Engie Benjy .. is a brightly coloured, simply styled and
fantastical vehicle show for very young children, using model
animation. It is a series of entertaining, simple and impossible stories, set
in and around an imaginative and unrealistic garage, where Engie
Benjy, Dan the Van and Jollop the dog – all live, work and
play together. In the course of each story, Engie Benjy, Dan and
Jollop rescue, problem-solve and usually save the day for
Dan’s vehicle friends and their endearing, childlike
‘owners’. Spaceship, Plane, Bus, Boat, Bike and Tractor, all need to call on
the rescue team at some time or other, usually to get them out of
some scrape or adventure into which they or their owners have
stumbled.
This is a world in which anything can happen. Where planes go out
to play, woodland trees take off into the sky, and double-decker
buses need holidays. What can and cannot happen in the world of
Engie Benjy, Dan the Van and Jollop, is bounded only by the limits
of a small child’s virtually limitless imagination.
