The Wombles

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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Orinoco & The Big Black Umbrella

1. Orinoco & The Big Black Umbrella

Air Date: 1973-02-05

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

The Rocking Chair

2. The Rocking Chair

Air Date: 1973-02-06

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

A Sticky Ending (or A Sticky End)

3. A Sticky Ending (or A Sticky End)

Air Date: 1973-02-07

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

Great Uncle Bulgaria's Keep Fit Lesson

4. Great Uncle Bulgaria's Keep Fit Lesson

Air Date: 1973-02-09

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

A Safe Place

5. A Safe Place

Air Date: 1973-02-12

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

Peep-Peep-Peep

6. Peep-Peep-Peep

Air Date: 1973-02-13

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"!

The Purple Paw Mystery

7. The Purple Paw Mystery

Air Date: 1973-02-14

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.

Bungo's Birthday Party

8. Bungo's Birthday Party

Air Date: 1973-02-16

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

The Invisible Womble

9. The Invisible Womble

Air Date: 1973-02-19

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

Orinoco Sees The Light

10. Orinoco Sees The Light

Air Date: 1973-02-20

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

The Conkering Hero

11. The Conkering Hero

Air Date: 1973-02-21

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

One Pair Of Feet

12. One Pair Of Feet

Air Date: 1973-02-23

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

Tobermory On Television

13. Tobermory On Television

Air Date: 1973-02-26

Tobermory makes his own TV show for the Wombles.

Crossed Lines

14. Crossed Lines

Air Date: 1973-02-27

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

Blow The Womble Down

15. Blow The Womble Down

Air Date: 1973-02-28

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

Madame Cholet Returns

16. Madame Cholet Returns

Air Date: 1973-02-03

Making cakes turns into a problematic situation.

Weighing In Time

17. Weighing In Time

Air Date: 1973-06-19

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

Musical Wombles

18. Musical Wombles

Air Date: 1973-06-19

The Wombles make music with tins and cans.

Wombles And Ladders

19. Wombles And Ladders

Air Date: 1973-06-20

A ladder is adapted to Womble size

Orinoco And The Ghost

20. Orinoco And The Ghost

Air Date: 1973-06-21

Orinoco thinks that there is a ghost in his house

A Game Of Golf

21. A Game Of Golf

Air Date: 1973-06-22

Golf balls sometimes travel in the wrong direction

North, South, East, West

22. North, South, East, West

Air Date: 1973-06-25

Tobermory makes a machine that can predict the weather.

The Picnic

23. The Picnic

Air Date: 1973-06-26

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

Games In The Snow

24. Games In The Snow

Air Date: 1973-06-27

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

The Snow Wombles

25. The Snow Wombles

Air Date: 1973-06-28

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

What's Cooking?

26. What's Cooking?

Air Date: 1973-06-29

A bird nests in the Wombles' ventilation shaft.

Spring Cleaning Time

27. Spring Cleaning Time

Air Date: 1973-07-02

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

Marrow Pie

28. Marrow Pie

Air Date: 1973-07-03

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

The Cement Mixer

29. The Cement Mixer

Air Date: 1973-07-05

The Wombles get into trouble with some wet cement.

The Circus Comes To Wimbledon

30. The Circus Comes To Wimbledon

Air Date: 1973-07-06

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

1. Bungo Up A Tree

Air Date: 1975-09-15

Bungo gets stuck up a tree.

2. Time And Slow Motion

Air Date: 1975-09-16

Tobermory organises the young Wombles' tidying-up methods.

3. Tomsk In Trouble

Air Date: 1975-09-17

Tomsk cannot make his bed so builds a hammock.

4. The Largest Womble In The World

Air Date: 1975-09-18

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

5. Running Out Of Steam

Air Date: 1975-09-19

Wellington, Tomsk and Bungo make their own train.

6. Orinoco's Midnight Feast

Air Date: 1975-09-22

Orinoco's greed ruins a midnight feast.

7. Speak Up

Air Date: 1975-09-23

Tomsk accidentally joins the water pipe to the telephone pipe.

8. The Vanishing Pancake

Air Date: 1975-09-24

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

9. Madame Cholet & the Blackberries

Air Date: 1975-09-25

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

10. The Fruit Machine

Air Date: 1975-09-26

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

11. Portrait Of Great Uncle Bulgaria

Air Date: 1975-09-29

Great Uncle Bulgaria's portrait is ruined.

