Glastonbury boss Michael Eavis regrets Wombles booking". BBC. 8 June 2011 . Retrieved 14 August 2020. Wombles Netball Club – List of Committee Post Responsibilities". Angelfire.com . Retrieved 30 April 2012. Plummer, David (13 May 2003). "Even the Wombles refuse to follow Wimbledon to Milton Keynes". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 14 August 2011. Beresford wrote a collection of short stories entitled The Invisible Womble and Other Stories (1973); these stories were based on episodes from the TV series, although they occasionally refer to events in the novels.

Songwriter and producer Mike Batt wrote the series' theme tune, but negotiated the musical rights to the characters in place of the traditional composer's fee. In an effort to promote the Wombles' first single, he had his mother make him a Womble costume, which he wore for most of the working week. After the Wombles' first chart hit, he went on to perform and produce a number of successful novelty singles as The Wombles in the 1970s. [1] They amassed eight Top 40 singles in the UK and reached No.55 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart with 1974's, "Wombling Summer Party" single on Columbia Records. They were awarded the Music Week Award for Top Singles Band of 1974. Reissues of the Wombles' music in the late 1990s and early 2000s also charted, extending their number of UK chart hits to thirteen.Dalai Gartok – the leader of the "Great White Wombles" of the Himalayas, named after the Tibetan town of Gartok. He and his Wombles inspired the legends of the Yeti. Dalai Gartok is also one of the oldest known Wombles, and has honed his Womble senses to the extent that he has considerable telepathic ability. In the first book, Bungo is the youngest and least experienced of the team, and the story is mostly viewed through his eyes. Later Wellington (who was not introduced until the second book) took over the role of "new boy", and even later on, Shansi takes Bungo's place as the youngest working Womble. Alderney and Miss Adelaide appeared in the earlier books but were not included in the original 1970s TV series. Alderney was re-introduced in the later TV shows produced in the 1990s (the Channel Island of Alderney was actually Elisabeth Beresford's home at the time), along with Stepney (who appeared in none of the earlier versions).

Ms Atlanta – the cook of the American burrow, named after the city of Atlanta, Georgia. She holds great respect for Madame Cholet. Wombles songwriter Mike Batt goes bust". The Times. London. 22 September 2017 . Retrieved 31 July 2018. In addition to these books, many annuals, picture books and children's early readers have been published over the years, some of which were also written by Beresford.

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Shansi – named after the province of Shansi in China, she came to the Wimbledon burrow on an exchange from China, and is often paired with Alderney, as Bungo was with Orinoco. She is a shy and quiet womble who is much happier with Miss Adelaide in the Womblegarten than anywhere else, and has a decided talent for art. Cairns and Perth – named after the respective cities in Australia and inhabitants of the Australian Burrow.

Find sources: "The Wombles"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( July 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Orinoco – a shirker who loves sleep and food, styled on Beresford's teenage son and named after the river in South America. Though lazy and slothful by nature, Orinoco is resourceful and always means well, and is capable of some surprising acts of moral and physical courage. A stop-motion animated series of five-minute episodes was made between 1973 and 1975, [9] along with two half-hour specials. Narration and all Womble voices for these were provided by Bernard Cribbins.Alderney - Postage stamps - 2018 - Comics - The 50th Anniversary of the Wombles". www.stampworld.com.