The Wombles

The Wombles

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

Genre: AnimationFamily

Director: Elizabeth Beresford

Cast:Bernard Cribbins


1Season 1

Season 1, Episode 1

February 5, 1973

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

2Season 1

Season 1, Episode 2

February 6, 1973

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

3Season 1

Season 1, Episode 3

February 7, 1973

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

4Season 1

Season 1, Episode 4

February 9, 1973

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

5Season 1

Season 1, Episode 5

February 12, 1973

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

6Season 1

Season 1, Episode 6

February 13, 1973

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"!

7Season 1

Season 1, Episode 7

February 14, 1973

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.

8Season 1

Season 1, Episode 8

February 16, 1973

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

9Season 1

Season 1, Episode 9

February 19, 1973

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

10Season 1

Season 1, Episode 10

February 20, 1973

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

11Season 1

Season 1, Episode 11

February 21, 1973

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

12Season 1

Season 1, Episode 12

February 23, 1973

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

13Season 1

Season 1, Episode 13

February 26, 1973

Tobermory makes his own TV show for the Wombles.

14Season 1

Season 1, Episode 14

February 27, 1973

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

15Season 1

Season 1, Episode 15

February 28, 1973

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

16Season 1

Season 1, Episode 16

March 2, 1973

Making cakes turns into a problematic situation.

17Season 1

Season 1, Episode 17

June 18, 1973

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

18Season 1

Season 1, Episode 18

June 19, 1973

The Wombles make music with tins and cans.

19Season 1

Season 1, Episode 19

June 20, 1973

A ladder is adapted to Womble size

20Season 1

Season 1, Episode 20

June 21, 1973

Orinoco thinks that there is a ghost in his house

21Season 1

Season 1, Episode 21

June 22, 1973

Golf balls sometimes travel in the wrong direction

22Season 1

Season 1, Episode 22

June 25, 1973

Tobermory makes a machine that can predict the weather.

23Season 1

Season 1, Episode 23

June 26, 1973

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

24Season 1

Season 1, Episode 24

June 27, 1973

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

25Season 1

Season 1, Episode 25

June 28, 1973

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

26Season 1

Season 1, Episode 26

June 29, 1973

A bird nests in the Wombles' ventilation shaft.

27Season 1

Season 1, Episode 27

July 2, 1973

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

28Season 1

Season 1, Episode 28

July 3, 1973

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

29Season 1

Season 1, Episode 29

July 5, 1973

The Wombles get into trouble with some wet cement.

30Season 1

Season 1, Episode 30

July 6, 1973

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