Jay Jay the Jet Plane is a CGI children's television cartoon fiction series. It has about 60 episodes, each 25 minutes long. The characters are talking aeroplanes, and some humans, based at a fictional Tarrytown Airport. The series contains much good matter with good advice for real children (and sometimes for parents).
Character list
Here, for the aeroplanes:-
- Relationship words refer to being in loco parentis for purposes of upbringing and education, not to biological parenthood.
- The story says that the aeroplane characters were made in factories.
- The age is the character's apparent mental age. The aeroplanes depict a typical family.
- Jay Jay. Male. Early teenage. Small jet airliner.
- Tracy. Female. Early teenage. Small jet airliner. Normal hearing, but understands American Sign Language.
- Snuffy. Male. Age about 6 or 7 years. Small propeller monoplane. Is equipped for skywriting
- Herky. Male. Early teenage, or subteenage. Helicopter.
- Big Jake. Male. Adult. Father. Cargo carrier.
- Savannah. Female. Adult. Mother. Supersonic airliner. Was made at Savannah in Georgia (USA), whence (in the story) her name.
- Oscar. Male. Old adult. Uncle or grandfather. Old biplane.
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- Revvin' Evan. Fire engine.
- Tuffy. Towtruck.
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- Brenda Blue. Plump woman in bib-and-brace overall. In charge of the airport.
- Tarrytown librarian. Woman. Deaf, knows American Sign Language.
- There are are other human characters who appear from time to time.
Consistency between some of the episodes depends on the order of the episodes. For example, one episode says that Snuffy has not flown further away than Lightning Bug Lake, but other episodes show him flying much further.
Broadcasting
The series is broadcast over many of the 379 member stations of the Public Broadcasting Service of the United States.
The series has been broadcast in Britain.
External link
Wonderwings.com published the series.