History
Firehouse Tales - FHT was originally produced by Firehouse Productions, LLC as a 22 minute(2x 11) pilot, created and developed by animation producer Sid Bailey and animation director Jim L Clark. The program was sold to Warner Brothers in 2004. Following the sale to Warner Brothers, the program was redeveloped as a CG program composited over 2D backgrounds - 26x half hours were subsequently produced by Warner Brothers and aired on Cartoon Network worldwide.
The original pilot episode, which never aired publicly, was created as practical miniature sets with computer generated(CG) facial expressions added in post production. The original Firehouse Tales cast were: "Pete", "Lakie", "Tip, "Wiser" "Chief McSpeed" and the fire station Dalmatian "Squirt".
Firehouse Tales ancillary products were produced by Bandai(toys), Simon & Schuster(Books) and Scholastic(books).
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