The Wombles (TV series)

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genre = Children
creator = Elisabeth Beresford
writer = Elisabeth Beresford
director = Ivor Wood
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voices = Bernard Cribbins
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language = English
num_seasons = 2
num_episodes = 60 + 2 specials
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producer = Graham Clutterbuck
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show_name = The Wombles


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genre = Children
creator = Elisabeth Beresford
writer = Elisabeth Beresford
director = John Ellis
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voices = Victor Knight, Sonja Ball, Julie Burroughs, Gregory Calpakis, Luis de Cespedes, Nancy Helms, Rick Jones, Michaël Lamport, Simon Peacock, Terrence Scammell
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num_episodes = 52
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executive_producer = Micheline Charest, David Ferguson, Dan Maddicott
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producer = Cassandra Schafhausen
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"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." [cite web|url=http://www.tidybag.co.uk/wombles-info/elisabeth-beresford.html|title=Tidy Bag - The Online Wombles Museum: Elisabeth Beresford] , 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. In the UK, the series was purchased by ITV.

eries one (1973)

#Orinoco & The Big Black Umbrella
#The Rocking Chair
#A Sticky Ending (or A Sticky End)
#Great Uncle Bulgaria's Keep Fit Lesson
#A Safe Place
#Peep-Peep-Peep
#The Purple Paw Mystery
#Bungo's Birthday Party
#The Invisible Womble
#Orinoco Sees The Light
#The Conkering Hero
#One Pair Of Feet
#Tobermory On Television
#Crossed Lines
#Blow The Womble Down
#Madame Cholet Returns
#Weighing In Time
#Musical Wombles
#Wombles And Ladders
#Orinoco And The Ghost
#A Game Of Golf
#North, South, East, West
#The Picnic
#Games In The Snow
#The Snow Wombles
#What's Cooking?
#Spring Cleaning Time
#Marrow Pie
#The Cement Mixer
#The Circus Comes To Wimbledon

eries two (1975)

#Bungo Up A Tree
#Time And Slow Motion
#Tomsk In Trouble
#The Largest Womble In The World
#Running Out Of Steam
#Orinoco's Midnight Feast
#Speak Up
#The Vanishing Pancake
#Madame Cholet & the Blackberries
#The Fruit Machine
#Portrait Of Great Uncle Bulgaria
#Very Behind The Times
#Burrow Hot Line
#Trunk Call
#MacWomble The Terrible
#A Single Piper
#Porridge For Breakfast
#Highland Games
#Home Sickness
#Goodbye MacWomble
#Hiccups
#Film Show
#Pirate Gold
#Warm & Cosy
#Autumn Leaves
#The Wombles Times
#Operation W.R.A.P.
#The Secret Snorer
#Womble Fool's Day
#Womble Summer Party

pecials

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

eries three (1996)

#The Ghost Of Wimbledon Common
#Orinoco The Magnificent
#Tomsk To The Rescue
#Madame Cholet's Day Off
#Beautiful Boating Weather
#MacWomble Is Coming
#Shansi's Surprise
#Any Womble For Tennis?
#Out Of This Earth
#Camping And Cloudberries
#Spring Into Action
#Hola Obidos
#Welcome Back Bungo
#Car Trouble
#Deep Space Wombles
#Orinoco's Sick Day
#Wild News Chase
#Macwomble The Charming
#Rainy Daze
#Great Cake Mystery
#Bigfoot Womble
#Chaos On The Common
#Weather Or Not
#Trouble At The Thames
#Great Womble Explorer
#Womble Winterland

eries four (1997)

#New Year! New You!
#Alderney's Big Break
#The Thingummawotsit
#The Sleep Wombler
#A Life In The Day Of Madame Cholet
#Wom-TV
#Star Struck
#Practically Joking
#Tomsk's Pen Pal
#What's A Womble?
#Queen For A Day
#The Womble Races
#The Womble Times
#Fancy! Fancy Dress
#Time Travelling Tomsk
#Bungo Bingo
#The Thames Burrow Adventure
#The Wombles Of Our Discontent
#Riddle Me This
#Unlucky Me
#Nanny Alexandria Comes To Stay
#The Unwelcome Womble
#Shansi's Spider
#Anchors Aweigh
#Womble Inventor Of The Year
#A Visit To The Highland Burrow

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