The Wombles

The Wombles was adapted as a British children's television programme, The Wombles, a series of five-minute stop-motion episodes produced by FilmFair for the BBC and voiced by Bernard Cribbins. The first series aired in 1973 and the second in 1975, sixty episodes in all. In 1977, a feature-length live-action movie Wombling Free appeared, starring David Tomlinson and Bonnie Langford. The Wombles were re-invented from 1998 as a cartoon after FilmFair was acquired by the Canadian company Cinar Films in 1996, a number of new geographically-named Wombles were introduced. The original television series remained popular with children in the eighties. However, the original "green" message backfired: newspapers reported at the time that children were deliberately throwing litter onto the real Wimbledon Common in the hope of seeing a Womble emerge to pick it up.

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  • TheTVDB.com Series ID 80104
  • Status Ended
  • First Aired February 3, 1973
  • Recent November 10, 1998
  • Network BBC One
  • Average Runtime 5 minutes
  • Genres Animation Family
  • Original Country Great Britain
  • Original Language English
  • On Other Sites IMDB TheMovieDB.com
  • Episode Screenshot Format 4:3 Screencap
  • Favorited This series has been favorited by 11 people.
  • Created February 4, 2008 by
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  • Modified December 20, 2022 by
    Dave55
Season From To Episodes
All Seasons
Specials 1
Season 1 February 1973 July 1973 30
Season 2 September 1975 October 1975 30
Season 3 March 1997 May 1997 13
Season 4 January 1998 April 1998 13
Season 5 October 1998 November 1998 26
Unassigned Episodes 0
Season From To Episodes
Unassigned Episodes 113
Absolute ordering places all episodes in a single ordered season. This is generally used for anime.
Season From To Episodes
Season 1 0
Unassigned Episodes 113

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Favourite Children's TV 70s UK

1 52 ColinCollins

A personal list of my favourite TV shown on BBC and ITV in the 1970s. Includes repeats from the 60s and 50s. I was eight years old in 1980.

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