Television - Young Wombles Boating - Judges postcard, 1998

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• Picture / Image:  'Young Wombles Boating' - The Wombles by Elizabeth Beresford / FilmFair, 1998
• Publisher:  Judges of Hastings
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The Wombles are fictional pointy-nosed, furry creatures that live in burrows, where they aim to help the environment by collecting and recycling rubbish in creative ways. Wombles were created by author Elisabeth Beresford, and originally appeared in a series of children's novels from 1968.^[1] Although Wombles supposedly live in every country in the world, Beresford's stories are concerned with the lives of the inhabitants of the burrow on Wimbledon Common in London, England.

The characters gained a higher national profile in the UK in the mid-1970s as a result of a BBC commissioned children's television show which used stop motion animation. A number of spin-off novelty songs also became hits in the British music charts. The Wombles pop group was the idea of British singer and composer Mike Batt.

The Womble motto is ""Make Good Use of Bad Rubbish"". This environmentally friendly message was a reflection of the growing environmental movement of the 1970s.^[2]

The Wombles is a stop motion animated British television series made in 1973–1975. The Wombles are fictional creatures that live underground, collecting and recycling human rubbish.

After the first Wombles book, published in 1968, was featured on the BBC children's television programme Jackanory,^[3] the BBC commissioned producer FilmFair to create a television series of the books. The series was produced by Graham Clutterbuck and directed by Ivor Wood using stop-motion. The characters were all voiced by actor Bernard Cribbins. Sets and model making were by Barry Leith. Two series of 30, five-minute episodes were produced, with the first series airing in 1973, animated by Ivor Wood, and the second in 1975, animated by Barry Leith. In all, 60 episodes were produced.

The original television series was regularly screened for many years. After FilmFair was acquired by the Canadian company Cinar Films in 1996, a new series of episodes was created, with a number of new Womble characters. In the UK, the series was purchased by ITV.

In late August 2013 it was announced that the Wombles would return with a new television series. Richard Desmond snapped up the rights to the new TV series which will consist of 26 episodes each 11 minutes in length. The new series will be made using computer-generated imagery (CGI) and is due to air in 2015 on Channel 5.^[4][5][6]

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