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Alien Alert

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Alien Alert (also known as Alien Alert: The Movie) is a feature-length special. It was released in Australia on 5th October 2016, was released in the UK cinema on 17th June 2017, was released on DVD in the UK on 2nd October, was released in South Korea at cinema on 8th November 2018 and was released on 10th April 2019 on DVD in South Korea. It takes place between Series 10 and Series 11.

​Plot

Pontypandy is hit by a raft of UFO sightings and Fireman Sam is determined to get to the bottom of this mystery.

​Characters

Characters Introduced

Vehicles

Cast

UK; English

US

Trivia

  • This special marks few last things:
  • This special takes place between the tenth series and eleventh series.
  • This special introduces Buck Douglas and his cameraman.
  • This special also introduces Wallaby 2, Nurse Flood's 4x4 Ambulance and the Search and Rescue team.
  • First time Dilys is seen driving a vehicle.
  • This is the first time since Snow Business that Bella is featured in a special.
  • This is the first time the team is seen conducting fire investigation procedures.
  • It was broadcast on Channel 5 on the 28th of October 2017 and on Cartoonito on the 11th of November 2017.
  • Buck Douglas' name is partially a reference to the titular character of Buck Rogers.
    • His character model is based on the Tenth Doctor (as played by his voice actor, David Tennant, in the popular BBC Sci-Fi Series Doctor Who"
  • James' line, 'In the woods, no one can hear you scream', is a reference to the quote 'in space, no one can hear you scream', a tagline used to advertise Ridley Scott's 1979 cult Sci-Fi/Horror movie, Alien.
  • This is the first time a child character breaks a bone.
  • The US dub of this special was hard to find:
    • It was released to Amazon Prime in the US, but has the UK dub instead. However, the special was then released to WildBrain's VOD service as the US dub. The US dub can also be found elsewhere (via Internet Archive).
  • This special was used the different voice cast in South Korea.
  • This is the first time a Land Vehicle is on Pontypandy Island.
  • This is the first time Venus was in another area except Pontypandy.
  • This is the first special where Sam doesn’t get to drive Jupiter in a fire or an emergency.
  • This is the first time Wallaby 2 lifted a Vehicle.
  • This is the first special where Chief Fire Officer Boyce doesn't appear.
  • This is the last special to have a Russian dub.
  • The only special dubbed in Korean.
  • The last special to be dubbed into Welsh.
  • The first time where the citizens have mobile phones.

Goofs

  • Sarah refers to her Uncle Sam as "Fireman Sam" at one point, but corrects herself later on. James also calls him Fireman Sam near the climax.
  • In the scene where Sam is riding Mercury to the Ocean Rescue Centre with Venus, you can see that the Series 5-Heroes of the Storm fire service logo is on Mercury’s riding helmet instead of the series 10-onwards fire service logo.

In Other Languages

Language Title
Czech Pozor mimozemšťané
Danish Besøg fra rummet!
Dutch UFO Alarm!
Finnish Vieras Avaruudesta
French Alerte Extraterrestre!
German Achtung Ausserirdische!
Hebrew תעלומה מהחלל
Italian Invasione Aliena
Korean 외계인 대소동
Romanian Alertă extraterestră
Serbian Uzbuna sa vanzemaljcima
Slovenian Pozor, vesoljci!
Welsh Estroniaid Arall Fydol

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