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- Tugs is a 1989 British children's television series created by the producer and director of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends respectively, Robert D. Cardona and David Mitton. It features two anthropomorphized tugboat fleets: the and the . They compete against each other in the fictional Bigg City Port. In the North American adaptation, Salty's Lighthouse, the stories were re-purposed for a younger audience. The two groups were no longer rival tug fleets, and the characters underwent various changes. , , and Little Ditcher were considered female. Sunshine became the sister of fellow switcher . British accents were changed to American accents. Some names were changed, for instance, became Big Stack, became Otis, and became Zeebee. (en)
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