Fireman Sam is a British animated series produced by Mattel Television (formerly HiT Entertainment). The series premiered on November 28, 1989. In 2007, the production switched from stop-motion to CGI and is still on-going. When Season 9 was released, one episode was pulled by Channel 5 due to controversy.
Censorship[]
Season 9[]
The controversial shot from the episode, containing text from the Quran
- Episode 6 ("Troubled Waters")
- This episode was pulled from airing in 2016 due to Elvis slipping on a page from the Quran.
- The scene where Elvis slips on some paper was modified for the 2016 international re-release. The Quran page was later changed to a blank piece of paper.
Due to the controversy, then-named HiT Entertainment terminated Xing Xing Digital's contract which had worked with them for eight years.
UK censorship[]
Season 1[]
- Episode 7 ("Telly Trouble")
- In the BBC iPlayer version of the episode, the scene where James dials 999 to call Fireman Sam is cut.
American censorship[]
- The character Dickie Grubb has his name changed to Dougie Grubb, due to "dick" being a slang for "penis" and "jerk".
Turkish/Middle East censorship[]
- In the Turkish dub of CGI Fireman Sam was also banned the episode called Sausages vs Shirmp (similar as on Baraem) is banned in Turkey by the RTUK and in MENA by Al Jazeera Media Network because in Pontypandy sausages is made with real pork and pork is haram in Islam and also for the Turkish dub of CGI Fireman Sam in S8 Ep15 (the King of the Moutains) Dilys speaks of lemonade & chicken soup the scenes is cut but why becasue in Pontypandy Sugary/Sweet Drinks contains geleatin (with animal enzymes) & meat is not zabiha and also in the Turkish dub of CGI Fireman Sam meats & sugary drinks are omitted or cut scenes because in Pontypandy Sugary Drinks is contains Gelatin (with animal enzymes) & meat is not zabiha and non-halal is also Haram in islam.
Where to find it uncensored[]
The episode "Troubled Waters" can be found uncensored in the Season 9 DVD home video. The online versions, and the streaming versions were originally uncensored, but they use the censored version as of 2020.
The episode "Telly Trouble" can be found uncensored everywhere, Including streaming services and DVD releases.
External links[]
- Fireman Sam: Controversies at Wikipedia
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