Jimbo & the Jet Set ( TV Series 1986 )



 

Plot

Jimbo and the Jet Set (often shortened to simply Jimbo) is a British animated cartoon series broadcast in the 1980s, featuring the adventures of the eponymous Jimbo, a talking aeroplane. Created by Maddocks Cartoon Productions, it originally ran for 25 episodes between 1985 and 1986.

 

The premise of the cartoon is that Jimbo was originally intended to be a Jumbo Jet, but his designer could not tell the difference between inches and centimetres, resulting in his diminutive size.



The television series features various talking airport-type ground vehicles: Tommy Tow-Truck, Claude Catering, Amanda Baggage, Phil the Fuel Truck, Sammy Steps and Harry Helicopter. Other plane characters appear from time to time, such as Old Timer, a Vickers Wellington bomber who gets into the story while flying to or from an airshow. The story is based at a fictional "London Airport", under the command of an irate controller who frequently ends episodes screaming "I want words with you, Jimbo!".



 

Characters

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Jimbo
Tommy Tow-Truck
Claude Catering
Amanda Baggage
Phil the Fuel Truck
Sammy Steps
Harry Helicopter

 

Episode Guide

A Little Big Problem
First Time Flyers
The Old Timer
Jimbo Down Under
April Fool's Day
Jimbo and the Whale
The Chief gets a Rocket
Jungle Jimbo
Chinese Pandamonium
Troubl at Sea
Quiet Please
Jinglebells Jimbo
The Bermuda Triangle
The controllers Apprentice
The Penn and Inca Story
The Great Air Race
The Little Devil
The Computer Clanger
The Royal Visitors
Holiday Weather
Jet Lag
Every Cloud has a Silver Lining
Winter Wonderland
The UFO