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Jay Jay the Jet Plane is an American
United States

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 CGI
Computer-generated imagery

Computer-generated imagery is the application of the field of computer graphics or, more specifically, 3D computer graphics to special effects in films, television programs, Television commercials, simulators and simulation generally, and printed media....
 children's television cartoon
Cartoon

The word cartoon has various meanings, based on several very different forms of visual art and illustration. The term has evolved over time.The original meaning was in fine art, and there cartoon meant a preparatory drawing for a piece of art such as a painting or tapestry....
 fiction
Fiction

Fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form, create", works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary and may include real people, places, and events....
 series. It has about 60 episodes. The characters are mostly talking airplane
Fixed-wing aircraft

A fixed-wing aircraft is an aircraft capable of heavier-than-air flight whose Lift is generated not by wing motion relative to the aircraft, but by forward motion through the air....
s, and a helicopter
Helicopter

A helicopter is an aircraft that is Lift and propelled by one or more horizontal plane Helicopter rotors, each rotor consisting of two or more rotor blades....
, and some humans, and two talking ground vehicles, based at a fictional Tarrytown Airport in the USA. The episodes are commonly distributed in pairs, with one header sequence and one end credits for each pair, and each pair is 25 minutes long.






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Jay Jay the Jet Plane is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 CGI
Computer-generated imagery

Computer-generated imagery is the application of the field of computer graphics or, more specifically, 3D computer graphics to special effects in films, television programs, Television commercials, simulators and simulation generally, and printed media....
 children's television cartoon
Cartoon

The word cartoon has various meanings, based on several very different forms of visual art and illustration. The term has evolved over time.The original meaning was in fine art, and there cartoon meant a preparatory drawing for a piece of art such as a painting or tapestry....
 fiction
Fiction

Fiction is an imaginative form of narrative, one of the four basic rhetorical modes. Although the word fiction is derived from the Latin fingo, fingere, finxi, fictum, "to form, create", works of fiction need not be entirely imaginary and may include real people, places, and events....
 series. It has about 60 episodes. The characters are mostly talking airplane
Fixed-wing aircraft

A fixed-wing aircraft is an aircraft capable of heavier-than-air flight whose Lift is generated not by wing motion relative to the aircraft, but by forward motion through the air....
s, and a helicopter
Helicopter

A helicopter is an aircraft that is Lift and propelled by one or more horizontal plane Helicopter rotors, each rotor consisting of two or more rotor blades....
, and some humans, and two talking ground vehicles, based at a fictional Tarrytown Airport in the USA. The episodes are commonly distributed in pairs, with one header sequence and one end credits for each pair, and each pair is 25 minutes long. Produced by John Semper
John Semper

John Semper, Jr. is a screenwriter, producer and story editor with numerous credits in animation for television. He has worked for such diverse companies as Walt Disney Pictures, Warner Bros....
, the series tries to be educational and teach life and sometimes moral lessons to children (and sometimes also to parents).

The series premiered originally on November 2, 1998 on TLC, but later moved to PBS Kids on June 11, 2001 with the same episodes plus new episodes in 2001 and in 2005.

The original voice of Jay Jay and several of the other characters was voice-over
Voice-over

The term voice-over refers to a production technique where a Diegetic#Film_sound_and_music voice is broadcast live or pre-recorded in radio, television, film, theatre and/or presentation....
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 Mary Kay Bergman
Mary Kay Bergman

Mary Kay Bergman was an United States voice actor with numerous roles and bit parts in television, movies, direct-to-video animation, and advertising....
, best-known for her work on South Park
South Park

South Park is an United Statesn animation situation comedy, notorious for its toilet humour, surrealism, and often black comedy, which satirizes Subject matter in South Park including religion, politics, violence, abuse, sexuality, and mental disorder....
. In late 1999, however, Bergman committed suicide.

In 2006, new episodes were produced featuring new characters, including a red Latino plane named Lina. The new episodes feature a beginning segment called "Jay Jay's Mysteries", in which Jay Jay and Lina solve mysteries such as how planes fly and how the five senses are used. The mysteries segment is followed by a story pulled from the original version of the series, making the "new" episodes a repackaging of a new format with old episodes tacked on to the end.

In Portuguese
Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and Portugal. It is derived from the Latin language spoken by the Romanization Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago....
 it is called "Jay Jay, o Jatinho" .

Before the well-known animated series there was a short non-animated series made in or around 1994, where the characters were still images of real models and did not talk, but was narrated similar to early episodes of Thomas The Tank Engine
Thomas the Tank Engine

Thomas the Tank Engine is a fictional anthropomorphic steam locomotive created by the W.V. Awdry in his The Railway Series books, made into the British children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends and its American spin-off Shining Time Station....
 or Theodore Tugboat
Theodore Tugboat

Theodore Tugboat is a children's television show about a tugboat named Theodore who lives in the Big Harbour with all of his friends. The show was produced in Metropolitan Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada by CBC Television and Cochran Entertainment....
  . It contained three videos: Jay Jay's First Flight, Old Oscar Leads the Parade, and Tracy's Handy Hideout.

