Fire at the cut price supermarket !!!!!

The best thing about having two young children is watching their enjoyment playing with their toys, such imaginations going on with their play, here Joseph has left me with the scene of the cut price supermarket being saved by Sam and the crew during a nasty fire started by the shop owners son naughty Norman, just like they do on the telly, apparently.

Joe has retired for the night and left me to tidy up the toys away, but I couldn't resist a quick blip of the carnage created by an imaginative 3yr old with a massive passion for Sam and the crew.


Fireman Sam is a Welsh animated children's television series about a fireman called Sam, his fellow firefighters, and other townspeople in the fictional Welsh town of Pontypandy (a portmanteau of two real towns, Pontypridd and Tonypandy, which are situated approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) apart in the South Wales valleys). The original idea for the show came from two ex-firemen from Kent. They took their idea to artist/writer Rob Lee who developed the concept for them. The finished concept was then presented to S4C who saw the potential in the series and commissioned it.

Fireman Sam first appeared in Welsh on S4C in 1985 and later in English throughout the United Kingdom on BBC1 in 1987. The series finished in 1994 but remains popular well over a decade after the last episode was aired. The series was also shown in Gaelic in Scotland, where it was known as Sam Smalaidh. The series has been sold to over 40 countries, from Australia to Norway and is used across the United Kingdom to promote fire safety.

In 1996, a stage production was turned into a feature, Fireman Sam In Action and released on BBC Video.

Fireman Sam has recently been adapted into a Live musical theatre show, which began touring the UK in June 2011.

The new series airs on Cartoonito.

The show was broadcast in English and Welsh at the same time, but on two different channels - in English on the BBC, in Welsh on S4C. The theme tune (excluding the lyrics) and characters are the same.

The show's production companies were Bumper Films and Siriol Productions (2002-present), and its distributors were British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Sianel 4 Cymru (S4C).

In 1988, the series was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award for Best Short Animated Film. The potential recipients were Ian Frampton and John Walker.