Rocket Boy and Toro

{{Short description|British-South Korean television series}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2014}} {{Infobox television | native_name = {{Infobox Korean television name/auto|hangul=^로켓보이}} | image = Rocket Boy 2016 Logo Smaller.png | caption = | runtime = 11 minutes | genre = Animated series Cartoon | starring = Lizzie Waterworth Candida Gubbins Stuart Milligan Nick Haverson Stephen Critchlow | executive_producer = | open_theme = "''Rocket Boy''" | country = United Kingdom South Korea | language = English Korean | animator = Imagestone Inc. | company = Cosgrove Hall Films | network = CBBC | first_aired = {{start date|2008|9|22|df=yes}} | last_aired = {{end date|2009|1|07|df=yes}} | num_episodes = 52<ref>{{cite web|title=Rocket Boy and Toro Episodes|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00drxss/episodes/guide|website=BBC|access-date=August 8, 2015|archive-date=April 25, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425145644/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00drxss/episodes/guide|url-status=live}}</ref> | num_seasons = 1 | list_episodes = }}

'''''Rocket Boy and Toro''''' ({{Korean|hangul=로켓보이}}) is a British-South Korean animated cartoon series that originally aired on CBBC in 2008 to 2009.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00drxss|title=CBBC - Rocket Boy and Toro|access-date=5 August 2015|archive-date=26 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926121357/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00drxss|url-status=live}}</ref> The show was set in space and the main characters consisted of Rocket Boy, Chrystella, Vector, Grandpa Sat, and Toro, Rocket Boy's sheep assistant. In the UK, the show only aired for two years and has not aired since. However, reruns continue to this day of the series, dubbed into Arabic, on Basma channel in the Arab world. The show is mainly about Rocket Boy and his friends delivering parcels to different galaxies and planets around space. During the course of the series they are always slowed down by his Archenemy Dr. Square the Sworn Enemy of the ''Galactic Parliament'' (an evil super computer with the brain the size of a planet), and his henchman, Trash (who always tends to fail his missions). Dr. Square is always trying to capture Rocket Boy so he can learn the secret of his speed, but no matter how hard he tries, Rocket Boy and his friends always seem to come out on top.

The show was created by Korean animation studio Imagestone, Manchester-based Cosgrove Hall Films, and London-based Village Prods.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cosgrove Hall Hitched to RocketBoy|url=http://www.animationmagazine.net/features/cosgrove-hall-hitched-to-rocketboy/|publisher=Animation Magazine|access-date=8 August 2015|date=July 10, 2006|archive-date=23 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923174517/http://www.animationmagazine.net/features/cosgrove-hall-hitched-to-rocketboy/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Copyright Promotions Takes on Rocket Boy & Toro|url=http://www.licensemag.com/license-global/copyright-promotions-takes-rocket-boy-toro|publisher=Global License|access-date=8 August 2015|date=December 3, 2007|archive-date=5 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305010247/http://www.licensemag.com/license-global/copyright-promotions-takes-rocket-boy-toro|url-status=live}}</ref> Most of the show's character design was handled by German animator Andreas Hykade.

== Episodes ==

#Rocket Boy Squared #The Mallatese Chicken #Inspector Calls #Big Job Day #Worms He Gone #One of Our Sheep is Missing #Chrystella Goes to The Shops #Bubblegum World #Close Encounters of a Bird Kind #Doctor Doctor #Steal Wool #Little Lord Sweetie #Tale of Two Rockets #Reverse Psychology #Taking Out The Trash #Junk Mail #Fools Gold #Baby Blues #Botosaur Bones #Treasure Planet #Squarapalooza #Toro Toro Toro #Team Spirit #Boots of Destiny #Kung Fun #Sheep Mates #Lights, Camera, Action! #Hero Worship #That Shrinking Feeling #Micro Computer #Son of Square #Return of The Rebel Appliance #Brainbots #Vector's Little Helper #Missing in Action #School Daze #Penny For Your Thoughts #Ghosts in The Machine #High Moon #Turbo Twins #Tunnel Vision #Storm Brewing #Breakdown #Surfing The Web #The Big Fall Out #All Done With Mirrors #Disguise #Rocket Girl #Celebrity #Rocket Boy to The Rescue #Big Buoy #The Pan Galactic Sheep Trials

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==External links== * {{BBC programme}}

Category:2008 South Korean television series debuts Category:2000s South Korean animated television series Category:BBC children's television shows Category:British children's animated space adventure television series Category:South Korean children's animated television series Category:2008 British television series debuts Category:2009 British television series endings Category:2009 South Korean television series endings Category:2000s British animated television series Category:Television series by Cosgrove Hall Films Category:BBC animated television series