List of episodes
Season 1 (1994) – Malofilm / Seville Pictures
1. At The Airport
At Toronto Pearson International Airport, DC, a Canadian Airlines DC-10 jet, explains (and shows) his journey from the hangar to the terminal, before picking up passengers and taking to the sky. He also shows the viewers how he gets cleaned in the hangar. Many other aircraft are featured in the episode including a Canadian Airlines Boeing 737 (misnamed as an A320) who carries a talking suitcase named Sammy, a British Airways, Air Canada, and Lufthansa Boeing 747, an American Airlines Boeing 757 and a few others. An airport tug named Tug, a fuel tanker, and a people mover also explain their jobs. This episode is the series premiere.
2. At The Quarry
Euclid, a Euclid R170 quarry dump truck shows how he and his brother Ernie, also a Euclid R170 quarry dump truck are loaded with rocks by LeTourneau, a LeTourneau L-1100 front end loader and bring the rocks from the quarry to a rock crusher, turning them into gravel. A gravel conveyor brings the gravel to a gravel pit where an unnamed Volvo BM L180 front end loader loads the gravel into trucks that deliver the gravel to where it's needed.
3. In The City
Little Mac, a small municipal first-generation Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck, from the City of Toronto shows viewers how the city streets are cleaned. The featured machines that do this include a street sweeper named Dusty who scrubs the roads, a vacuum truck named Vacuum Vic who cleans out sewers, a street sprinkler named Gusher that sprays water on the pavement. Machines doing other work around the city include Stumper, a mobile chainsaw who obliterates stumps and a boom truck named Stretch with a shredder named Chipper, who trims trees. At the yard, a front end loader named Jaws picks up the street garbage to load into the Dump Truck Brothers to take to the dump. The main location is the public works city garage.
4. In The Harbour
Murphy, a Toronto Police boat, takes viewers out into Toronto Harbour to show many of his harbour friends, including Blackie and Thor, two large freighters; William Lyon Mackenzie, a fireboat; and Flo and Merryweather, a couple of ferry boats Oriole, a Toronto city tours boat; a working replica of a square rigger ship and the two ferries that go to Toronto Island, all of which explain their use of operating in the harbour. Cranes named Hook and Claw play a role in unloading ships. Murphy speaks with an Irish accent.
5. At The Construction Site
Big Cat, a Koehring excavator shows viewers how he and his friends help build a hospital from digging the foundation to building the walls. Big Cat’s job is digging the foundations. In Downtown Toronto, two tall cranes named SkyHook and Carmen help build a skyscraper that is almost finished (same skyscraper in the episode "At The Cement Yard"). Other members of the construction company include Putt Putt, a mini dumper who speaks with a British accent, a front loader, who piles up small loads of dirt, Treads, a bulldozer, who flattens the grounds, Lurch, and Charlie, Two Concrete Mixers, who bring in concrete to fill the foundations, Little Brother, a stationary wheeled crane who lifts the walls, Skinny, a telescopic forklift who can only carry stuff in small areas, and George, a dump truck, who brings dirt to the site for possible roads.
6. At The Race Track
2 versions of this episode exist.
Original Version
Blue, a Reynard 94I race car (driven by Jacques Villeneuve) shows viewers how race cars are transported to races, how race cars are prepared before a race, qualifying, making pits stops, and racing against the other competitors. The race in the original version took place on July 17, 1994 during the 1994 Molson Indy Toronto at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario. Michael Andretti won the race.
Alternate Version
Goldstar, a Van Diemen RF92 Formula Ford race car (driven by Martin Roy) shows viewers how race cars are transported to races, how race cars are prepared before a race, qualifying, making pits stops, and racing against the other competitors. The race in the alternate version took place at Circuit Mont-Tremblant in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec. Alex Tagliani won the race. Goldstar is voiced by Arthur Holden.
This version replaced the original version in circulation because the original version had alcohol and tobacco company sponsors in the episode and was deemed inappropriate to be seen by the show's target audience.
