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*Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto!*
Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto!
	Yoko Jakamoko Toto
Genre	Children's TV series
Created by	Tony Collingwood
Written by	Jimmy Hibbert; Trevor Rickets; Tony Collingwood; Moya O'Shea; James Mason; Chris Drew
Directed by	Tony Collingwood; Andrea O'Tran
Voices of	Alex Kelly; Rob Rackstraw; Alistair McGowan; Gary Martin; Maria Darling; Colin McFarlane; Alan Marriott; Kate Harbour; Moya O'Shea
Theme music composer	Roger Jackson
Composer	Roger Jackson
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original languages	English; None
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	56
Production
Producer	Christopher O'Hare
Editor	Fred Ziecker
Running time	5 minutes per episode (approx.)
Production company	Collingwood O'Hare Productions Limited
Original release
Network	ITV (CITV); CBeebies
Release	2 June 2003 –; 29 August 2005

Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto! is a British animated children's television series, produced by Collingwood O'Hare Productions Limited, originally distributed by HIT Entertainment and currently distributed by Foothill Entertainment, which aired from 6 January 2003 until 29 August 2005 on CITV, and then rebroadcast on CBeebies from 26 January 2009 to 2 June 2013.^[1]

Plot edit

The television series is about a bird-of-paradise named Yoko, an armadillo named Jakamoko, and a spider monkey named Toto, who live and go on adventures in the wilderness where they all live and can only communicate by saying each other's names.

Broadcast edit

An animated short film from the series made its American debut on 2 June 2003 as part of the New York International Children's Film Festival.

The show has aired on ABC in Australia (as well as its digital networks ABC Kids and ABC 2) from 24 February 2003 to 27 November 2006, TVOKids in Canada, Kids Central in Singapore, ATV in Hong Kong, e-Junior in the U.A.E., TBS in Japan, MiniMini in Poland, Super3 in Spain, Canal Once in Mexico, Super RTL in Germany, Pakapaka in Argentina, ETTV in Taiwan, SVT in Sweden, NRK1 in Norway, RTP2 in Portugal, Piwi in France and Cartoon Network (in the former Tickle-U block) in the US. Unlike most animated series, when the show was sold to several countries that don't speak English and have English as their first language it was never dubbed or translated into different languages or redubbed with a different range of voices as the characters in the show only had limited dialogue and can only communicate by saying anybody's names making all the voices retained and left alone.

Development edit

While the series was in production, the distribution was done by Gullane Entertainment (formally known as The Britt Allcroft Company, the company that made Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends) up until July 2002, when the company was bought by HIT Entertainment.

Awards edit

Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto! has won numerous industry awards including Best Pilot at the Annecy International Festival of Animation, Best Writer at the British Animation Awards and two British Academy Children's Awards, including Best Writer and Best Pre-School Animation.