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Fireman Sam
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Key facts
- Welsh
- Sam Tân
- Created by
- Dave Gingell Dave Jones Rob Lee
- Written by
- Laura Beaumont, Paul Larson
- Voices of
- John Alderton John Sparkes Joanna Ruiz Sarah Hadland Steven Kynman David Carling Su Douglas Tegwen Tucker Ifan Huw Dafydd Nigel Whitmey John Hasler Alex Lowe Jo Wyatt Colin McFarlane Ayesha Antoine
- Narrated by
- John Alderton
- Music by
- Ben Heneghan (1987–2005) Ian Lawson (1987–2005) David Pickvance (2008–2019) Blain Morris (2020–2021) Mike Shields (2021–present) Amanda Cawley (2021–present)
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Original languages
- English Welsh (series 1–4)
- Number span no of episodes
- 317 ( list of episodes )
- Running time
- 10 minutes
- Production companies
- Bumper Films (1987–1994) HIT Entertainment (2003–2016) Mattel Television (2017–present)
- Network
- S4C (Welsh version), Children's BBC on BBC1
- Release
- 17 November 1987 ( 1987-11-17 ) –, 17 November 1994 ( 1994-11-17 )
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Wikidata facts
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Narrative location
- Wales
- Duration
- 10
- Image
- Agusta-Bell 47 D-HWAL met Brandweerman Sam.jpg
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- language of work or name
- English language
- title
- Sam Tân
- Commons category
- Fireman Sam
- original broadcaster
- Channel 5
- number of seasons
- 15
- number of episodes
- 304
- list of episodes
- list of Fireman Sam episodes
- distributed by
- Mattel
- narrator
- John Alderton
- start time
- 1987-11-17
- set in environment
- island
- presenter
- John Alderton
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Encyclopedic overview
Fireman Sam (Welsh: Sam Tân) is a British animated children's television series about a fireman named Sam Jones, his fellow firefighters, and other residents of the fictional Welsh village of Pontypandy (a portmanteau of two real towns, Pontypridd and Tonypandy). It was broadcast for the first time in November 1987 on Welsh TV channel S4C and is shown in more than 155 countries across the world. Originally animated using stop motion (series 1-5), the series has been computer animated since 2008 (series 6-16).
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fireman Sam” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.