Olliver's Adventures
| Olliver's Adventures | |
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| Created by | Edward Kay |
| Directed by |
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| Starring | Joanne Miller |
| Composer | Blaian Morris |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes |
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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 – March 20, 2005 |
Olliver's Adventures is a Canadian animated television series that originally aired on Teletoon on September 3, 2002, with the first 13 episodes. It was produced in Flash by Collideascope Digital and Decode Entertainment and consists of 117 shorts or 39 episodes of 3 shorts each, along with a pilot special.
Plot
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
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
Pilot special
The pilot special, written by Edward Kay and directed by Sean Scott, was named Ollie's Under-the-Bed Adventures and won a Gemini Award for Best Animated Program. It consists of 10 two-minute shorts, and premiered on Teletoon on April 15, 2001.
Season 1 (2002)
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No. overall |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
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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)
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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
The pilot special cost about $500,000 (US$330,000) to produce, and was originally distributed by Cochran Entertainment.
Telecast and home media
Olliver's Adventures originally aired on Teletoon on September 3, 2002 with the first 13 episodes. It consisted 117 shorts or 39 episodes of 3 shorts each, along with a pilot special. The final episode aired on March 20, 2005. In the USA, the show aired on Animania HD.
Season 1 is available on Tubi. The first 6 episodes (18 shorts) have also been released on Ameba TV.
Awards and nominations
| 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 | |
| 2003 | Gemini Awards | Best Animated Program or Series | Allison Outhit, Beth Stevenson, Michael-Andreas Kuttner, Steven J.P. Comeau | Nominated | |
| 2003 | Gemini Awards | Best Interactive (www.ollieland.com) | Michael-Andreas Kuttner, Steven J.P. Comeau | Nominated |