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The Animals of Farthing Wood is a British animated series commissioned by the European Broadcasting Union between 1993 and 1995, and is based on the series of books written by English author Colin Dann.[1] It was produced by Telemagination, based in London, and La Fabrique, based in Montpellier in France, but also aired in other European countries.[2] The first countries to air the series were Norway, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Italy and the United Kingdom, in January 1993.

The Animals of Farthing Wood
Genre	Adventure Drama
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 Lloyd-Jones
Voices of	Bill Fagerbakke Jeremy Barrett Rupert Farley Jon Glover Sally Grace Stacy Jefferson Pamela Keevilkral Ron Moody
Theme music composer	Detlev Kühne
Composer	Detlev Kühne
Country of origin	United Kingdom France
Original language	English
No. of series	3
No. of episodes	39 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Theresa Plummer-Andrews (for BBC) Enrico Platter (for WDR, Series 1–2) Siegmund Grewenig (for WDR, Series 3)
Producer	John M. Mills
Running time	25 minutes
Production companies	Telemagination La Fabrique
Distributor	BBC Enterprises European Broadcasting Union
Release
Original network	CBBC
Original release	6 January 1993 (1993-01-06) – 21 December 1995 (1995-12-21)

On 3 October 2016, Network Distributing released all three series of The Animals of Farthing Wood onto a DVD box set. This was the first time that all episodes had been released in English as an official and complete set.[3] As of 2021, it is now available for digital purchase in the UK on Amazon Prime Video.

Synopsis

The television series followed the basic plots of the series of books, although certain elements were changed.

The first series followed the animals of Farthing Wood, who were forced to flee their homes after humans started destroying the wood to build suburban tract 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. The second and third series followed the relationships between the Farthing Wood animals, the White Deer Park animals and outsiders, particularly a blue fox named Scarface, his mate Lady Blue and cub Ranger.

The episodes were made in both the UK and France. Because of this, in Series 1 traffic is seen driving on the right hand carriageway of the motorway. However, they are briefly seen in Series 3 driving on the left hand side. Other than this, the location is generally kept ambiguous, apart from a brief moment in Series 2 when a gravestone is visible with French writing on it.

When the series aired in the United States, two versions were shown, the UK version which was shown on select television stations, and a new version released on home video titled Journey Home: The Animals of Farthing Wood. The home video version saw some of the voices changed, for example, the role of Fox was replaced by Ralph Macchio, along with added songs as well.[4]

Episodes

Series	Episodes		Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
1	13		6 January 1993	31 March 1993
2	13		7 January 1994	30 March 1994
3	13		28 September 1995	21 December 1995

Cast

• Jeremy Barrett as Mr. Rabbit, Scarface, Mole, Bold, Friendly, Hollow, Mossy, Hurkel, Measley, Mr. Shrew, and others.
• Rupert Farley as Fox, Mr. Hare, Mr. Pheasant, Plucky, Trey, Fido, Brat and others.
• Jon Glover as Scarface, Ranger, The Warden, and others.
• Sally Grace as Owl, Weasel, Charmer, and others.
• Stacy Jefferson as Vixen, Adder, Kestrel, Mrs. Hare, Mrs. Rabbit, Shadow, and others.
• Pamela Keevilkral as Dash, Cleo, Speedy, Whisper, Mrs. Squirrel, Mrs. Hedgehog, and others.
• Ron Moody as Badger, Toad, Whistler, Bully, Spike, Rollo, Mr. Hedgehog, Mr. Vole, Mr. Mouse, The Great White Stag, and others.
• Maria Warburg as Whisper (Audiobook only)
• Peter Woodthorpe as Whistler, Toad and The Great White Stag (Audiobook only)
• Timothy Bateson as Measley, Fox, Trey and others (Audiobook only)
• Fiona Reid as Weasel and Adder (US dub only)

Fox, the leader of the Animals of Farthing Wood, was voiced by Rupert Farley in the UK and Ireland version but in the US home video version he was played by Ralph Macchio.

