Tree Fu Tom
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Tree Fu Tom is a British live-action/CGI television series shown on BBC channels in the UK and Universal Kids and NBC in the USA. It is set in a miniature magical countryside and village area (Treetopolis) on the top a big tree in a British-type woodland. Many of its characters are anthropomorphised arthropods, and it features species of insect which are raised and controlled like cattle on a ranch: aphids, ladybirds, and a rhinoceros beetle. The programme is aimed at two- to six-year-olds.
Tree Fu Tom | |
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Genre | Adventure |
Created by | Daniel Bays |
Written by | Daniel Bays Douglas Wood Ian Carney Moya O'Shea Darren Jones Allan Plenderleith Corey Powell Richard Preddy John Loy Sindy McKay Richard Dinnick |
Directed by | Adam Shaw Kitty Taylor |
Starring | Adam Henderson |
Voices of | Sophie Aldred David Tennant Tim Whitnall Samantha Dakin Sharon D. Clarke |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of seasons | 5 |
No. of episodes | 72 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Jackie Edwards Alison Stewart Bob Higgins Sander Schwartz |
Producers | Daniel Bays Mark Bernard |
Running time | 22–25 minutes |
Production companies | FremantleMedia Kids and Family Blue-Zoo Productions CBeebies[1] |
Original release | |
Network | CBeebies |
Release | 5 March 2012 (2012-03-05) – 3 October 2016 (2016-10-03) |
Related | |
Kerwhizz Kibaoh Klashers |
72 episodes were produced [2] across five series, premiering in 2012 and ending in 2016. Tree Fu Tom is also available on BBC iPlayer for over a year.
The series features a number of voice actors who have appeared in Doctor Who. Sophie Aldred (who voices the animated Tom) played Seventh Doctor companion Ace and David Tennant (who voices Twigs in Series 1 and 2) was the Tenth Doctor. The actor who plays Tom in the live-action opening and closing sections of the show, Adam Henderson, is Sophie Aldred's son.[3]
The character of Twigs was recast from Series 3 and played by Mark Bonnar, who has also been in Doctor Who, playing Jimmy and his "ganger" duplicate in the two-parter The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People.