Home / Series / The Wombles / Aired Order /

All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Orinoco & The Big Black Umbrella

    • February 5, 1973
    • BBC One

    On any day, the Womble Orinoco is swept by the wind.

  • S01E02 The Rocking Chair

    • February 6, 1973
    • BBC One

    After Orinoco gets stuck in a tire, the Wombles realise they can use it to fix Great Uncle Bulgaria's chair.

  • S01E03 A Sticky Ending

    • February 7, 1973
    • BBC One

    The Wombles have a leaking ceiling and come up with an inventive way of fixing it.

  • S01E04 Great Uncle Bulgaria's Keep Fit Lesson

    • February 9, 1973
    • BBC One

    After the Wombles find a football, Great Uncle Bulgaria becomes inspired to start a new "keep fit" regime.

  • S01E05 A Safe Place

    • February 12, 1973
    • BBC One

    A safe place must be found for a valuable Womble history book.

  • S01E06 Peep-Peep-Peep

    • February 13, 1973
    • BBC One

    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"!

  • S01E07 The Purple Paw Mystery

    • February 14, 1973
    • BBC One

    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.

  • S01E08 Bungo's Birthday Party

    • February 16, 1973
    • BBC One

    Bungo thinks that everyone forgot about his birthday, but he didn´t expect that everyone has a secret that Bungo doesn´t known.

  • S01E09 The Invisible Womble

    • February 19, 1973
    • BBC One

    Orinoco thinks that if he turns invisible no one will interrupt his sleeping while he pretends that he is in work.

  • S01E10 Orinoco Sees The Light

    • February 20, 1973
    • BBC One

    Wellington has planted some daffodil seeds and he is "awfully disappinted" when they don't grow. Orinoco suggests he plants light bulbs instead.

  • S01E11 The Conkering Hero

    • February 21, 1973
    • BBC One

    The Wombles learn how to play conkers and how to count.

  • S01E12 One Pair Of Feet

    • February 23, 1973
    • BBC One

    After a human being is spotted on the common, the Wombles rush back to their burrow. However, in the panic Wellington is left behind...

  • S01E13 Tobermory On Television

    • February 26, 1973
    • BBC One

    Tobermory makes his own TV show for the Wombles.

  • S01E14 Crossed Lines

    • February 27, 1973
    • BBC One

    Tobermory invents a new telephone system for everyone but the telephone lines are having problems and many conversations are heard by Tobermory.

  • S01E15 Blow The Womble Down

    • February 28, 1973
    • BBC One

    The Wombles get blown about when they find a vacuum cleaner.

  • S01E16 Madame Cholet Returns

    • February 3, 1973
    • BBC One

    Making cakes turns into a problematic situation.

  • S01E17 Weighing In Time

    • June 19, 1973
    • BBC One

    Orinoco decides to put himself on a diet, because he thinks he's too fat.

  • S01E18 Musical Wombles

    • June 19, 1973
    • BBC One

    The Wombles make music with tins and cans.

  • S01E19 Wombles And Ladders

    • June 20, 1973
    • BBC One

    A ladder is adapted to Womble size

  • S01E20 Orinoco And The Ghost

    • June 21, 1973
    • BBC One

    Orinoco thinks that there is a ghost in his house

  • S01E21 A Game Of Golf

    • June 22, 1973
    • BBC One

    Golf balls sometimes travel in the wrong direction

  • S01E22 North, South, East, West

    • June 25, 1973
    • BBC One

    Tobermory makes a machine that can predict the weather.

  • S01E23 The Picnic

    • June 26, 1973
    • BBC One

    Orinoco shows us how to make a picnic basket that is not heavy to carry.

  • S01E24 Games In The Snow

    • June 27, 1973
    • BBC One

    The Wombles have fun in the snow and, in the process, create a minor avalanche

  • S01E25 The Snow Wombles

    • June 28, 1973
    • BBC One

    The annual competition to see who can make the best snowman.

  • S01E26 What's Cooking?

    • June 29, 1973
    • BBC One

    A bird nests in the Wombles' ventilation shaft.

  • S01E27 Spring Cleaning Time

    • July 2, 1973
    • BBC One

    When the Wombles have to spring clean, an elastic washing line leads to trouble.

  • S01E28 Marrow Pie

    • July 3, 1973
    • BBC One

    The Wombles use too much fertiliser on a marrow, causing it to grow and grow.