In France, Germany, Italy, Norway and Sweden the cast included the following:

Character	German	Italian	French	Swedish	Norwegian	Brazilian Portuguese	Japanese
Fox	Stephan Schwartz	Michele Gammino	Bernard Tiphaine	Totte Wallin	Hallvard Lydvo	Élcio Sodré	Yoshitada Otsuka
Vixen	Uschi Wolff	Pinella Dragani		Monica Forsberg	Hildegun Riise	Vanessa Alves	Tomiko Suzuki
Badger	Franz-Josef Steffens	Bruno Alessandro	Marc de Georgi	Svante Thuresson	Harald Mæle	Eudes Carvalho	Koichi Kitamura
Mole	Ulli Philipp	Fabrizio Vidale	Serge Lhorca	Michael B Tretow	Åsleik Engmark	Neuza Azevedo	Tahara Aruno
Owl	Tilly Lauenstein	Alina Moradei	Maaïké Jansen		Liv Bernhoft Osa	Maximira Figueiredo	Chikako Akimoto
Weasel	Marion Martinzen		Laurence Badie	Meta Roos	Hildegun Riise	Marcelo Campos	Shinobu Adachi
Whistler	Donald Arthur	Fabrizio Manfredi		Torgny Söderberg	S 1&2: Harald Mæle S3: Hallvard Lydvo
Toad	Manfred Lehmann		Raoul Delfosse	Bo Maniette	Trond Brænne	Francisco Bretas	Takeshi Watanabe
Adder	Karin Kernke		Évelyne Grandjean	Christel Körner	Unn Vibeke Hol	Neuza Azevedo	Yoshida Riko
Kestrel	Andrea Wildner	Rossella Acerbo(1st voice)/Federica De Bortoli (2nd voice)	Mireille Audibert	Birgitta Fernström	Unn Vibeke Hol		Misa Watanabe
Mr. Hare	Horst Sachtleben	Simone Mori		Ulf Peder Johansson	Hallvard Lydvo
Mr. Vole	Walter von Hauff				Trond Brænne
Mr. Shrew	Walter von Hauff			Myrra Malmberg
Mr. Fieldmouse	Walter von Hauff			Hasse Andersson
Mrs. Fieldmouse		Isa Di Marzio		Birgitta Fernström
Mr. Hedgehog	Martin Semmelrogge	Vittorio Stagni			Harald Mæle
Mr. Rabbit	Michael Habeck			Hasse Andersson	Åsleik Engmark
Baby Rabbit	Sabine Bohlmann			Maria Fransson
Mr. Pheasant	Thomas Reiner			Anders Öjebo	Åsleik Engmark
Mrs. Pheasant	Andrea Wildner	Isabella Pasanisi		Monica Forsberg	Unn Vibeke Hol
Mr. Squirrel	Walter von Hauff			Kerstin Andeby
Mrs. Squirrel	Pamela Keevil Kral			Myrra Malmberg
Mr. Newt	Oliver Stritzel
Mrs. Newt	Karin Kernke
Baby Newt	Sabine Bohlmann
Farmer Tom Griggs		Sandro Iovino
Scarface	Benno Hoffmann	Claudio Fattoretto		Bertil Engh	Åsleik Engmark	Fábio Tomazine
Lady Blue	Elisabeth Endriss	Emanuela Rossi		Monica Forsberg	Liv Bernhoft Osa	Zaíra Zordan
Ranger	Oliver Stritzel	Massimo De Ambrosis		Bertil Engh	S2: Harald Mæle S3: Ivar Nørve
Bounder	Oliver Stritzel
Bully	Otto Sander				Ivar Nørve
Brat	Walter von Hauff
Great White Stag	Roland Hemmo	Stefano Mondini		Ulf Peder Johansson	Trond Brænne
Bold	Udo Wachtveitl			Anders Öjebo	Åsleik Engmark		Yūko Minaguchi
Charmer	Anja Jaenicke	Stella Musy		Mia Kihl			Chisa Yokoyama
Friendly	Axel Malzacher				Trond Brænne
Dreamer	Simone Weyrich
Plucky	Pierre Peters Arnolds			Ulf Källvik	Henrik Mestad
Speedy	Kathrin Ackermann	Georgia Lepore		Liza Öhman	Unn Vibeke Hol
Whisper	Karin Kernke				S2: Hildegun Riise S3: Unn Vibeke Hol
Measly	Pierre Franckh			Bertil Engh	Trond Brænne
Sinuous	Franz Rudnick				Hallvard Lydvo
Dash	Madeleine Stolze
Mossy	Ulli Philipp			Michael B Tretow	Henrik Mestad
Trey	Jan Gebauer
Laird	Peter Fricke
Spike	Martin Semmelrogge				Henrik Mestad
Fido	Alexander Brem				Henrik Mestad
Cleo	Sabine Bohlmann
Warden's Cat	Arne Elsholtz	Dario Penne		Christel Körner	Trond Brænne
Rollo	Michael Gahr			Peter Wannberg	Trond Brænne
Donkey	Wichart von Roell				Hallvard Lydvo
Boar	Stefan Orlac
Crow	Tommi Piper				Harald Mæle
Shadow	Angelika Bender	Isabella Pasanisi			Liv Bernhoft Osa
Hurkel	Helmut Ruge				Ivar Nørve
Bruno	Benno Hoffmann
Large rat	Helmut Krauss
Chief wild cat	Ingeborg Lapsien
Tom, the cat	Arne Elsholtz
Bats	Kathrin Ackermann
Other crow	Tommi Piper				Ivar Nørve
Young crows	Tommi Piper
Shrike	Benno Hoffmann
Piglet	Andrea L'Arronge

