Rolie Polie Olie won a Gemini Award in Canada for "Best Animated Program" in 1999. The series was broadcast from October 4, 1998, to April 28, 2004, and was followed with two straight-to-video films titled The Great Defender of Fun and The Baby Bot Chase, in 2002 and 2003 respectively. The show was one of the earliest series that was fully animated in CGI.