  • S01E29 The Cement Mixer

    • July 5, 1973
    • BBC One

    The Wombles get into trouble with some wet cement.

  • S01E30 The Circus Comes to Wimbledon

    • July 6, 1973
    • BBC One

    When the circus to Wimbeldon Common, the Wombles put on their own act.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Bungo Up a Tree

    • September 15, 1975
    • BBC One

    Bungo gets stuck up a tree.

  • S02E02 Time and Slow Motion

    • September 16, 1975
    • BBC One

    Tobermory organises the young Wombles' tidying-up methods.

  • S02E03 Tomsk In Trouble

    • September 17, 1975
    • BBC One

    Tomsk cannot make his bed so builds a hammock.

  • S02E04 The Largest Womble in the World

    • September 18, 1975
    • BBC One

    Orinoco uses a coat and a pair of boots to trick Bungo and Tomsk.

  • S02E05 Running Out Of Steam

    • September 19, 1975
    • BBC One

    Wellington, Tomsk and Bungo make their own train.

  • S02E06 Orinoco's Midnight Feast

    • September 22, 1975
    • BBC One

    Orinoco's greed ruins a midnight feast.

  • S02E07 Speak Up

    • September 23, 1975
    • BBC One

    Tomsk accidentally joins the water pipe to the telephone pipe.

  • S02E08 The Vanishing Pancake

    • September 24, 1975
    • BBC One

    Orinoco goes fishing for pancakes after being shooed out of the kitchen.

  • S02E09 Madame Cholet & the Blackberries

    • September 25, 1975
    • BBC One

    Nobody will pick any blackberries, and that makes Madame Cholet angry.

  • S02E10 The Fruit Machine

    • September 26, 1975
    • BBC One

    Orinoco and Wellington make a 'mid-morning snack machine'.

  • S02E11 Portrait of Great Uncle Bulgaria

    • September 29, 1975
    • BBC One

    Great Uncle Bulgaria's portrait is ruined.

  • S02E12 Very Behind The Times

    • September 30, 1975
    • BBC One

    An enormous road to be built causes panic.

  • S02E13 Burrow Hot Line

    • October 1, 1975
    • BBC One

    Papers and wet laundry get muddled on the washing line.

  • S02E14 Trunk Call

    • October 2, 1975
    • BBC One

    Tomsk gets stuck in a hollow tree trunk.

  • S02E15 MacWomble The Terrible

    • October 3, 1975
    • BBC One

    A Scottish relative comes to stay.

  • S02E16 A Single Piper

    • October 6, 1975
    • BBC One

    MacWomble's constant bagpipe playing drives everyone crazy.

  • S02E17 Porridge For Breakfast

    • October 7, 1975
    • BBC One

    MacWomble sends the young Wombles out to gather bracken to make porridge.

  • S02E18 Highland Games

    • October 8, 1975
    • BBC One

    The Wombles do their version of the Highland Games.

  • S02E19 Home Sickness

    • October 9, 1975
    • BBC One

    Seeing that it is Burns Night, MacWomble is feeling homesick. So the other wombles decide to cheer him up.

  • S02E20 Goodbye MacWomble

    • October 10, 1975
    • BBC One

    MacWomble decides to head back home after the Loch Ness Monster has been sighted.

  • S02E21 Hiccups

    • October 13, 1975
    • BBC One

    Tomsk and Bungo get hiccups after eating hot buttercup crumpets.

  • S02E22 Film Show

    • October 14, 1975
    • BBC One

    Wellington makes a film about the Wimbledon Burrow.

  • S02E23 Pirate Gold

    • October 15, 1975
    • BBC One

    Tomsk and Wellington hunt for pirate treasure.

  • S02E24 Warm & Cosy

    • October 16, 1975
    • BBC One

    The Wimbledon Burrow needs insulating.

  • S02E25 Autumn Leaves

    • October 17, 1975
    • BBC One

    Wellington, Orinoco and Tomsk invent a new way to collect fallen leaves.

  • S02E26 The Wombles Times

    • October 20, 1975
    • BBC One

    The young Wombles make their own newspaper.

  • S02E27 Operation W.R.A.P.

    • October 21, 1975
    • BBC One

    The young Wombles learn first aid.

