The Adventures of Sam

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The Adventures of Sam
Genre Children's
Drama
Action
Adventure
Written by Ken Kelso
Directed byCraig Handley
George Whaley
Starring Justin Rosniak
Emma Jane Fowler
Michael Craig
Lewis Fitz-Gerald
Sam Wilcox
Keith Buckley
Walter Grkovic
Anthony Wong
David Mackennal
Bob Baines
Joy Hopwood
Noeline Brown
Penne Hackforth-Jones
Katharine Cullen
Scott McGregor
Ace Matters
Graham Matters
David Downer
John Sheerin
Stephen Shanahan
Jon Pollard
Paul Smyth
David Whitney
John Derum
Diana McLean
Rachel King
Mitch Matthews
Colin Lee
Lee Perry
Theme music composer Nerida Tyson-Chew
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes13
Production
Executive producersRon Saunders
Claire Henderson
ProducersNoel Price
Peter Jackson
Running time24 minutes
Production companies Australian Film Finance Corporation
Southern Star Entertainment
Original release
Network ABC Television
Release29 January (1999-01-29) 
23 April 1999 (1999-04-23)

The Adventures of Sam was an Australian children's animated television series, written by Ken Kelso, that aired on the ABC in 1999.

Contents

The show ran for 13 episodes and is produced by the Australian Film Finance Corporation and Southern Star Entertainment in association with the ABC. It was also well known for its theme music by Nerida Tyson-Chew which was nominated for several awards. The show was also released on three videos in 1999 by PolyGram Video each containing four episodes featuring all episodes except for the final episode "Begin Again". It also aired on Toon Disney and The Disney Channel in the United Kingdom, TV2 in New Zealand, Kids Central in Singapore, Arutz HaYeladim in Israel, K-T.V. World in South Africa, France 5 in France, Disney Channel in Malaysia and RTÉ2 in Ireland being shown on the long running children's block The Den .

Premise

Set in 1840, it follows a sea-faring boy named Sam Donahue as he goes on many adventures around the world while trying to find his brother Tom and discovers new worlds and different cultures.

Episode listing

Home media

Video releases

Australia

Release name
Release date
Classifaction
Publisher
Format
LanguageSubtitlesNotes
REF
Adventures of Sam Vol 0117 February 1999GPolygram VideoPALEnglishNoneIncludes episodes 1 - 4 [1]
Adventures of Sam Vol 0217 March 1999GPolygram VideoPALEnglishNoneIncludes episodes 5 - 8 [2]
Adventures of Sam Vol 0316 April 1999GPolygram VideoPALEnglishNoneIncludes episodes 9 - 12 [3]

DVD releases

Italy

Release name
Release date
Publisher
Format
LanguageSubtitlesNotes
REF
Le Avventure Di Sam1 December 2008DigivisionPALEnglish, ItalianNoneIncludes episodes 1 - 4 combined, with only a single opening and ending sequence. [4]
Le Avventure Di Sam 21 December 2008DigivisionPALEnglish, ItalianNoneIncludes episodes 5 - 8 combined, with only a single opening and ending sequence. [5]
Le Avventure Di Sam 31 December 2008DigivisionPALEnglish, ItalianNoneIncludes episodes 9 - 13 combined, with only a single opening and ending sequence. [6]

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