Go Jetters

Go Jetters
Created by Barry Quinn and Katie Simmons
Composer(s) Banks and Wag
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
No. of series 1
No. of episodes 39 (52 planned)
Production
Running time 11 minutes [1]
Production company(s) Boulder Media and Giant Animation for BBC Television
Distributor BBC
Release
Original network CBeebies
First shown in United Kingdom
Original release October 26, 2015 (2015-10-26)
Chronology
Preceded by Canimals
Followed by Rainbow Ruby

Go Jetters is a 3D animated British children's television series currently airing on CBeebies.[2]

This geography based programme was commissioned by CBeebies Controller Kay Benbow and is a co-production of CBeebies In-house Production and BBC Worldwide.[3]

Aimed at the upper-end of preschool ages 4–6,[4] Go Jetters follows the adventures of four heroes, Xuli, Kyan, Lars and Foz, as they travel the world with their teacher, mentor and friend, Ubercorn. The show uses songs and music to expose facts about foreign countries and environments.

Information about Go Jetters

Go Jetters

Each Go Jetter has a star logo on their suit, and a particular speciality and a sentence they'll often repeat over the episodes.

Xuli

Only girl of the group and pilot of their vehicle, the Vroomster. Her purple and yellow suit has stylised wings around its logo. Her catchphrase is 'not cool!'. Voiced by Pilar Orti.[5]

Kyan

The sporty one, very good at gymnastics. He wears a deep blue and orange suit with no particular sign of his speciality. He is known to say "aced it!" in every episode. Voiced by Akie Kotabe.[6]

Lars

The tallest of all, really good at fixing things. In red and white, his logo has a cog-shaped surrounding. Known to say "Geographic!" in most episodes. Lars is also shown being an Eiffel Tower lover in the first episode of the series. Voiced by Syrus Lowe.[7]

Foz

The clever one. In light blue and yellow, his logo is shaped as a broken circle identical to an on/off button symbol. Known to build his sentences like mathematical formulae ( X plus Y equals Z). Voiced by John Hasler.[8]

Ubercorn

The leader and mentor of the Go Jetters Academy, he is a funky-disco grooving unicorn.[9] Dressed with a white glittery suit with light blue stars, purple goggles and red sparkly boots, he guides the Go Jetters during their missions by giving them advice and selecting click-ons for them. He also presents them with facts about the places they visit. Voiced by Tommie Earl Jenkins [10]

Jet Pad

This high-tech computerised jet helps the Go Jetters to go around the world and serves as their HQ. The computer is voiced by Naomi McDonald.[11]

Villains

Grandmaster Glitch

Grandmaster Glitch is a disgruntled former cadet of the Go Jetter Academy. Glitch likes dirt and having fun, which usually involves destroying or using a landmark to achieve his plans. He has a large moustache, used as his trademark, and funnel-like pieces on his helmet. He calls the Go Jetters "No-Jetters" and often says "Grimbles!". He goes around in his Grimbler, a little rusty ship. Voiced by Marc Silk.[12]

Grimbots

Little spherical robots, Grandmaster Glitch's minions. They take care of everything at Grim HQ, Glitch's main jet and help Glitch in his mischievous activities. Voiced by Marc Silk.[13]

Episode structure

Each episode is built on a similar structure, as follows:

- Aboard their Jet Pad, the Go Jetters are heading to a new place to discover a new landmark.

- On the way, Ubercorn gives them his top 3 "funky facts" on the place they are going to visit.

- Once there, they discover the landmark being "glitched" (altered in some way) by Grandmaster Glitch and his grimbots.

- The Go Jetters have the mission to save the landmark. They ask Ubercorn for some "Click-ons" (gadgets) to help them in their task.

- The landmark is saved, and the Go Jetters take a selfie as a souvenir.

List of episodes [14][15]