Possible inspirations for the show are Budgie the Little Helicopter
Budgie the Little Helicopter

Budgie the Little Helicopter is a series of children's books and animated TV series relating to a fictional character 'Budgie' and his friends....
 and Jimbo and the Jet Set
Jimbo and the Jet Set

Jimbo and the Jet Set was a uk animation cartoon series in the 1980s, featuring the adventures of the eponymous Jimbo, a talking aeroplane....
.

Characters

Note:
Relationship words for the aeroplane characters refer to being in loco parentis
In loco parentis

The term in loco parentis, Latin for "in the place of a parent" or "instead of a parent," refers to the legal responsibility of a person or organization to take on some of the functions and responsibilities of a parent....
 for purposes of upbringing and education, not to biological parenthood.
The story says that the aeroplane characters were made in factories.
The aeroplanes depict a typical family. Information from the makers of the series says that their (mental) ages are as stated; but Jay Jay and Tracy act more as if they were around the beginning of teenage.


The planes and ground vehicles are CGI characters.

Young plane characters

  • Jay Jay. Male. 6 years old. Small jet airliner
    Jet airliner

    A jet airliner is a passenger airplane that is powered by jet engines. This term is sometimes contracted to jetliner.In contrast to today's relatively fuel-efficient, turbofan-powered air travel, first generation jet airliner travel was noisy and fuel inefficient....
    . Mary Kay Bergman
    Mary Kay Bergman

    Mary Kay Bergman was an United States voice actor with numerous roles and bit parts in television, movies, direct-to-video animation, and advertising....
     made his voice.
  • Tracy. Female. 6 years old. Small jet airliner. Normal hearing, but understands American Sign Language
    American Sign Language

    American Sign Language is the dominant sign language of the Deaf community in the United States, in the anglophone parts of Canada, and in parts of Mexico....
    .
  • Snuffy. Male. 4 years old. Small propeller monoplane
    Monoplane

    A monoplane is an aircraft with one main set of wing surfaces, in contrast to a biplane or triplane. Since the late 1930s it has been the "ordinary" form for a fixed wing aircraft....
    . Is equipped for skywriting
    Skywriting

    Skywriting is the process of using a small aircraft, able to expel special smoke during flight, to fly in certain patterns to create writing readable by someone on the ground....
  • Herky. Male. 5 years old. Helicopter
    Helicopter

    A helicopter is an aircraft that is Lift and propelled by one or more horizontal plane Helicopter rotors, each rotor consisting of two or more rotor blades....
    . Has skid
    Skid

    Skid may refer to:* Skid, a pallet, a wood or plastic platform for holding machinery or equipment* Skid , an outward side-slip in an aircraft turn...
    s instead of wheel
    Wheel

    A wheel is a circular device that is capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation whilst supporting a load , or performing labour in machines....
    s and cannot taxi
    Taxiing

    Taxiing refers to the movement of an aircraft on the ground, under its own power. The aircraft usually moves on wheels, but the term also includes aircraft with skis or Buoyancy ....
     on the ground.


Older plane characters

  • Big Jake. Male. Adult. Father figure. Cargo carrier. Propeller-driven.
  • Savannah. Female. Adult. Mother figure. Supersonic
    Supersonic

    The term supersonic is used to define a speed that is over the speed of sound . At a typical temperature like 21 ?C , the threshold value required for an object to be traveling at a supersonic speed is approximately 344 metre per second, ....
     airliner. She was made at Savannah
    Savannah, Georgia

    Savannah is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Chatham County, Georgia, Georgia , United States. Savannah was established in 1733 and was the first colonial and state capital of Georgia....
     in Georgia
    Georgia (U.S. state)

    Georgia is a U.S. state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against United Kingdom rule in the American Revolution....
     (USA), hence (in the story) her name.
  • Oscar. Male. Old adult. Grandfather-like figure. Old biplane
    Biplane

    A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings. The Wright brothers Wright Flyer used a biplane design, as did most aircraft in the early years of aviation....
    .


Ground vehicles

  • Revvin' Evan. Fire engine.
  • Tuffy. Towtruck.


