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.
| 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 |
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 0 | ||
| Unassigned Episodes | 113 |
| Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elisabeth Beresford | 12 | 02/03/1973 - 06/27/1973 |
| Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivor Wood | 12 | 02/03/1973 - 06/27/1973 |
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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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