The Wombles

πŸ“Š Series Specifications

Network BBC One
Episode Runtime ~10 min
Total Seasons 2
Total Episodes 60
Original Language EN

The Wombles (1973)

Created by Elizabeth Beresford
⭐ 3.7 / 5 (17 votes) 🎬 2 Seasons πŸ“Ό 60 Episodes 🏷️ Animation, Family πŸ“‘ Ended
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Series Status:

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Synopsis

The misadventures of a small community dedicated to cleaning up litter and putting it to their own use.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Orinoco & The Big Black Umbrella

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

E2 The Rocking Chair

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

E3 A Sticky Ending (or A Sticky End)

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

E4 Great Uncle Bulgaria's Keep Fit Lesson

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

E5 A Safe Place

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

E6 Peep-Peep-Peep

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"!

E7 The Purple Paw Mystery

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.

E8 Bungo's Birthday Party

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

E9 The Invisible Womble

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

E10 Orinoco Sees The Light

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

E11 The Conkering Hero

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

E12 One Pair Of Feet

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

E13 Tobermory On Television

Tobermory makes his own TV show for the Wombles.

E14 Crossed Lines

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

E15 Blow The Womble Down

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

E16 Madame Cholet Returns

Making cakes turns into a problematic situation.

E17 Weighing In Time

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

E18 Musical Wombles

The Wombles make music with tins and cans.

E19 Wombles And Ladders

A ladder is adapted to Womble size

E20 Orinoco And The Ghost

Orinoco thinks that there is a ghost in his house

E21 A Game Of Golf

Golf balls sometimes travel in the wrong direction

E22 North, South, East, West

Tobermory makes a machine that can predict the weather.

E23 The Picnic

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

E24 Games In The Snow

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

E25 The Snow Wombles

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

E26 What's Cooking?

A bird nests in the Wombles' ventilation shaft.

E27 Spring Cleaning Time

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

E28 Marrow Pie

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

E29 The Cement Mixer

The Wombles get into trouble with some wet cement.

E30 The Circus Comes To Wimbledon

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

Episodes for this season are available via edge tracking. View Episode 1 β†’