The BEST Episodes of Fireman Sam
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Jul 5, 2020
Network: BBC Two
Fireman Sam is a Welsh animated children's television series about a fireman called Sam, his fellow firefighters, and other townspeople in the fictional Welsh town of Pontypandy. The original idea for the show came from two ex-firemen from Kent.
#1 - Home From Rome
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired Oct 25, 1994
Rosa stows away in Bella's shopping trolley, when she goes to Bingle's department store. But disaster strikes when a lift gets stuck, and it's up to the Pontypandy fire service to rescue Bella and her cat...
9.55 
#2 - Disastrous Dilys
Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired Aug 4, 2012
Dilys tries her best to help her "little treasure" Norman get his Pontypandy pioneer fishing badge, with disastrous results.
9.35 
#3 - Trouble and Squeak
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired Apr 26, 2005
Norman has taken the school mouse home to look after. Unsurprisingly, it escapes and causes havock when both Rosa and the mouse end up stuck in Bella's chimney.
9.30 
#4 - Boyce Will Be Boyce
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired Apr 8, 2012
Station Officer Steele hurts his back and Chief Fire Officer Boyce fills in his role for the day.
8.85 
#5 - Fun Run
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired Apr 25, 2005
Today in Pontypandy, a fun run has been organised for charity. Unfortunately Norman's cheating ways put James and the other competitors in danger.
8.85 
#6 - Cadet Catastrophe
Season 11 - Episode 3 - Aired Feb 11, 2018
Ellie takes the Junior Cadets into the woods for a training day, but a small mishap causes a gas canister explosion.
8.67 
#7 - Castles and Kings
Season 10 - Episode 3 - Aired Feb 16, 2016
Mandy, Norman and the Twins play castles and kings and Norman wanted to build a fire breathing dragon, but the dragon catches fire and later crashes into Bessie's shed which causes the fire to spread on the back of the shed.
8.67 
#8 - Twitchers in Trouble
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired Apr 13, 2005
Trevor is looking forward to his date with Dilys and decides to take her birdwatching. However, a fire at Trevor's birdwatching hide ensures that the date is hotter than planned.
8.54 
#9 - Norman's Invisible Friend
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired Apr 28, 2005
Norman invents a fictitious friend to get double helpings of everything.
8.48 
#10 - Jupiter On The Loose
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired Mar 31, 2012
When the Pontypandy Pioneers go to the fire station to complete their fire safety badge, Norman wants to prove to his cousin Derek that he can drive a fire engine.
8.42 
#11 - The Big Freeze
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired Apr 5, 2005
Norman raises everyone's temperature with the bed he builds for his pet lamb Woolly.
8.34 
#12 - Three Legged Race
Season 6 - Episode 23 - Aired Mar 12, 2008
In the annual three-legged race in Pontypandy, Fireman Sam is partnered with a less-than-confident Dilys Price.
8.25 
#13 - King of the Jungle
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired Apr 27, 2005
The Tarzanesque jungle cry of naughty Norman Price raises the alarm when the twins get caught in a blazing haystack.
8.18 
#14 - The Big Chill
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired Apr 7, 2012
When the power goes out at the fire station, Sam has trouble lighting a fire. Meanwhile, Norman and Dereck are building a snowman at the Floods and accidentally cook up Dilys' best scarf.
8.14 
#15 - The Pontypandy Polar Bear
Season 8 - Episode 21 - Aired Oct 6, 2012
Huge footprints in the snow convince Sarah that there's a polar bear in the area. But she and James get into difficulties when they try to photograph it for a local newspaper competition.
8.12 
#16 - Quarry Rescue
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired Nov 1, 1994
While Bella is making pizza's for Trevor to deliver James falls into an old quarry. Then Trevor gets his finger stuck in the brake fluid chamber.
8.00 
#17 - Sticky Situation
Season 7 - Episode 18 - Aired Dec 4, 2008
Norman Price doesn't follow the directions on his model airplane kit and ends up getting stuck to his bedroom door during a fire.
8.00 
#18 - Towering Inferno
Season 7 - Episode 24 - Aired Dec 12, 2008
Norman Price, Mandy Flood and the twins play hide and seek, but Norman hides in the fire station training tower while the firefighters are running a drill.
8.00 
#19 - Runaway Train
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired Mar 10, 2012
When Bronwyn gives her father Gareth Griffiths a sausage sandwich for his lunch, she has no idea the lengths Nipper the dog will go to for a bite!
8.00 
#20 - The Pontypandy Cup
Season 9 - Episode 12 - Aired Jun 11, 2014
When Joe and Mike discover that Norman is entering Pontypandy's big go-kart race, The Pontypandy Cup, they get very nostalgic about the go-karts they made when they were kids.
8.00 
#21 - The Treasure Trap
Season 9 - Episode 18 - Aired Aug 4, 2014
Norman and James are looking for treasure in the sea caves when bad weather comes in.
8.00 
#23 - Camping
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired Dec 1, 1987
What have a frog and an oily rag got to do with camping? Sam, Sarah and James soon find out.
7.99 
#24 - Trevor's Training
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired Nov 24, 1987
It's routine drill for Trevor on his first day in the fire service, until a message comes over the radio.
7.98 
#25 - Carnival of Junk
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired Apr 14, 2005
A rubbish tip proves to be a trap for the unwary James, but then the recycled rubbish becomes the centrepiece in a Caribbean-style carnival.
7.98