Buzz Books

These are based upon the characters in the television series. Some parts had happened differently.

• "Farewell to the Wood" (based upon The Wood in Danger)
• "The Adventure Begins" (based upon The Journey Begins)
• "Fire" (based upon Through the Fire and Water)
• "A New Friend" (based upon Friend in Need)
• "Heroes" (based upon Whistler's Quarry)
• "The Silent Field" (based upon A Deathly Calm)
• "The Storm Shelter" (based upon Pandemonium)
• "Journey's End" (based upon So Near and Yet So Far)
• "A New Home" (based upon A Hero's Welcome, Winter, and Survival)
• "Badger in Danger" (based upon Winter, and Survival)
• "Unwelcome Visitors" (based upon New Enemies)
• "Spring Awakening" (based upon Home is Where the Heart Is)
• "Bold" (based upon The Feud Begins)
• "Trouble in the Park" (based upon Like Father, Like Son, Narrow Escapes, and Shadows)
• "Showdown" (based upon Blood is Thicker Than Water)
• "Peace" (based upon Reconciliation)
• "Strangers in the Park" (based upon Comings and Goings)
• "The Weasels' Adventure" (based upon The Missing Fox's Friend, Tiffs and Tempers, and The Long Tailed Visitor)
• "To the Rescue" (based upon The Missing Fox's Friend, Adventure for the Birds, and Scared Silly by Snakes)
• "The Rat Spy" (based upon The Long Tailed Visitor and The Mole Game)
• "What is Buzz Book 21 Called?" (based upon The Worst Kind of Hurricane, Homeward Bound, and Bully, Bully, Bully)

Adventures of Fox

Appears last on the Greatest BBC Children's Video ever along with Fireman Sam, Pingu, Spider, William's Wish Wellingtons, Clangers, Nursery Rhyme Time, Noddy's Toyland Adventures, Funnybones, Hairy Jeremy and The Little Polar Bear. It has clips from the following episodes:

• Beginning and end of The Wood in Danger (Loggers attack the Wood, Owl informed about the pond filled in, Assembly)
• Beginning of The Journey Begins (Leaving the Wood)
• End of Snare for the Unwary (Kestrel spots river, Animals cross River, Fox and Badger hit by driftwood)
• Beginning of Who Shall Wear the Crown? (Badger found in reeds, Kestrel loses Fox, Animals move on)
• Some beginning and Middle of New Friends, Old Enemies (Fox arrives at Town, Fox put onto truck, Fox meets Vixen)
• Some parts of Friend in Need (parts with Hunting, Meeting Big Owl, Searching, Fox Hunt and the ending)

Merchandise

Apart from books and videos, there was also a Farthing Wood CD-ROM game that was released in October 1996, and in the mid-1990s, a 130-part magazine for children entitled "Farthing Wood Friends" was also developed. Audio tapes recapping the first two seasons were released, with the story being told to young fox cubs by several of the cast who would also debate the events and mimic some of the other characters.

There are also three TV tie-in books available, one to accompany each of the TV series:

The Animals of Farthing Wood links with Series 1.

The Further Adventures of The Animals of Farthing Wood links with Series 2.

The Animals of Farthing Wood – Spirit of Survival links with Series 3.

These follow the same storylines, but are presented in a comic-strip style.

Watered-down versions of episode storylines were also featured as a running story in 'Farthing Wood Friends', illustrated using photographic stills from the series. Between magazine coverages of second and third series episodes, abridgements of Colin Dann's original stories were used to fill the void, entitled 'Tales From Farthing Wood'. Another book adaptation of the running story employed for series one was released by Ted Smart Publishing, with illustrations by Stuart Trotter.

Episode stories were also abridged for Buzz Books, Reed Children's Books' range of storybooks based on popular children's characters. The Farthing Wood stories in this range started with five books to begin with, then steadily expanded to cover the remainder of series one and series two. Illustrations were produced by William Heinemann in favour of using stills from the series.

