Alphabet Zoo

Alphabet Zoo jerin shirye-shirye ne na minti goma ga yara ƙanana, wanda Granada Television ta samar kuma an watsa shi a kan ITV don jerin biyu a 1983 da 1984. Mawallafin Ralph McTell da kuma 'yar wasan kwaikwayo Nerys Hughes ne suka gabatar da shi. Kowane labari an sadaukar da shi ga harafin haruffa.

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An raba shi cikin abubuwa 16, Alphabet Zoo ya watsa labarin farko a ranar 10 ga Janairun 1983.  Ralph McTell ya rubuta waƙoƙi 26, ɗaya ga kowane harafi na haruffa. Stephen Leahy ne ya samar da jerin, wanda Frank Hayes ya jagoranta, kuma Valerie Pye ne ya kwatanta shi. Mutane bakwai ne suka rubuta Alphabet Zoo, daga cikinsu biyu ne kawai - Diane Wilmer da Linda Thornber - suka sami gogewa a talabijin. Sauran marubutan biyar sune Anne Yates, Jeffrey Flynn, Nicholas Symons, Amanda Webb, da Chris Galer. Paul Danson ya tsara jerin, wanda aka yi a cikin ɗakin Granada Television, kuma wanda The Stage da Television Today suka ce "babban tsari ne fiye da yadda aka saba da shirye-shiryen yara".   Saitin, wanda Belkis Bhegani na Broadcast ya kira "mai tsada" kuma mai tsada", ya nuna Duster the Dog, kare dutse na Bernese, da maɓuɓɓugar ruwa da tafkuna.

Jerin na biyu ya fito na makonni 27.  Lorne Magory ne ya ba da umarnin (wanda kuma ya yi aiki a kan wasu shahararrun shirye-shiryen Burtaniya kamar Press Gang, Life Force da Emmerdale) 

An buga littafi mai wuya na jerin da ke nuna wasan da ya ƙunshi waƙoƙi huɗu a watan Maris na shekara ta 1983.  Wani littafi, The Complete Alphabet Zoo, an buga shi a 1994 kuma ya ƙunshi waƙoƙin da McTell ya rubuta don jerin ciki har da "Fergus the Frog", "Ollie the Otter", da "Yuri the Yak". Lahri Bond na Baltimore ya ce "akwai wasu sauye-sauye masu ban sha'awa na magana kuma na tabbatar da cewa kai ne wanda zai nemi yaranku su sake sauraron wannan rikodin da ke cike da nishaɗi, da zaran an yi shi".

Kusan shekaru goma bayan Alphabet Zoo ya zo ƙarshe, ITV Carlton ta farfado da tsarin a kan irin wannan jerin Alphabet Castle wanda ya gudana daga Satumba 1993 zuwa Disamba 1995.

An kuma watsa jerin a talabijin a kasashe da yawa a duk duniya kamar TVNZ 1 da TVNZ 2 a New Zealand, RTB a Brunei, GBC a Gibraltar, TV1 da TV2 a Malaysia da kuma BFBS da SSVC Television a Jamus.

 Karɓar baƙi 
Stephanie Lucas ta soki jerin a cikin The Times Educational Supplement, tana rubutu, "Alphabet Zoo kyakkyawan ra'ayi ne: ɗaukar kowane harafi na haruffa kuma yin jerin shirye-shirye game da dabbobi waɗanda sunayensu suka fara da haruffa daban-daban. A aikace, duk da haka, ya zama kyakkyawan abu, yadda ya kamata kuma an yi shi da tunani, amma ba shi da wahayi.

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