| El Nombre | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Educational animation |
| Created by | Christopher Lillicrap |
| Developed by | Geoff Walker |
| Written by | Christopher Lillicrap |
| Directed by | Chris Mendham Geoff Walker |
| Starring | Steve Steen Sophie Aldred Kate Robbins Janet Ellis |
| Composers | Christopher Lillicrap Steve Marshall |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Theresa Plummer-Andrews |
| Producers | Jilly Joseph Richard Randolph |
| Running time | 5 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC One (Series 1) CBeebies (Series 2) |
| Release | 5 January 2001 – 29 November 2003 |
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El Nombre is a children's educational programme about an anthropomorphic Mexican gerbil character, originally from a series of educational sketches on Numbertime, the BBC schools programme about mathematics. He was also the only character to appear in all Numbertime episodes. His voice was provided by Steve Steen, while the other characters' voices were provided by Sophie Aldred, Kate Robbins, and (from 1999) former Blue Peter host Janet Ellis. For the ninth (and final) series of Numbertime in 2001, Michael Fenton-Stevens also provided voices of certain other characters in the El Nombre sketches.
The character's name means "The Name" in Spanish, not "The Number", which would be "El Número", but El Nombre does mean "The Number" in Catalan.