The Wombles

The Wombles (1973)


  • Genre: Animation, Family
  • First Air Date: 1973-02-05
  • Last Air Date: 1975-10-24
  • Total Seasons: 5
  • Total Episodes: 125
  • Status: Ended
  • Episode Runtime: 10 min.
  • Production Company: FilmFair
  • Network: BBC one
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Summary

The Wombles is a stop motion animated British television series made in 1973–1975. 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 produced. The original television series was regularly screened for many years. After FilmFair was acquired by the Canadian company Cinar Films in 1996, a new series of episodes was created, with a number of new Womble characters. In the UK, the series was purchased by ITV.

  • Keywords: london, england, garbage, recycling, based on children's book, city park, anthropomorphic puppets, repurposing
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    The Wombles Seasons

    Season 1

    First Air Date: 1973-02-05
    30 Episodes

    Season 2

    First Air Date: 1975-09-15
    30 Episodes

    Season 3

    First Air Date:
    26 Episodes

    Season 4

    First Air Date:
    26 Episodes

    Season 5

    First Air Date:
    13 Episodes

    The Wombles Episodes

    Title Air Date Duration
    Season 1Episode 1Orinoco & The Big Black Umbrella5 min
    Season 1Episode 2The Rocking Chair5 min
    Season 1Episode 3A Sticky Ending5 min
    Season 1Episode 4Great Uncle Bulgaria's Keep Fit Lesson5 min
    Season 1Episode 5A Safe Place5 min
    Season 1Episode 6Peep-Peep-Peep5 min
    Season 1Episode 7The Purple Paw Mystery5 min
    Season 1Episode 8Bungo's Birthday Party5 min
    Season 1Episode 9The Invisible Womble5 min
    Season 1Episode 10Orinoco Sees the Light5 min
    Season 1Episode 11The Conkering Hero5 min
    Season 1Episode 12One Pair of Feet5 min
    Season 1Episode 13Tobermory on Television5 min
    Season 1Episode 14Crossed Lines5 min
    Season 1Episode 15Blow the Womble Down5 min
    Season 1Episode 16Madame Cholet Returns5 min
    Season 1Episode 17Weighing in Time5 min
    Season 1Episode 18Musical Wombles5 min
    Season 1Episode 19Wombles and Ladders5 min
    Season 1Episode 20Orinoco and the Ghost5 min
    Season 1Episode 21A Game of Golf5 min
    Season 1Episode 22North, South, East, West5 min
    Season 1Episode 23The Picnic5 min
    Season 1Episode 24Games in the Snow5 min
    Season 1Episode 25The Snow Wombles5 min
    Season 1Episode 26What's Cooking?5 min
    Season 1Episode 27Spring Cleaning Time5 min
    Season 1Episode 28Marrow Pie5 min
    Season 1Episode 29The Cement Mixer5 min
    Season 1Episode 30The Circus Comes to Wimbledon5 min
    Season 2Episode 1Bungo Up a Tree5 min
    Season 2Episode 2Time and Slow Motion5 min
    Season 2Episode 3Tomsk in Trouble5 min
    Season 2Episode 4The Largest Womble in the World5 min
    Season 2Episode 5Running Out of Steam5 min
    Season 2Episode 6Orinoco's Midnight Feast5 min
    Season 2Episode 7Speak Up5 min
    Season 2Episode 8The Vanishing Pancake5 min
    Season 2Episode 9Madame Cholet & The Blackberries5 min
    Season 2Episode 10The Fruit Machine5 min
    Season 2Episode 11Portrait of Great Uncle Bulgaria5 min
    Season 2Episode 12Very Behind the Times5 min
    Season 2Episode 13Burrow Hot Line5 min
    Season 2Episode 14Trunk Call5 min
    Season 2Episode 15MacWomble the Terrible5 min
    Season 2Episode 16A Single Piper5 min
    Season 2Episode 17Porridge for Breakfast5 min
    Season 2Episode 18Highland Games5 min
    Season 2Episode 19Home Sickness5 min
    Season 2Episode 20Goodbye MacWomble5 min
    Season 2Episode 21Hiccups5 min
    Season 2Episode 22Film Show5 min
    Season 2Episode 23Pirate Gold5 min
    Season 2Episode 24Warm & Cosy5 min
    Season 2Episode 25Autumn Leaves5 min
    Season 2Episode 26The Wombles Times5 min
    Season 2Episode 27Operation W.R.A.P.5 min
    Season 2Episode 28The Secret Snorer5 min
    Season 2Episode 29Womble Fool's Day5 min
    Season 2Episode 30Womble Summer Party5 min
    • Terrence Scammell

      as
    • Bernard Cribbins

      as
    • Rick Jones

      as
    • Sonja Ball

      as
    Production Micheline Charest Producer

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