The Animals of Farthing Wood (TV series)
| The Animals of Farthing Wood | |
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| Genre |
Dramatic programming Adventure |
| Created by | Colin Dann (original books) |
| Written by | Sue Butterworth Alan Case Valerie Georgeson Gordon Harrison Elphin Llyod-Jones Jenny McDade Steve Walker |
| Directed by | Philippe LeClerc Elphin Llyod-Jones |
| Voices of |
Jeremy Barrett Rupert Farley Jon Glover Sally Grace Stacy Jefferson Pamela Keevilkral Ron Moody |
| Theme music composer | Dennis Cooper |
| Composer(s) | Detlev Kühne |
| Country of origin |
United Kingdom France Belgium Germany Spain |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 39 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Theresa Plummer-Andrews (for BBC) Enrico Platter (for WDR, Series 1–2) Siegmund Grewenig (for WDR, Series 3) |
| Producer(s) | John M. Mills |
| Running time | 25 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Telemagination La Fabrique |
| Distributor | European Broadcasting Union |
| Release | |
| Original release | 6 January 1993 – 21 December 1995 |
The Animals of Farthing Wood is a children's animated series commissioned by the European Broadcasting Union between 1992 and 1995, and is based on the series of books written by English author Colin Dann. It was produced by Telemagination, based in London, and La Fabrique, based in Montpellier in France, but also aired in other European countries. The first countries to air the series were Norway, Germany, Belgium, Ireland and the United Kingdom, in January 1993.
On 3 October 2016, Network Distributing released all three series of The Animals of Farthing Wood onto a DVD Box Set. This is the first time all episodes have been released in English as an official and complete set.
The television series followed the basic plots of the series of books, although certain elements were changed. It followed the animals of Farthing Wood, who were forced to flee their homes after humans started destroying the wood to build houses. Led by Fox, and guided by Toad, the animals left Farthing Wood on a journey to White Deer Park, a nature reserve where they would be protected.
Unlike other children's series and films, The Animals of Farthing Wood did not feature much comedic content but rather relied on its strong storyline and plot, and multiple main characters are killed or die during the journey. Series 1 chronicled the journey to White Deer Park, Series 2 took place in White Deer Park and chronicled the feud between the Farthing Wood animals and the hostile blue foxes, the third, final series chronicled the invasion of the rats into White Deer Park and the animals' attempts to fight them off.
The episodes were made in both the UK and France. Because of this, in Series 1 the motorway's carriageways have traffic driving on the right hand carriageway of the motorway. However, they are briefly seen in Series 3 driving on the left hand side.
Fox, the leader of the Animals of Farthing Wood, was voiced by Rupert Farley in the UK and Ireland version but in the US version he was played by Ralph Macchio.
In France, Germany, Italy, Norway and Sweden the cast included the following:
These are based upon the characters in the television series. Some parts had happened differently.
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