7. At The Demolition Site
Dino, a Caterpillar hydraulic shear excavator shows viewers around a demolition site and how he demolishes an old factory building with his shears. Crane, a stationary truck crane lifts out pipes and a motor from the building. Dozer, a tracked loader smooths the roads in the demolition site. Dynamite is used to collapse two water towers and a tall concrete chimney. Mack arrives to pick up the scrap metal from the demolition site. Grapple, a Komatsu hydraulic claw excavator loads scrap metal into Mack. This episode was filmed at the former St. Lawrence Starch Company factory in Port Credit, Mississauga which was located at Hurontario Street and Lakeshore Road East.
8. At The Train Yard
Two Canadian Pacific SW1200RS switchers and a Canadian National GP38-2 road switcher named Shunty, Diesel, and Freddie explain how work goes on in the train yard, including switching, putting the cars on the right train and transporting materials long distances. Spike and his tie gang maintain the rails to keep them safe for the trains to run on.
9. At The Fire Hall
King, a Mack ladder truck shows viewers how his ladders and tiller work, while Pumper, a pumper truck shows how the hoses work. Sparky, a fire hydrant supervises them and delivers water for the hose practice. The episode also features some members of the North York Fire Department doing their training exercise. This was before North York merged into Toronto.
10. On The Road
Big Hoss, a Peterbilt 379 semi-trailer truck shows viewers how he gets hooked up to a refrigerated trailer, then he takes viewers out on the road as he travels to a Husky truck stop to get his fuel tanks filled up, delivers empty pallets, and picks up carrots. Forky, a forklift truck unloads the empty pallets out of Big Hoss' trailer. Little Joe, a forklift truck loads carrots into Big Hoss' trailer. Big Hoss speaks with a Texan accent. This episode was filmed in Greater Toronto mainly in Bradford, Ontario.
11. At The Garbage Dump
A garbage truck named Trasher explains his job of collecting garbage in neighborhoods with Mario, his assistant. Later, Whitey, another garbage truck, explains the operations of the transfer station, showing how garbage is pushed down a chute and compacted into large semi trailers used for garbage transfer after the trailer of garbage is picked up by Big Red, a garbage transfer truck. The story continues at the dump where Big Red, Pee-Wee, a bulldozer, and Spike, a compactor explain how the landfill works. Scoop and Pee-Wee spread the garbage out after Big Red unloads it. Spike squashes the debris and Pee-Wee finishes it by smoothing the dirt out. This episode was filmed at the Disco Transfer Station in Etobicoke, Ontario and the Keele Valley landfill in Vaughan, Ontario.
12. At The Cement Yard
Big Boy, a cement mixer, shows viewers how concrete is made and what it is used for. The cement yard receives a load of sand and gravel from hopper trucks which dump their loads into grates, the gravel is taken by a conveyor belt and the different sizes of gravel are sorted into piles. Sally, a front end loader, keeps the gravel piles in the yard tidy. Big Boy is loaded with concrete and takes his load to replace a road while Tiny, also a cement mixer, takes his load of concrete to a skyscraper under construction (same skyscraper in the episode "At The Construction Site").
The first six episodes of Season 1 were written by Doug Atkinson and Fiona Zippan (Denzey), while the remaining episodes were written by Bryan A. Auld. The voice actors of season 1 are Loredana Cunti, Tim Brown, Jennifer Martin, Noah Segal, Joel Cohen, Greg Blanchard, Gord Rutherford, Claire Rothman, Arthur Holden, John Metcalfe, and Steve Murphy.
Season 2 (2004) – Seville Pictures
For Season 2, the scripts were written by Bill Freeman, and the voice actors are Edward Daranyi, Santo Lupo, Christopher Quinn, Patte Rosebank, Tanya Schneider, Chuck Vollmar, Alan Bacchus, Suzanne Hersh, Oliver Svendsen, and Hannah Cheesman.
