. (. ). Fireman Sam (Sam Tan in its original language) was an 1985 stop motion animation series, about the fire service in the fictional Welsh town of Pontypandy. The original series was first broadcast in the Welsh language, then in English as of 1987. Originally narrated by John Alderton. Said series ended by 1994.
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HiT Entertainment acquired the rights and produced a new series made with Clay-mation, lasting from 2003 to 2005. An ever newer CGI series debuted in 2008 and is currently broadcast on TV. Pontypandy Fire Service consists of the title character, his friend and colleague Fireman Elvis Cridlington, their boss Station Officer Steele and the newest recruit, Firefighter Penny Morris. Outside of the fire service, the townspeople include Sam's niece and nephew, Sarah and James (and recently their parents Charlie and Bronwyn), shopkeeper Dilys Price and her prankster son Norman, cafe owner Bella Lasagne, bus driver and part time firefighter Trevor Evans, mountain rescue worker Tom Thomas, and the Flood family (nurse Helen, handyman Mike and their daughter Mandy). This show has the following tropes. In Elvis gets his chance to shine, even saving Sam's life!.: When Elvis breaks his leg, Station Officer Steele has to take over his duties and makes such a hash of it, Elvis has to save him, earning Steele's respect.: Trevor's satnav system sends his bus over a cliff in one episode.: James Jones, Tom Thomas (see also ).: Managed not to be about it most of the time, and usually involved anyway.: Just how many times does Norman need rescuing by the fire service?.
/ /VillainProtagonist: Norman (Type V).: In stages with the different series. Sam and the other firefighters have remained similar in appearance along the way, the twins and Mandy rather less so. Dilys has changed in appearence too, becoming much younger-looking.: Sam, Elvis and Penny. Notable for actually being the opposite of their hair colour tropes (,.) Sam (Redhead) is very even tempered, Penny (Blonde) is very brainy and competent and Elvis (Brunette) is, well.: 'So move aside make way (Fireman Sam!) He's gonna save the day (Fireman Sam!).'
Overlaps with and to an extent.: Norman Price.: Trevor Evans, Mike Flood, and Charlie Jones.: 'Great fires of London!' , 'Call Fireman Sam!' .: Bella and Rosa in the CGI season.: In The Great Fire of Pontypandy.: Elvis is very protective of Dummy (later Dolly), the fire station training dummy.: Tom Thomas' helicopter certainly qualifies. Also something of a as it's always carrying the right equipment, despite being a bit on the small side to be carrying everything all the time.: Sarah Jones' voice can reach an incredibly shrill pitch, especially when her brother James is getting into trouble and she's trying to stop him.: Station Officer Steele.: Trevor Evans in the newer series.: Largely averted, but for all that the show is clearly well advised on fire safety issues, one episode shows the crew using water to put on an electrical fire. They do unplug the appliance in question first, however. In the crew would have used extinguishers containing foam or powder, so this was probably a concession to the limits of the special effects and/or a subtle PSA about how to deal with an electrical fire when water is all you've got on hand.: Norman Price's father is never even mentioned.: Trevor Evans crashes a bus in 'Dilys's Forgetful Day', when he drives past Penny, the new girl in the Ponypandy fire service.
Elvis even hits on her a little earlier in the episode.: Touched on with Mike Flood, who drums for a hobby. It's not that he's stupid - he's a competent handyman and builds a space rocket in his spare time! - it's just that he tends to drum on breakable things. With his hammers.: Dilys had one in the aptly-named episode 'Dilys' Forgetful Day'. She had one after falling from a ladder (caused by Norman), and recovered after hitting her head on the bus. Also, Norman gave his mother just for the hell of it.: Bella does not like mice.: 'NOR-MAN!'
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.: Brownwyn, although it comes back to bite her somewhat when she wishes at a well that Lion would stop hunting birds. Norman qualifies as well, especially where Wooly and Lambykins are concerned.: In the CGI season, Pontypandy has somehow acquired a coastline.: Elvis, who's a very competent firefighter and who's shown to take the lead on the (very, very rare) occasions Sam's not around.: Bronwyn has hints of this, including giving Dilys a dream catcher for her birthday and believing in a lucky stone.: Elvis and Mike Flood play music together and are paired up for a three-legged race, to their evident delight.
It's clear that they get on really well - possibly because they're the only ones daft enough to put up with each other.: Frequent examples.: Almost inevitably. It's more realistic than a lot of portrayals, however, and the firefighters make a point of suiting up appropriately.
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There's generally a lot of smoke, too.: Charlie and Bronwyn Jones, until recently. But very occasionally he shows himself to be a. Just don't expect to see it often.: Norman Price rarely gets punished for the many, many problems he causes. Even starting the Great Fire of Pontypandy, putting the lives of every main character in danger along the way, only results in a telling off from his mum. Presumably he serves his punishments after the credits roll. There was actually ONE episode, Floating Cart, where Sam made Norman go around fixing everything that he'd broken.: Jupiter was made into one with a figure of Sam attached to it.: Mike Flood, the village handyman, whose main job sees to be mending things that he's previously broken.: Elvis Cridlington. A bit of comes up if you think about this one at length.
Both Sam and Station Officer Steele admit to not liking his food, but never try cooking themselves. Given they're willing to put up with Elvis's cooking one can only imagine how much worse either of them are.: No-one other than the main characters is ever seen during an ordinary episode, though one of the tie-in books featured a cameo from an unidentified police constable. Somewhat hammered home when the same character model was used for two unrelated guest characters in different episodes. In The Great Fire of Pontypandy, the entire town is evacuated, and this still just seems to be the main characters. Particularly weird because you've got maybe a dozen people, loaded into a small school bus and a van, but they drive past dozens of houses and shops on the way. Is Pontypandy a ghost town?.: Maybe the residents are just so used to living around Norman Price by now they'd already got out before the main characters passed through town?.
Or probably the or came and killed the residents before the cartoon aired in 1986?.: Dilys glammed up somewhat between the original and CGI series, including gaining a pair of outsize pink glasses.: Bella Lasagne and Mandy Flood.: The Great Fire of Pontypandy. May explain why.: Sarah and James are Sam's niece and nephew, and until recently their parents were never seen.: Unless you count fire.: Sam is nearly always referred to by his first name only.