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📺 Series

TUGS

📅 1989 ⭐ 8.3 🕐 15m GB GB

TUGS is a British children's television series first broadcast in 1988. It was created by the producers of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, Robert D. Cardona and David Mitton. The series dealt with the adventures of two anthropomorphized tugboat fleets, the Star Fleet and the Z-Stacks, who compete against each other in the fictional Bigg City Port. The series was set in the Roaring Twenties, and was produced by TUGS Ltd., for TVS and Clearwater Features Ltd. Music was composed by Junior Campbell and Mike O'Donnell, who also wrote the music for Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. Due to the bankruptcy of production company TVS, the series did not continue production past 13 episodes. Following the initial airing of the series throughout 1988, television rights were sold to an unknown party, while all models and sets from the series sold to Britt Allcroft. Modified set props and tugboat models were used in Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends from 1991 onwards.

Seasons & Episodes
Season 1 13 episodes
E1
Sunshine 1989-04-04
E2
Pirate 1989-04-11
E3
Trapped 1989-04-18
E4
Regatta 1989-04-25
E5
Munitions 1989-05-02
E6
Warrior 1989-05-09
E7
High Tide 1989-05-16
E8
Quarantine 1989-05-23
E9
Ghosts 1989-05-30
E10
Jinxed 1989-06-06
E11
High Winds 1989-06-13
E12
Up River 1989-06-20
E13
Bigg Freeze 1989-06-27
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