Fireman Sam

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.

Fireman Sam
Created by
  • Dave Gingell
  • Dave Jones
  • Rob Lee
Written byLaura Beaumont
Paul Larson
Directed byJerry Hibbert
Gary Andrews
Cam Lizotte
Greg Richardson
Katrina Hadley
Jennifer Guglielmucci
Oskar Nilsson
William Gordon
Connor Ferguson
Voices of
Narrated byJohn Alderton (1987–1994)
Music by
  • Ben Heneghan (1987–2005)
  • Ian Lawson (1987–2005)
  • David Pickvance (2008–2019)
  • Blain Morris (2020–present)
  • Mike Shields (2021–present)
  • Amanda Cawley (2021–present)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languages
  • Welsh (Series 1–4)
  • English
No. of series14
No. of episodes265 (list of episodes)
Production
ProducerVarious
Running time
  • 10 minutes (series)
  • 20 minutes (Christmas special episode)
Production companies
Original release
Network
Release17 November 1987 (1987-11-17) 
present
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