Tickety Toc

Tickety Toc is a preschool interactive comedy computer-animated television series produced by The Foundation, part of Zodiak Media and FunnyFlux Entertainment.[2] The first series consists of 52 episodes, each 11 minutes long, but is often shown as twenty-six blocks, each containing two episodes.[3]

Tickety Toc
Genre	Preschool education Comedy
Created by	Gil Hoon Jung
Theme music composer	Mr Miller & Mr Porter
Opening theme	Tickety Toc
Ending theme	Tickety Toc (Instrumental)
Country of origin	United States United Kingdom South Korea
Original languages	English Korean
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	39[1]
Production
Executive producers	Nigel Pickard Vanessa Hill
Producer	Karina Stanford-Smith
Running time	11 minutes
Production companies	The Foundation FunnyFlux Entertainment
Release
Original network	EBS (Korea) Nickelodeon/Nick Jr. (US) Channel 5 (United Kingdom)
Picture format	Widescreen
Audio format	Surround
Original release	19 April 2012 (2012-04-19) – 2 September 2015 (2015-09-02)

The first series was acquired by the Nick Jr. Channel as part of a global deal. The series premiered in Asia on 19 April 2012 and was subsequently rolled out internationally with localised dubs. Tickety Toc aired for the first time on British TV on 23 April 2012[4] and became the number 1 daytime show on Nick Jr. in the United States[5] for the first three months when it launched 10 September 2012.[6] In addition to the Nick Jr. global acquisition, the show has been sold to free-to-air television partners internationally. Launching on Channel 5's Milkshake slot 1 November 2012. Other broadcasters who have picked up the 52-episode series include TG4 in Ireland and Family Channel in Canada.

Jolly Roger or Amusement Rides LTD made a Pufferty kiddie ride, featuring the main characters Tommy and Tallulah. It features a mirror so you can see yourself on Pufferty, the Tickety Toc theme tune and four funny sound effects.

The show centres around the Tickety Toc Clock, which is located in the middle of a wall of clocks inside an old clock shop. The clock chimes the time every hour, but it's not as easy as it seems. Behind the clock's face is an extraordinary world where things don't always run smoothly. The show's main characters Tommy and Tallulah, who race against time to keep Tickety Toc Clock ticking and chiming the time. The siblings do everything with enthusiasm, commitment and positivity even if it gets them further into trouble. Among the characters who live in the clock's fantastical world are Pufferty, an anthropomorphic train and a dog hybrid that helps the citizens of Tickety Town get around, jaguar maintenance man McCoggins, rabbit Hopparoo, chef/baker cow Madame Au Lait, bat boss Battersby, green and orange chicken Chickadee, and gardener snail Lopsiloo. Throughout the episodes, an owl named Tooteroo tries to do a certain activity sometimes based on the episodes theme, but is always unlucky.

In the United States, Tickety Toc originally aired on Nickelodeon's preschool block Nick Jr., but was later burned off to the Nick Jr. Channel on weekdays. The series has a page on Paramount+, but no episodes have been added as of 2023.