Humans

  • Brenda Blue: Woman in bib-and-brace overall
    Overall

    An overall is a type of garment which is usually used as protective clothing when working. Some people call an overall a "pair of overalls" by analogy with "pair of trousers"....
     and usually wears either red or blue cap. In charge of the airport, and is the mechanic
    Mechanic

    A mechanic is a person who uses tools to repair things or works to keep things operating properly.Many mechanics are specialized in a particular field such as auto mechanics, bicycle mechanics, boiler mechanics, industrial maintenance mechanics , air conditioning and refrigeration mechanics, aircraft mechanics, diesel mechanics and tank m...
    . She does not use the airport's control tower
    Control tower

    A control tower, or more specifically an air traffic control tower, is the name of the airport building from which the air traffic control unit controls the movement of aircraft on and around the airport....
     but communicates with the planes by a portable two-way radio from the ground. Played by actress / child psychologist
    Psychologist

    "Psychologist" is an academic, occupational or professional title describing individuals who are either: * social scientists conducting research and/or teaching psychology in a college or university;...
     Eve Whittle
    Eve Whittle

    Eve Whittle is an United States actress and child psychologist best known for her TV role of the earnest and enthusiastic airport supervisor/technician Brenda Blue on the PBS Kids Computer-generated imagery animated cartoon series Jay Jay the Jet Plane....
     and Vanessa Stacey
    Vanessa Stacey

    Vanessa Stacey is a New Zealand film actress, television actress and stage actress as well as a former playwright, comedienne and musician. Best known as List of The Tribe characters#Alice in the New Zealand cult science fiction series The Tribe and as Brenda Blue in the British children's television show Jay Jay the Jet Plane...
     in the UK version.
  • Mrs. Blue: is Brenda Blue's mother who sometimes visits Tarrytown Airport.
  • Miss Jones: is a deaf librarian at Tarrytown Library who knows American Sign Language
    American Sign Language

    American Sign Language is the dominant sign language of the Deaf community in the United States, in the anglophone parts of Canada, and in parts of Mexico....
    .
  • Easy O'Malley. He founded EZ Airlines and his cousins are Grumpy O'Malley (lives at Dewdrop Farm), Pierre O'Malley (lives in France
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
    ) and Tex O'Malley (lives in Texas
    Texas

    Texas is a U.S. state located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning , and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents....
    ).
  • There are other human characters who appear from time to time.
  • Tarrytown Airport is run by a small firm called EZ Airlines.
In Tarrytown is a school called the Michael O'Tarry School.

Animals

  • Breezy: is a Monarch butterfly
    Monarch butterfly

    The monarch is a milkweed butterfly , in the family Nymphalidae. It is perhaps the best known of all North American butterflies. Since the 19th century, it is also found in New Zealand, and has been known in Australia since 1871....
    . One episode shows Jay Jay following Breezy's long autumn migration from Tarrytown to a hibernation site in a mountaintop forest.
  • Bobby Bee and Billy Bee: are two bee
    Bee

    Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants. Bees are a monophyly lineage within the superfamily Apoidea, presently classified by the unranked taxon name Anthophila....
    s. They first appear in the episode Catch the Buzz where they accidentally get into the electronics
    Electronics

    Electronics refers to the flow of charge through nonmetal electrical conductor , whereas electrical refers to the flow of charge through metal electrical conductor....
     of Big Jake and Herky (in that order) causing locomotor ataxia
    Locomotor ataxia

    Locomotor ataxia is inability to control one's body movements as intended.It is often a symptom of Tabes dorsalis....
     forcing Big Jake and Herky to land until Brenda Blue goes inside them and investigates.
  • The lightning bugs
    Fireflies

    Fireflies is a novel by Shiva Naipaul originally published in 1970. It was his first book, a comic novel set in Trinidad. In an essay in An Unfinished Journey, Naipaul described how in 1968 as a final year student at Oxford University studying Chinese, he had been moved to write down a sentence, which proved to be the beginning of his fir...
     at Lightning Bug Lake.


Abilities and needs of the characters

Going into places impossible for planes (outer space and underwater) happens only in dreams that some of the characters have. A few episodes have a geographical fault and show an airstrip on land at the North Pole
North Pole

The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole is, subject to the caveats explained below, defined as the point in the northern hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets the Earth's surface....
. One pair of episodes shows Santa Claus
Santa Claus

Santa Claus is a folklore figure in various cultures who distributes gifts to children, normally on Christmas Eve. Each name is a variation of Saint Nicholas, but refers to Santa Claus....
 as existing.

Each of the plane characters seems to have a biological
Biological process

A biological process is a process of a living organism. Biological processes are made up of any number of chemical reactions or other events that results in a Chemical transformation....
 part including a stomach
Stomach

In most mammals, the stomach is a hollow muscular organ of the gastrointestinal tract involved in the second phase of digestion, following mastication....
, that needs the same food as humans eat, and a mechanical
Machine

A machine is any device that uses energy to perform some activity. In common usage, the meaning is that of a device having parts that perform or assist in performing any type of work....
 part that needs fuel and engine oil. Some of the things that the planes are reported as doing off-camera, would need them to have foldaway arms to handle items with, but those arms are never seen on camera.

Places

  • Tarrytown: is in a hilly area with enough rain to keep the land green, and frost and snow sometimes in the winter. There are forested mountains and desert near.
  • Tarrytown Airport: is a place where Jay Jay and his friends live and Brenda Blue works.


