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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]
| Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto! | |
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Yoko Jakamoko Toto
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| Genre | Children's TV series |
| Created by | Tony Collingwood |
| Written by | Jimmy Hibbert Trevor Ricketts 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) |
| Release | 2 June 2003 (2003-06-02) – 29 August 2005 (2005-08-29) |
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.
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.
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.