Hornby, known mainly for its model railways, produced collectable figurines of the series ensemble, released in batches or 'presentation packs'. They were as follows:

1st Series: Fox, Badger, Mole, Weasel, Toad & Owl

2nd Series: White Stag, Scarface, Kestrel, Adder, Whistler & Rabbit

3rd Series: Bully, Vixen, Plucky, Fido, Cleo, Rollo, Measly, Speedy, Hollow, Hurkel, Dash & Sinuous

The characters were also released in twin packs and later in the run, Hornby produced compatible play-scenes. Early in the run, almost simultaneous with the first series being shown in the UK, they released plush toys of Badger, Fox and Mole. Although these were rare finds in toyshops, they were the subject of a running promotion in 'Farthing Wood Friends', enabling readers to win them.

Despite the show being very popular, the series did not see any form of DVD release until 2009, with the episodes on VHS hard to find up to then (in particular the last two collections). However, there had been an increase in unofficial DVDs available on eBay.^{[citation needed]}

Series 1 came out in France in February 2009.[5]

Series 1 was released in Germany on 25 September 2009,[6] Series 2 was released in Germany on 27 May 2011,[7] and Series 3 was released in Germany on 24 February 2012.[8] The German DVD releases offer both English and German audio options.

On 3 October 2016, Network 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 & complete set. (http://networkonair.com/shop/2553-animals-of-farthing-wood-the-the-complete-series.html) Brownee Bear Productions also own the licence for this shows. The licence was done thru agreements of the creators.

Differences between the books and the series

There are a number of differences between the books and the television series, most notably the changing of a number of characters from male to female. This included Adder, Weasel, Owl and Kestrel, who retained the markings of a male kestrel. Owl had also been known as Tawny Owl in the books. In addition to this, the books featured a family of lizards who became the newts of the television series. New characters like the Shrews, Hurkel and Measley were introduced. Plucky is also changed from being Bold's grandson to his son. There are females that are males now. They are Sinuous, The Big Owl and Hollow. The Fieldmice are now known as the Mice. Holly is now known as Hollow.

Minor plot changes also exist, such as the order of the pheasant's deaths, the deaths of Badger and Moley, and the motives of certain characters. Scarface has a different reason for attacking the Farthing Animals and Bold leaves the Park after an argument with his father, rather than to find a mate as he does in the books. In contrast to Badger's death, Toad and Mossy survive the television series, the former befriending Spike, the rat who killed Mossy and was killed himself by Adder in the books. The cause of Sinuous' death was also changed. Of the rats, Brat originally returned to the sewers instead of being killed by Sinuous, while Bully had his tail bitten off by Cleo rather than being killed by Vixen. Also in the end of the book Season 3 was based on, Battle for the Park, Dash is the one who tells the others that White Deer Park has merged with another reserve giving more space for the animals to live, in Season 3, it's instead Trey who tells them this.

Scarface and his tribe were rival red foxes in the books. His mate was not also named in the books and her personality is not so developed. Too many red foxes would have been confusing for viewers, so the animators made Scarface and his family distinguishable by making them "blue foxes" (more commonly referred to as "silver foxes", a melanistic color morph of the red fox.). Speedy was also unnamed. There are also one-episode characters that didn't appear in the books such as The Red Squirrels, Stoat and Scragg the Rat who is killed in his one-time appearance.

The only main plotline that is left out of the series is the plot of The Siege of White Deer Park, in which the character known as 'The Beast' (a big wild cat) attacks the park, causing further trouble for the animals' survival. The storyline of this book is presumably removed because of too much horror and peril themes and the sub-plots that occur in the book (such as Badger mistaking Mossy for Mole) are broken down into small plot changes in the other book storylines for the series.

