Tone Riddles and Tack the Rat

Tone Riddles and Tack the Rat is a Kuboian children's educational television series created by Tone Riddles and aired on sporadic occasions between 1999 and 2002. The show itself is built around developing young children's social skills and teaching them morals, thus it has been compared to ', ', and fellow Kuboian cartoon which followed a few years later, Cindi and Friends. Riddles and his fictional character Tack the Rat play the role as the two main protagonists. The show uses both live-action and traditional animation.

Premise
Tone Riddles is the supervisor and caretaker of six children with special needs. Each episode begins with at least one of the children within the scheme Riddles looks after them in learning about something or within a conflict. In order to help the child(ren) with their issue, Riddles takes the children through a door, which takes them into an alternative dimension referred to as Ratania (pronounced "Rat-aye-nee-ah"). Although Tack is an inanimate puppet in the real world, he comes to life in Ratania.

Whilst they are in Ratania, Riddles mostly takes the backseat, giving most of the work to Tack. Tack leads the children into a certain part of Ratania, which can be a town or tourist hotspot. Afterwards, the children reflect over what they have learnt, and Riddles uses his sceptre to summon a door leading back into the real world. Each episode usually ends with the children telling their parents about the adventure they had.

Whilst scenes that take place in the real world are in live-action footage, everything, including the characters, are in traditional animation in Ratania. Since Tone Riddles is referred to as "Mr. Riddles", he is occasionally confused with the character in The Incredible World of Riddles with the same name.

Broadcast history
Riddles felt reluctant about airing the series in international markets, fearing that the show was "too Kuboian". However, the series did indeed see an overseas release - episodes began airing in the United Kingdom on the strand in early 2001.