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The Wombles
1973 - 1975 7.5 (14 votes) 5 Seasons
Genres
Animation Family
Networks
BBC One

The Wombles

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Producer: Micheline Charest

Top Cast

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1973)

No overview available.

30 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Orinoco & The Big Black Umbrella
1973-02-05

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

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Episode 2: The Rocking Chair
1973-02-06

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

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Episode 3: A Sticky Ending (or A Sticky End)
1973-02-07

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

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Episode 4: Great Uncle Bulgaria's Keep Fit Lesson
1973-02-09

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

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Episode 5: A Safe Place
1973-02-12

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

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Episode 6: Peep-Peep-Peep
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"!

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Episode 7: The Purple Paw Mystery
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.

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Episode 8: Bungo's Birthday Party
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.

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Episode 9: The Invisible Womble
1973-02-19

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

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Episode 10: Orinoco Sees The Light
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.

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Episode 11: The Conkering Hero
1973-02-21

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

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Episode 12: One Pair Of Feet
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...

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Episode 13: Tobermory On Television
1973-02-26

Tobermory makes his own TV show for the Wombles.

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Episode 14: Crossed Lines
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.

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Episode 15: Blow The Womble Down
1973-02-28

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

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Episode 16: Madame Cholet Returns
1973-02-03

Making cakes turns into a problematic situation.

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Episode 17: Weighing In Time
1973-06-19

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

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Episode 18: Musical Wombles
1973-06-19

The Wombles make music with tins and cans.

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Episode 19: Wombles And Ladders
1973-06-20

A ladder is adapted to Womble size

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Episode 20: Orinoco And The Ghost
1973-06-21

Orinoco thinks that there is a ghost in his house

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Episode 21: A Game Of Golf
1973-06-22

Golf balls sometimes travel in the wrong direction

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Episode 22: North, South, East, West
1973-06-25

Tobermory makes a machine that can predict the weather.

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Episode 23: The Picnic
1973-06-26

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

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Episode 24: Games In The Snow
1973-06-27

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

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Episode 25: The Snow Wombles
1973-06-28

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

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Episode 26: What's Cooking?
1973-06-29

A bird nests in the Wombles' ventilation shaft.

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Episode 27: Spring Cleaning Time
1973-07-02

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

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Episode 28: Marrow Pie
1973-07-03

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

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Episode 29: The Cement Mixer
1973-07-05

The Wombles get into trouble with some wet cement.

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Episode 30: The Circus Comes To Wimbledon
1973-07-06

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

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Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1975)

No overview available.

30 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Bungo Up A Tree
1975-09-15

Bungo gets stuck up a tree.

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Episode 2: Time And Slow Motion
1975-09-16

Tobermory organises the young Wombles' tidying-up methods.

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Episode 3: Tomsk In Trouble
1975-09-17

Tomsk cannot make his bed so builds a hammock.

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Episode 4: The Largest Womble In The World
1975-09-18

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

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Episode 5: Running Out Of Steam
1975-09-19

Wellington, Tomsk and Bungo make their own train.

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Episode 6: Orinoco's Midnight Feast
1975-09-22

Orinoco's greed ruins a midnight feast.

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Episode 7: Speak Up
1975-09-23

Tomsk accidentally joins the water pipe to the telephone pipe.

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Episode 8: The Vanishing Pancake
1975-09-24

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

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Episode 9: Madame Cholet & the Blackberries
1975-09-25

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

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Episode 10: The Fruit Machine
1975-09-26

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

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Episode 11: Portrait Of Great Uncle Bulgaria
1975-09-29

Great Uncle Bulgaria's portrait is ruined.

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Episode 12: Very Behind The Times
1975-09-30

An enormous road to be built causes panic.

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Episode 13: Burrow Hot Line
1975-10-01

Papers and wet laundry get muddled on the washing line.

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Episode 14: Trunk Call
1975-10-02

Tomsk gets stuck in a hollow tree trunk.

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Episode 15: MacWomble The Terrible
1975-10-03

A Scottish relative comes to stay.

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Episode 16: A Single Piper
1975-10-06

MacWomble's constant bagpipe playing drives everyone crazy.

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Episode 17: Porridge For Breakfast
1975-10-07

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

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Episode 18: Highland Games
1975-10-08

The Wombles do their version of the Highland Games.

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Episode 19: Home Sickness
1975-10-09

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

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Episode 20: Goodbye MacWomble
1975-10-10

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

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Episode 21: Hiccups
1975-10-13

Tomsk and Bungo get hiccups after eating hot buttercup crumpets.

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Episode 22: Film Show
1975-10-14

Wellington makes a film about the Wimbledon Burrow.

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Episode 23: Pirate Gold
1975-10-15

Tomsk and Wellington hunt for pirate treasure.

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Episode 24: Warm & Cosy
1975-10-16

The Wimbledon Burrow needs insulating.

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Episode 25: Autumn Leaves
1975-10-17

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

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Episode 26: The Wombles Times
1975-10-20

The young Wombles make their own newspaper.

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Episode 27: Operation W.R.A.P.
1975-10-21

The young Wombles learn first aid.

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Episode 28: The Secret Snorer
1975-10-22

Orinoco falls asleep when he should have been scaring crows away

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Episode 29: Womble Fool's Day
1975-10-23

The young Wombles play practical jokes.

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Episode 30: Womble Summer Party
1975-10-24

The young Wombles perform magic tricks.

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Season 4 poster
Season 4 ()

No overview available.

26 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: New Year! New You!

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.

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Episode 2: Alderney's Big Break

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Episode 3: The Thingummawotsit

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

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Episode 4: The Sleep Wombler

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.

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Episode 5: A Day In The Life Of Madame Cholet

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

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Episode 6: WomTV

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.

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Episode 7: Star Struck

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

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Episode 8: Practically Joking

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

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Episode 9: Tomsk's Pen Pal

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

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Episode 10: What's A Womble

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

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Episode 11: Queen For A Day

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Episode 12: The Womble Races

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

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Episode 13: The Womble Times

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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Episode 14: Fancy! Fancy Dress

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Episode 15: Time Travelling Tomsk

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Episode 16: Bungo Bingo

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Episode 17: The Thames Burrow Adventure

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Episode 18: The Wombles of Discontent

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Episode 19: Riddle Me This

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Episode 20: Unlucky Me

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Episode 21: Nanny Alexandria Comes To Stay

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Episode 22: The Unwelcome Womble

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Episode 23: Shansi's Spider

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Episode 24: Anchors Aweigh

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Episode 25: Womble Inventor Of The Year

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Episode 26: A Visit To The Highland Burrow

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Season 5 poster
Season 5 ()

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: New Year! New You!

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.

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Episode 2: Alderney's Big Break

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

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Episode 3: The Thingummawotsit

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

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Episode 4: The Sleep Wombler

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.

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Episode 5: A Life In The Day Of Madame Cholet

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

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Episode 6: Wom-TV

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.

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Episode 7: Star Struck

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

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Episode 8: Practically Joking

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

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Episode 9: Tomsk's Pen Pal

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

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Episode 10: What's A Womble?

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

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Episode 11: Queen For A Day

The Queen is paying a visit to Wimbeldon Common.

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Episode 12: The Womble Races

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

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Episode 13: The Womble Times

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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