13. In the Snowstorm
Buzz, Stretch, and Ranger, a snow removal crew in Montreal, go out to clear the streets after a big snowstorm. The different tasks involved in this process are detailed by Blower, a snowblower machine, Bobcat, a Bobcat loader, Casey, a backhoe loader, Grader, a motor grader and Big Dude, a snowplow.
14. Deep Underground
Ranger, Scoop, Cutter, Driller, Scaler and Crusher, a series of machines operating in a salt mine, explain how to find the salt, scoop it up, and carry it to the surface of the mine. Ranger, a jeep inspects while Driller pokes holes for explosives, Cutter digs the opening of the mine, Scoop, a front loader picks up the rocks, Scaler, a wheeled continuous mining excavator with a wall scraper scrapes off all of the salt. Loader then dumps it into Dumper. After all the salt has been dug up, it gets loaded on a conveyer belt into a cargo ship named Selene to be taken to the public works to be used for icy roads. This was filmed in Goderich Harbour, Ontario at the Sifto Canada salt mine on Lake Huron.
15. At the Ski Hill
A number of snowmobiles and other ski hill machines explain how they are able to skim across the surface of the snow without getting stuck. All the groomers are busy at nighttime when the skiers have gone home because it is very dangerous when skiers are around while they work. This episode was filmed in Mont Tremblant, Quebec.
16. In The Sky!
A blue and yellow biplane named Stearman visits an airshow. All helicopters report on what goes on at the airshow. Old fashioned and modern-day airplanes appear in this episode. This is one of three episodes filmed outside Canada.
17. In the Forest
Feller, a Feller Buncher machine, explains how he cuts only marked trees in the forest. Skidders then explain how they skid logs to the log loader, which demonstrates its agility between loading logging trucks.
18. At the Sawmill
At a busy sawmill, Jaws, a front-end loader, explains how the trees are turned into lumber and what he does with the cut logs. His friends Cat, Grapple, Buzz, Scoop, and Big Red are many of the other machines that explain how the lumber will soon be turned into wood. Chip truck comes to collect all the chips to be made into paper.
19. All About Recycling
Gus, A recycling truck explains how he collects all the recycling and sends it through many other machines, so it can be reused again. Big Blue, the sorting machine, shows how all the recycling is compacted. Kurt, a skid steer shovels it up. You also get to see how metal is recycled in a junk yard, and how asphalt to make a road can be recycled too. At the Junk Yard, the operations are explained by Greg, a grapple truck, at the road repair site, Chewy, a pavement profiler, slimy, an asphalt paver, and roller,an asphalt roller work together. The episode was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Scarborough, Ontario, and Burlington, Ontario at Cascades Recovery Plus (45 Thornmount Drive) in Scarborough and Dominion Nickel Alloys Ltd. (834 Appleby Line) in Burlington, Ontario.
20. Building A Truck!
A number of machines explain and show how much work it takes to build a truck. The episode is hosted by an unnamed tractor unit who was built in the factory. This episode was filmed in Chatham. The plant was closed sometime in and demolished 2011.
21. Making Waves!
Skipper takes viewers into Halifax Harbour, and while meeting many ferries, cargo ships, and navy ships, he shows how waves were formed.
22. Making A Road
Sammy, an excavator, explains how a new road is built and prepared for vehicles to drive over. Tommy, an articulated dump truck dumps the dirt. Bulldozers, Scrapers, and Soil Compactors, help out with the foundations, then the asphalt crew lays down the road. Dozer, a bulldozer, and the scrapers level the ground, then Packer, and Rolland, two soil compactors flatten the ground. Roxy and Mack, two gravel dump trucks dump piles of gravel, Rocky, another bulldozer levels down the gravel, with help from Gary, a grader, and Biggest Heaviest Roller. There is also footage down at an Asphalt plant, where Lea, a front loader dumps crushed stones into a chute to make the asphalt. Jock, a dump truck brings the asphalt to the site, Lenny, a Paver, and Rod, a roller flatten it all down.
23. On the Farm
Allis a tractor explains how he must pull Polly, a plowing machine, to keep the fields ready for farming.
