Uncle Bulgaria in ‘recycled’ TV advert
The Wombles are featured in a new TV advert for gas and electricity supplier EDF Energy. It’s a montage of old footage with an environmental theme,...
Wombles news
Children’s TV On Trial
The Wombles are included in BBC Four’s Children’s TV On Trial week, which looks back at kids’ telly from the 1950s to the 1990s - you may have seen...
Bernard Cribbins among best-loved TV voices
Bernard Cribbins, the narrator/voice of the original Wombles TV series, was voted the fourth best-loved voice from British children’s television in a...
New DVD: Tobermory On Television
The follow-up to last year’s Orinoco And The Big Black Umbrella DVD contains the second set of 12 episodes from the original TV series, from Tobermory...
New DVD: Santa’s Favourites
Abbey Home Media’s new online shop is now open. Alongside the DVD of Orinoco And The Big Black Umbrella (the first 12 episodes from 1973), you can buy...
New DVD: Wombling Free Special Edition
The 1977 Wombling Free film is back in the shops, in a new ‘special edition’ DVD released on 17 July 2006 by Network. The film is accompanied by...
Most popular pre-school TV shows
The Wombles came joint sixth (with The Clangers) in a recent BBC survey on the most popular pre-school children’s TV shows of all time. The top five...
New version of Orinoco And The Big Black Umbrella
Two years after the first UK Wombles DVD (from Columbia TriStar), a new version with the same title, Orinoco And The Big Black Umbrella, has been...