Olliver's Adventures
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| Olliver's Adventures | |
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| Created by | Edward Kay |
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| Starring | Joanne Miller |
| Composer | Blaian Morris |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
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| Production | |
| Executive producers | Michael-Andreas Kuttner Steven J.P. Comeau Beth Stevenson |
| Producers | Suzanne Chapman James Nicholson |
| Editor | Christopher Cooper |
| Running time | 22 minutes (7 minutes per short) |
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| Original release | |
| Network | Teletoon |
| Release | September 3, 2002[1] – March 20, 2005[1] |
Olliver's Adventures is a Canadian animated television series that originally aired on Teletoon on September 3, 2002, with the first 13 episodes.[1] It was produced in Flash by Collideascope Digital and Decode Entertainment and consists of 117 shorts or 39 episodes of 3 shorts each,[2] along with a pilot special.
Plot
[edit]The show is about a young boy named Olliver (Ollie) who invents a world of his own using his imagination, creating stories that reconfigure his everyday life and impressions of the world into epic adventures.
Characters
[edit]Ollie (voiced by Joanne Miller) usually has his toys as his companions:
- Jorge the iguana (voiced by Glenn Lefchak)
- Trog the strong caveman
- Tara the woman (voiced by Tara Doyle)
- Zoomerax the alien
- Beano the dog
- The Giant Big Sisters (Ashley, Leslie and Monia) are a trio of bully siblings
- Mom and Dad are parents
Episodes
[edit]Pilot special
[edit]The pilot special, written by Edward Kay and directed by Sean Scott,[3] was named Ollie's Under-the-Bed Adventures and won a Gemini Award for Best Animated Program.[4] It consists of 10 two-minute shorts,[5] and premiered on Teletoon on April 15, 2001.[6]
Season 1 (2002)
[edit]| No. overall | No. in season | Title [7] | Original air date |
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| 1 | 1 | "Ice Storm / Albertasaur-I-Oh! / Saving Sublantis" | TBA |
| 2 | 2 | "Air Show / Tales of an Arabian Fright / Wise Man on the Mountain" | TBA |
| 3 | 3 | "Ollie Hood and His Merry Men / Honey, I Shrunk the Jorge / The Aliens Are Coming!" | TBA |
| 4 | 4 | "Sufferin' Sasquatch / Clone Alone / Asteroid Belt" | TBA |
| 5 | 5 | "Time Out / The Great Escape / Back Seat Driver" | TBA |
| 6 | 6 | "Hectic Celtic / Choc-O-Files / Attack of the 50-Foot Furball" | TBA |
| 7 | 7 | "Vikings from Space / He's Got the Whole World in His Hands / Tremors" | TBA |
| 8 | 8 | "Warpo General Hospital / Toys R' Bust / The Weakest Don't Think" | TBA |
| 9 | 9 | "Wish Hard / It's a Fullawart's Life / Olliver and the Beanstalk" | TBA |
| 10 | 10 | "Raisin a Stink / What a Pain in the Neck / Wolfman Zack" | TBA |
| 11 | 11 | "Waiting for Mummy / Abominable Snow, Man / Cool Etudes" | TBA |
| 12 | 12 | "Who Is Taylor Irksome / Jorge-Zilla / Kidsky & Clutch" | TBA |
| 13 | 13 | "Tooth Loose / Being Cray Baddie / Whale of a Time" | TBA |
Season 2 (2003)
[edit]| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 1 | "Olliver Fast Sledder / Tall Ships Ahoy! / Kids with Brooms" | TBA |
| 15 | 2 | "Surf and Turf / Cringing Ollie Out of Sight Johnny / Don't Worry, Be Quiet" | TBA |
| 16 | 3 | "Re-Energized / Slippery Slope! / Out of the Bean Can Into the Beano" | TBA |
| 17 | 4 | "Boy vs. Grasshopper / A Pound of Cure / New Best Friend" | TBA |
| 18 | 5 | "Ollie Ollie Odyssey / Bus Stop / Real Re-Ollity" | TBA |
| 19 | 6 | "The Green Rabbit / Dumpelstirback / Off Side" | TBA |
| 20 | 7 | "Dinosaur Taunter / Eye of the Volcano / Planet of the Rats" | TBA |
| 21 | 8 | "Sweaters Galore / Fooling Father Time / Christmas Past Perfect" | TBA |
