Stan, Patch and Little Red Tractor are joined by a host of colourful friends in this charmingly animated show based on the books of Colin Reeder with narration by Richard Briers and Brian Glover.
With over 500,000 words you’d think the English language has a word for everything. But dig a little deeper and you’ll find it doesn’t. In a fun and fast-paced local series, indigenous Comedians and Language Warriors Bjorn Stewart and Katie Beckett introduce you to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander words you never knew you needed.
The story takes place during the weeks before Christmas, in the small mining town of fictitious Granhyttan in Bergslagen, Sweden. One day a suspicious couple, Signe and Orvar, arrives in the small town and retires in an abandoned hut. Nobody knows what they up to; but strange things starts to happen as Staffan finds a gold nugget while playing in a disused mine at the Kråkberget Mountain during a skiing trip with his schoolmates. Staffan believes the nugget is a part of Skarp-Erik's gold, as his grandpa had told exciting stories about. The news about the gold discovery spread quickly and Staffan and his friends are soon pursued by curious schoolmates, school staff and also the mysterious strangers. All this happens as the students are rehearsing for the nativity play before Christmas break.
Polka Dot Door was a long-running Canadian children's television series produced by the Ontario Education Communications Authority from 1971–1993. PDD was created and developed by a team of employees from TVOntario hired and led by original series producer-director, Peggy Liptrott.
Significant contributors to the creation and development of the series in 1971 included Executive Producer Dr. Vera Good who laid the conceptual foundation of the show, Educational Supervisor, Marnie Patrick Roberts, Educational Consultant L. Ted Coneybeare, Script Writers/Composers, Pat Patterson and Dodi Robb, Animator Dick Derhodge and Dr. Ada Scherman, a professor at the prestigious Institute of Child Study in Toronto who was consulted in the early stages of PDD's development and is responsible for giving the show its name.
In 2005, Kang Moon-Jae (Lee Hyun-Woo) is a high-school student and a trouble maker. Since his mother remarried, Kang Moon-Jae has lived with his father, Kang Ka-Deuk (Ahn Nae-Sang), but he can't get along with him. One day, Kang Moon-Jae runs away on his motorcycle and gets into an accident.
He then finds himself in 2015 and learns that his father is in a comatose state. Ka-Deuk got into an accident trying to find his son. Kang Moon-Jae decides to go back to 2005 to change the future.