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Fireman Sam (1987)

Fireman Sam poster
Original title
Sam Tân
Genre
educational television, children's television series
Country
United Kingdom
Length
16 seasons, 359 episodes
Rated
TV-Y
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 40 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Fireman Sam and his firefighter friends help keep the people of a Welsh village safe. The series shows how they solve everyday problems and put out fires.

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What happens

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). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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