Tree Fu Tom

Tree Fu Tom
GenreAdventure
Created byDaniel Bays
Written byDaniel Bays
Douglas Wood
Ian Carney
Moya O'Shea
Darren Jones
Allan Plenderleith
Corey Powell
Richard Preddy
John Loy
Sindy McKay
Richard Dinnick
Directed byAdam Shaw
Kitty Taylor
StarringAdam Henderson
Voices ofSophie Aldred
David Tennant
Tim Whitnall
Samantha Dakin
Sharon D. Clarke
Country of originUnited Kingdom
No. of seasons5
No. of episodes72
Production
Executive producersJackie Edwards
Alison Stewart
Bob Higgins
Sander Schwartz
ProducersDaniel Bays
Mark Bernard
Running time22–25 minutes
Production companiesFremantleMedia Kids and Family
Blue-Zoo Productions
CBeebies[1]
Original release
NetworkCBeebies
Release5 March 2012 (2012-03-05) –
3 October 2016 (2016-10-03)
Related
Kerwhizz
Kibaoh Klashers
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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 that 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.

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 character of Twigs was recast from series 3 and played by Mark Bonnar.

  1. ^ Milligan, Mercedes (4 December 2014). "CBeebies Commissions 'Tree Fu Tom' Season 3". Animation Magazine. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  2. ^ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 295. ISBN 9781476672939.