Charlie's orchestra

Infobox_television
show_name = Charlie's Orchestra


caption = Charlie's orchestra logo
format = Animated series
runtime = 22 minutes (11 minutes per segment) (approx. per episode)
creator = Ian Whybrow and Adrian Reynolds
starring = Andrew Chalmers
Jamie Watson
Ron Rubin
Andrew Sabiston
Stacey DePass
Juan Chioran
Jonathan Wilson
Susan Roman
Bryn McAuley
Ellen-Ray Hennessy
Amanda Soha
country = United Kingdom
network = Playhouse Disney UK
France 3
BBC
first_aired = 2007
last_aired = 2009
num_episodes = 52 (26 shows with two stories or 52 shows with only one story)|

"Charlie's Orchestra" is a series of children's books written and drawn by Ian Whybrow and Adrian Reynolds. The series is about a 5-year-old boy named William, who get on Charlie's back. In the books the toys talk to William but seem to be toys to the other characters. The other main characters are Mum, Nan and William's sister Sam.

A Collingwood O'Hare Entertainment Production in association with Silver Fox Films

It was later adapted into a 52-episode animated television series of the same name, which premiered on BBC and France 3

Book List

* Charlie's orchestra
* Charlie's new adventures
* Walk and talk about
* Charlie's height flighet adventures

characters

* Charlie - the Piano
* the orchestra
* William And Others characters:
*"The List of Charlie's orchestra Characters"

Episode list

52 episodes in 26 shows were produced:
# "the night"
# "walk and talk about"
# "chase" & "charlie cracks some nuts"
# "Uh-Oh" & "Nobody's Listening to Me"
# "I Wish" & "Yaahhh!!!"
# "Charlie, Ace Reporter" & "sleep-waling"
# "are you"
# "Achoo!" & "Super heroes"
# "don't eat" & "Cookies"
# "Can I Keep It?" & "I Don't Want to Go to Bed"
# "Look What I Found!" & "I Still Can't Hear You"
# "To Outerspace" & "Hail the Queen!"
# "Steggy's Not Here" & "Get Growing!"
# "Let's Rock" & "the flash away"

The show is available to broadcasters as either 52 15-minute episodes or 26 half-hour episodes. Most channels air the half-hour episodes, but some channels might air only one 15-minute episode a day. Others, including Playhouse Disney Asia and Cartoon Network USA (as part of their Tickle-U schedule) airs two of the 15-minute episodes back to back. This is noticeable from the credits and opening being shown twice, one one each episode.

Trivia

* Each episode of the television series always begins with Harry saying the phrase that is used as the title of the episode.
* It appears that "Adventures" is a place that is loosely based on Harry's bedroom. The wallpaper on Harry's bedroom walls corresponds to the sky of DinoWorld, while Pillow Mountain is possibly Harry's pillow. Some locations in DinoWorld do not have corresponding locations in the Harry's bedroom, however.
* The program is offered to networks in either 26 22-minute episodes with two stories each or 52 11-minute episodes with only one story per episode. Curiously, some networks pick up the 52 11-minute episodes and air two of them back to back instead of airing just one 22-minute episode.
* All six of Harry's dinos are actual known species of dinosaur, correctly named. Their nicknames are derived from their taxonomical names, e.g. "Patsy" from "apatosaur".

External links

* [http://www.tickleu.com/shows/harry/index.html "Charlie's orchestra"] at Tickle-U.com
* [http://www.tv.com/Charlies-orchestra/show/33967/summary.html "Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs" at TV.com]
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* [http://www.toonhound.com/co.htm Toonhound-Charlie's orchestra]