Fireman Sam, puppet used in Welsh S4C television series 'Fireman Sam'.

Fireman Sam is a British/Welsh animated children's television series about a fireman named Sam, his fellow firefighters, and other residents in the fictional Welsh rural village of Pontypandy. The original idea for the show came from two ex-firemen who took their idea to artist and writer Rob Lee who developed the concept, and the show was commissioned.

Fireman Sam first appeared as Sam Tân (Fireman Sam in Welsh) on S4C on 1 November 1987, and a few weeks later on BBC One on 17 November. The original series finished in 1994, and a new series that expanded the character cast commenced in 2005, both using stop motion animation techniques. A later series, begun in 2008, made for HIT Animation used CGI technology.