The Wombles (TV series)

For the 1990s series, see The Wombles (1996 TV series).

The Wombles
The Wombles series 2 titles
Genre	Children
Created by	Elisabeth Beresford
Written by	Elisabeth Beresford
Directed by	Ivor Wood.
Voices of	Bernard Cribbins
Theme music composer	Mike Batt.
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	60 + 2 specials
Production
Producer(s)	Graham Clutterbuck
Cinematography	Barry Leith
Running time	5 mins
Broadcast
First shown in	1973
Original run	5 February 1973 – 24 October 1975

The Wombles is a stop motion animated British television series made in 1973–1975. Further animated episodes were made in 1996–1997.

After the first Wombles book, published in 1968, was featured on the BBC children's television programme Jackanory. , the BBC commissioned producer FilmFair to create a television series of the books. The series was produced by Graham Clutterbuck and directed by Ivor Wood using stop-motion. The characters were all voiced by actor Bernard Cribbins. Sets and model making were by Barry Leith. Two series of 30 five minute episodes were produced, with the first series airing in 1973, animated by Ivor Wood, and the second in 1975, animated by Barry Leith. In all, sixty episodes were made.

The original television series remained popular with children in the eighties. After FilmFair was acquired by the Canadian company Cinar Films in 1996, a new series of episodes was released in 1997, with a number of new Womble characters. In the UK, the series was purchased by ITV.

Series One (1973)

1. Orinoco & The Big Black Umbrella (5 February 1973)
2. The Rocking Chair (6 February 1973)
3. A Sticky Ending (or A Sticky End) (7 February 1973)
4. Great Uncle Bulgaria's Keep Fit Lesson (9 February 1973)
5. A Safe Place (12 February 1973)
6. Peep-Peep-Peep (13 February 1973)
7. The Purple Paw Mystery (14 February 1973)
8. Bungo's Birthday Party (16 February 1973)
9. The Invisible Womble (19 February 1973)
10. Orinoco Sees The Light (20 February 1973)
11. The Conkering Hero (21 February 1973)
12. One Pair Of Feet (23 February 1973)
13. Tobermory On Television (26 February 1973)
14. Crossed Lines (27 February 1973)
15. Blow The Womble Down (28 February 1973)
16. Madame Cholet Returns (2 March 1973)
17. Weighing In Time (18 June 1973)
18. Musical Wombles (19 June 1973)
19. Wombles And Ladders (20 June 1973)
20. Orinoco And The Ghost (21 June 1973)
21. A Game Of Golf (22 June 1973)
22. North, South, East, West (25 June 1973)
23. The Picnic (26 June 1973)
24. Games In The Snow (27 June 1973)
25. The Snow Wombles (28 June 1973)
26. What's Cooking? (29 June 1973)
27. Spring Cleaning Time (2 July 1973)
28. Marrow Pie (4 July 1973)
29. The Cement Mixer (5 July 1973)
30. The Circus Comes To Wimbledon (6 July 1973)

Series Two (1975)

1. Bungo Up A Tree (15 September 1975)
2. Time And Slow Motion (16 September 1975)
3. Tomsk In Trouble (17 September 1975)
4. The Largest Womble In The World (18 September 1975)
5. Running Out Of Steam (19 September 1975)
6. Orinoco's Midnight Feast (22 September 1975)
7. Speak Up (23 September 1975)
8. The Vanishing Pancake (24 September 1975)
9. Madame Cholet & the Blackberries (25 September 1975)
10. The Fruit Machine (26 September 1975)
11. Portrait Of Great Uncle Bulgaria (29 September 1975)
12. Very Behind The Times (30 September 1975)
13. Burrow Hot Line (1 October 1975)
14. Trunk Call (2 October 1975)
15. MacWomble The Terrible (3 October 1975)
16. A Single Piper (6 October 1975)
17. Porridge For Breakfast (7 October 1975)
18. Highland Games (8 October 1975)
19. Home Sickness (9 October 1975)
20. Goodbye MacWomble (10 October 1975)
21. Hiccups (13 October 1973)
22. Film Show (14 October 1973)
23. Pirate Gold (15 October 1973)
24. Warm & Cosy (16 October 1975)
25. Autumn Leaves (17 October 1975)
26. The Wombles Times (20 October 1975)
27. Operation W.R.A.P. (21 October 1975)
28. The Secret Snorer (22 October 1975)
29. Womble Fool's Day (23 October 1975)
30. Womble Summer Party (24 October 1975)

Specials

• World Womble Day (1990)
• The Wandering Wombles (1991)

External links

• The Wombles at the Internet Movie Database