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.
Seasons
1. Orinoco & The Big Black Umbrella
Air Date: 1973-02-05
On any day, the Womble Orinoco is swept by the wind.
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.
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.
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.
5. A Safe Place
Air Date: 1973-02-12
A safe place must be found for a valuable Womble history book.
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"!
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.
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.
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.
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.
11. The Conkering Hero
Air Date: 1973-02-21
The Wombles learn how to play conkers and how to count.
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...
13. Tobermory On Television
Air Date: 1973-02-26
Tobermory makes his own TV show for the Wombles.
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.
15. Blow The Womble Down
Air Date: 1973-02-28
The Wombles get blown about when they find a vacuum cleaner.
16. Madame Cholet Returns
Air Date: 1973-02-03
Making cakes turns into a problematic situation.
17. Weighing In Time
Air Date: 1973-06-19
Orinoco decides to put himself on a diet, because he thinks he's too fat.
18. Musical Wombles
Air Date: 1973-06-19
The Wombles make music with tins and cans.
19. Wombles And Ladders
Air Date: 1973-06-20
A ladder is adapted to Womble size
20. Orinoco And The Ghost
Air Date: 1973-06-21
Orinoco thinks that there is a ghost in his house
21. A Game Of Golf
Air Date: 1973-06-22
Golf balls sometimes travel in the wrong direction
22. North, South, East, West
Air Date: 1973-06-25
Tobermory makes a machine that can predict the weather.
23. The Picnic
Air Date: 1973-06-26
Orinoco shows us how to make a picnic basket that is not heavy to carry.
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
25. The Snow Wombles
Air Date: 1973-06-28
The annual competition to see who can make the best snowman.
26. What's Cooking?
Air Date: 1973-06-29
A bird nests in the Wombles' ventilation shaft.
27. Spring Cleaning Time
Air Date: 1973-07-02
When the Wombles have to spring clean, an elastic washing line leads to trouble.
28. Marrow Pie
Air Date: 1973-07-03
The Wombles use too much fertiliser on a marrow, causing it to grow and grow.
29. The Cement Mixer
Air Date: 1973-07-05
The Wombles get into trouble with some wet cement.
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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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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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