The Wombles (TV series)

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The Wombles
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 airing 5 February 1973
External links
IMDb profile
The Wombles
Genre Children
Created by Elisabeth Beresford
Written by Elisabeth Beresford
Directed by John Ellis
Voices of Victor Knight, Sonja Ball, Julie Burroughs, Gregory Calpakis, Luis de Cespedes, Nancy Helms, Rick Jones, Michaël Lamport, Simon Peacock, Terrence Scammell
Theme music composer Mike Batt
Country of origin United Kingdom
Language(s) English
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 52
Production
Executive
producer(s)		 Micheline Charest, David Ferguson, Dan Maddicott
Producer(s) Cassandra Schafhausen
Editor(s) Andi Sloss
Cinematography Mark Bond
Running time 10 mins
Broadcast
First shown in 1996
Original airing March 1996
External links
IMDb profile

The Wombles was 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.[1], 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 series proved so popular that, although the "green" message was ahead of its time in the 1970s, children began to organise Womble Clearing Up Groups all over the UK.

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.

Contents

[edit] Series one (1973)

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

[edit] Series two (1975)

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

[edit] Specials

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

[edit] Series three (1996)

  1. The Ghost Of Wimbledon Common
  2. Orinoco The Magnificent
  3. Tomsk To The Rescue
  4. Madame Cholet's Day Off
  5. Beautiful Boating Weather
  6. MacWomble Is Coming
  7. Shansi's Surprise
  8. Any Womble For Tennis?
  9. Out Of This Earth
  10. Camping And Cloudberries
  11. Spring Into Action
  12. Hola Obidos
  13. Welcome Back Bungo
  14. Car Trouble
  15. Deep Space Wombles
  16. Orinoco's Sick Day
  17. Wild News Chase
  18. Macwomble The Charming
  19. Rainy Daze
  20. Great Cake Mystery
  21. Bigfoot Womble
  22. Chaos On The Common
  23. Weather Or Not
  24. Trouble At The Thames
  25. Great Womble Explorer
  26. Womble Winterland

[edit] Series four (1997)

  1. New Year! New You!
  2. Alderney's Big Break
  3. The Thingummawotsit
  4. The Sleep Wombler
  5. A Life In The Day Of Madame Cholet
  6. Wom-TV
  7. Star Struck
  8. Practically Joking
  9. Tomsk's Pen Pal
  10. What's A Womble?
  11. Queen For A Day
  12. The Womble Races
  13. The Womble Times
  14. Fancy! Fancy Dress
  15. Time Travelling Tomsk
  16. Bungo Bingo
  17. The Thames Burrow Adventure
  18. The Wombles Of Our Discontent
  19. Riddle Me This
  20. Unlucky Me
  21. Nanny Alexandria Comes To Stay
  22. The Unwelcome Womble
  23. Shansi's Spider
  24. Anchors Aweigh
  25. Womble Inventor Of The Year
  26. A Visit To The Highland Burrow

[edit] References

  1. ^ Tidy Bag - The Online Wombles Museum: Elisabeth Beresford.


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