Since 1959 more than 20,000 episodes were made.
During the Independence movement of Africa in 1964, Sandman visited African children in the jungle.
When 56 states boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the faithful Sandman landed on Red Square - in a golden helicopter.
In the middle of the proxy war in 1970 and as part of Vietnam's GDR solidarity campaign, Sandman once again visited the jungle.
In 1978 Sandman was visiting Cuba.