Fireman Sam

Fireman Sam
Genre	Animation
Created by	Dave Gingell Dave Jones Rob Lee
Written by	Laura Beaumont Paul Larson
Directed by	Jerry Hibbert Gary Andrews Cam Lizotte Greg Richardson Katrina Hadley Jennifer Guglielmucci Oskar Nilsson William Gordon Connor Ferguson
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 (1987–1994)
Music by	Ben Heneghan (from 1987 to 2005) Ian Lawson (from 1987 to 2005) David Pickvance (from 2008 to 2019) Blain Morris (from 2020 onwards) Mike Shields (from 2021 onwards) Amanda Cawley (from 2021 onwards)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original languages	Welsh (Series 1–4) English
No. of series	15
No. of episodes	291 (list of episodes)
Production
Producer	Various
Running time	10 minutes (series) 20 minutes ("Snow Business" only)
Production companies	Bumper Films (1987–1994) HIT Entertainment (2003–2017) Mattel Television (2017–present) Animation: Siriol Productions (Season 5) HRTv (Series 6–7) Xing Xing Digital (Series 6–10) Island of Misfits (Series 11–12)[a][1] WildBrain Studios (Series 12–present)[b]
Original release
Network	S4C (Welsh) Children's BBC on BBC1 (English series 1–4) CBeebies (English series 5) Cartoonito (English series 6–present) Channel 5 (English series 8–present)
Release	17 November 1987 (1987-11-17) – 17 November 1994 (1994-11-17)
Release	4 April 2005 (2005-04-04) – present
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Fireman Sam (Welsh: Sam Tân) is an animated children's television series about a fireman named Sam, his fellow firefighters, and other residents in the fictional Welsh rural 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.^[2][3]

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