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Characters from the Bob the Builder franchise (from all the 1999 original series, sequel series Project: Build It and Ready, Steady, Build!, and the 2015 reboot series) include:
Bob the Builder is a British animated children's television series created by Keith Chapman for HIT Entertainment and Hot Animation. The series follows the adventures of Bob, a general contractor, specialising in masonry, along with his colleague Wendy, various neighbours, and friends, and equipment, and their gang of anthropomorphised work-vehicles, Scoop, Muck, Dizzy, Roley, Lofty and many others. The series ran from 12 April 1999 to 31 December 2011 in the United Kingdom through the CBBC strand and later CBeebies. The series originally used stop-motion from 1999 to 2009, but later used CGI animation starting with the spin-off series Ready, Steady, Build! (2010-2011). The British proprietors of Bob the Builder and Thomas & Friends sold the enterprise in 2011 to US toy-maker Mattel for $680 million.
Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto! is a British animated children's television series, produced by Collingwood O'Hare Productions Limited, originally distributed by HIT Entertainment and currently distributed by Foothill Entertainment, which aired from 6 January 2003 until 29 August 2005 on CITV, and then rebroadcast on CBeebies from 26 January 2009 to 2 June 2013.
Lavender Castle is a British stop motion/CGI science fantasy television series created by Rodney Matthews and produced by Gerry Anderson. It was produced in 1997 through a collaboration between Carrington Productions International and Cosgrove Hall Films, and was first broadcast on CITV from 1999 to 2000.
Robert Rackstraw is a British voice actor who has worked in various animated films, television shows and video games.
Fantomcat is a British animated series produced by Cosgrove Hall Films. It was first broadcast in 1995, and was animated by Alfonso Productions, a Spanish animation studio also responsible for animating and bringing Cosgrove Hall's shows Count Duckula, Victor and Hugo: Bunglers in Crime, Avenger Penguins, Sooty's Amazing Adventures and The Foxbusters to life, Milimetros, another Spanish animation studio, and in-house by Cosgrove Hall themselves. It aired largely on Children's ITV. The series also had a run on Pop from 2003 to 2005. It was the first Cosgrove Hall cartoon to be animated with a process called Animo, wherein the animation drawings were scanned and then digitally coloured on computers. The first series was produced and directed by Ben Turner, while the second one was produced and directed by its creator, Andy Roper.
ToddWorld is a Flash animated children's television series created by Todd Parr and Gerry Renert through their California-based company SupperTime Entertainment. The show was produced by Mike Young Productions, an animation studio based in California.
Alan Marriott is a Canadian voice actor, voice teacher and dialect coach.
Rupert Joel Degas is a British actor, impressionist and voice over artist. He is best known for his voice work in animation and audiobooks. Since the 1980s, he has worked in audiobooks, film, podcasts, radio productions, television, theatre, and video games, and as a producer.
Lorelei King is an actress, screenwriter and development executive who has been based in the United Kingdom since 1981. She has narrated audiobooks, acted in radio plays for BBC Radio 4 and appeared on television.
Chop Socky Chooks is an animated action television series produced by Aardman Animations, Decode Entertainment, and Cartoon Network Europe that ran on Cartoon Network from 7 March 2008 until 24 July 2009. It was created and directed by Sergio Delfino, a prominent animator at Sony Pictures Imageworks. 26 episodes were produced.
Vincent Marzello was an American actor.
Bob the Builder: The Album is the debut album of Bob the Builder, the fictional character from the BBC children's television series of the same name. Bob is voiced by actor Neil Morrissey.
Sooty's Amazing Adventures is a short-lived animated spin off series of the Sooty franchise which aired from 1997 to 1998. In this incarnation of the famous bear, he is a full bodied bear free from the puppeteer's hand.
Thomas & Friends is a children's television series about the engines and other characters on the railways of the Island of Sodor, and is based on The Railway Series books written by the Reverend W. Awdry.
David Menkin is a Norwegian actor. His best known for his voice roles as Porter and Jack in the US dub of Thomas & Friends (2013–2021) and as Virgil and Gordon Tracy in the 2015 reboot series Thunderbirds Are Go (2015–2020).
Bitz & Bob is a children's animated television series that originally aired on CBeebies. The series focuses on the adventures of a sister and brother, who explore various concepts related to STEAM through imaginative play and problem-solving.
Bob the Builder, also known simply as Bob, is the titular protagonist of the British animated programme of the same name. He is a general contractor with his own construction yard in Bobsville, Sunflower Valley, Fixham Harbour, or Spring City depending on the programme.