Katy and Tom Pottage are the twin children of Herbert and Julia Pottage. They are also the older siblings to their baby brother, Paul Pottage. Both twins are from Greendale Farm.
Biography
Katy and Tom are fraternal twins. Both of them are aged 6 and live with their family on Greendale Farm. They attend Greendale School with the rest of the other schoolchildren in the village.
Personalities
Katy and Tom are the cheekiest twins around. Being young and playful, they often played together and liked to help around their parents' farm as much as they could. Katy is bright, quick, inquiring, humorous, and full of inquisitive activity. Tom, however, is inwardly quiet, inward, thumb-sucking, thoughtful, and follows unquestionably where Katy leads.
They are always excited to see Postman Pat, especially on their birthdays. They love playing games and mostly get along well with the other children in Greendale. Sometimes, they can get into sibling arguments, but they later redeem themselves after that.
Attires
Just like their mother, they dressed quite expensively in good quality denims, T-shirts and brightly coloured wellies.
In the first and second series, they originally had curly hair on their heads, with whilst wearing the same blue outfits as each other. However, in some books, the twins are depicted wearing a red and orange outfit.
From the third to fifth series, both twins have different hairstyle changes; Katy's hair is no longer curly, and now has hair fringes whilst retaining her pigtails, as well as gaining eylashes. Tom's hair is slightly shortened and appears more swept. They now wear outfits that make them distinguish themselves from each other, with Katy now wearing a pink and purple outfit while Tom still retains his blue outfit, albeit in a brighter colour.
Appearances
Main Series
- Series 1 - Postman Pat's Finding Day, Postman Pat and the Magpie Hen (Tom only; does not speak), Postman Pat's Birthday, Postman Pat's Rainy Day (cameos), Postman Pat's Thirsty Day (do not speak), Postman Pat's Windy Day (cameos) and Postman Pat Goes Sledging
- Series 2 - Postman Pat and the Hole in the Road, Postman Pat Misses the Show, Postman Pat Follows a Trail, Postman Pat has the Best Village, Postman Pat takes Flight and Postman Pat and the Mystery Tour
- Series 3 - Postman Pat and the Runaway Kite, Postman Pat and the Ice Cream Machine (cameo), Postman Pat and the Great Greendale Race, Postman Pat and the Jumble Sale, Postman Pat the Magician, Postman Pat and the Spotty Situation, Postman Pat and a Job Well Done, Postman Pat and the Green Rabbit, Postman Pat and the Big Butterflies, Postman Pat and the Troublesome Train, Postman Pat at the Seaside, Postman Pat and the Job Swap Day, Postman Pat's Disappearing Dotty, Postman Pat's Popstars, Postman Pat and the Great Dinosaur Hunt (cameos), Postman Pat and the Spooky Sleepover, Postman Pat and the Midsummer Market (cameos), Postman Pat and the Train Inspector, Postman Pat and the Ice Ladder, Postman Pat and the Rocket Rescue and Postman Pat's Perfect Painting
- Series 4 - Postman Pat and the Big Balloon Ride, Postman Pat and the Surprise Present, Postman Pat and the Perfect Pizza, Postman Pat and the Spring Dance (cameos), Postman Pat and the Fancy Dress Party (cameos), Postman Pat and the Playful Pets, Postman Pat and the Pink Slippers, Postman Pat and the Pet Show, Postman Pat's Pied Piper, Postman Pat and the Tricky Transport Day, Postman Pat's Radio Greendale, Postman Pat the Secret Superhero, Postman Pat Goes Undercover, Postman Pat and the Magic Lamp, Postman Pat and the Sneaky Sheep, Postman Pat and the Grand Custard Race, Postman Pat and the Potluck Picnic, Postman Pat and the Record Breaking Day and Postman Pat's Missing Things
- Series 5 - Postman Pat and the Bollywood Dance, Postman Pat and the Pot of Gold, Postman Pat and the Fantastic Feast, Postman Pat and the Lost Property (mentioned), Postman Pat and the Talking Cat, Postman Pat and the Double Disguise, Postman Pat's Cat Calamity (picture cameo), Postman Pat and the Popular Policeman, Postman Pat's Noisy Day, Postman Pat and the Disappearing Bear, Postman Pat and the Cranky Cows and Postman Pat's Christmas Eve
- Series 6 - A Wobbly Piano (book version only)
- Series 8 - Postman Pat and the Flying Shark (picture cameo)
Specials
- Postman Pat's ABC
- Postman Pat's 123
- Postman Pat Takes the Bus (Katy only)
- Postman Pat and the Tuba (cameo)
- Postman Pat and the Barometer
- Read Along with Postman Pat (Katy does not speak)
- Postman Pat and the Greendale Rocket
- Postman Pat's Magic Christmas
- Postman Pat Clowns Around
- Postman Pat and the Pirate Treasure
- Postman Pat's Great Big Party
Trivia
- Katy's model made a cameo in two "Gran" episodes, "Gran's Old Bones" and "Snow Gran".
- Katy and Tom were most likely adapted into Sarah and James from Fireman Sam, this would make sense, as Rob Lee took some inspiration from Postman Pat when creating Fireman Sam.
- They were the first child characters to have a major role in an episode. In this case, they have a significant role in the first ever episode of the first series.
- It is unknown why they were removed from the sixth series, despite having significant roles in some episodes featuring them. However, they make appearances in some books based on the sixth series episodes, as well as a cameo on a newspaper in Series 8.
- They are the only characters in the series that are twins.