Credits

• Based on the Books by: Colin Dann
• Written by: Alan Case, Steve Walker, Sue Butterworth, Jenny McDade, Gordon Harrison, Elphin Lloyd-Jones, Valerie Georgeson
• Adapted by: Steve Walker
• Music composed & arranged by: Detlev Kühne
• Theme Music composed and arranged by: Detlev Kühne
• Recorded by: Kölner Rundfunkorchester
• Directors: Elphin Lloyd-Jones, Philippe LeClerc
• Assistant Director: Emile Bourget
• Animation Director: Alan Simpson
• Character Designs: Elphin Lloyd-Jones, Philippe LeClerc, Patrick Michel
• Storyboard: Gordon Harrison, Jean Francois Laguionie, Claude Aufrere
• Backgrounds: Ian Henderson, Richard Mithonard, Valerie Carmona
• Layouts: Sue Butterworth, Gordon Harrison, Ted Pettengell, Trevor Ricketts, Patrick Michel, Gerard Kiszel, Christian Ragoust
• Animation: Thomas Barker, Monica Brutton, Alison de Vere, Andy Eraclerus, Christopher Evans, Joan Freestone, Tony Guy, Peter Hale, Arthur Humberstone, Simon Loxton, Fraser MacLean, Charlie MacRae, Janet Nunn, John Perkins, Mike Pocock, Paul Stone, Rosemary Welch, José Xavier
• Key Animators: Chris Clarke, Gary Hender, Nathalie Biston, Marian Brooks, Valerie Pouyanne, Jean Francois Galataud, Monica Moinar, Lea Movement
• Assistant Animators: Philippe Archer, Jean-Yves Regnault, Laurence Commeyras, Isabelle Pouyanne, Didier Chenu, Catherine Halvic, Muriel Chevallier, Sega Favre, Sylvia Bottiau, Sim Lignon
• Trace & Paint: Audrey Hammond, Pat Arthy, Pete Arthy, Lynda Marmont, Chris Jones, Ross Marks, Sharon Martins, Becky New, Vivienne Redmond, Jenni Steers, Dominique Lenoble, Clarie Dame, Nancy Rey, Frederic Jaubert, Suzy Kopp, Sophie Beltran, Brigitte Boursereau, Rodney Crofton, Carole Dorange, Nathalie Finiels, Cathy Gentric, Isabelle Landmann, Claire Larnelle, Cathy Rigall, Maria Stockman, Mireille Valentin
• Checking: Ann Kotch, Janine Arthy, Isabelle Perrichon, Andrew Ryder
• Rostrum Camera: Chris Williams, Anthony Hagen, Jacques Armand, Yves Francon, Jean Paul Rossard
• Software: Animo Cambridge Animation Systems
• Production Supervisor: Jean-Paul Gaspari
• Production Coordinator: Dominique Edmond-Marlette
• Production Accountants: Helmut Breuer, Philippe Marteaux
• Editing: Theresa Plummer-Andrews, John Daniels, Ken Morgan, Tom Oliver
• Special Effects: Stephan Hartl, Malcolm Beattie
• Picture Editor: Fiona Keene
• Videotape Services: Video Time
• Line Test Camera: Plaza Synchron
• Dialogue Editor: John Daniels, Hilary Daniels, Hans-Peter Kaufman
• Track Readers: Otto Sander, Ulli Philipp, Tilly Lauenstein, Martin Semmelrogge, Helmut Ruge, Wichart V. Roell, Karin Kernke, Franz-Josef Steffens, Stephan Schwartz, Marion Martinzen, Manfred Lehmann, Peter Fricke, Benno Hoffmann, Thomas Reiner, Horst Sachtleben, Michael Habeck, Tommy Piper, Arne Elsholtz, Ingeborg Lapsien, Stefan Orlac
• Associate Producer: Wolfgang Wegmann
• Producer: John M. Mills
• Production: A Martin Gates Production in association with Telemagination (London), Praxinos (Montpeller) for the BBC Enterprises
• EBU Coordinator: Marie-Claire Vionnet
• Executive Producers: Siegmund Grewenig, Theresa Plummer-Andrews
• Film Laboratories: European Cineman, Television Year
• Copyrighted in 1992, 1993 and 1995 by the European Broadcasting Union (of Europe)

References

External links

• The Animals of Farthing Wood at IMDb
• The Animals of Farthing Wood at Toonhound
• The Animals of Farthing Wood at the European Broadcasting Union
• The Animals of Farthing Wood Fanlisting
• Telemagination

На других языках

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- [en] The Animals of Farthing Wood (TV series)

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[fr] Les Animaux du Bois de Quat'sous

Les Animaux du Bois de Quat'sous (The Animals of Farthing Wood) est une série télévisée de dessins animés en coproduction germano-anglo-hispano-française en 39 épisodes de 25 minutes, inspirée des livres pour enfants du même titre de Colin Dann, dont la série en est l'adaptation, et diffusée en Grande-Bretagne entre le 6 janvier 1993 et le 21 décembre 1995 sur BBC One.

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[ru] Животные Фартинского леса (мультсериал)

«Животные Фартинского леса» (англ. «The Animals of Farthing Wood») — франко-британский мультсериал, заказанный Европейским Вещательным Союзом, основанный на одноимённой серии книг британского писателя Колина Данна.

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