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| Firehouse Tales | |
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| Genre | |
| Created by | Sidney J. Bailey |
| Directed by | Kathi Castillo |
| Voices of | |
| Narrated by | French Tickner |
| Theme music composer | Tim Kelly |
| Opening theme | "Firehouse Tales Theme" |
| Ending theme | "Firehouse Tales Theme" (instrumental) |
| Composer | Tim Kelly |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 26 (78 segments) |
| Production | |
| Executive producers |
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| Producer | Ken Kessel |
| Editor | Myra Owyang |
| Running time |
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Animation |
| Original release | |
| Network | Cartoon Network |
| Release | August 22, 2005 (2005-08-22) – June 7, 2006 (2006-06-07) |
Firehouse Tales is an Americananimatedchildren's television series created by Sidney J. Bailey, produced byWarner Bros. Animation as the only original series forCartoon Network's now-defunctTickle-U preschool programming block, with voice actors from Canada. The series follows threeanthropomorphic fire engines who attendfirefighting school.[1]
Firehouse Tales was originally produced by Firehouse Productions, LLC as a 22-minute pilot, created and developed by animation producer Sidney J. Bailey and animation director Clark James. It was sold toWarner Bros. Television in 2004, which following their process, the program was redeveloped as a CG program composited over 2D backgrounds – 26 half hours were subsequently produced byWarner Bros. Animation and aired onCartoon Network'sTickle-U worldwide.
The original pilot episodes, which never aired publicly, was created as practical miniature sets with computer generated facial expressions added in post production. The original characters cast were: "Pete", "Lakie", "Tip", "Commander", and "Chief McSpeed", while Wiser and Squirt have different designs.
Ancillary products were produced byBandai (toys) andScholastic (books).
Firehouse Tales premiered onCartoon Network's preschool television programming block Tickle-U in the United States on August 22, 2005. It also aired onCartoonito in the UK from 2006. It has also aired onStar Channel's Starland (formerly Star Toons) block in Greece,RTL Klub in Hungary,RTP2 in Portugal, and more channels in other foreign countries.