Secret Life of Toys | |
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Genre | Children's television series |
Written by | Jocelyn Stevenson |
Voices of | |
Theme music composer | PEEK-A-BOO |
Composers | Jocelyn Stevenson (Lyrics) Markus Windt (Sound) |
Country of origin | Germany United Kingdom United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 13 |
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Executive producer | Brian Henson |
Producer | Peter Coogan |
Running time | 10 minutes |
Production company | Jim Henson Productions |
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Network | The Disney Channel (U.S.) BBC (UK) |
Release | 5 March – 28 May 1994 |
Secret Life of Toys is a 1994 children's TV series based on the 1986 Christmas TV special The Christmas Toy . Each of the fourteen 30-minute episodes consists of two 15-minute stories. The show was taped in Monheim, Germany (near the Dutch border), and aired on The Disney Channel in the US (beginning on 5 March 1994), [1] [2] the BBC in the United Kingdom, Family Channel, Vrak and TVO in Canada, Spacetoon in the Arab world, Top TV in South Africa, The Kids' Channel in Israel, RTB in Brunei, American Forces Network in Germany and Japan, TVP1 in Poland, Channel 55 in Bahrain and on ABC TV in Australia. The series was formerly streamed on Netflix and Hulu and is currently available on Kidoodle.TV
This series depicts the further adventures of Rugby Tiger and his friends in a new playroom with two different children, Penny and Simon. Penny and Simon's playtime affect how the toys' setting and situations are in the children's absence. For the toys' safety, they have a code called a set of No-nos. However one of the toys end up breaking one of those rules by accident. When that happens, the toys have to work together to keep the fact they can move and speak away from the humans.
No. | Title | Original air date | |
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1 | "Oops! / Don't Tell Me" | 5 March 1994 | |
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2 | "Follow the Leader / Disappearing Ditz" | 12 March 1994 | |
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3 | "I'm Going to Tell... / The Cat Toy That Roared" | 19 March 1994 | |
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4 | "Rock-a-Bye Worries / The Magic Fish" | 26 March 1994 | |
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5 | "Climbers / Be Plush" | 2 April 1994 | |
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6 | "Queen Raisin / Balthazar in Beam Land" | 9 April 1994 | |
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7 | "Ditz and Datz / Mummies" | 16 April 1994 | |
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8 | "All Washed Up / Bunnochio" | 23 April 1994 | |
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9 | "More Than a Mouse / Happy Hortense to You" | 30 April 1994 | |
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10 | "Down with Dinkybeard / The Sky is Falling!" | 7 May 1994 | |
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11 | "Baby Balthazar / True Mew" | 14 May 1994 | |
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12 | "Mr. and Mrs. Rugby / I Spy" | 21 May 1994 | |
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13 | "Who Shares Wins / It's a Giveaway" | 28 May 1994 | |
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