Onegai! Samia-don

おねがい!サミアどん (Onegai! Samia-don)
Please! Psammea-don
Genre	Fantasy
Anime television series
Directed by	Osamu Kobayashi
Music by	Kentarō Haneda
Studio	Telecom Animation Film
Original network	NHK
Original run	April 2, 1985 – February 4, 1986
Episodes	78

Please! Psammea-don (おねがい!サミアどん, Onegai! Samia-don) is a Japanese

Edith Nesbit

The anime differs from the novel in revolving around four children rather than five. Three of the children (Cyril, Robert and Jane) are

Psammead

who, in the anime, is depicted as being yellow with a blue hat, and more of a grumpy and lazy being than mischievous.

In Latin America and Spain, the series was known as Samed, el duende mágico ("Psammead, the magic goblin") and in France and Quebec as Sablotin. In the Arab world, it was known as Moghamarat Samid ("Samid's adventures").

External links

(in Spanish) Samed, el duende mágico
Onegai! Samia-don (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

v t e Works by E. Nesbit
Psammead trilogy	Five Children and It (1902) The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904) The Story of the Amulet (1905)
Other well-known works	The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1899) The Railway Children (1906) The Enchanted Castle (1907) Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare (1907) The House of Arden (1908) The Magic City (1910) The Magic World (1920)
Adaptations	The Railway Children (1970) Onegai! Samia-don (1985-86) The Treasure Seekers (1996) The Phoenix and the Carpet (1997 TV series) The Railway Children (2000) Five Children and It (2004)

v t e E. Nesbit's Five Children and It
Novels	Five Children and It (1902) The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904) The Story of the Amulet (1905)
Film and Television Adaptations	Onegai! Samia-don (1985-1986 anime) The Phoenix and the Carpet (1997 TV series) Five Children and It (2004 film) Four Kids and It (2012 film)
Literary Continuations	Jacqueline Wilson's Four Children and It (2012)

v t e Works directed by Osamu Kobayashi
Animated series	Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel (1983–1984) Onegai! Samia-don (1985–1986) Kimagure Orange Road (1987–1988) The Burning Wild Man (1988) Three Little Ghosts (1991–1992) Non-tan to Issho (1992–1994)
Animated films	Kimagure Orange Road: Shonen Jump Special (1985) Onegai! Samia-don (1989)
OVAs	Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel: Eien no Once More (1984)

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