Both characters were inspired from a Filipino fable, "The Monkey and the Turtle", which was annotated to English by José Rizal in 1889.

[9] Batibot was conceptualized and produced by Feny Delos Angeles-Bautista, a teacher from the Community of Learners Foundation and writer Rene Villanueva.

Airing on weekdays with a time slot of 10:30 AM,[10][11] the series consistently ranked in 1985 among the top 10 daytime shows in the Philippines, outdoing the ratings of Sesame!

Shortly thereafter, CTW informed PCTF of their decision to repossess the characters Pong Pagong and Kiko Matsing.

[15] TV5's version of Batibot featured a different set of human characters, Ate Maya and Kuya Fidel.

Kiko Matsing and Pong Pagong who were among the main characters of the original Batibot were owned and crafted by CTW.

On August 14, 2015, Smart Communications launched a mobile app for Android devices based on the show.