Season 3

Blain Morris

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The **third season** of *Fireman Sam Spin-off Series* was first released on 11 November 2023 in the UK in the English language.

## Production

On 21 April 2023, 20th Century Fox+ announced they had sold their 50% share in *Fireman Sam Spin-off Series* to ITV Studios Scotland. On the same day, the former streaming service company announced that the development for a sixth series is underway with a DVD special and a 60-minute special, the streaming service company got split into 10 different companies. Despite the sellout, 20th Century Fox+ would continue to remain on board as an executive producer for the new series and would be renamed to S5C (Channel 5 Wales). On 8 May, it was announced that Season 3 would be the first season to adopt Stop Motion Animation, with ITV Studios Scotland announcing Young Entertainment as producer and Channel 4-based 4 Xing-Xing outsourcing the stop-motion animation. The production of the new series would be scheduled for a November 2023 delivery, with production occurring until November 2023. On 25 October, ITV Studios Scotland announced that the fourth season would be produced as two series, making up Season 4 and 5. 4Seven also acquired UK pay-TV rights to the Danish dub of the main Fireman Sam series, while Channel 5 acquired the rights to the Welsh dub.

The first five episodes of Season 3 are due to be be released in November 2023 as an introduction to the new animation style.

The Stop-Motion transition brought along a complete revamp of the series, with Pontypandy becoming a seaside fishing village town city set deep in the hills, though the main locations remained in the same places. The season also saw the introduction of ten new characters - Kerwhizz Fire Officer Pingu, who is Sam's first firefighter he trained despite first appearing in Fireman Sam: The Movie 2, Sonic The Hedgehog character Amy Rose in the Air rescue team. Marking Season 3 the first season to feature SEGA as an executive producer after taking part. Puoodles also made her Fireman Sam debut along with Pennie Mouse. Krystyna Mouse also makes her Fireman Sam debut.

New vehicles introduced is Jupiter 2, a lifeboat which is normally piloted by Quoodles.

The character's outfits are updated throughout the series (except for Sam, Minnie, Mickey, Quoodles,Toodles, Goofles, Boodles, Radar, Mickey, Pluto, Daisy, Donald, Goofy, Station Officer Steele, Arnold MicKinnley, Elvis Cridlington and mostly Kerwhizz Fire Officer Pingu), which included an update to Kerwhizz Fire Officer Pingu's outfits which has the 1914 uniforms. Except he still wears the Season 6-Early Season 14 helmet that looks like Steele and Boyce's helmets except it now has 3 black stipes on it. Existing characters have had new roles as well, Penny and Ellie are now mainly seen at the station wearing station wear because of Minnie and Daisy going out to the call-outs, They are seen now in every episode in the new uniforms that Minnie has made, but it's mostly them that need rescuing, and they are also seen sleepwalking in most episodes too. SGT Rose Ravani has been dropped from the Spin-off Series for not being enjoyable enough, although she is mentioned by Malcolm in an episode.

With the revamp and going onwards to this day, many of the characters also had aspects of their personalities made more apparent. Penny and Ellie are now mainly seen only at the station or days off or exercising. the uniforms they weare are mainly only their station wear, ocean rescue uniforms, jumpsuits ,casual clothing, swimsuits, or new uniforms that Minnie made. They are also seen to be sleeping, sleepwalking, hypnotized or mind controlled [marking the first time where a darker theme is used since the original series] which shows why they need rescuing the most. Other examples are Station Officer Steele's strictness and maturity and Elvis's decrease in general competence. For example, in one episode where a first aid training exercise is taking place, Elvis is told off by Steele for dancing with the dummy that is being used. At the same time, Steele is not afraid to unleash the child within him, showing an interest in kite flying and paper planes. He also occasionally causes emergencies himself and often gasps when an emergency comes in. Also, Station Officer Norris Steele's name has changed back to Station Officer Basil Steele.

