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Olliver's Adventures
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Created by Edward Kay
Directed by
  • Ron Ducette
  • Brian Howald
Composer(s) Blaian Morris
Country of origin Canada
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 3
No. of episodes
  • 39 (117 shorts)
  • 1 special
Production
Producer(s) Suzanne Chapman
James Nicholson
Editor(s) Christopher Cooper
Running time 22 minutes (7 minutes per short)
Production company(s)
Distributor Decode Entertainment
Release
Original network Teletoon
First shown in April 15, 2001
Original release September 3, 2002 (2002-09-03) – March 20, 2005 (2005-03-20)

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, 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 (Joanne Miller) usually has his toys as his companions:

  • Jorge the iguana (Glenn Lefchak)
  • Trog the strong caveman
  • Tara the woman (Tara Doyle)
  • Zoomerax the alien
  • Beano the dog
  • The Giant Big Sisters
  • Mom
  • Dad

Episodes

Pilot special

The pilot special, written by Edward Kay and directed by Sean Scott, was named Ollie's Under-the-Bed Adventures and won a Gemini Award for Best Animated Program. It consists of 10 two-minute shorts, and premiered on Teletoon on April 15, 2001.

Season 1 (2002)

No.
overall
No. in
season
Title Original air date
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

Season 2 (2003)

No.
overall
No. in
season
Title Original air 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

Season 3 (2005)

No.
overall
No. in
season
Title Original air 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

Awards and nominations

Year Association Category Nominee Result Ref.
2001 Gemini Awards Best Animated Program or Series Jessica Andrews, Michael-Andreas Kuttner, Steven J.P. Comeau Won
2003 Gemini Awards Best Animated Program or Series Allison Outhit, Beth Stevenson, Michael-Andreas Kuttner, Steven J.P. Comeau Nominated
2003 Gemini Awards Best Interactive (www.ollieland.com) Michael-Andreas Kuttner, Steven J.P. Comeau Nominated
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