Driver Dan's Story Train (Arabic: Captain
Karim Qitar Al Hekayat (Captain
Karim and the Story Train)) is a children'
s television series created and designed by Rebecca Elgar and is a co-production between Two Four 54 in the United Arab Emirates and 3Line Media in the United Kingdom.1 It marked the first CGI animated/live-action property to be produced in both English and Arabic, which each have its own separate versions of the program.
The series debuted on CBeebies and Al Jazeera Children'
s Channel on 9
January 2010. It was shown by Sprout, CBeebies, and ABC2. The characters in the series are all plush toys, except for Milly and Lilly, who are paper cutouts of flamingo-like birds, The Vrooms, who are two small
egg-shaped vehicles, and the Counting Sheep, who are cubical bricks painted to represent sheep. Each character, or pair of characters (except for Driver Dan and Twinkle) has their own train carriage which can be hitched to the Story Train. The audience (sometimes seen as several children, but usually represented by the camera'
s viewpoint and a
child'
s voice) are sometimes asked for their
opinion or choice on matters arising.