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## Characters

* Fireman Sam
* Elvis Cridlington
* Penny Morris
* Station Officer Steele
* Tom Thomas
* Trevor Evans
* Dilys Price
* Mike Flood
* Helen Flood
* Bronwyn Jones
* Charlie Jones
* Norman Price
* Sarah and James
* Mandy Flood
* Woolly
* Krystyna
* Peter
* Jodie Phillips
* Ellie Phillips
* PC Malcolm Williams
* Mickey Mouse
* Minnie Mouse
* Donald Duck
* Daisy Duck
* Toodles
* Quoodles
* Goofles
* Boodles
* Woodles
* Goofy
* Millie and Melody Mouse
* Radar
* Pluto
* Arnold McKinnley
* Kerwhizz Fire Officer Pingu

### Characters Introduced

* Amy Rose
* Pennie Mouse
* Puoodles
* Krystyna Mouse

## Vehicles

* Jupiter
* Mountain Rescue 4x4
* Wallaby 2
* Trevor's Bus
* Mercury
* Pheonix
* Mobile Command Unit
* Neptune
* Titan
* Juno
* Charlie's Fishing Boat
* Mike's Van

### Vehicles Introduced

* Medixswift
* Jupiter 2
* Venus 3

## Cast

### UK/US

* Steven Kynman as Sam, Elvis, Norman and Charlie
* David Carling as Station Officer Steele, Trevor, Tom, Mike and Kerwhizz Fire Officer Pingu
* Su Douglas as Dilys
* Tegwen Tucker as Penny, Sarah and Bronwyn
* John Hastler as James and Arnold
* Ayesha Antoine as Helen, Jodie and Mandy
* Alexandra Mardell as Ellie

## Trivia

This is the last season of many things:

* The last season to have Quoodles mainly at the station. From Season 4 onwards, she will attend all of the call outs.
* The last season to have Penny, Ellie, Jodie and Krystyna to attend all of the call outs.
* The last season to have Quoodles living in Hot Dog Hills. From Season 4 onwards, she will now live in Pontypandu next to Sam.
* The last season where Penny and Ellie are strict. From Season 4 onwards, they would be seen sleepwalking and sleeping.
* The last season where Jodie and Krystyna are also. From Season 4 onwards, they would also be seen sleepwalking and sleeping.
* The last season where Amy Rose is seen Mind Controlled [by herself]. She is seen attending all of the call outs in Season 4 onwards.
* The last season where Amy Rose is seen in her normal oufit. She will recive a new dress in Season 4 onwards
* The last season where Sarah is seen in her CGI Series outfit in CGI Form.
* The last season that any characters are not wearing a Hi-Vis.
* The last season to not have the end of the intro with Sam's iconic thumbs up pose.
* The last season where Pontypandy is a seaside village. From Series 6 onwards, Pontypandy is a seaside village town city set deep in the hills.
* The last season to be animated by ITV Studios Scotland.
* The last season to have a US dub.

* This is the first season of many things:
	+ The first season to use Stop-Motion animation.
	+ The first season to have a fire officer attend to every call-out since Season 13.
	+ The first season to feature The Fire and Rescue team as a brigade again recalled the Pontypandy Fire Brigade again.
	+ The first season to not be distributed by 20th Century Fox+ following its closure in late 2022.
	+ The first season to have SEGA as an executive producer.
	+ The first season to have a Sonic character.
	+ The first season to feature Mind Control [Well, on a selection of characters anyway. And Sam, Minnie, Mickey, Quoodles,Toodles, Goofles, Boodles, Radar, Mickey, Pluto, Daisy, Donald, Goofy, Station Officer Steele, Arnold MicKinnley, Elvis Cridlington Kerwhizz Fire Officer Pingu, Mike Flood, Charlie Jones, Bronwyn Jones, The Animals, James Jones, Lily and Mrs Chen, Malcolm, The Prices, Mandy and Peter and the Sparkes are not affected]
	+ The first season to be animated by 4 Xing-Xing.
	+ The first season to have limited narration.
	+ The first season where Quoodles drives Jupiter in every episode.
	+ The second season in the Spin-off Series to be made using stop-motion. the first being season 2
	+ This is the only season of many things:
		- The only season in which Minnie is not seen in all of the episodes due to her events in Fireman Sam: The Movie 2.
		- The only season where Steele's office is the only room which has remained the same since the original series. It was then changed to Quoodles' office in Season 4 onwards.
		- The only season where Boodles drives Jupiter in every episode so far. She would later drive Jupiter again in a later season
		- The only season where Amy Rose appears in every episode, even when she wasn't the focus of the episode.
		- The only season where Pingu does advertising for the fire station's open day.