Tractor Tom | |
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Genre | Educational Animation |
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Directed by | Jerry Hibbert |
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Narrated by | Enn Reitel |
Composer | Mark Sayer-Wade |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 2 |
No. of episodes | 52 |
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Running time | 11 minutes |
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Network | ITV (CITV) |
Release | 9 February 2002 – 18 November 2004 |
Tractor Tom is a British animated children's TV programme, produced by the Contender Entertainment Group and Hibbert Ralph Entertainment. Two series were produced, consisting of 26 eleven-minute episodes each, which was aired between 9 February 2002 and 18 November 2004 respectively. It was the first program produced by home media distributor Contender, who later went on to produce and replace with the preschool show Peppa Pig .
The show originally aired on CITV in the UK, and also aired in other countries like New Zealand and Australia and in Canada, where it played on Kids' CBC.
Set on the idyllic Springhill Farm, brave and resourceful Tractor Tom and his human, animal, and vehicle friends have fun and adventures at both work and play.
The first series featured Liza Tarbuck and James Nesbitt as Farmer Fi and Matt respectively, with Enn Reitel as the narrator, with the vehicles communicating through their respective sounds (chugging for Tom, revving for Buzz, Rev, and Rory, and spluttering and wheezing for Wheezy; excluding the French dub), even though they have mouths. The second series, however, introduced new voice actors for Fi & Matt, and the vehicles now had the ability to talk. New characters were introduced in the second series as well. Some of the vehicle characters from Series 1 had minor redesigns in Series 2 to feature moving mouth parts to accommodate their new voices. Enn Reitel retained his role as narrator throughout both series, remaining until the end of series 2.
Sales from DVDs of series one contributed to the Great Ormand Street Hospital Children's Charity (although this is stated on the DVD covers the reference has been removed from the official site), [1] [2] as "Tractor Tom, what would we do without you" was the slogan for the series.
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Written by | Original air date | |
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1 | 1 | "Ringtone" | Mark Holloway | 2002 | |
Matt loses his mobile and it's up to Tractor Tom to find it. | |||||
2 | 2 | "Showtime Tom" | Mark Holloway | 2002 | |
Fi and Matt hold a show, where the ducks become the stars with their dancing! | |||||
3 | 3 | "Apple Squash" | Chris Trengove | 2002 | |
Troubles are going alone in the farm involving a bored Wheezy, a fussy Purdey, and some apples. | |||||
4 | 4 | "Baa Baa Tom Sheep" | Mark Holloway | 2002 | |
When Tom accidentally gets covered in flour, a lamb mistakes Tom for a sheep, and thinks he is the Mummy. | |||||
5 | 5 | "Football Crazy" | Chris Trengove | 2002 | |
The vehicles end up playing football, wrecking the nicely-cleaned farm. Will Tom and the others be able to clean it up before Fi comes back? | |||||
6 | 6 | "Clean Machine" | Chris Trengove | 2002 | |
Rev wants to finish his job before it rains. | |||||
7 | 7 | "Fly Away Buzz" | Mark Holloway | 2002 | |
Buzz gets blown away into a tree on a windy day. | |||||
8 | 8 | "Where's Wheezy?" | Chris Trengove | 2002 | |
When Wheezy gets ill and Fi borrows a replacement harvester, he begins to feel useless and runs away. | |||||
9 | 9 | "Sports Day" | Chris Trengove | 2002 | |
Matt is unhappy when the Sports Day gets cancelled, but Tractor Tom decides to let him hold it at the farm instead. | |||||
10 | 10 | "The Big Jump" | Mark Holloway | 2002 | |
Fi decides that Whinny needs exercise. Meanwhile, Matt is having trouble painting Fi's House. | |||||
11 | 11 | "A Job for Buzz" | Mark Holloway | 2002 | |
12 | 12 | "Treasure Trail" | Chris Trengove | 2002 | |
13 | 13 | "A Carnival for Fi" | Chris Trengove | 2002 | |
14 | 14 | "Musical Mayhem" | Chris Trengove | 2002 | |
When Winnie is sad, Tom knows just the thing to make her smile again. | |||||
15 | 15 | "Mo's Low" | Mark Holloway | 2002 | |
16 | 16 | "The New Scarecrow" | Mark Holloway | 2002 | |
17 | 17 | "The Wheezy Files" | Chris Trengove | 2002 | |
18 | 18 | "The Big Picnic" | Chris Trengove | 2002 | |
19 | 19 | "Show & Tell" | Mark Holloway | 2002 | |
20 | 20 | "Flower Power" | Chris Trengove | 2002 | |
21 | 21 | "Anyone for Tennis?" | Chris Trengove | 2002 | |
22 | 22 | "Haywire Hens" | Mark Holloway | 2002 | |
23 | 23 | "The Big Hole" | Mark Holloway | 2002 | |
24 | 24 | "A Surprise for Fi" | Mark Holloway | 2002 | |
When Fi and Tom can't go to the carnival, Matt decides that the carnival will come to them. | |||||
25 | 25 | "Tom's Busy Day" | Chris Trengove | 2002 | |
26 | 26 | "Rodeo" | Chris Trengove | 6 october 2002 | |
Matt dreams of being a cowboy and Tom finds a way to bring the wild west to Springhill. |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Written by | Original air date |
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27 | "Buzz Helps Out" | |||
28 | "The New Football" | |||
29 | "Hide and Seek" | |||
30 | "Out of Reach" | |||
31 | "All for a Wash" | |||
32 | "Trailer Trouble" | |||
33 | "Trail of Tricks" | |||
34 | "The New Vehicle" | |||
35 | "Buzz to the Rescue" | |||
36 | "Rora’s Monsters" | |||
37 | "Puppy Problems" | |||
38 | "Quiet Place" | |||
39 | "Come Back Dusty" | |||
40 | "The Great Sheep Race" | |||
41 | "Matt’s in Charge" | |||
42 | "The Farm Parade" | |||
43 | "Rora and the Rain" | |||
44 | "Wheezy Wings" | |||
45 | "Rev the Hero" | |||
46 | "The Big Adventure" | |||
47 | "A Song for the Farm" | |||
48 | "Two Harvesters" | |||
49 | "Carrot Dance" | |||
50 | "Tom Hatches an Egg" | |||
51 | "Cool for Trucks" | |||
52 | "Wild Ducks" |
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