Other Places

    • Tarrytown National Park
    • Smiling Meadow.
    • Sandy Landing
    • Pangabula Island
    • Tarrytown Quarry
    • Sunshine Desert
    • Tippy Toppy Peak
    • Frosty Pines.
    • Echo Canyon.
    • Cherry Tree Lake


  • Tarrytown town and airport are never seen in moving-camera shots, and therefore are likely real miniature sets which were photographed and those photographs were used as backgrounds in the CGI images. The airport runway may be a CGI ground plane texture map
    Computer-generated imagery

    Computer-generated imagery is the application of the field of computer graphics or, more specifically, 3D computer graphics to special effects in films, television programs, Television commercials, simulators and simulation generally, and printed media....
    ped with a photograph of real fullsize or miniature tarmac.


How the series was produced

The series was produced by Modern Cartoons in their works in Oxnard, California
Oxnard, California

Oxnard is the largest city in Ventura County, California, California in terms of population. It is located at the western edge of the fertile Oxnard Plain, and is one of the world's most important agricultural centers, with its distinction as the strawberry and lima bean capital....
, USA. Unlike Thomas the Tank Engine
Thomas the Tank Engine

Thomas the Tank Engine is a fictional anthropomorphic steam locomotive created by the W.V. Awdry in his The Railway Series books, made into the British children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends and its American spin-off Shining Time Station....
, this series used a mixture of techniques:
  • The backgrounds were miniature sets (usually built on 2 4'x8' sheets of plywood)
  • Brenda Blue was a live action
    Live action

    In film, theatre and video, live-action refers to works that are acted out by human actors, as opposed to by animation. As it is the norm, the term is usually superfluous, but it makes an important distinction in situations in which one might normally expect animation, as in a Pixar film, a video game or when the work is adapted from an anim...
     actress shot in front of a greenscreen
  • The planes were computer models created in Maya and a proprietary software.
  • The movement of the planes was recorded by playing out the scene with wood models that had magnetic position sensors. The planes had a switch to aid landing
    Landing

    Landing is the last part of a flight, where a flying animal, aircraft, or spacecraft returns to the ground. When the flying object returns to water, the process is called alighting, although it is commonly called "landing" and "touchdown" as well....
     and taxiing
    Taxiing

    Taxiing refers to the movement of an aircraft on the ground, under its own power. The aircraft usually moves on wheels, but the term also includes aircraft with skis or Buoyancy ....
    , due to some minor fluctuations in the magnetic positioning data.
  • The planes' faces and lip synching were done by "face tracking". This is a technique where reflective spots are put on a voice actor's face. The voice track is being digitally recorded along with the spot data. Then using a form of parametric animation
    Parametric animation

    Parametric animation is an animation technique utilized in computer software, such as in computer games, that blends two or more separate animations together to form a new animation....
     the face is rendered.
  • Head movement and other effects were done by joystick
    Joystick

    A joystick is an input device consisting of a stick that pivots on a base and reports its angle or direction to the device it is controlling. Joysticks are often used to control video games, and usually have one or more push-buttons whose state can also be read by the computer....
    s.


The complex mathematical and CGI issues were solved by Frank Ford Little, PhD.

A number of proprietary software systems were used:
  • The data/audio recording and smoothing was done on a Windows machine.
  • The daily cuts were done on "Compaq
    Compaq

    Compaq Computer Corporation was an United States personal computer company founded in 1982, and is now a brand name of Hewlett-Packard Company....
     Alpha" computers running a 64-bit version of Windows NT 4.0.


In the episode Supersonic Jay Jay Savannah has to carry Jay Jay on her back, and Jay Jay wavers about somewhat compared to Savannah: this seems to show that in the CGI
Computer-generated imagery

Computer-generated imagery is the application of the field of computer graphics or, more specifically, 3D computer graphics to special effects in films, television programs, Television commercials, simulators and simulation generally, and printed media....
 package used, one character could not be parented to another character as can be done in Poser.

Miscellaneous

  • At first, Jay Jay the Jet Plane came in comparison to Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
    Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends

    Thomas and Friends is a United Kingdom children's television series, first broadcast on Central Television in June 1984. Until Season 7, which premiered in 2003, it was named Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends....
     within 1994-1995. The show was shot using live-action models, mainly the jets built to scale, and crafted humans, such as Brenda Blue and E.Z. O'Malley. This version was named the "pilot series", leading up to the CGI series of Jay Jay. The personalities of the characters were as in the current version.
  • Consistency between some of the episodes depends on the order of the episodes. For example, one episode says that Snuffy has not flown further away from Tarrytown than Lightning Bug Lake, but other episodes show him flying much further; in "Catch the Buzz" Snuffy still has not got rid of his original shyness
    Shyness

