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6.3/10 TV Final episode date 25 November 2005 Number of seasons 4 | 3.4/10 IMDb Also known as Jay Jay (for short) First episode date 2 November 1998 Program creator David Michel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Created by David MichelDeborah Michel Written by John SemperEleanor Burian-Mohr Voices of Mary Kay BergmanGina RibisiChuck MorganMarie DanielleDee Dee GreenJulie RenickC.W. WalkenDonna CherryAshley Alvarez WhittakerMichael Donovan Similar Barney & Friends, Make Way for Noddy, Sesame Street, Sid the Science Kid, Peep and the Big Wide World | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jay jay the jet plane model series 1994 1996 intro comparison
Jay Jay the Jet Plane is an American children's television series based at the fictional Tarrytown Airport. It has 73 episodes. The series is centered on a group of aircraft who live in the fictional city of Tarrytown. The episodes are commonly distributed in 25-minute-long (as without commercials) pairs, with one header sequence and one end credits for each pair. Each episode contains one or more songs.
Contents
- Jay jay the jet plane model series 1994 1996 intro comparison
- Jay jay the jet plane model series the complete collection
- History
- Characters
- Young plane characters
- Older plane characters
- Ground vehicles
- Humans
- Animals
- Places
- Production
- 10 new episodes
- New characters
- United States
- Translations
- Europe
- Asia
- References
The theme song and the majority of the other songs were written by well-known children's singer/songwriter Stephen Michael Schwartz and sung by his popular musical group, Parachute Express. Created by David and Deborah Michel, the series is intended to be educational and to teach life and moral lessons to children (and sometimes also to parents).
Jay jay the jet plane model series the complete collection
History
In 1994, a short live-action series was produced at AMS Production Company in Dallas, Texas, with real model plane characters and animated crafted human characters; they did not talk but had the same personalities as in the later series. This original series was narrated similarly to the first eleven seasons of Thomas and Friends or Theodore Tugboat. It contained three videos: Jay Jay's First Flight, Old Oscar Leads the Parade and Tracy's Handy Hideout. These three episodes were known as the "pilot series".
On November 2, 1998, the CGI/live-action series premiered on The Learning Channel. Debi Derryberry took on the role of Jay Jay after Bergman's death in 1999 with no new characters voiced by her. The Learning Channel removed the series in March 2000. On June 11, 2001, all episodes began broadcasting on PBS Kids; the end credits have changed and additional episodes were created in 2001 and 2005. Home video editions were released by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment through 2003 as part of their "Columbia TriStar Family Fun" collection. Additional distribution was added with Tommy Nelson, the children's division of book publisher Thomas Nelson, although the series is not overtly "Christian". Voice actress Mary Kay Bergman provided the original voice of Jay Jay and several other characters. After her death, Debi Derryberry replaced her.
In 2005, new episodes were produced featuring additional characters, including the red Latino plane Lina. Each episode begins featuring a "Jay Jay's Mysteries" segment in which Jay Jay and Lina explore such things that may be mysteries to the intended age group, such as how planes fly and how the five senses are used. The mysteries segment is followed by a story that comes from the original episodes of the series so in effect the new series repackages previously broadcast content.
Characters
The planes and ground vehicles are CGI characters, while the humans are live action actors.
Relationship words for the airplane characters refer to being in loco parentis for purposes of upbringing and education, not to biological parenthood. The story says that (some of) the airplane characters were made in factories.
Some of the stories describe characters as doing actions off-screen that would need foldaway arms (e.g. Big Jake digging holes), but those arms are never seen on screen.
Young plane characters
Older plane characters
Ground vehicles
Humans
Animals
Places
Tarrytown and its airport are never seen in moving-camera shots, and therefore are likely real miniature sets which were photographed and those photographs were used as backgrounds in the CGI images. The airport runway may be a CGI ground plane texture mapped with a photograph of real full-size or miniature tarmac. Sometimes, the planes taxi on the town streets.
Production
The series was produced by Modern Cartoons in Oxnard, California, United States. Unlike Thomas the Tank Engine, this series used a variety of animation techniques:
The complex mathematical and CGI issues were solved by Frank Ford Little, PhD.
A number of proprietary software systems were used:
10 new episodes
New characters
United States
The series was aired across a wide network, reaching many of the 379 member stations affiliated with PBS Kids in the United States.
Translations
In foreign versions of the show, the human characters are often replaced with different actors. For example, in the Korean version of the show, a Korean actor takes the role of Brenda. Unusually, the Irish version of Jay Jay the jet plane mostly uses non-native speaker actors from Belfast (although some minor parts are played by native-speaking actors from the Gaeltacht).