Underplayed Gems

Underground Ernie (2006)

Underground Ernie poster
Genre
animation
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 26 episodes
Rating
4.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Underground Ernie follows the everyday adventures of Ernie, a supervisor on a magical worldwide underground railway network. Friendly trains with their own personalities help Ernie and his colleagues solve problems and keep things running smoothly.

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What happens

Underground Ernie is a 2006 British-animated children's television series produced by Joella Productions for the BBC on both CBeebies and BBC Two, and sold internationally by BBC Worldwide. It is set in the International Underground, a fictional worldwide underground railway network based on the London Underground, and focuses on the everyday adventures of Ernie, an underground supervisor, Millie, his colleague, and Mr. Rails, the maintenance man. The metro trains under Ernie's watchful eye all have characters of their own. There is Victoria, Bakerloo, Jubilee, Circle and the twins, Hammersmith & City. From time to time they are joined by their friends from across the world including; Brooklyn, Paris, Sydney, Osaka and Moscow. The show is aimed at children between the ages of 3 and 8 years. The series had twenty six episodes, lasting twelve minutes each. In October 2005, the series was officially announced, with it premiering the following year. Its first showing on was on 5 June 2006 on BBC Two at 9:00am. It later premiered on CBeebies until 23 December 2006, and was last aired in 2009 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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