    In humans, shyness is a social psychology term used to describe the feeling of apprehension, insecure, or awkwardness experienced when a person is in proximity to, approaching, or being approached by other people, especially in new situations or with unfamiliar people....
    , but in many other episodes he shows no sign of shyness.
  • Sometimes the planes taxi
    Taxiing

    Taxiing refers to the movement of an aircraft on the ground, under its own power. The aircraft usually moves on wheels, but the term also includes aircraft with skis or Buoyancy ....
     on the town streets.
  • Each episode
    Episode

    An episode is a part of a dramatic work such as a Serial television program or Radio programming program. An episode is a part of a sequence of a body of work, akin to a chapter of a book....
     contains one or more songs. Each song only seems to occur in one episode.
  • The first 20 stories show the propellers spinning very slowly. Beginning with the story "Picture Day", the propellors are made to look more believable. The remaining stories have the propellors spinning rapidly (unless a character is underwater). Also before "Picture Day" the characters had lights but they did not appear to function. The opening theme has the propellers spin rapidly. This opening is used for the entire series.


Jay Jay's Mysteries


10 new episodes

  • The Mystery of Plants
  • The Mystery of Weather
  • The Mystery of Size and Shape
  • The Mystery of Flight
  • The Mystery of the Five Senses
  • The Mystery of Water
  • The Mystery of Bugs
  • The Mystery of Time
  • The Mystery of Stars and Planets
  • The Mystery of Dinosaurs


New characters

  • Lina: Jay Jay's New Friend. She speaks Spanish and English at the same time.
  • Montana: Safari
    Safari

    A safari is an overland journey. It usually refers to a trip by tourists to Africa, traditionally for a Big Five game Hunting#Safari; today the term often refers to a trip taken not for the purposes of hunting, but to observe and photograph big game and other wildlife....
     plane. Mental age adult female. Largely green, has cowboy hat, 2 propeller
    Propeller

    A propeller is a type of fan which transmits power by converting rotational motion into thrust. It can be used to drive an fixed-wing aircraft, ship, or the fluid within a pump....
     engines, skids or floats instead of wheels. On the show, she is purple, but on the website, she is green.
  • Captain Bob: Firefighting plane. Mental age adult male. Red and yellow. Has floats on legs at ends of wings. Undercarriage missing or retractable. Probably can land on water and take off from water. Has a firefighting water scoop
    Water scoop

    Water scoop may refer to:*A device on a steam locomotive used to replenish water while in motion, see: Track pan*A simple hydraulic power machine, see Water scoop ...
    .
  • Solar: Mental age young male. Yellow. Long wide wings. 6 propellers driven by electricity from solar panel
    Photovoltaic module

    In the field of photovoltaics, a photovoltaic module or photovoltaic panel is a packaged interconnected assembly of photovoltaic cells, also known as solar cells....
    s covering the tops of his wings.
  • Truckee: Dump truck
    Dump truck

    A dump truck or production truck is a truck used for transporting loose material for construction. A typical dump truck is equipped with a Hydraulic machinery operated open-box bed hinged at the rear, the front of which can be lifted up to allow the contents to be deposited on the ground behind the truck at the site of delivery....
    . Mental age "boy".


Broadcasting

The series is broadcast over many of the 379 member stations of the Public Broadcasting Service
Public Broadcasting Service

The Public Broadcasting Service is an United States non-profit public broadcasting television service with 354 member TV stations in the United States....
 of the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
.

The series has been broadcast in Britain.

In Malaysia, the series aired on TV2
TV2 (Malaysia)

RTM TV2 is a television station in Malaysia that is owned by the Malaysian Government through Radio Televisyen Malaysia....
 in Malaysia, and is still airing over the RIA channel on Astro
Astro (satellite TV)

Astro is a subscription-based direct broadcast satellite service based in Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It transmits digital satellite television and satellite radio to households initially in Malaysia, but also expands to Brunei and Indonesia....


In Singapore, the series aired on MediaCorp TV(Kids Central)

It was funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Corporation for Public Broadcasting

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a private non-profit corporation created by an act of the United States Congress and largely funded by the Federal government of the United States to promote public broadcasting....
 and by contributions to your PBS stations from Viewers Like You. Corporate sponsors are Books-A-Million
Books-A-Million

Books-A-Million Inc. or BAM! was founded in 1917 as a street corner newsstand in Florence, Alabama. Books-A-Million has become the third largest book retailer in the United States ....
, and Chuck E. Cheese's
Chuck E. Cheese's

Chuck E. Cheese's is a chain of family entertainment centers. The parent company, CEC Entertainment, Inc. , is headquartered in Irving, Texas, and as of February 2009, they operate 524 restaurants in the United States, Canada, Chile, Guatemala, and other countries....
.

