Tom Turbo is a series of books created by Austrian author

Thomas Brezina Thomas C. Brezina (born 30 January 1963) is an Austrian writer of children's books and TV-Presenter. He is especially known for his series, ''The Knickerbocker Gang'', ''A Case for You and the Tiger-Team'' and his stories about the talking bike ...

in 1993. The stories feature Tom Turbo, a bike who is able to talk and do one hundred and eleven tricky things. He and his friends Karo (Karolin Klicker) and Klaro (Konstantin Klicker) try to catch 'the ever bad guy' Fritz Fantom. With each of the original books, a detective gimmick would be delivered which would be used by Karo and Klaro during the current 'case'. Tom Turbo was built by Karo and Klaro, who had a great supply of fairly new technological items as their parents always wanted to be up-to-date with everything available. A Tom Turbo television series first appeared in Austria on

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in 1993. Some of the episodes even aired on NICKELODEON in Germany. The bike (represented by an animatronic

puppet A puppet is an object, often resembling a human, animal or Legendary creature, mythical figure, that is animated or manipulated by a person called a puppeteer. The puppeteer uses movements of their hands, arms, or control devices such as rods ...

) has a garage at its filming location, Tiergarten Schönbrunn. In the TV series, the bad guys and also the children 'working' with Tom change every once in a while. Only the 'boss' stays the same:

. In 2003 a film originally titled Tom Turbo - Von 0 auf 111 aka TOM TURBO - Der Film directed by Dirk Regel and starring Brezina himself, amongst others, was released.

External links

TV Series

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OKIDOKI - Tom Turbo

Film

Tom Turbo - Der Film
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References

Series of children's books Children's mystery novels ORF (broadcaster) Austrian television series Austrian children's television series 1994 Austrian television series debuts 1990s Austrian television series 2000s Austrian television series 2010s Austrian television series Austrian children's novels German-language television shows Austrian television shows featuring puppetry {{Austria-tv-prog-stub