| Olliver's Adventures | |
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| Created by | Edward Kay |
| Directed by |
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| Voices of | Joanne Miller |
| Composer | Blain 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 (2002-09-03)[1] – March 20, 2005 (2005-03-20)[1] |
Olliver's Adventures is a Canadiananimated television series that originally aired onTeletoon on September 3, 2002, with the first 13 episodes.[1] It was produced inFlash byCollideascope Digital Productions andDecode Entertainment and consists of 117 shorts or 39 episodes of 3 shorts each,[2] along with apilot special.
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.
Ollie (voiced by Joanne Miller) usually has his toys as his companions:
Thepilot special, written byEdward Kay and directed by Sean Scott,[3] was namedOllie's Under-the-Bed Adventures and won aGemini Award for Best Animated Program.[4] It consists of 10 two-minute shorts,[5] and premiered on Teletoon on April 15, 2001.[6]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title [7] | Original release date |
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| 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 |
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original release 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 |
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original release 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 |
The pilot special cost about $500,000 (US$330,000) to produce, and was originally distributed by Cochran Entertainment.[3][5]
Olliver's Adventures originally aired onTeletoon on September 3, 2002 with the first 13 episodes.[1] It consisted 117 shorts or 39 episodes of 3 shorts each,[2] along with apilot special. The final episode aired on March 20, 2005. In the U.S., the show formerly aired on Animania HD.
Season 1 of the show used to be onTubi, but have since become unavailable to watch.[8] The first 6 episodes (18 shorts) also used to be released onAmeba TV, but is now unavailable to watch as well.[7]
| 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 | [9] |
| 2003 | Gemini Awards | Best Animated Program or Series | Allison Outhit, Beth Stevenson, Michael-Andreas Kuttner, Steven J.P. Comeau | Nominated | [10] |
| 2003 | Gemini Awards | Best Interactive (www.ollieland.com) | Michael-Andreas Kuttner, Steven J.P. Comeau | Nominated | [11] |