Wimpole Village Explained

Runtime:5 minutes
Creator:Peter Kingston
Voices:Tim "Timbo" Lloyd
Opentheme:Tony Kinsey
Producer:Ross Cameron
Country:United Kingdom
Language:English
Company:CITV
Network:ITV
Num Episodes:42

Wimpole Village is a pre-school series which aired on Children's ITV. The stories began as their own children's comic and the animations first aired on TV-am's Are You Awake Yet children's programme in 1985.

It ran for 16 episodes in 1987. The series is named after the creator's house, "Wimpole House".

The rights to Wimpole Village were acquired by Cameron Thomson Entertainment licensed the series to terrestrial television and cableoperators in North America and Europe. There has been talk of a rebooted series or possible reruns.

Content

The series focused around the inhabitants of a little village called Wimpole. All characters have names according to their profession.

Characters

Books

Several books were also created by Studio Publications, once again with pictures by Peter Kingston.

Videos

Over the course of 1989, Tempo and MSD Video released two video releases of the show.

TitleRelease DateEpisodes
Wimpole Village (V9180)3 April 1989Haybarn on Fire, Lighthouse, The Police Dog, Film Show, Station, Fairground, Nigel Notetaker, Sea Rescue
Wimpole Village 2 (92672)6 November 1989The Nasty Gale, Snowed Up Village, A Visitor from Australia, A Lost Dog, A Trip to the Zoo, Adventure Camp, Ghosts in the Village, The Bad Stranger.

On 4 March 1991, Tempo Pre-School (distributed by Abbey Home Entertainment) re-released the first Wimpole Village video with the same 8 episodes from it and a door plaque came free with the video inside its box.

Children's Compilations

In November 1989, Tempo Video (distributed by Wm. Collins) released a compilation video with a double bill of Wimpole Village containing "Nigel Notetaker" and "The Sea Rescue" together along with a double bill of Broomstick Cottage and a single episode each from Huxley Pig and The Herbs.

Between 1991 and 1994, episodes of Wimpole Village have been released on children's compilation videos released by Abbey Home Entertainment Distribution.

In October 1991, the "Haybarn Fire" episode of Wimpole Village was released on a single pre-school compilation which was exclusively sold and distributed under license from Abbey Home Entertainment by Entertainment UK Ltd (in its "Starvision" and "Funhouse" range of children's videos) along with Huxley Pig, Broomstick Cottage and Will Quack Quack.

TitleRelease DateEpisodes
The Biggest Ever Pre-School Video7 June 1993
The Biggest Ever Pre-School Video 211 July 1994

As of 2022, there have been no DVD releases of the series.

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