Fireman Sam is an animated comedy
children's television series about a fireman called Sam, his fellow firefighters, and other townspeople in the fictional Welsh rural town of Pontypandy (a
portmanteau of two real towns,
Pontypridd and
Tonypandy, which are situated approximately apart in the
South Wales valleys). The original idea for the show came from two ex-firemen from
Kent, who took their idea to artist and writer Rob Lee who developed the concept, and the show was later commissioned by
S4C.