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.
Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
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Season 1 | Episode 1 | Orinoco & The Big Black Umbrella | 1973-02-05 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 2 | The Rocking Chair | 1973-02-06 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 3 | A Sticky Ending | 1973-02-07 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 4 | Great Uncle Bulgaria's Keep Fit Lesson | 1973-02-09 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 5 | A Safe Place | 1973-02-12 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 6 | Peep-Peep-Peep | 1973-02-13 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 7 | The Purple Paw Mystery | 1973-02-14 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 8 | Bungo's Birthday Party | 1973-02-16 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 9 | The Invisible Womble | 1973-02-19 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 10 | Orinoco Sees the Light | 1973-02-20 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 11 | The Conkering Hero | 1973-02-21 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 12 | One Pair of Feet | 1973-02-23 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 13 | Tobermory on Television | 1973-02-26 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 14 | Crossed Lines | 1973-02-27 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 15 | Blow the Womble Down | 1973-02-28 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 16 | Madame Cholet Returns | 1973-02-03 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 17 | Weighing in Time | 1973-06-19 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 18 | Musical Wombles | 1973-06-19 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 19 | Wombles and Ladders | 1973-06-20 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 20 | Orinoco and the Ghost | 1973-06-21 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 21 | A Game of Golf | 1973-06-22 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 22 | North, South, East, West | 1973-06-25 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 23 | The Picnic | 1973-06-26 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 24 | Games in the Snow | 1973-06-27 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 25 | The Snow Wombles | 1973-06-28 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 26 | What's Cooking? | 1973-06-29 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 27 | Spring Cleaning Time | 1973-07-02 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 28 | Marrow Pie | 1973-07-03 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 29 | The Cement Mixer | 1973-07-05 | 5 min |
Season 1 | Episode 30 | The Circus Comes to Wimbledon | 1973-07-06 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 1 | Bungo Up a Tree | 1975-09-15 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 2 | Time and Slow Motion | 1975-09-16 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 3 | Tomsk in Trouble | 1975-09-17 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 4 | The Largest Womble in the World | 1975-09-18 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 5 | Running Out of Steam | 1975-09-19 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 6 | Orinoco's Midnight Feast | 1975-09-22 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 7 | Speak Up | 1975-09-23 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 8 | The Vanishing Pancake | 1975-09-24 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 9 | Madame Cholet & The Blackberries | 1975-09-25 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 10 | The Fruit Machine | 1975-09-26 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 11 | Portrait of Great Uncle Bulgaria | 1975-09-29 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 12 | Very Behind the Times | 1975-09-30 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 13 | Burrow Hot Line | 1975-10-01 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 14 | Trunk Call | 1975-10-02 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 15 | MacWomble the Terrible | 1975-10-03 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 16 | A Single Piper | 1975-10-06 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 17 | Porridge for Breakfast | 1975-10-07 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 18 | Highland Games | 1975-10-08 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 19 | Home Sickness | 1975-10-09 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 20 | Goodbye MacWomble | 1975-10-10 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 21 | Hiccups | 1975-10-13 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 22 | Film Show | 1975-10-14 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 23 | Pirate Gold | 1975-10-15 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 24 | Warm & Cosy | 1975-10-16 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 25 | Autumn Leaves | 1975-10-17 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 26 | The Wombles Times | 1975-10-20 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 27 | Operation W.R.A.P. | 1975-10-21 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 28 | The Secret Snorer | 1975-10-22 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 29 | Womble Fool's Day | 1975-10-23 | 5 min |
Season 2 | Episode 30 | Womble Summer Party | 1975-10-24 | 5 min |
Production | Micheline Charest | Producer |