TV series
TUGS
1989 · 1 season
A gentle, character-driven children's drama with anthropomorphic tugboats, offering mild peril and teamwork lessons in a nostalgic 1920s harbour setting.
- Created by
- David Mitton, Robert D. Cardona
- Genres
- Kids, Family, Drama
- Starring
- Patrick Allen, Timothy Bateson, Shaun Prendergast
- Overview
- TUGS is a British children's television series first broadcast in 1988. It was created by the producers of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, Robert D. Cardona and David Mitton. The series dealt with the adventures of two anthropomorphized tugboat fleets, the Star Fleet and the Z-Stacks, who compete against each other in the fictional Bigg City Port. The series was set in the Roaring Twenties, and was produced by TUGS Ltd., for TVS and Clearwater Features Ltd. Music was composed by Junior Campbell and Mike O'Donnell, who also wrote the music for Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. Due to the bankruptcy of production company TVS, the series did not continue production past 13 episodes. Following the initial airing of the series throughout 1988, television rights were sold to an unknown party, while all models and sets from the series sold to Britt Allcroft. Modified set props and tugboat models were used in Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends from 1991 onwards.
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- Created by
- David Mitton, Robert D. Cardona
- Genres
- Kids, Family, Drama
- Starring
- Patrick Allen, Timothy Bateson, Shaun Prendergast
