The Wombles (1973)

The Wombles

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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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Season 2

Season 2

Season 3

Season 3

Season 4

Season 4

Season 5

Season 5

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    Orinoco & the big black umbrella

  • 1x2

    The rocking chair

  • 1x3

    A sticky ending (or a sticky end)

  • 1x4

    Great uncle bulgaria's keep fit lesson

  • 1x5

    A safe place

  • 1x6

    Peep-peep-peep

  • 1x7

    The purple paw mystery

  • 1x8

    Bungo's birthday party

  • 1x9

    The invisible womble

  • 1x10

    Orinoco sees the light

  • 1x11

    The conkering hero

  • 1x12

    One pair of feet

  • 1x13

    Tobermory on television

  • 1x14

    Crossed lines

  • 1x15

    Blow the womble down

  • 1x16

    Madame cholet returns

  • 1x17

    Weighing in time

  • 1x18

    Musical wombles

  • 1x19

    Wombles and ladders

  • 1x20

    Orinoco and the ghost

  • 1x21

    A game of golf

  • 1x22

    North, south, east, west

  • 1x23

    The picnic

  • 1x24

    Games in the snow

  • 1x25

    The snow wombles

  • 1x26

    What's cooking?

  • 1x27

    Spring cleaning time

  • 1x28

    Marrow pie

  • 1x29

    The cement mixer

  • 1x30

    The circus comes to wimbledon

Episodes season 2

  • 2x1

    Bungo up a tree

  • 2x2

    Time and slow motion

  • 2x3

    Tomsk in trouble

  • 2x4

    The largest womble in the world

  • 2x5

    Running out of steam

  • 2x6

    Orinoco's midnight feast

  • 2x7

    Speak up

  • 2x8

    The vanishing pancake

  • 2x9

    Madame cholet & the blackberries

  • 2x10

    The fruit machine

  • 2x11

    Portrait of great uncle bulgaria

  • 2x12

    Very behind the times

  • 2x13

    Burrow hot line

  • 2x14

    Trunk call

  • 2x15

    Macwomble the terrible

  • 2x16

    A single piper

  • 2x17

    Porridge for breakfast

  • 2x18

    Highland games

  • 2x19

    Home sickness

  • 2x20

    Goodbye macwomble

  • 2x21

    Hiccups

  • 2x22

    Film show

  • 2x23

    Pirate gold

  • 2x24

    Warm & cosy

  • 2x25

    Autumn leaves

  • 2x26

    The wombles times

  • 2x27

    Operation w.r.a.p.

  • 2x28

    The secret snorer

  • 2x29

    Womble fool's day

  • 2x30

    Womble summer party

Episodes season 3

  • 3x1

    The ghost of wimbledon commmon

  • 3x2

    Orinoco the magnificent

  • 3x3

    Tomsk to the rescue

  • 3x4

    Madame cholet's day off

  • 3x5

    Beautiful boating weather

  • 3x6

    Macwomble is coming

  • 3x7

    Camping and cloudberries

  • 3x8

    Shansi's surprise

  • 3x9

    Spring into action

  • 3x10

    Any womble for tennis?

  • 3x11

    Out of this earth

  • 3x12

    Hola obidos

  • 3x13

    Welcome back bungo

  • 3x14

    Car trouble

  • 3x15

    Deep space womble

  • 3x16

    Orinoco's sick day

  • 3x17

    Wild news chase

  • 3x18

    Macwomble the charming

  • 3x19

    Rainy daze

  • 3x20

    The great cake mystery

  • 3x21

    Bigfoot womble

  • 3x22

    Chaos on the common

  • 3x23

    Weather or not

  • 3x24

    Trouble at the thames

  • 3x25

    Great womble explorer

  • 3x26

    Womble wonderland

Episodes season 4

  • 4x1

    New year! new you!

  • 4x2

    Alderney's big break

  • 4x3

    The thingummawotsit

  • 4x4

    The sleep wombler

  • 4x5

    A day in the life of madame cholet

  • 4x6

    Womtv

  • 4x7

    Star struck

  • 4x8

    Practically joking

  • 4x9

    Tomsk's pen pal

  • 4x10

    What's a womble

  • 4x11

    Queen for a day

  • 4x12

    The womble races

  • 4x13

    The womble times

  • 4x14

    Fancy! fancy dress

  • 4x15

    Time travelling tomsk

  • 4x16

    Bungo bingo

  • 4x17

    The thames burrow adventure

  • 4x18

    The wombles of discontent

  • 4x19

    Riddle me this

  • 4x20

    Unlucky me

  • 4x21

    Nanny alexandria comes to stay

  • 4x22

    The unwelcome womble

  • 4x23

    Shansi's spider

  • 4x24

    Anchors aweigh

  • 4x25

    Womble inventor of the year

  • 4x26

    A visit to the highland burrow

Episodes season 5

  • 5x1

    New year! new you!

  • 5x2

    Alderney's big break

  • 5x3

    The thingummawotsit

  • 5x4

    The sleep wombler

  • 5x5

    A life in the day of madame cholet

  • 5x6

    Wom-tv

  • 5x7

    Star struck

  • 5x8

    Practically joking

  • 5x9

    Tomsk's pen pal

  • 5x10

    What's a womble?

  • 5x11

    Queen for a day

  • 5x12

    The womble races

  • 5x13

    The womble times

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