Truckers (1992 TV series)


Truckers is a British stop motion animated series, an adaptation of the first book of Terry Pratchett's The Nome Trilogy, produced in the United Kingdom by Cosgrove Hall for TV, then released on VHS, though edited together into a feature-length film. The series consisted of 13 ten-minute episodes.
The start of each episode would review the story up until then. At the end of each episode, there would be a cliffhanger, and the program would be continued the following week, immediately after where the previous episode concluded.
It was the Same Animation Design and Style to The Wind in the Willows and its TV Series

Plot

Masklin the Nome and his companions flee their unsustainable motorway-verge home and discover an alien race of tiny Humans known as Nomes living in a department store scheduled for demolition. Things are complicated by the store Nomes' religion, which states ‘The Store’ consists of the entire universe, and denies the existence of the ‘outside’.
Masklin discovers from a mysterious object simply called 'The Thing' that all Nomes are descended from extraterrestrial explorers who crashed on Earth thousands of years ago. The Thing, actually a sentient computer from the original Nome starship, helps Masklin plan the escape from the doomed store. Through skill, courage and sheer good luck, Masklin and his friends manage to successfully evacuate the store Nomes before their home is destroyed.

Episodes

Cast

The series was made into a short hardcover book published by Ladybird Press in 1992. The book included colour photos from the series.

Sequel

Sequels "Diggers" and "Wings" were never adapted for TV