Episode list


Pilot series

  • 89: Jay Jay's First Flight
  • 90: Tracy's Fantastic Journey
  • 91: Herky's Bright Idea
  • 92: Old Oscar Steals the Show
  • 93: Jay Jay's Colorful Cover-Up
  • 94: Old Oscar Leads the Parade
  • 95: Snuffy's Birthday Surprise
  • 96: Tracy's Magic Moment
  • 97: Jay Jay and the Sparkleberry Tree
  • 98: Tracy's Handy Hideout
  • 99: Herky Uses His Head
  • 100: Snuffy and the Snowman


Series 1

  • 101: Spending Time with Big Jake
The New Plane: Snuffy comes.
  • 102: Tracy's Shooting Star: meteor
    METEOR

    METEOR is a Metrics for the evaluation of machine translation output. The metric is based on the harmonic mean of unigram precision and recall, with recall weighted higher than precision....
    s.
Upsy Downosis: The planes catch an epidemic of a disease that makes planes fly upside down.
  • 103: Opposites : finding things which are like other things in an opposite kind of way
Tracy's Sonic Boom
  • 104: Jay Jay's Butterfly's Adventure: Jay Jay follows a monarch butterfly
    Monarch butterfly

    The monarch is a milkweed butterfly , in the family Nymphalidae. It is perhaps the best known of all North American butterflies. Since the 19th century, it is also found in New Zealand, and has been known in Australia since 1871....
     south to its winter hibernation site.
The Singing Meadow: The planes find a hummingbird
Hummingbird

Hummingbirds are birds in the family Trochilidae, and are endemic to the Americas. They can hover in mid-air by rapidly flapping their wings 15?200 times per second ....
 colony.
  • 105: Jay Jay Meets Captain Hightower: Tarrytown needs an air traffic controller
    Air traffic controller

    Air traffic controllers are people who operate the air traffic control system to expedite and maintain a safe and orderly flow of Aircraft and help prevent mid-air collisions....
    .
Tracy's Snuggly Blanket: Tracy is reluctant to give up her comfort blanket.
  • 106: Fire Engine Evan: Evan comes.
Tracy's Candy Catastrophe: Tracy eats too much candy
Candy

Candy, specifically sugar candy, is a confection made from a concentrated solution of sugar in water, to which flavorings and colorants are added....
.
  • 107: Tuffy the Tiny Tow Truck: Tuffy comes.
Snuffy's Snowman: Snuffy makes a snowman
Snowman

A 'snowman' is an anthropomorphic snow sculpture of a human....
 and wonders where to keep it.
  • 108: Tuffy's Buried Treasure
Snuffy's Thanksgiving: about Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving (United States)

Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, at the end of the harvest season, is an annual United States Federal holiday to express Gratitude for one's material possessions....
.
  • 109: Snuffy and the Colors of Fall: about autumn.
Snuffy's Birthday Surprise
  • 110: A Trip to Skylandia: a dream that Jay Jay has.
Brenda's Mother's Day: While tidying up for Brenda's mother coming, parts of different orders get muddled.


Series 2

  • 111: Picture Day Snuffy's propeller blocks his face when taking pictures. He later learns how to stop his propeller horizontally to where it looks like a mustache. (However in the previous 20 stories, his propellor was always able to land like this.)
    Tracy's Song: Tracy's plan to sing at a concert is spoilt by laryngitis
    Laryngitis

    Laryngitis is an inflammation of the larynx. It causes hoarse human voice or the complete loss of the voice because of irritation to the vocal folds ....
    .
  • 112: Hide and Seek
Big Jake's Birthday Surprise
  • 113: Catch the Buzz: Big Jake and Herky each get a bee
    Bee

    Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants. Bees are a monophyly lineage within the superfamily Apoidea, presently classified by the unranked taxon name Anthophila....
     in his electronics
    Electronics

    Electronics refers to the flow of charge through nonmetal electrical conductor , whereas electrical refers to the flow of charge through metal electrical conductor....
    , causing locomotor ataxia
    Locomotor ataxia

    Locomotor ataxia is inability to control one's body movements as intended.It is often a symptom of Tabes dorsalis....
    .
Grumpy O'Malley
  • 114: Snuffy's First Day at School: Oscar is the teacher.
Supersonic Jay Jay: Jay Jay takes some of Savannah's fuel.
  • 115: Tuffy's Trip to Pangabula: Tuffy and some of the planes fly to Pangabula Island.
Tuffy's Adventure in Pangabula: a storm would have blown the sparkleberry tree down, but Tuffy saved it.
  • 116: Jay Jay and the Stars at Night: astronomy
    Astronomy

    Astronomy is the science of Astronomical object and Phenomenon that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere . It is concerned with the evolution, physics, chemistry, meteorology, and motion of celestial objects, as well as the physical cosmology....
Hero Herky: Herky rescues a stranded ski
Ski

A ski is a long, flat device worn on the feet designed to help the wearer slide smoothly over snow. Originally intended as an aid to travel in snowy regions, they are now primarily used for recreational and sporting purposes....
er and it goes to his head.
  • 117: Wing Wigglin': keep-fit gymnastics
    Gymnastics

    Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility and coordination. Artistic Gymnastics is the best known and most popular of the gymnastics sports governed by the F?d?ration Internationale de Gymnastique ....
    .
Tracy's Tree: a tree seedling
Seedling

A seedling is a young plant sporophyte developing out of a plant embryo from a seed. Seedling development starts with germination of the seed....
 grows in Tarrytown airport runway
Runway

A runway is a strip of land on an airport, on which aircraft can Takeoff and landing. Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface ....
.
  • 118: Super Loop-de-loop
Jay Jay's Bad Dream
  • 119: Evan Gets His Wings: Evan flies by dangling from a balloon
    Balloon

    A balloon is a flexible bag filled with a type of gas, such as helium, hydrogen, nitrous oxide or Earth's atmosphere. Modern balloons can be made from materials such as rubber, latex, polychloroprene, or a nylon fabric, while some early balloons were sometimes made of dried animal urinary bladders....
    .
Snuffy Sees the Big Picture: hay fever
Hay Fever

Hay Fever is a comic play written by No?l Coward in 1924 and first produced in 1925 with Marie Tempest as the first Judith Bliss. Best described as a cross between high farce and a comedy of manners, the play is set in an English country house in the 1920s, and deals with the four eccentric members of the Bliss family and their outlandish b...
.
  • 120: Jay Jay's Winter Parade: A blizzard
    Blizzard

    A blizzard is a severe winter storm condition characterized by low temperatures, strong winds, and heavy blowing snow. Blizzards are formed when a high pressure area, also known as a ridge, interacts with a low pressure area; this results in the advection of air from the high pressure zone into the low pressure area....
     and hard frost
    Frost

    Frost is the solid deposition of water vapor from Saturation air. It is formed when solid surfaces are cooled to below the dew point of the adjacent air....
     and power blackout foul up Tarrytown's plans for their "First Day of Winter" parade.
Snuffy's Seasons: Snuffy learns about the season
Season

A season is one of the major divisions of the year, generally based on yearly periodic changes in weather.Seasons result from the yearly revolution of the Earth around the Sun and the Axial tilt....
s.


Series 3

  • 121: Switcharound Day: Herky and Savannah try doing each other's jobs.
Snuffy's Missing Friend: Snuffy loses his shadow.
  • 122: Missing You: Big Jake is away on business.
Tippy Toppy Peak: Savannah teaches Tracy how to fly high.
  • 123: Tracy's Treasure Hunt
Jay Jay's New Wheels: Jay Jay needs new wheels because his old wheels are wearing out.
  • 124: Jay Jay's Christmas Adventure, part 1: One of Father Christmas
    Father Christmas

    Father Christmas is the name used in many English language speaking countries for the gift-bringing figure of Christmas. A similar figure with the same name exists in several other countries, including France Spain , Portugal , Italy and Romania ....
    's reindeer
    Reindeer

    The reindeer , also known as the caribou when wild in North America, is an Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer, widespread and numerous across the northern Holarctic....
     is ill,
Jay Jay's Christmas Adventure, part 2: and Jay Jay etc help him to deliver presents.
  • 125: Jay Jay and the Magic Books: Jay Jay was going to fly to Redwood Village, but the trip is rained off.
The Counting Game
  • 126: Babysitting Blues: Tracy babysits Snuffy.
Jay Jay Earns his Wings: a caterpillar
Caterpillar

Caterpillars are the larval form of a member of the order Lepidoptera . They are mostly phytophagous in food habit, with some species being entomophagous....
 turns into a monarch butterfly
Monarch butterfly

The monarch is a milkweed butterfly , in the family Nymphalidae. It is perhaps the best known of all North American butterflies. Since the 19th century, it is also found in New Zealand, and has been known in Australia since 1871....
.
  • 127: Herky Jerky: dancing. Herky invents a dance
Upside Down Waterfall: A new geyser
Geyser

A geyser is a hot spring characterized by intermittent discharge of water ejected turbulently and accompanied by a vapour phase . The name geyser comes from Geysir, the name of an erupting spring at Haukadalur, Iceland; that name, in turn, comes from the Icelandic verb gj?sa, "to gush"....
 in Tarrytown National Park
National park

A national park is a reserve of land, usually declared and owned by a national government, protected from most human development and pollution....
.
  • 128: I'm Being Followed by the Moon: Snuffy dreams of flying to the moon
    Moon

    The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and the List of natural satellites by diameter satellite in the Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is km, about thirty times the diameter of the Earth....
    .
Something Special: Evan goes off the road and gets stuck.
  • 129:Plane of a Different Color: Tracy tries new color schemes.
Hiccup Havoc: Herky gets hiccup
Hiccup

A hiccup or hiccough , is the spasmodic contraction of the Diaphragm that repeats several times per minute. In humans, the abrupt rush of air into the lungs causes the epiglottis to close, creating the "hic" noise....
s
  • 130: Concert Day at Tarrytown Airport
Snuffy's Favorite Color