Title Synopsis First aired
1 The Eiffel Tower, France Grandmaster Glitch steals the Eiffel tower to use as a TV aerial. October 26, 2015
2 The Pyramids of Giza, Egypt Grandmaster Glitch steals the Great Pyramid of Giza to play his shape game. October 27, 2015
3 Stonehenge, England Grandmaster Glitch decides to play giant dominoes with Stonehenge stones. October 28, 2015
4 The Sahara Desert, Africa When building a sandcastle around an oasis, Glitch threatens the safety of the touaregs and their camels. October 29, 2015
5 Niagara Falls, Canada and USA A hydroelectric power station stops when Grandmaster Glitch blocks the Niagara falls to get muddy. October 30, 2015
6 Sydney Opera House, Australia Grandmaster Glitch steals the Sydney Opera House to compete in a yacht race. November 3, 2015
7 The Statue of Liberty, USA Grandmaster Glitch decides to customise the Statue of Liberty to make it look like him. November 10, 2015
8 The Brandenburg Gate, Germany Grandmaster Glitch steals part of the Brandenburg Gate to make himself a Carousel. November 17, 2015
9 Lambert-Fisher Glacier, Antarctica When making an ice statue of himself, Glitch threatens the Lambert Glacier. November 24, 2015
10 Chichen Itza, Mexico Grandmaster Glitch's giant ball game threatens El Castillo, Chichen Itza. December 1, 2015
11 Great Wall of China Glitch and his Grimbots threaten the Great Wall of China while racing on it. March 21, 2016
12 Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy The Go Jetters race to fix the Leaning Tower of Pisa, but has it really been glitched? March 22, 2016
13 Lake Titicaca, South America Grandmaster Glitch lands with a splash in Lake Titicaca. March 23, 2016
14 The Collosseum, Italy Grandmaster Glitch goes to the Colloseum to race his grimbots. Can the Go Jetters stop him? March 24, 2016
15 The Taj Mahal, India The grimbots attach a bit of the Taj Mahal to GrimHQ. March 29, 2016
16 Mount Etna, Italy Grandmaster Glitch makes popcorn in Mount Etna but blocks the volcano, endangering the farms. March 30, 2016
17 Table Mountain, South Africa The grimbots give Table Mountain a snowy peak, threatening its rare plants. March 31, 2016
18 The Northern Lights, Finland Ubercorn is excited to see the Northern Lights, but Glitch covers them with smoke. April 1, 2016
19 The Amazon Rainforest, South America Grandmaster Glitch stops the rain in the Amazon rainforest to have a picnic. June 6, 2016
20 The Dead Sea, Middle East The Go Jetters are relaxing by the Dead Sea when Grandmaster Glitch causes a catastrophe. June 7, 2016
21 The Forbidden City, China The Go Jetters have to stop some runaway Chinese drums rolling toward the Forbidden City. June 8, 2016
22 The Wieliczka Salt Mine, Poland The Go Jetters have to save the famous Salt Statues from floods due to Glitch's digging. June 9, 2016
23 Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland A giant Grandmaster Glitch is causing trouble at the Giant's Causeway. June 10, 2016
24 The Golden Gate Bridge, USA The Go Jetters have to act fast when the Golden Gate Bridge's foghorns go missing. June 13, 2016
25 Komodo National Park, Indonesia Grandmaster Glitch Supersizes a Komodo dragon. June 14, 2016
26 Big Ben, England On New Year's Eve, Big Ben goes missing. June 15, 2016
27 The Strokkur Geyser, Iceland A risk of earthquake needs sorting when the geyser gets stuck. June 16, 2016
28 The Aqueduct of Segovia, Spain The Go Jetters have to stop Glitch when he changes the aqueduct into a giant water slide. June 17, 2016
29 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Someone's stopped the samba at the Rio Carnival! Can the Go Jetters fix the glitch? August 5, 2016
30 Mount Everest, Asia The Go Jetters are enjoying a calm day, apart from Kyan who wants to go on an adventure. He settles on climbing Mount Everest. Grandmaster Glitch is busy working on his moustache and crashes into Mount Everest. The Grimbots play in the snow and are joined by Glitch, who makes a giant snowball which starts rolling down the mountain with him on it. the Go Jetters stop the snowball from hitting some mountaineers by using GO Shield and GO Force. Glitch ends up in the snow but the Grimbots have escaped in GrimHQ and left him cold in the snow. The Go Jetters rescue him and he presses a button in the JetPad leading to a funny selfie. September 19, 2016
31 Loch Ness, Scotland A Grimbot is spying on the Go Jetters as they read stories about the Loch Ness monster. They all go to Loch Ness. The Go Jetters view a tranquil loch with a fisherman in a boat. All of a sudden the fisherman is dragged along by an unknown creature. He finally lets go of his rod and Xuli, using GO Dive, goes to investigate. She takes a photo and it is Grandmaster Glitch in the Grimbler. Glitch continues to dive towards the bottom hunting for Nessie but the Grimbler begins to break apart and it shoots back to the surface spilling oil. The Go Jetters use GO Grab and GO fix to get some of the nearby peat to soak up the oil and put it back in the Grimbler. In the selfie there is a splash, was it Nessie? September 20, 2016