| 22 | 9 | "Scaredy Witch / The Good, the Bad, and the Ollie / The Headless Janitor" | TBA |
| 23 | 10 | "All Hands on Deck / May I Take Your Order / Bored Sick" | TBA |
| 24 | 11 | "Two Leagues Under the Sea / Kung Pow Panda / Duck, Duck, Switcheroo!" | TBA |
| 25 | 12 | "Babysitter's School / Mirrorland / Ollie and the Hermit Crab" | TBA |
| 26 | 13 | "Stanked / The Singing Pickle / Swamp Gas" | TBA |
Season 3 (2005)
[edit]| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 1 | "Love the Hair / Say Cheese! / Recycling Blues" | TBA |
| 28 | 2 | "Lightnin' Frightnin' / Classic Rock / And Then There Was Ollie" | TBA |
| 29 | 3 | "Thar's Gold in Them Thar Teeth / All Hail Trogg / Ollie-Baba" | TBA |
| 30 | 4 | "Bad News Scare / Pit Stop / Airport 99" | TBA |
| 31 | 5 | "For Your Eyes Only / This Little Piggie Had None / Election" | TBA |
| 32 | 6 | "All the Ollies / Swallow the Leader / Oh! Gee! Hey!" | TBA |
| 33 | 7 | "Cosmic Cleaner / The Northern Lights Have Seen Strange Sights / General Ollie" | TBA |
| 34 | 8 | "Heavy Pants / Flying Trapeze / Dr. Kildykicks" | TBA |
| 35 | 9 | "The Red Ukulele / Ollie in Blunderland / The Lost Spike" | TBA |
| 36 | 10 | "Mama's Boy / Ollie Ollivia / A Clean Getaway" | TBA |
| 37 | 11 | "Safari Sogoodie / Coral City / Como Say Llama" | TBA |
| 38 | 12 | "Cousin Gord / Citizen Ollie / Nursery Nonsense" | TBA |
| 39 | 13 | "Fashion Scares / Ollie the Barbarian / Trouble" | TBA |
Production
[edit]The pilot special cost about $500,000 (US$330,000) to produce, and was originally distributed by Cochran Entertainment.[3][5]
Telecast and home media
[edit]Olliver's Adventures originally aired on Teletoon on September 3, 2002 with the first 13 episodes.[1] It consisted 117 shorts or 39 episodes of 3 shorts each,[2] along with a pilot special. The final episode aired on March 20, 2005. In the U.S., the show formerly aired on Animania HD.
Season 1 of the show used to be on Tubi, but have since become unavailable to watch.[8] The first 6 episodes (18 shorts) also used to be released on Ameba TV, but is now unavailable to watch as well.[7]
Awards and nominations
[edit]| Year | Association | Category | Nominee | Result | Ref. |
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| 2001 | Gemini Awards | Best Animated Program or Series | Jessica Andrews, Michael-Andreas Kuttner, Steven J.P. Comeau | Won | [9] |
| 2003 | Gemini Awards | Best Animated Program or Series | Allison Outhit, Beth Stevenson, Michael-Andreas Kuttner, Steven J.P. Comeau | Nominated | [10] |
| 2003 | Gemini Awards | Best Interactive (www.ollieland.com) | Michael-Andreas Kuttner, Steven J.P. Comeau | Nominated | [11] |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Television Program Logs". Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. 2016-03-02.[dead link] Alt URL
- ^ a b "TV Listings Guide and TV Schedule, Where to Watch TV Shows – Zap2it". Tvschedule.zap2it.com. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
- ^ a b By Distin Dinoff (2001-01-22). "Cochran scores Ollie distrib rights » Playback". Playbackonline.ca. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
- ^ "Teletoon Premieres Olliver's Adventures | AWN | Animation World Network". AWN. Retrieved 2013-06-07.
- ^ a b "Archive » Convergence meets parallel universe in Ollie's Under-the-Bed Adventures". Kidscreen. 2001-02-01. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
- ^ "www.teletoon.com". Archived from the original on 2001-04-13. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
- ^ a b "Ameba". Amebatv.com. 2013-01-01. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
- ^ "Watch Olliver's Adventures - Free TV Series Full Seasons Online | Tubi". Tubitv.com. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
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