The Big Garage

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The Big Garage
GenreEducation, Children's
Voices of Thor Bishopric
Terrence Scammell
Patricia Rodriguez
Rick Jones
Liz MacRae
Narrated by Thor Bishopric (as Pump)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Canada
Original language(s)English
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes28
Production
Running time30 minutes
Release
Original network Family Channel (Canada)
CITV (UK)
Original releaseSeptember 29, 1997;22 years ago (1997-09-29) 
July 17, 2001;18 years ago (2001-07-17)

The Big Garage is a British-Canadian puppet children's television program that aired on The Learning Channel. It was produced by Prisma Productions in association with Winchester Entertainment. It debuted on TLC on September 29, 1997 within its Ready Set Learn children's block as a co-production with Canada's Family Channel. Aimed at preschool children, the show follows the adventures of a fleet of anthropomorphic taxicabs. Each episode has two short scenes. The first is about a stop sign called Stop, and the second is about a group of tools (a hammer, a saw, three spanners, some nuts and bolts, an oil can, and a pair of pliers).

Contents

Reruns continued to air on the Smile network until the series pulled off the air in 2019

Characters

Main characters

Other/Supporting/Recurring characters

Voices

Puppeteer CoOrdinators

Puppeteers and Operators

Episodes

  1. Stop and Listen! (Aired: September 29, 1997)
  2. The Mixup (Aired: September 30, 1997)
  3. Share and Shake Alike (Aired: October 1, 1997)
  4. Welcome to the Big Garage - Mimi tries to find her way to the Big Garage. (Aired: October 2, 1997)
  5. Boo! Who? - The taxis believe that London was taken by a ghost when he goes missing. (Aired: October 3, 1997)
  6. Blow Your Own Horn (Aired: October 6, 1997)
  7. The Great Rescue - Scrap has Rusty carnap London so he can scrap him. Yorky overhears this and goes to warn London. But by the time he reaches the garage, London isn't there. Once London finds out what has happened, he gets the taxis for help, only to find that Scrap has cut his radio dead. The taxis must try to save London, all on their own! (Aired: October 7, 1997)
  8. All out of Zoom (Aired: October 8, 1997)
  9. Sounds Funny to Me (Aired: October 9, 1997)
  10. And the Winner is...... (Aired: October 10, 1997)
  11. What About Mimi? (Aired: May 18, 1998)
  12. The Big Bang - In the middle of the night, something wakes up London and he hides. The taxis must now find him and the something scared him. (Aired: May 19, 1998)
  13. You Better Believe It (Aired: May 20, 1998)
  14. An Eensy Weensy Lie (Aired: May 21, 1998)
  15. Lickety-Split (Aired: May 22, 1998)
  16. Slow but Sure (Aired: April 19, 1999)
  17. King for the Day (Aired: April 20, 1999)
  18. Copy Cars (Aired: April 21, 1999)
  19. Breaking All the Rules (Aired: April 22, 1999)
  20. The Missing Wheels (Aired: April 23, 1999)
  21. First Things First - Rusty and London are testing a magnet one morning, when it suddenly goes out of control and links them together. The taxis must now find a way to unstick Rusty and London. (Aired: August 14, 2000)
  22. Just Along for the Ride (Aired: August 15, 2000)
  23. Un-Pumped (Aired: August 16, 2000)
  24. Rain, Rain, Go Away! - London doesn't want to go out in the rain because, he's afraid he might get muddy. But he soon ends up in trouble when he gets stuck in a muddy puddle. (Aired: August 17, 2000)
  25. The Heat Wave - A heat wave strikes Taxi Town and London's engine overheats, leaving him stranded in a tunnel. (Aired: July 12, 2001)
  26. London's Oil Crisis - When London's engine squirts oil in his eyes, he ends up being blind. Now, Yorky must be his eyes. (Aired: July 13, 2001)
  27. Super London - London wishes he could be a superhero so he can help all his friends. (Aired: July 16, 2001)
  28. A Day at the Beach - The taxis are having a day at the beach when a strong wave breaks the jetty that London is on and he sails away from shore. (Aired: July 17, 2001)

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