Dream Street (TV series)

Dream Street was a British children's TV series of the late 1990s. It featured the antics of a variety of toy vehicles in a child's playroom. Unusually for this type of show, the vehicles were not conventionally animated but were radio-controlled in real-time. The storyline was largely narrated, originally by British comedian Russ Abbott [1] and later by others. It continues to air on Tiny Pop in the UK.

Characters

• Daisy Do-Right - a cute but bossy police car.

• Buddy - a pickup truck with various removable accessories.

• Half-Pint - a small and shy milk float.

• Hot Rodney - a brash and reckless hot-rod.

• Hot Air - a strange three-wheeled "bug" resembling a vacuum-cleaner or an industrial compressor.

• Jack Hammer - a mischievous pneumatic drill.

• The Wild Bunch - a group of traffic cones.

• Ice Cool- an ice cream van

• The Sleeping Policemen - pedestrian crossings literally consisting of slumbering constables covered with striped blankets.

• The Gossips - a pair of traffic lights named Amber and Scarlet.

• Tech - a mechanical robot whose magical powers enable Buddy to take on different roles.

Episodes

Season 1 - 1999-2000

1. The Best of Dream Street
2. Jumping Jack

Season 2 - 2008-2009

Trivia

• In the first season, the opening theme was instrumental and the ending theme has a child scatting. In the second season, proper vocals were added to the updated opening theme, but the closing theme remained the same.
• The characters were used to promote road safety for children in a short-lived campaign called Streetwise.
• The pilot episode was on two VHS tapes, My Friends in Dream Street and My Favourite Friends, both released by Carlton Home Entertainment.