Home from Rome is the first episode of the third series of Fireman Sam in the Welsh dub, while it is the first episode the fourth series of Fireman Sam in the English dub.
Summary[]
Bella is preparing for a special Italian evening at the café and is going to make a quick shopping trip to Bingles Department Store to get her gypsy ear rings for the event. Rosa escapes in Bella's shopping trolley and has to go with her.
At Bingles, Rosa runs away and goes missing. Bella eventually manages to find her in the basement eyeing up the cat food. When they are finished, Bella and Rosa go back up to ground floor in the lift which suddenly gets stuck between the two floors, trapping them both. After using the emergency phone, Sam, Elvis and Station Officer Steele set out to rescue her.
When the fire crew arrive at Bingles, Sam pushes the lift's spring loaded doors open and he and Station Officer Steele put a small plank of wood down in-between to keep them from instantly closing again. After an attempt to winch up the lift manually fails due to the cables being jammed, they then decide to use the short extension ladder instead. Sam opens up the hatch in the lift roof and he lowers the ladder down to Bella, who insists that Rosa should be rescued first. Suddenly the lift gives a sudden jolt and Rosa gets frightened. She bolts up the ladder and jumps up to a high ledge in the shaft. Luckily Sam fetches a fish from the food section and Rosa jumps back down to Bella and safety.
Back in Pontypandy later on, Bella's special Italian evening at the café is in full swing and she uses her song to praise Sam for saving her. Meanwhile, instead of the special Italian Spaghetti Roma meals for the evening, Dilys and Norman are sticking with the English fish and chips for their dinner instead, after their awful and very wet holiday in Rimini.
Characters[]
- Fireman Sam
- Elvis Cridlington
- Station Officer Steele
- Sarah and James
- Bella Lasagne
- Rosa
- Trevor Evans
- Dilys Price
- Norman Price
- Bingles Speaker (not seen)
- Bingles Security (not seen)
Vehicles[]
- Jupiter
- Trevor's Bus
- Welsh Airliner
Locations[]
- United Kingdom
- Wales
- Pontypandy
- Pontypandy Fire Station
- Bella's Cafe
- Dilys' shop
- Cardiff
- Bingles Department Store
- Italy
- Rimini
- Cardiff Airport (mentioned)
Trivia[]
- This is the only episode of some things:
- The only episode to feature scenes in a different country (Italy).
- The only appearance of Bingles Department Store.
- The only appearance of Cardiff, Wales.
- This is the only episode that involves an elevator rescue, due to Pontypandy being a small town and thus not having any buildings high enough to warrant elevators.
- This is also the first episode to show characters being in real-life locations (even if there isn’t really a Bingles in Cardiff, the city is very much real!).
- This is also the first episode of a few things:
- First episode to be produced in a higher definition.
- First episode of Series 4 (Series 3 in Wales) with new fire station bell sound effect. Ironically, the bell is not seen on screen when it goes off.
- Recording date: March 14, 1994.
- The basis of the Welsh Airliner is of a Boeing 737.
- When Norman is on the aeroplane with Dilys, his "qealo" comic bares graphics similar to The Beano which is probably what it was based on. The comic prop had previously appeared in the Joshua Jones episode "Haywire", and was read by Spanner.
- Dennis the Menace from the Beano was also the inspiration for the character of Norman.
- When this episode first aired in English on BBC One London on 25 October 1994, it aired at 15:40.
Goofs[]
- As Bella boards the bus, its left wing mirror can be seen twitching.
- In real life, Bella would probably not be allowed to take Rosa into Bingles with her.
- When Bella presses the floor button, the lift comes all the way down from the top on the fourth floor to the basement almost instantly.
- It is stated that Bingles is in Cardiff which was then covered by the South Glamorgan Fire Brigade (Which today is part of the South Wales Fire Service) and way out of the Pontypandy Fire Service's area. They should have sent Cardiff Central to rescue Bella.
In Other Languages[]
| Language | Title |
|---|---|
| Czech | Itálie |
| Hebrew | כמו ברומא |
| Hungarian | Olaszországi kirándulás |
| Norwegian | Mitt Elskede Roma |
| Polish | Występ Belli (TV) Na Ratunek Rózi |
| Slovak | Domov z Ríma |
| Welsh | Nol o'r Eidal |
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