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    Kids TV TV Shows - 1980s 2 Mins Read

    Wind In The Willows

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    A delightful stop-frame animation musical version of Kenneth Grahame’s classic 1908 tale of the adventures of Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger, spun off from a 90-minute feature made in 1983.

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    A new character was added this time around – Mole’s pompous and pretentious playwright cousin, Auberon.

    Each episode of the Cosgrove Hall production (made for Thames Television) took eight weeks to film.

    The nine-inch characters were created by fitting a metal skeleton inside a sculptured model and covering the whole with foam rubber before a latex rubber skin – made from the mould of the original sculpture – was placed around the outside.

    Voices were provided by Michael Hordern (Badger), David Jason (Toad and Chief Weasel), Peter Sallis (Rat) and Richard Pearson (Mole). The narrator for the series was Ian Carmichael.

    TV again returned to Grahame’s Edwardian countryside with a 1995 animation voiced by Rik Mayall (Toad), Alan Bennett (Mole), Michael Palin (Rat) and Michael Gambon (Badger).

    A seamless 1996 sequel, The Willows In Winter, written by William Horwood, saw the furry friends in watery trouble with Mole swept away by the icy river.

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    Mole
    Richard Pearson
    Rat
    Peter Sallis
    Toad
    David Jason
    Badger
    Michael Hordern
    Chief Weasel
    David Jason
    Henchman Weasel
    Brian Trueman
    Auberon Mole
    Howard Lloyd Lewis
    Otter/Portly
    Brian Southwood
    Alfred the horse
    Allan Bardsley
    Mrs Carrington-Moss
    Beryl Reid

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