  • S02E28 The Secret Snorer

    • October 22, 1975
    • BBC One

    Orinoco is tasked with guarding the Wombles' herb garden and falls asleep when he should have been scaring crows away.

  • S02E29 Womble Fool's Day

    • October 23, 1975
    • BBC One

    The young Wombles play practical jokes.

  • S02E30 Womble Summer Party

    • October 24, 1975
    • BBC One

    The young Wombles perform magic tricks.

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5

  • S05E01 New Year! New You!

    • October 6, 1998
    • BBC One

    It's New Years Eve, Great Uncle Bulgaria's favourite time of year. But when he is nowhere to be found, the wombles become worried.

  • S05E02 Alderney's Big Break

    • October 7, 1998
    • BBC One
  • S05E03 The Thingummawotsit

    • October 8, 1998
    • BBC One

    The wombles become confused when they each find a thingummawotsit, and are unsure what they do!

  • S05E04 The Sleep Wombler

    • October 9, 1998
    • BBC One

    There's a Phantom Wombler on the common - rubbish is clearing itself away magically and unexplainably. Bungo and the others are determined to catch this mystery creature and set a series of cleverly masterminded traps.

  • S05E05 A Day In The Life Of Madame Cholet

    • October 12, 1998
    • BBC One

    Madame Cholet takes the wombles on a guided tour of her life, by showing them old mementoes.

  • S05E06 WomTV

    • October 13, 1998
    • BBC One

    Great Uncle Bulgaria, Madame Cholet and Tobermary were all planing on going to see the Thames Burrow Pantomime, until Orincoco loses their tickets. Therefore the young wombles come up with an idea to entertain the older wombles, instead of the show.

  • S05E07 Star Struck

    • October 14, 1998
    • BBC One

    As Tomsk is performing his night-watch duty he realises Shansi is missing and organises an emergency search party.

  • S05E08 Practically Joking

    • October 15, 1998
    • BBC One

    Great Uncle Bulgaria's former nanny is visiting, but on the big day Bungo fills the burrow with practical jokes.

  • S05E09 Tomsk's Pen Pal

    • October 16, 1998
    • BBC One

    Tomsk is thrilled to receive a letter from his new pen pal, Moosonee Womble, until he realises he must write back.

  • S05E10 What's A Womble

    • October 19, 1998
    • BBC One

    While the wombles are playing, Bungo gets a nasty knock on the head and seems to forget who he is.

  • S05E11 Queen For A Day

    • October 20, 1998
    • BBC One

  • S05E12 The Womble Races

    • October 21, 1998
    • BBC One

    Stepney and Wellington fall out when she invents a Womble vehicle better than his Wimbledon Wombles Wombuggy.

  • S05E13 The Womble Times

    • October 22, 1998
    • BBC One

    It's the Wimbledon Wombles turn to produce the copy of the Womble Times, which goes out to all the Wimbledon burrows everywhere. With Great Uncle Bulgaria as editor, everyone has an important role on the paper, but, as ace reporter, Bungo thinks his is the most important.

  • S05E14 Fancy! Fancy Dress

    • October 23, 1998
    • BBC One

  • S05E15 Time Travelling Tomsk

    • October 26, 1998
    • BBC One

  • S05E16 Bungo Bingo

    • October 27, 1998
    • BBC One

  • S05E17 The Thames Burrow Adventure

    • October 28, 1998
    • BBC One

  • S05E18 The Wombles of Discontent

    • October 29, 1998
    • BBC One

  • S05E19 Riddle Me This

    • October 30, 1998
    • BBC One

  • S05E20 Unlucky Me

    • November 2, 1998
    • BBC One

  • S05E21 Nanny Alexandria Comes To Stay

    • November 3, 1998
    • BBC One

  • S05E22 The Unwelcome Womble

    • November 4, 1998
    • BBC One

  • S05E23 Shansi's Spider

    • November 5, 1998
    • BBC One

  • S05E24 Anchors Aweigh

    • November 6, 1998
    • BBC One

  • S05E25 Womble Inventor Of The Year

    • November 9, 1998
    • BBC One

  • S05E26 A Visit To The Highland Burrow

    • November 10, 1998
    • BBC One

Additional Specials

  • SPECIAL 0x1 World Womble Day

    • BBC One

    This is the special feature version of The Wombles. Enjoy the misadventures of a fantasy folk community cleaning up littered trashes and trying to put it to their own use.