6.9/1016 votes#1 - Orinoco & The Big Black Umbrella
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/5/1973
On any day, the Womble Orinoco is swept by the wind.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.0/1012 votes#2 - The Rocking Chair
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/6/1973
After Orinoco gets stuck in a tire, the Wombles realise they can use it to fix Great Uncle Bulgaria's chair.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.8/1012 votes#3 - A Sticky Ending (or A Sticky End)
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/7/1973
The Wombles have a leaking ceiling and come up with an inventive way of fixing it.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.8/1012 votes#4 - Great Uncle Bulgaria's Keep Fit Lesson
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/9/1973
After the Wombles find a football, Great Uncle Bulgaria becomes inspired to start a new "keep fit" regime.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.5/1012 votes#5 - A Safe Place
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/12/1973
A safe place must be found for a valuable Womble history book.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.1/1013 votes#6 - Peep-Peep-Peep
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/13/1973
Great Uncle Bulgaria wants the Wombles to keep in touch with each other while they're working, so Wellington invents, in the words of Orinoco, a "talking tin can"!
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/1012 votes#7 - The Purple Paw Mystery
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/14/1973
Great Uncle Bulgaria's fountain pen runs out of ink, so asks Tomsk to pay Tobermary a visit to collect some more. While there, Tobermary enlists the help of Tomsk in manufacturing the ink, but when he cuts corners he creates a mess around the entire burrow.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.0/1012 votes#8 - Bungo's Birthday Party
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/16/1973
Bungo thinks that everyone forgot about his birthday, but he didn´t expect that everyone has a secret that Bungo doesn´t known.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.3/1012 votes#9 - The Invisible Womble
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 2/19/1973
Orinoco thinks that if he turns invisible no one will interrupt his sleeping while he pretends that he is in work.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.7/1012 votes#10 - Orinoco Sees The Light
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 2/20/1973
Wellington has planted some daffodil seeds and he is "awfully disappinted" when they don't grow. Orinoco suggests he plants light bulbs instead.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.2/1011 votes#11 - The Conkering Hero
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/21/1973
The Wombles learn how to play conkers and how to count.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.6/1011 votes#12 - One Pair Of Feet
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/23/1973
After a human being is spotted on the common, the Wombles rush back to their burrow. However, in the panic Wellington is left behind...
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.2/1012 votes#13 - Tobermory On Television
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/26/1973
Tobermory makes his own TV show for the Wombles.
Director: Ivor Wood
Writer: N/A
6.0/1012 votes#14 - Crossed Lines
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/27/1973
Tobermory invents a new telephone system for everyone but the telephone lines are having problems and many conversations are heard by Tobermory.
Director: Ivor Wood
Writer: N/A
6.2/1012 votes#15 - Blow The Womble Down
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/28/1973
The Wombles get blown about when they find a vacuum cleaner.
Director: Ivor Wood
Writer: N/A
5.6/1011 votes#16 - Madame Cholet Returns
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/3/1973
Making cakes turns into a problematic situation.
Director: Ivor Wood
Writer: N/A
6.2/1012 votes#17 - Weighing In Time
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 6/19/1973
Orinoco decides to put himself on a diet, because he thinks he's too fat.
Director: Ivor Wood
Writer: N/A
5.8/1012 votes#18 - Musical Wombles
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 6/19/1973
The Wombles make music with tins and cans.
Director: Ivor Wood
Writer: N/A
5.7/1012 votes#19 - Wombles And Ladders
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 6/20/1973
A ladder is adapted to Womble size
Director: Ivor Wood
Writer: N/A
6.2/1012 votes#20 - Orinoco And The Ghost
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 6/21/1973
Orinoco thinks that there is a ghost in his house
Director: Ivor Wood
Writer: N/A
5.7/1012 votes#21 - A Game Of Golf
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 6/22/1973
Golf balls sometimes travel in the wrong direction
Director: Ivor Wood
Writer: N/A
5.7/1012 votes#22 - North, South, East, West
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 6/25/1973
Tobermory makes a machine that can predict the weather.
Director: Ivor Wood
Writer: N/A
5.8/1012 votes#23 - The Picnic
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 6/26/1973
Orinoco shows us how to make a picnic basket that is not heavy to carry.
Director: Ivor Wood
Writer: N/A
5.8/1011 votes#24 - Games In The Snow
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 6/27/1973
The Wombles have fun in the snow and, in the process, create a minor avalanche
Director: Ivor Wood
Writer: N/A
5.8/1011 votes#25 - The Snow Wombles
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 6/28/1973
The annual competition to see who can make the best snowman.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Wombles Season 1
Every episode of The Wombles Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Wombles Season 1!
The Wombles is a stop motion animated British television series made in 1973–1975.
After the first Wombles book, published in 1968, was featured on the BBC...
Genres:AnimationFamily
Network:BBC One
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Orinoco & The Big Black Umbrella" is the best rated episode of "The Wombles" season 1. It scored 6.9/10 based on 16 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/5/1973. This episode is rated 0.9 points higher than the second-best, "The Rocking Chair".