It revolves around the title character Q Pootle 5 and his friends, and is set on and around the fictional planet Oki Doki.
Author and executive producer Nick Butterworth chose Q Pootle 5 from amongst his other children's books as the character to develop into an animated series because, as an alien, he would not be culturally tied to any one location.
[1] He developed the series with his son Ben, who suggested they form their own production company.
[2] Together with Nick's wife Annette they added additional characters and locations to those already seen in the books,[1] before producing a pilot clip with animation studio Blue-Zoo from which a series was commissioned.
The score had to be integral to the storytelling – creating atmosphere, adding nuance and subtlety, underpinning the emotional content of a story, driving the action of a scene, or making us laugh.″[3] There are 52 episodes of the Q Pootle 5 series.