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''Jay Jay the Jet Plane'' is a CGI/live action musical children's television series based at the fictional Tarrytown Airport. It has about 60 episodes and is aimed at ages 2–7. The series is centered on a group of anthropomorphised aircraft who live in the fictional city of Tarrytown. The episodes are commonly distributed in 25-minute-long (as without commercials) pairs, with one header sequence and one end credits for each pair. Each episode contains one or more songs. The theme song and the majority of the other songs were written by well-known children's singer/songwriter Stephen Michael Schwartz and sung by his popular musical group, Parachute Express. Created by David and Deborah Michel, the series is intended to be educational and to teach life and moral lessons to children (and sometimes also to parents), although it has received extreme criticism for coming across as frightening, seeing as the planes are portrayed with large, bloated human faces. ==History== In 1994, a short live-action series was made, with real model plane characters and animated crafted human characters. They did not talk, but had the same personalities as in the later series. This original series was narrated similarly to early episodes of ''Thomas The Tank Engine'' or ''Theodore Tugboat''. It contained three videos: ''Jay Jay's First Flight'', ''Old Oscar Leads the Parade'', and ''Tracy's Handy Hideout''. These three episodes were known as the "pilot series". On November 2, 1998, the CGI/live action series premiered on The Learning Channel. On June 11, 2001, all episodes were started broadcasting on PBS Kids; additional episodes were created in 2001 and 2005. Home video editions were released by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment through 2003 as part of their "Columbia TriStar Family Fun" collection. Distribution was then moved over to Tommy Nelson, the children's division of book publisher Thomas Nelson, although not being a "Christian" series. Voice actress Mary Kay Bergman provided the original voice of Jay Jay and several other characters. In 2006, "new" episodes were produced featuring additional characters, including the red Latino plane Lina. Each episode begins featuring a "Jay Jay's Mysteries" segment in which Jay Jay and Lina explore such things that may be mysteries to the intended age group, such as how planes fly and how the five senses are used. The mysteries segment is followed by a story that comes from the original episodes of the series so in effect the new series repackages previously broadcast content. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jay Jay the Jet Plane」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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