• Hippobus (voiced by Amanda Symonds) – A yellow hippopotamus school bus who carries the Beetlebugs to school.
• Lance (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker) – A purple rhinoceros ambulance. He works in a hospital in a treehouse.
• Bobby (voiced by Jimmy Hibbert) – A blue toucan police chief. He is the only wheeler who can fly.
• Dozer (voiced by Keith Wickham) – A bull construction worker. His talent is digging and repairing roads with his dozer blade. He is the only one to have different wheels than all the others.
• Toadhog (voiced by Ron Orbach) – A grumpy, but friendly green toad who likes worms and flies. His water wheel powers the generator for all of the lights (including the traffic lights) and he has a supplementary generator that is used to power the Zipsmas lights.

Broadcast

The series aired in the United Kingdom, Ireland, United States, Portugal, Latin America, Spain, Sri Lanka, Canada, Poland, The Netherlands Japan and Turkey.

References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20100404022815/http://disnology.com/2010/03/disney-channel-orders-second-season-of-jungle-junction/
2. Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 158. ISBN 9781476672939.

External links

• Jungle Junction Official Site
• Jungle Junction at Disney.co.uk
• Jungle Junction at Disney.es
• Jungle Junction at TV.com
• "Jungle Junction" at IMDb