I remembered this short-lived ITV animated series on VHS, Back When I was a little girl, It takes place in Bigg City Port, USA in the roaring twenties, It features the two tugboat rival companies are the Heroic Star Fleet (Ten Cents, Big Mac, OJ, Top Hat, Warrior, Hercules and Sunshine) and the Antagonistic Z-Stacks (Zorran, Zebedee, Zak, Zip and Zug), as well as the supportive characters are the Lovely and Kind-Hearted Lillie Lightship, the loveable Grampus, the demolition expert Billy Shoepack, the jinxed tugboat called Boomer, the misunderstood and sympathetic Sea Rogue, the stereotypical Lazy Mexican called Izzy Gomez, the smelly garbage barge called Lord Stinker, the dangerous Australian Gangster called Johnny Cuba and the Naval-Twit called Bluenose, Unlike Thomas The Tank Engine and Friends (1984) from seasons 1-12 are the characters voices are done the the narrator in the British English and the American English Dubs, TUGS (1989) on the other hand have the characters voices are done by the individual voice actors, The Storylines are surprisingly dark and edgy for the children's show, e.g. Pirate (Sea Rogue's Uncle is kidnapped by Green-eyed Pirates), High Winds (Johnny Cuba forces Zebedee to steal the coal barges), Ghosts Tugboats (Ghosts), Collapsing Railway Bridges (High Tide) and Explosions (Pirate, Trapped, Up River, Regatta and Munitions). I'm giving this short-lived animated series from the UK a 10/10.
