The Wombles Season 1
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.
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The Wombles
1973The 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.
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The Wombles Season 1 Full Episode Guide
When the circus to Wimbeldon Common, the Wombles put on their own act.
The Wombles get into trouble with some wet cement.
The Wombles use too much fertiliser on a marrow, causing it to grow and grow.
When the Wombles have to spring clean, an elastic washing line leads to trouble.
A bird nests in the Wombles' ventilation shaft.
The annual competition to see who can make the best snowman.
The Wombles have fun in the snow and, in the process, create a minor avalanche
Orinoco shows us how to make a picnic basket that is not heavy to carry.
Tobermory makes a machine that can predict the weather.
Golf balls sometimes travel in the wrong direction
Orinoco thinks that there is a ghost in his house
A ladder is adapted to Womble size
The Wombles make music with tins and cans.
Orinoco decides to put himself on a diet, because he thinks he's too fat.
Making cakes turns into a problematic situation.
The Wombles get blown about when they find a vacuum cleaner.
Tobermory invents a new telephone system for everyone but the telephone lines are having problems and many conversations are heard by Tobermory.
Tobermory makes his own TV show for the Wombles.
After a human being is spotted on the common, the Wombles rush back to their burrow. However, in the panic Wellington is left behind...
The Wombles learn how to play conkers and how to count.
Wellington has planted some daffodil seeds and he is "awfully disappinted" when they don't grow. Orinoco suggests he plants light bulbs instead.
Orinoco thinks that if he turns invisible no one will interrupt his sleeping while he pretends that he is in work.
Bungo thinks that everyone forgot about his birthday, but he didn´t expect that everyone has a secret that Bungo doesn´t known.
Great Uncle Bulgaria's fountain pen runs out of ink, so asks Tomsk to pay Tobermary a visit to collect some more. While there, Tobermary enlists the help of Tomsk in manufacturing the ink, but when he cuts corners he creates a mess around the entire burrow.
Great Uncle Bulgaria wants the Wombles to keep in touch with each other while they're working, so Wellington invents, in the words of Orinoco, a "talking tin can"!
A safe place must be found for a valuable Womble history book.
After the Wombles find a football, Great Uncle Bulgaria becomes inspired to start a new "keep fit" regime.
The Wombles have a leaking ceiling and come up with an inventive way of fixing it.
After Orinoco gets stuck in a tire, the Wombles realise they can use it to fix Great Uncle Bulgaria's chair.
On any day, the Womble Orinoco is swept by the wind.