The Wombles (1997 TV series)

The Wombles is an animated series for children transmitted in 1997 and 1998, based on the 1973 series created by Elisabeth Beresford. The Wombles had remained popular with children into the 1980s.^[1] After FilmFair was acquired by the Canadian company Cinar Films in 1996, a new series of episodes was made, with three new Womble characters. The series is a co-production with Cinar and United Film & Television Productions/HTV Wales, in association with FilmFair Limited and ITV.^[2] 52 episodes were produced.^[3]

The Wombles
Genre	Children’s animation
Created by	Elisabeth Beresford
Written by	Kath Yelland John Ellis Joseph Mallozzi Adrian Besley Peter Hynes Stan Cullimore Alastair Swinnerton Andy Ellis Julie Middleton Jennifer Lupinacci Mark Torrender Brian Jordan Paul Brophy
Directed by	John Ellis
Voices of	Victor Knight Terrence Scammell Rick Jones Simon Peacock Michael Hancock Sonja Ball Michael Lamport Daniel Brochu Julie Burroughs Julian Casey Gregory Calpakis Emma Campbell Luis de Cespedes Nancy Helms
Theme music composer	Mike Batt
Country of origin	Canada United Kingdom
No. of series	3
No. of episodes	52 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Micheline Charest Ronald A. Weinberg David Ferguson Dan Maddicott
Producer	Cassandra Schafhausen
Cinematography	Mark Bond
Editor	Andi Sloss
Running time	10 minutes
Production companies	CINAR Films CINAR Europe United Film & Television Productions FilmFair Limited HTV Wales
Original release
Network	ITV (CITV strand)
Release	5 March 1997 (1997-03-05) – 10 November 1998 (1998-11-10)
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Episodes

Main article: List of The Wombles episodes § 1997 series