24. To the Rescue!
Sambraro, a coast guard lifeboat, and a rescue lifeboat explains how they recover a man overboard from stormy seas. Hercules, a fireboat is his Lieutenant.
25. Trucks, Trucks, Trucks!
Vehicles include a gas truck, a carnival truck, and a cement pumper truck.
26. Buses, Subways, and Trains!
Various public transport vehicles are featured in this episode, including Buddy, an OC Transpo bus, Clara, and Neville, two streetcars, an O-Train, a GO Train and a Toronto subway train, who in turn explain their jobs of picking up the passengers and dropping them off exactly where they want to be.
For season 3, the voice actors are Chris Quinn, Kim Godfrey, Shawn Colin, Todd Schick, Dave Crichton, Blair Bailey, Nick Tracey, Colin Kirley, Suzanne Hersh, Wesley Cudlip, Bill Freeman, Derek Pert, Joe Pillitteri, and Chandra Wohleber.
27. Building An Airplane
JetGirl visits the airport and shows and tells the audience how she was made.
28. Ride The Mountain Rails
Diesel locomotive number 95 dumps rocks in the Canadian river, while three White Pass trains take people on a tour to see the mountains. This is one of three episodes filmed outside Canada. It was filmed in Skagway, Alaska, White Pass, and Carcross, Yukon.
29. Car Wreckers
Forks, a forklift shows children what he does in the car scrap yard. This episode was filmed in Ontario notably in Guelph.
30. Laying Down The Pipeline
Excavator, an excavator, shows how he digs deep in the ground for pipelines that are to be installed. His friends show how pipelines are connected and installed into the ground.
31. At The Steel Mill
Slab haulers and other machines show how steel is made. The cast includes a Slab Hauler named Stevie and his friend Sami, also a Slab Hauler. Benny, a Bulldozer piles up fresh coal at the yard near the building, Scott, a Scraper scoops up the coal and dumps it from his bin into the chute to be made into coke. Electro, a magnetic crane picks up the steel to load them onto train cars. Pusher, and Quencher work inside the steel mill plant, and Luke, the locomotive pulls the cars away so that the steel can be sold. This episode was filmed at ArcelorMittal Dofasco in Hamilton, Ontario.
32. Hot Off The Press
Charlie, a printing press and other printing machines show how the Toronto Star newspaper is made. The other machines include Stuffer, who inserts 'supplements', like brochures and coupons into newspapers, Bundler, who packs up the newspapers, and the machines which print onto metal sheets the design of a page so it can be transferred onto newsprint.
33. Giant Tow Trucks
Brutus, a Tow Truck shows viewers all of the gear he carries to different jobs and with the help of another tow truck they pull a tanker that has tipped over.
34. Bringing In The Harvest
A group of tractors retrieve tomatoes from the farm and put them into the Factory. Also features Clipper, who clips grapes and a truck who brings them to a factory to make wine.
35. Reach For The Sky
Stretch, a mobile crane, is going to replace an AC on the top of a tall building, with a little help from another crane, Little Brother. Stretch is ready to make the big lift while Gipsy Lady a Sikorsky s64 sky crane helps change ac units on the roof of a factory.
36. Machines Go To School
Backhoes, bulldozers, and other machines go to school to learn about how to dig, push dirt, carry dirt, and other construction procedures. This episode was filmed in Morrisburg, Ontario.
37. Go, Boats, Go!
Features a Canadian Coast Guard hovercraft, "Fast Forward", a Floridian air boat, and "Empress" a modern paddle wheel cruise ship. This is one of three episodes filmed outside Canada.
38. Under The Waves
Features an Underwater tour Submarine who wants the tour passengers to see the Coral Reef, and a Submersible which goes underwater to find something for the boss, and a Navy Submarine who takes kids to see what's inside.
39. Board The Ferry
The Spirit of Vancouver Island, a BCFerries ferry, shows the kids what happens at the dock, the controls of the ship, and other things on the ship (Final episode).
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