12. Very Behind The Times

Air Date: 1975-09-30

An enormous road to be built causes panic.

13. Burrow Hot Line

Air Date: 1975-10-01

Papers and wet laundry get muddled on the washing line.

14. Trunk Call

Air Date: 1975-10-02

Tomsk gets stuck in a hollow tree trunk.

15. MacWomble The Terrible

Air Date: 1975-10-03

A Scottish relative comes to stay.

16. A Single Piper

Air Date: 1975-10-06

MacWomble's constant bagpipe playing drives everyone crazy.

17. Porridge For Breakfast

Air Date: 1975-10-07

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

18. Highland Games

Air Date: 1975-10-08

The Wombles do their version of the Highland Games.

19. Home Sickness

Air Date: 1975-10-09

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

20. Goodbye MacWomble

Air Date: 1975-10-10

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

21. Hiccups

Air Date: 1975-10-13

Tomsk and Bungo get hiccups after eating hot buttercup crumpets.

22. Film Show

Air Date: 1975-10-14

Wellington makes a film about the Wimbledon Burrow.

23. Pirate Gold

Air Date: 1975-10-15

Tomsk and Wellington hunt for pirate treasure.

24. Warm & Cosy

Air Date: 1975-10-16

The Wimbledon Burrow needs insulating.

25. Autumn Leaves

Air Date: 1975-10-17

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

26. The Wombles Times

Air Date: 1975-10-20

The young Wombles make their own newspaper.

27. Operation W.R.A.P.

Air Date: 1975-10-21

The young Wombles learn first aid.

28. The Secret Snorer

Air Date: 1975-10-22

Orinoco falls asleep when he should have been scaring crows away

29. Womble Fool's Day

Air Date: 1975-10-23

The young Wombles play practical jokes.

30. Womble Summer Party

Air Date: 1975-10-24

The young Wombles perform magic tricks.

1. The Ghost of Wimbledon Commmon

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2. Orinoco The Magnificent

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3. Tomsk To The Rescue

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4. Madame Cholet's Day Off

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5. Beautiful Boating Weather

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6. MacWomble is Coming

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7. Camping and Cloudberries

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8. Shansi's Surprise

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9. Spring Into Action

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10. Any Womble For Tennis?

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11. Out Of This Earth

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12. Hola Obidos

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13. Welcome Back Bungo

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14. Car Trouble

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15. Deep Space Womble

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16. Orinoco's Sick Day

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17. Wild News Chase

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18. MacWomble The Charming

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19. Rainy Daze

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20. The Great Cake Mystery

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21. Bigfoot Womble

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22. Chaos On The Common

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23. Weather Or Not

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24. Trouble At The Thames

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25. Great Womble Explorer

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26. Womble Wonderland

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1. New Year! New You!

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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.

2. Alderney's Big Break

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3. The Thingummawotsit

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

4. The Sleep Wombler

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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.

5. A Day In The Life Of Madame Cholet

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

6. WomTV

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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.

7. Star Struck

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

8. Practically Joking

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

9. Tomsk's Pen Pal

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

10. What's A Womble

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

11. Queen For A Day

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12. The Womble Races

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

13. The Womble Times

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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.

14. Fancy! Fancy Dress

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15. Time Travelling Tomsk

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16. Bungo Bingo

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17. The Thames Burrow Adventure

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18. The Wombles of Discontent

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19. Riddle Me This

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20. Unlucky Me

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21. Nanny Alexandria Comes To Stay

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22. The Unwelcome Womble

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23. Shansi's Spider

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24. Anchors Aweigh

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25. Womble Inventor Of The Year

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26. A Visit To The Highland Burrow

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New Year! New You!

1. New Year! New You!

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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.

Alderney's Big Break

2. Alderney's Big Break

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When Alderney injures her back paw on spring cleaning day, all the wombles decide to give her a present to make her feel better.

3. The Thingummawotsit

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

4. The Sleep Wombler

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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.

5. A Life In The Day Of Madame Cholet

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

6. Wom-TV

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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.

7. Star Struck

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

8. Practically Joking

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

9. Tomsk's Pen Pal

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

10. What's A Womble?

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

11. Queen For A Day

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The Queen is paying a visit to Wimbeldon Common.

12. The Womble Races

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

13. The Womble Times

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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.

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Rating

7.5/10

Release Date

1973-02-05

Episodes

125 (5 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast

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Production Companies

FilmFair