Olliver's Adventures Explained

Creator:	Edward Kay
Starring:	Joanne Miller
Composer:	Blaian Morris
Country:	Canada
Language:	English
Num Seasons:	3
Executive Producer:	Michael-Andreas Kuttner Steven J.P. Comeau Beth Stevenson
Producer:	Suzanne Chapman James Nicholson
Editor:	Christopher Cooper
Runtime:	22 minutes (7 minutes per short)
Channel:	Teletoon
First Aired:	^[1]

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,^[2] 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,^[3] was named Ollie's Under-the-Bed Adventures and won a Gemini Award for Best Animated Program.^[4] It consists of 10 two-minute shorts,^[5] and premiered on Teletoon on April 15, 2001.^[6]

Season 3 (2005)

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,^[2] along with a pilot 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 on Tubi, but have since become unavailable to watch.^[7] The first 6 episodes (18 shorts) also used to be released on Ameba TV, but is now unavailable to watch as well.^[8]

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Nominee	Result	Ref.
2001		Best Animated Program or Series	Jessica Andrews, Michael-Andreas Kuttner, Steven J.P. Comeau		^[9]
2003		Best Animated Program or Series	Allison Outhit, Beth Stevenson, Michael-Andreas Kuttner, Steven J.P. Comeau		^[10]
2003		Best Interactive (www.ollieland.com)	Michael-Andreas Kuttner, Steven J.P. Comeau		^[11]

References

1. Web site: [ftp://support.crtc.gc.ca/logs/ Television Program Logs]. 2016-03-02. Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. Alt URL
2. Web site: TV Listings Guide and TV Schedule, Where to Watch TV Shows – Zap2it . Tvschedule.zap2it.com . 2014-06-20.
3. Web site: By Distin Dinoff . Cochran scores Ollie distrib rights » Playback . Playbackonline.ca . 2001-01-22 . 2020-02-14.
4. Web site: Teletoon Premieres Olliver's Adventures | AWN | Animation World Network . AWN . 2013-06-07.
5. Web site: Archive » Convergence meets parallel universe in Ollie's Under-the-Bed Adventures . Kidscreen . 2001-02-01 . 2020-02-14.
6. Web site: www.teletoon.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20010413175319/http://www.teletoon.com/TV/Highlights_En.shtml . 2001-04-13 . 2019-11-11.
7. Web site: Watch Olliver's Adventures - Free TV Series Full Seasons Online | Tubi . Tubitv.com . 2019-12-28.
8. Web site: Ameba . Amebatv.com . 2013-01-01 . 2019-11-12.
9. Web site: Unknown.
10. Web site: Unknown.
11. Web site: Unknown.