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, it 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.

Characters

 * Mr. Tone Riddles (played by himself) - the show's main presenter, a children's entertainer and supervisor. He is adored by the children who he caters for, mainly due to the fact that he spoils them badly. Since Tone Riddles is referred to as "Mr. Riddles" by the children, he is occasionally confused with the character in The Incredible World of Riddles with the same name.
 * Tack the Rat (voiced by Ayak Tremble) - Mr. Riddles stuffed companion, a white rat. Although it is inanimate in the real world, it comes to life when the group enter Ratania. Tack cannot talk, but is able to use a variety of different noises.

Theme song
The show's theme song is called "We Can Do Anything", a song which most of the cast recorded in 1998. A full version of the theme was a Christmas number one in Kuboia in 2000.

International release
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.

United Kingdom
Tone Riddles and Tack the Rat began airing on in early 2001, and continued to run on the channel until the summer of 2005. Episodes were release on VHS throughout 2002 and 2003. Interestingly, the series has never received an official certificate from the.