![]() The movements which the audience are called on to make are particularly beneficial for the development of children with developmental coordination disorder. The magical power is shown as an orange glow that appears offscreen and flies towards Tom, who uses it to complete the spell. As a host, he asks his viewers to make magical moves and say magical words to assist him. The tree's sap is shown as a glowing orange magic liquid.Īt least twice in each episode, Tom has to call on "the big world" for magical help: breaking the fourth wall. Some of the characters are four of Tom's friends, Twigs, Squirmtum, Ariela, and Zigzoo. He is skilled in that world's magic, and often gets characters out of scrapes. Using the power belt, he performs some Tree Fu moves, jumps up, shrinks to insect size as he flies into the tree, and enters the world of Treetopolis. In each episode, Tom comes out of his house, puts on a power belt, and runs across his lawn towards a crooked tree in the woods protected by a magic shield. The character of Twigs was recast from Series 3 and played by Mark Bonnar, who has also been in Doctor Who, playing Jimmy and his "ganger" duplicate in the two-parter The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People. ![]() The actor who plays Tom in the live-action opening and closing sections of the show, Adam Henderson, is Sophie Aldred's son. Sophie Aldred (who voices the animated Tom) played Seventh Doctor companion Ace and David Tennant (who voices Twigs in Series 1 and 2) was the Tenth Doctor. The series features a number of voice actors who have appeared in Doctor Who. ![]() Tree Fu Tom is also available on BBC iPlayer for over a year. The programme is aimed at two- to six-year-olds.ħ2 episodes were produced across five series, premiering in 2012 and ending in 2016. Many of its characters are anthropomorphised arthropods, and it features species of insect which are raised and controlled like cattle on a ranch: aphids, ladybirds, and a rhinoceros beetle. It is set in a miniature magical countryside and village area (Treetopolis) on the top a big tree in a British-type woodland. Tree Fu Tom is a British live-action/ CGI television series shown on BBC channels in the UK and Universal Kids and NBC in the USA.
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