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Salty's Lighthouse was a children's series created by Nina I. Hahn and produced by Sunbow Entertainment, seen on the TLC network (and PBS Kids).

The show centered around a young boy named Salty, and his friends in a lighthouse.

The segments featuring Salty were produced in 2D animation. Other segments were composed of footage from the British series TUGS re-edited into new stories.

Music for the series was composed by Chase Rucker Productions. The series was produced in association with the Bank Street College of Education, New York.

Contents 1 Characters 2 Cast 3 Theme song lyrics 4 Episode list 5 Comparisons with TUGS 6 See also 7 Rerferences

[edit] Characters

• Salty - A young boy who loves using his imagination, and interacting with human and animal friends alike, learning all sorts of lessons.
• Ocho - Salty's octopus friend.
• Claude - Salty's crab friend.
• Sophie and Sadie - The two girl seagulls.
• Aunt Chovie - Salty's aunt, and owner of the lighthouse.
• Aurora - A talking lightbulb at the top of the lighthouse.
• The Clock - A yellow-faced clock that announces the "Salty's Song Time" segments.

[edit] Cast

• "Salty's Lighthouse" segments:
• Rhys Huber - Salty
• Kathleen Barr - Ocho, Aunt Chovie
• Janyse Jaud - Sophie, Sadie
• Andrea Libman - Claude
• Lenore Zann - Aroura

• "Tugs" segments
• Ian James Corlett - Ten Cents, Zip, Otis and Z.B.
• Scott McNeil - Zorran , Zug and Boomer
• Paul Dobson - Big Stack
• Venus Terzo
• Long John Baldry - Top Hat and Hercules
• Terry Klassen -
• Andrea Libman - Sunshine
• Gary Chalk
• Michael Donovan - Warrior, Steamer
• Lenore Zann - Captain Star
• French Tickner - Captain Zero
• Richard Newman
• Brad Swaile
• Kirby Morrow

[edit] Theme song lyrics

The theme song for the show was written by Barry Harman, one of the series' writers.

Where are we gonna play today? (Salty's Lighthouse!)

Come on along, we're on our way (Salty's Lighthouse!)

All of our friends are there, hooray! (Salty's Lighthouse!)

Shining a light to guide the way (Salty's Lighthouse!)

Salty is a lively lad who loves to run and play

He waves hello to every tug that chugs across the bay

He has a crew of friendly mates he visits every day

And what's the song they sing as they go on their merry way?

Where are we gonna play today? (Salty's Lighthouse!)

Come on along, we're on our way (Salty's Lighthouse!)

All of our friends are there, hooray! (Salty's Lighthouse!)

Shining a light to guide the way (Salty's Lighthouse!)

Oh, Where are we gonna play today? (Salty's Lighthouse!)

Come on along, we're on our way (Salty's Lighthouse!)

All of our friends are there, hooray! (Salty's Lighthouse!)

[edit] Episode list

Salty's Lighthouse had one season, similar to TUGS, but have 38 episodes, instead of 13.

1. Mixed Signals
2. Too Young to Be Included
3. Who Took My Crayons
4. High Spirits
5. Taking My Turn
6. Backwards Day
7. Banana Splits
8. Clearing the Decks
9. Claude in Charge
10. The Favorite
11. Strike Up the Band
12. Blankety Blank
13. The Last of the Red Hot C Gulls
14. Farley Frog
15. Some Guys Have All the Luck
16. Dream On
17. The Treasure Hunt
18. The Big Birthday Bash
19. The Boss Man
20. Sophie Comes Home
21. Salty Comes Lately
22. It's Magic
23. No Strings Attached
24. Sound Off
25. If the Clue Fits...Wear It
26. Let's Wing It
27. The Bivalve Music
28. Taking Off
29. The Blackout
30. Eight is Too Much
31. One Bad Day
32. Hands Off
33. The Colossal Crab
34. Who Turned Off the Lights
35. Let's Party
36. The Guilty Gull
37. Count On Me
38. Desperately Seeking Sadie

[edit] Comparisons with TUGS

The original plotlines of TUGS, aimed at an older audience than Salty's Lighthouse, were not used in this series. Instead, the existing footage was re-dubbed and edited to fit newly-written stories, relating to the moral lesson of the episode it featured in. As a result of footage from different TUGS episodes being edited together, continuity errors are visible, including character's barges differing in sequential scenes.

The original setting of TUGS, Bigg City Port, became Snugboat Harbor. The Star Fleet and the Z-Stacks, originally two rival fleets in TUGS, were not rivals in Salty's Lighthouse.

Sunshine, Captain Star, and Little Ditcher were written as female characters, presumably to appeal to a wider audience of children. Sunshine was referred to as Ten Cents's sister. Sea Rogue became evil instead of good.

While many characters in TUGS had varied British accents (such as Glaswegian, Cockney, and Liverpudlian), in this series the characters have American accents.

Various character names were also changed:

• Big Mac became Big Stack (possibly to avoid legal trouble from McDonalds over the name of their famous product).
• O.J. became Otis
• Coast Guard and the Coast Guard's Messenger were presented as the same character, Cappy
• Zebedee became Z.B.
• Puffa was called Stanley and later Chooch
• Big Mickey became Bigg Basil
• Jack the Grappler became Scoop
• The Fire Tug was known as Red Fin
• Burke and Blair became Mr. Bocco and Mr. Socco
• Johnny Cuba became Steamer

[edit] See also

• TUGS-The show that provided clips for Salty's Lighthouse
• Thomas & Friends
• Shining Time Station-
• Theodore Tugboat-Another show about tugboats

[edit] Rerferences

v • d • e TUGS Characters Recurring Characters  · Minor Characters Episodes List of Episodes Cast Members English Patrick Allen  · Nigel Anthony  · John Baddeley  · Sean Barrett  · Timothy Bateson  · Lee Cornes  · Mike Mulloy  · Simon Nash  · Shaun Prendergast  · Chris Tulloch Japanese Masashi Ebara  · Keiji Fujiwara  · Kōji Ishii  · Mitsuaki Madono  · Yūko Mita  · Shigeru Nakahara  · Rokurō Naya  · Masaaki Tsukada  · Hideyuki Umezu Clearwater Features Junior Campbell  · Robert D. Cardona  · David Mitton  · Mike O'Donnell  · Shepperton Studios  · Clearwater Periscope lens system Related Articles Salty's Lighthouse  · Thomas and Friends  · Theodore Tugboat