Salty's Lighthouse

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Salty's Lighthouse was the American Spinoff version of the British Program TUGS. The show consisted of a cartoon plot line, with an "episode" of TUGS (mostly stock footage). It was about an animated boy called Salty, who with his friends would go into a lighthouse (with a personified and animated light bulb), and look through the lighthouse windows to see the tugs of Bigg City Port (from TUGS).

Despite the fact that the show introduced TUGS to the US, this was about the only good thing that ever came out of it. Scenes from the original 13 TUGS episodes were mixed, matched, and rewritten, degrading TUGS from a nice, adventuresome series to a low action, politically correct, overly simple preschool program. None of the original episodes' plotlines were used, and the new stories were watered down and morale based, rather than action based.

The producers of the show made extravagant changes to the TUGS universe in the series, threading new ideas into the show which almost destroyed TUGS. One thing that they changed dramatically were the characters' profiles. Big Mac was renamed into the more politically correct Big Stack, Zebedee and Zip were changed, respectfully, to the more "cool-sounding" Z.B. and Ziggy, Big Mickey was redubbed as the more American Big Basil, and O.J. to the more "convenient" name, Otis. The producers went as far as to rename the harbour, from the maritime sounding Bigg City Port to the more childish and innocent Snuggleboat Harbour. Even the characters' genders were changed, with Captain Star, Sunshine, and Little Ditcher, three very important males in TUGS, being rendered as female, to add diversity among the main cast.

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[edit] Comparisons with TUGS

Salty's Lighthouse greatly changed the whole setting of TUGS, possibly contributing to the show's disliking in the US.

  • TUGS never had a cartoon plotline.
  • None of the TUGS segments used plotlines from the original 13 episodes; instead, various scenes were cut up into new, shorter episodes.
  • Most of the character's voices were different.
  • Sunshine, Captain Star, and Little Ditcher were all female instead of male.
  • The tugs voices have all been changed to Bronx, New Jersey, and Brooklyn accents rather than the original Glaswegian, Cockney, and Liverpudlian.
  • Big Mac was called Big Stack and O.J. was called Otis.
  • The Coast Guard and his messenger were merged and became one character called Cappy.
  • Zebedee was called Z.B. and Zip was called Zigi.
  • Burke and Blair became movie producers, and were changed to Mr. Bocco and Mr. Socco.
  • Puffa was called Stanley
  • Bigg Mickey became Bigg Basil.
  • The Star Tugs and Z-Stacks were friends, instead of rivals.
  • Boomer is still a house boat.
  • Sea Rogue became evil instead of good.
  • Johnny Cuba was shy and bashful, instead of a gangster
  • Bigg City Port became Snugleboat Harbour.
  • They had 1 season like TUGS but had 25 episodes.

[edit] Characters

  • Salty - The main character who loves using his imagination to cosimerrate 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 - An overweight aunt.

[edit] Episode List

  • 1.Mixed Signals / Too Young to Be Included
  • 2.Who Took My Crayons / High Spirits
  • 3.Taking My Turn / Backward Day
  • 4.Banana Splits / Clear the Decks
  • 5.Claude in Charge / The Favourite
  • 6.Strike Up the Band / Blankety Blank
  • 7.Last of the Red Hot C Gulls / Farley Frog
  • 8.Some Guys Have all the Luck / Dream On
  • 9.Treasure Hunt / Big Birthday Bash
  • 10.Boss Man / Sophie Come Home
  • 11.Salty Come Lately / It's Magic
  • 12.No Strings Attached / Sound Off
  • 13.If the Clue Fits, Wear It / Let's Wing It
  • 14.Bivalve Music / Taking Off
  • 15.Blackout / Eight is Too Much
  • 16.One Bad Day / Hands Off!
  • 17.Colossal Crab / Who Turned Off the Lights?
  • 18.Let's Party / Guilty Gull
  • 19.Count on Me / Desperately Seeking Sadie

[edit] Cast

Other cast members have not yet been revealed.


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