Remembering the Wombles: 'I roped in friends to appear on Top Of The Pops'
The Wombles Credit: Moviestore/Shutterstock I first heard about the Wombles when my agent, Liz Channon, told me that the BBC was making a new children’s show. It was 1972 and I met Ivor Wood, who had been one of the animators on The Magic Roundabout, and was shown the little studio at Film Fair, a small production company based off Marylebone High Street. There was a tabletop set with 12in-high Wombles, the studio was lit and they were shooting one frame, moving a character around, and then shooting another frame. He told me that Bernard Cribbins was going to narrate it and then asked, ...
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