The Wombles (1973 TV series)
Stop-motion series about recycling Wombles.
The narrative centers on subterranean beings that gather and repurpose discarded human items.[1]
Quick Facts
- Genre
- Children’s animation; Comedy
- Creator
- Elisabeth Beresford
- Director
- Ivor Wood
- Voices
- Bernard Cribbins
- Theme music
- Mike Batt
- Opening theme
- "The Wombling Song"
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
Facts from the source article.
Making and release
After the first Wombles book was published in 1968, it was featured on the BBC1 programme Jackanory.[2] The BBC then commissioned producer FilmFair to create a television series of the books.[2] The series uses stop-motion animation.[1] The show is based on characters created and written by Elisabeth Beresford.[1]
The series was produced by FilmFair for the BBC.[2] The first Wombles book was published in 1968.[2]
What the cited sources add
The source "A-Z of Classic Children's Television" by Sheridan, published by Reynolds & Hearn in 2004, states the series is based on Beresford's books.[1][3] That same source notes the Wombles collect and recycle human rubbish.[1][3] The Daily Telegraph obituary for Elisabeth Beresford reports the BBC commissioned FilmFair after the Jackanory feature.[2] The stop-motion animation technique used in the series is verified by the cited materials.[1][3]
References
- Wikipedia, "The Wombles (1973 TV series)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Sheridan, "The A-Z of Classic Children's Television: From Alberto Frog to Zebedee", Reynolds & Hearn Ltd, 2004, p. 257–261 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "The Wombles (1973 TV series)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Elisabeth Beresford", The Daily Telegraph, 26 December 2010 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Open Library record, ISBN 1903111277 ("A-Z of Classic Children's Television"). CC0 (metadata); book content not read. openlibrary.org
Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article The Wombles (1973 TV series) (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.
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