Editing Sandman (section)

==Film and television==
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The [[East German]] [[stop motion]] children's television programme [[Sandmännchen|''Unser Sandmännchen'']] (''Our Little Sandman''), based on [[Hans Christian Andersen]]'s [[Ole Lukøje]] character and the story by [[E. T. A. Hoffmann]], has been broadcast since 1959, along with a [[West German]] version which was discontinued after [[German reunification|reunification]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Connolly |first1=Kate |title=The Sandmannchen, Germany's cutest communist, turns 50 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/23/sandmannchen-germany-communist |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=23 November 2009 |access-date=12 July 2019 |archive-date=12 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712143450/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/23/sandmannchen-germany-communist |url-status=live }}</ref>

The 1972 movie 'Logan's Run' features a main protagonist whose job title is 'sandman' and is referred to by his job title throughtout the film. Being a 'sandman' in the film involves catching 'runners' who are attempting to escape a ritual all members of the society must complete when they turn 30.

In the 1990s, [[Nilus the Sandman]] aired on Anglophone Canadian television.

In the 1970s, ''Bonne nuit les petits'' aired on French television. The show featured Nounours, a bear who took care of two toddlers, Nicolas and Pimprenelle. He would arrive on a cloud driven by his friend Sandman (“Le marchand de sable” in French) playing a flute as the sun set, and would only leave once he'd accompanied the children to bed. At the end of every episode, Nounours would say “Bonne nuit les petits” (which means “Good night, little ones”) before Sandman created a light shower of sand, putting the two siblings, Nicolas and Pimprenelle, to sleep. The bear and Sandman would then take their leave on the same cloud, once Nounours had climbed back up the ladder that he'd descended at the beginning of the episode. Here, Sandman has a major role to play, with his flute, driving the cloud, interacting with the other characters from time to time and, most importantly, inducing the children to fall asleep. 
The show was broadcast nightly at 7:50 pm, and each episode lasted 10 minutes, marking 8 pm as the bed-time when children, duly reassured, could sleep peacefully. It was later reduced to 5 minutes in the 1990s for the reboot series. In francophone Canada, it airs on [[Ici Radio-Canada Télé]] immediately before [[Le Téléjournal]].

The Sandman appears in ''[[The Smurfs (1981 TV series)|The Smurfs]]'' episodes "Darkness Monster" and "Lazy's Nightmare", voiced by [[Frank Welker]].

In 1991, [[Paul Berry (animator)|Paul Berry]] directed a stop-motion short film titled ''[[The Sandman (1991 film)|The Sandman]]'' based on the short story ''[[The Sandman (short story)|Der Sandmann]]'' by [[E. T. A. Hoffmann]].

In 1998, the Sandman also appears in ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'', where he appears in  the episode "[[List of The Powerpuff Girls episodes|Dream Scheme]]".

The Sandman appears in ''[[The Santa Clause 2]]'' and ''[[The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause]]'', portrayed by [[Michael Dorn]]. He is shown to be a member of the Council of Legendary Figures and tends to doze off during meetings, giving the other members cause to wake him up.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ebert |first1=Roger |title=Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005 |date=2005 |publisher=Andrews McMeel Publishing |page=573}}</ref>

The Sandman is supposedly represented as the demon [[Killed by Death (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|Der Kindestod]] in the series ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Durand |first1=Kevin K. |title=Buffy Meets the Academy : Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts. |date=2009 |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers |location=Jefferson |isbn=9780786453740 |page=95}}</ref>

Among the earlier productions of the British sci-fi television show ''[[Doctor Who]]'' following 2005 is an episode revolving around Sandmen. The ninth episode of the ninth season (2015), titled "[[Sleep No More (Doctor Who)|Sleep No More]]", is a [[Found footage (film technique)|found footage]] video narrated by Gagan Rassmussen ([[Reece Shearsmith]]), a scientist and professor from the 38th century. Rassmussen manufactures a dangerous adventure involving Sandmen, intended to engage people to watch the video and by which an electronic signal transmits to the brains of others in order to create further Sandmen. The episode also makes use of the song "[[Mr. Sandman]]", written by [[Pat Ballard]] in 1954, as the Morpheus-machine theme.

The Sandman appears in ''[[Rise of the Guardians]]'' as a member of the Guardians.<ref>{{cite news |title=Why Rise Of The Guardians Is An Underrated DreamWorks Movie And Everyone Needs To See It |url=https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/why-rise-of-the-guardians-is-an-underrated-dreamworks-movie-and-everyone-needs-to-see-it |agency=[[CinemaBlend]]}}</ref>

Netflix released ''[[The Sandman (TV series)|The Sandman]]'' series in 2022, an adaptation of the Neil Gaiman comics.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nicholson |first1=Rebecca |title=The Sandman review – Neil Gaiman has created 2022's single greatest hour of TV drama |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/aug/05/the-sandman-review-neil-gaiman-has-created-2022s-single-greatest-hour-of-tv-drama |website=The Guardian |access-date=13 June 2023 |date=5 August 2022}}</ref>