Series 4

  • 131: And That's the Tooth: Snuffy loses a milk tooth
    Tooth

    Teeth are small whitish structures found in the jaws of many vertebrates that are used to tear, scrape, and chew food. Some animals, particularly carnivores, also use teeth for hunting or defense....
    .
Big Jake's Team: Big Jake trains some of the planes as firemen
Fireman

Fireman may refer to* Firefighter, employed that is to extinguish fires and rescue people from harms way* Fire Officer, a senior ranking firefighter or Fire Safety Inspector in the UK...
.
  • 132: I Love your Funny Face : competition making funny faces
Snuffy's Rainbow : Snuffy tries to find what a rainbow
Rainbow

A rainbow is an optics and meteorology phenomenon that causes a optical spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere....
 is
  • 133: The Buddy System; Jay Jay and Tracy run out of fuel in Sunshine Desert.
The Great Tarrytown Black-Out: Herky follows Tracy too much.
  • 134: Jay Jay Meets the Cloud King: A dream that Jay Jay has.
The Merit Badge
  • 135: Are We There Yet: Jay Jay and Snuffy and some others fly to Pangabula Island. It is Snuffy's first long flight.
Problem in Pangabula: The sparkleberry tree suffers from drought
Drought

A drought is an extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply. Generally, this occurs when a region receives consistently below average precipitation ....
.

Series 5

  • 136: Jay Jay's Dinosaur Hunt; Big Jake dug holes to install runway
    Runway

    A runway is a strip of land on an airport, on which aircraft can Takeoff and landing. Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface ....
     lights; Jay Jay and Tracy and Herky think that the holes are dinosaur
    Dinosaur

    Dinosaurs were the dominant vertebrate animals of Landform ecosystems for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic Period until the end of the Cretaceous Period , when most of them became extinct in the Cretaceous?Tertiary extinction event....
     footprint
    Footprint

    Footprints are the impressions or images left behind by a person walking. Hoofprints and pawprints are those left by animals with hoof or paws rather than foot, while "shoeprints" is the specific term for prints made by shoes....
    s.
Dough Nutty: Herky eats too many doughnut
Doughnut

A doughnut is a sweet, deep-fried piece of dough or batter . The two most common types are the torus-shaped ring doughnut and the filled doughnut, a flattened sphere injected with jam, jelly, cream, custard, or other sweet filling....
s.
  • 137: Snuffy Discovers the Ocean: Snuffy dreams of going underwater.
Jay Jay's Speedy Delivery
  • 138: Dog Gone Doggy: Brenda Blue boards someone's dog, and it runs away.
Herky's Cap Chase : chasing hats which got spilt on a windy day
  • 139: The Three Little Planes : A planned trip out is rained off, so Big Jake tells Jay Jay and Tracy and Herky a story
I'm Swamped: Jay Jay and some others collect a "swamp lily" (perhaps Crinum
Crinum

Crinum is a genus of about 180 species of perennial plants that have large showy flowers on leafless stems, and develop from bulbs. They are found along the sides of streams and lakes in tropical and subtropical areas worldwide, including South Africa....
 americanum) in the Okeefenokee Swamp.
  • 140: Old Oscar Leads the Parade
Revvin' Evan's Day


Funding

  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting
    Corporation for Public Broadcasting

    The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a private non-profit corporation created by an act of the United States Congress and largely funded by the Federal government of the United States to promote public broadcasting....
     (2001-present)
  • PBS Viewers Like You
    Public Broadcasting Service

    The Public Broadcasting Service is an United States non-profit public broadcasting television service with 354 member TV stations in the United States....
     (2001-present)
  • Chuck E. Cheese's
    Chuck E. Cheese's

    Chuck E. Cheese's is a chain of family entertainment centers. The parent company, CEC Entertainment, Inc. , is headquartered in Irving, Texas, and as of February 2009, they operate 524 restaurants in the United States, Canada, Chile, Guatemala, and other countries....
     (2001-present)
  • Books-A-Million
    Books-A-Million

    Books-A-Million Inc. or BAM! was founded in 1917 as a street corner newsstand in Florence, Alabama. Books-A-Million has become the third largest book retailer in the United States ....
     (2001-2007)


Translations

In foreign versions of the show, the human characters are often replaced with different actors. For example, in the Korea
Korea

Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries, a civilization, and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia....
n version of the show, a Korean actor takes the role of Brenda.

External links

  • Wonderwings.com (now called ) published the series. This is a new site and it needs Macromedia Flash.
  • Links at http://pbskids.org/jayjay :
    • : The production team
    • : Information
    • , including a picture of a Jay Jay model
    • Episode titles & links to episode descriptions, 5 episodes per page.
    • to http://pbskids.org/jayjay/care.showinfo.episodes40.html Description of each episode