Olliver's Adventures


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 Productions 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 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 usually has his toys as his companions:
  • Jorge the iguana
  • Trog the strong caveman
  • Tara the woman
  • Zoomerax the alien
  • Beano the dog is Olliver's pet
  • The Giant Big Sisters are a trio of bullied siblings
  • Mom and Dad are parents

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.

Production

The pilot special cost about $500,000 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, 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. The first 6 episodes also used to be released on Ameba TV, but is now unavailable to watch as well.