Bob the Builder (1998)

***Bob the Builder*** is a British animated children's television series created by Keith Chapman for HIT Entertainment and Hot Animation. The series follows the adventures of Bob, a general contractor, specialising in masonry, along with his colleague Wendy, various neighbours, and friends, and equipment, and their gang of anthropomorphised work-vehicles, Scoop, Muck, Dizzy, Roley, Lofty and many others. The series ran from 12 April 1999 to 31 December 2011 in the United Kingdom through the CBBC strand and later CBeebies. The series originally used stop-motion from 1999 to 2009, but later used CGI animation starting with the spin-off series *Ready, Steady, Build!* (2010-2011). The British proprietors of *Bob the Builder* and *Thomas & Friends* sold the enterprise in 2011 to US toy-maker Mattel for $680 million.

In each episode, Bob and his group help with renovations, construction, and repairs and with other projects as needed. The show emphasises conflict resolution, co-operation, socialisation, and various learning skills. Bob's catchphrase is "Can we fix it?", to which the other characters respond with "Yes we can!" This phrase is also the title of the show's theme song, which was a million-selling number one hit in the UK.

In October 2014, Bob the Builder was revamped by Mattel for a new series which was broadcast on Channel 5's *Milkshake!* in 2015. Among the various changes in the new series include the setting, casting, and appearance of the characters. The changes have been criticised by fans of the original version.

## Usta Bob

### Year(s)

??-??

The Azerbaijan dub only dubbed seasons 17 and 18, it aired on ANS. Currently two episodes have been found.

## Строителят Боб

### Date found

2020

The Bulgarian dub is a voiceover, it aired on SuperToons and JimJam.

## Bob the Builder

### Year(s)

2001-2012

The US dub first aired in 2001 on Nick Jr. later moving to Noggin, PBS Kids and later Qubo. (with the UK Dub) although the dub is mostly found, some episodes have become lost.

## Bob the Builder

### Year(s)

??-??

This dub aired on Astro Ceria and Playhouse Disney Asia.

This dub has no episodes found, but the theme song has been found. Albeit it being only the audio, and the video is covered up by a slideshow of Bob the Builder pictures, but the pictures are in English. A slam sound in the intro can be heard at the beginning, meaning they only dubbed Project: Build It seasons, or there's more dubs of other seasons we don't know about.

On October 16th, 2010. the video mentioned above was uploaded to YouTube by the channel singblass. They titled it "Bob the builder malay version" and in the description, it says "Bob the builder @ Astro Ceria". If one goes on the Wayback Machine, and searches up Astro Ceria's website link, Bob the Builder is seen on the front page. But that is all the information we have for this dub so far. And it is highly unlikely this dub will ever see the light of day again.

According to Wikipedia, it was dubbed by Filem Karya Nusa. Faizal Isa is known to have voiced the titular character of the show.

## Bob Budowniczy

### Status

**Partially Found**

The Polish dub aired on TVP1 and Polsat JimJam, but it's partially found. This dub has some episodes available on YouTube.

## Bob Constructorul

### Status

**Partially Lost**

The Romanian dub aired on TVR1, ProTV, JimJam and Minimax, but it's lost. This dub has no episodes found, but the theme song and The Legend Of The Golden Hammer movie available on YouTube.

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## Tamirci Bob

### Year(s)

Late 2000's

No information has been given on this dub, only to be known released on DVDs and VCDs.

## External links

* *Bob the Builder (1998)* on the Dubbing Database