“ | Who plays tricks on Fireman Sam? It's Norman Price! | „ |
~ One of the lyrics to the "Naughty Norman Price" song |
Norman Price is the main antagonist of the Fireman Sam franchise.
In the first five seasons, he was, like all characters, voiced by the narrator, a role assumed at various times by John Alderton. In the season 5, he is voiced by John Sparkes (who also voices In season 5, Norman is voiced by John Sparkes.
Roles[]
Norman is introduced as mischief maker. He is portrayed as a seven year old boy who loves to play with his skateboard and to play tricks on others. In the first four seasons, Norman is voiced by John Alderton, who also voices all the other characters and provides the narration. In season 5, Norman is voiced by Steven Kynman.
Personality and Background[]
Norman is a mischievous boy who constantly likes to play tricks on his friends and even the men in the Pontypandy Fire Station, he causes trouble from time to time which sometimes leads to emergencies, he is generally more problem-causing in season 6 when compared to him in the first five seasons. However, starting from the thirteen series, Norman's personality and traits have been toned down as he is more well-behaved and less troublesome.
Even though he likes to cause mischief, he does always know when there is an emergency and when to call for help, sometimes, he even tries to risk his life to save someone else in trouble, such as in "Mummy's Little Pumpkin" where he tries to save his mother who was stuck in a building fire, though Sam stopped Norman before he could even go inside.
Since the sixth series, Norman's personality changes a bit. He's still mischievous and know about the emergency alarm most of the time, but he can be troublemaker, rude, mean, kinda sadistic, devious, full of tricks and bad ideas to cause trouble, However as of the thirteenth series, Norman is a good guy and is longer evil villainous child.
He is also shown that he wants to be a firefighter when he gets older, as seen in "Firefighter of Tomorrow", but it is also revealed in "Sheepdog Trials" that he also wants to be a shepherd when he gets older too.
He is actually friends with everyone in Pontypandy despite being mischievous towards them, he has a good relationship with his sheep Woolly.
Villainous Acts[]
- Used a set of matches to make a paper dragon look like a "fire-breathing dragon", not knowing that he set it on fire, and caused it to roll down a hill and set Bessie's shed on fire in "Castles and Kings".
- Tied James to a chair and made him set a real fire to get out for a movie he was making in a room covered with flammable liquids, which is considerably dangerous.
- Purposefully traps James in a swimming pool by gluing the door shut just so he could be the star of a synchronized swimming show.
- Steals Joe Sparkes' rescue submarine and crashing it at the bottom of the lake, just to try to film some monster that probably wasn't even real.
- Goes sailing with Dilys without Penny's permission, causing him to lose one of the oars and therefore stranding himself and his mother out at sea.
- Tried to manipulate Mandy to set off a flare they found, which backfired as she gave it to Penny, who was stuck on the cliffs.
- Trapped Mandy in her room because he thought she was a "Pondy", when in reality she was just sick and then setting fire to the laundry basket with a flare in "Night of the Norman".
- Tried to play with his football inside his mother's shop, all because it was "too windy" outside in "Cry Wolf".
- In addition, when his mother took it away, he deliberately set off the fire alarm just so he could get it back, refusing to own up to it.
- Along with his cousin, he uses fire beaters as oars to go rowing alone and loses them in the river when a grassland fire occurred.
- Detached the trailer from Mike's van all because he wanted the best billboard for a talent show, causing it to roll backwards down a hill, set a billboard on fire, head for the quay and set a fuel truck on fire.
- Released a sky lantern when he wasn't supposed to and caused a forest fire.
- He gets himself, Dilys, Mandy, Helen, Mike and Moose locked out at the lighthouse balcony, just to get out of washing Mike's van.
- Stealing sausages from his mother's store when he wasn't supposed to so that he could cook them on a scout camping trip, ignoring the warnings about not making campfires, but failing to put it out, which leads to an even bigger forest fire that nearly brings the end of Pontypandy and almost forces the entirety of the town to leave and let their town burn in the unbeatable fire in "The Great Fire of Pontypandy".
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