List of Tugs characters

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Tugs is a 1989 British children's television series created by the producer and director of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends respectively, Robert D. Cardona and David Mitton.^[1] It features two anthropomorphized tugboat fleets: the Star Fleet and the Z-Stacks. They compete against each other in the fictional Bigg City Port.

In the North American adaptation, Salty's Lighthouse, the stories were re-purposed for a younger audience. The two groups were no longer rival tug fleets, and the characters underwent various changes. Sunshine, Captain Star, and Little Ditcher were considered female. Sunshine became the sister of fellow switcher Ten Cents. British accents were changed to American accents. Some names were changed, for instance, Big Mac became Big Stack, O.J. became Otis, and Zebedee became Zeebee. Before that adaptation, a previous test US dub was created in 1989 to use as a pitch for US marketers. The dub remained unreleased until 2021 when it was leaked on YouTube. ^[2] A recent dub done by YouTuber and Tugs fan Nicholas Goodrich known as The Unlucky Tug would do another attempt at a US dub on October 21, and December 30, 2022, with the episodes Sunshine and Pirate. ^{[3] [4]}