32 The Grand Canyon, USA Kyan is wire-walking across the Grand Canyon as part of the GO Jetters training. Grandmaster Glitch fires his own wire across the canyon onto the Grand Canyon Skywalk to try and beat Kyan. Grandmaster Glitch uses magnetic boots to walk across the wire. The Grimbots watch in admiration and play very loud music which causes the wires to vibrate leaving Kyan and Glitch hanging in danger, along with tourists on the Skywalk. Foz and Lars use GO Boots to support the Skywalk and to stop the loud music in the Grimbler. GO Fix is used by Lars to fix the Skywalk. Kyan then completes his wire walk with Grandmaster Glitch on his shoulders. Kyan gets a double GO Jetters award for: completing the wire walk and for saving Grandmaster Glitch. September 21, 2016
33 Easter Island, Chile Grandmaster Glitch is on holiday on the Easter Island. He complains that there are too many tourists taking photos of the Moai statues and disturbing his rest. Glitch gets the Grimbots to build a new statue to distract the tourists but they are not impressed. The Grimbots have built a large pink poodle! Glitch breaks it and the broken pieces roll down a hill towards some tourists. The GO Jetters save them and also save the statues using GO Giant and GO Roll. One final piece of the poodle statue hits Glitch and knocks him off his chair. September 22, 2016
34 The Parthenon, Greece Grandmaster Glitch is watching a James Bond film and he loves it. He thinks the only bad thing is that he was not in it. He starts making a film at the Parthenon. The film is based on Glitch beating the Go Jetters. The Grimbots are dressed up as the Go Jetters and Ubercorn and they have a cardboard Vroomster. Glitch wants to make it better and he tricks the Go Jetters by pretending the Grimbler is broken. The Go Jetters come to help and when they are distracted the Grimbots take the Vroomster. They then race around in it and keep knocking into the Parthenon. The Go Jetters use GO Giant, GO Board and GO Grab to stop them. In the end Xuli tricks the Grimbots to press the red ejector button because they think it makes them go faster. September 23, 2016
35 St Basil's Cathedral, Russia It is Grandmaster Glitch's birthday. The Grimbots make him a rubbish cake as he wanted one with green icing which looks a little like a castle. The Grimbots cover St Basil's Cathedral in green icing and Glitch loves it. Due to the cold weather the icing sets hard and traps some Cossack dancers inside. The Go Jetters come to help but the Grimbots trapped Lars and Foz in icing. Kyan distracts Glitch by joining some Cossack dancers to perform a birthday dance. Xuli uses GO Force set to heat to rescue Lars and Foz, who join her in melting the icing on the cathedral. It all melts and sends a tidal wave of icing into Red Square. They then have to use GO Force set to cold to freeze the icing and it traps Glitch. The Grimbots have to cut him out and carry him away. September 26, 2016
36 Tarbela Dam, Pakistan When Grandmaster Glitch gets a G.O. Force, the forecast isn't good for the Tarbela Dam. September 27, 2016
37 Mount Rushmore, USA The Grimbots add Glitch's face to those of the presidents on Mount Rushmore. September 28, 2016
38 Caernarfon Castle, Wales How will the Go Jetters retrieve Xuli's flying trophy from Caernarfon Castle? September 29, 2016
39 The Great Barrier Reef, Australia The team dives into action as Grandmaster Glitch's treasure hunt endangers the Great Barrier Reef. September 30, 2016
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References

  1. ↑ http://www.tamborine.co.uk/2015/09/11/tamborine-travels-the-world-with-the-fabulous-go-jetters/
  2. ↑ "Go Jetters - CBeebies". BBC. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  3. ↑ "CBeebies Commissions 'Go Jetters'". animationmagazine.net. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  4. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/worldwide/2015/bbc-worldwide-brings-brand-new-childrens-titles-go-jetters-and-clangers-to-mipcom-2015
  5. ↑ https://uk.linkedin.com/in/pilarorti
  6. ↑ https://twitter.com/akiekotabe/status/657267319979294720
  7. ↑ http://unitedvoices.tv/go-jetters
  8. ↑ http://www.johnhasler.co.uk/
  9. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/worldwide/2015/bbc-worldwide-brings-brand-new-childrens-titles-go-jetters-and-clangers-to-mipcom-2015
  10. ↑ http://www.tommieearljenkins.com/
  11. ↑ http://www.calypsovoices.com/news/naomi-mcdonald/
  12. ↑ http://www.marcsilk.com/biography
  13. ↑ http://www.marcsilk.com/biography
  14. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
  15. ↑ http://www.radiotimes.com/programme/dthbwk/go-jetters
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