TV and Film:Truckers

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Truckers
Cover to the DVD
ASIN {{{asin}}}
IMDB 0105646
First Broadcast 1992
Broadcast Channel ITV
Director(s) {{{director}}}
Producer(s) Jackie Cockle
Writer(s) {{{writer}}}
Starring Joe McGann, Debra Gillett, Rosalie Williams
Duration 132 minutes
Episodes 13
Series Bromeliad
Annotations Annotations for TV and Film:Truckers
Notes
Preceded by '
Followed by Johnny and the Dead
All data relates to the UK home release.

Terry Pratchett's Truckers is a stop-motion animated TV series Produced by Cosgrove Hall in 1992.

Plot

The plot follows the same events as Truckers, the first book in the Bromeliad series, which follows Masklin's attempt to lead his tribe to safety first at the Store, and then later away again after news of the Store's imminent demolition.

Episodes

The series originally consisted of thirteen, ten minute long episodes, this changed when the series was released on video and they were edited together as a single 'film.' Later re-released on DVD.

Cast

Adaptation

Hardback picture book cover

The TV series was also adapted into a hardback book by Ladybird Press and a paperback book by Corgi the same year as its release which were both illustrated with pictures from the series.