Watership Down

Sep 28, 1999 (en) Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy [70] Min
  • First Air Date
    Sep 28, 1999
  • Production
    Decode Entertainment, Nepenthe Productions, Alltime Entertainment Ltd.
  • Rotten tomato
    75%
  • Original title
    Watership Down
  • Release
    Sep 28, 1999
  • en
    -

Overview

Watership Down is an animated television series, loosely adapted from the novel of the same name by Richard Adams. It was a co-production of Alltime Entertainment of the United Kingdom and Decode Entertainment of Canada, and produced by Martin Rosen, the director of the 1978 feature film adaptation. Watership Down aired for 39 episodes and three series from 1999 to 2001, on both YTV in Canada and CITV in the UK, though the latter did not broadcast the third series. It starred several well-known British actors, including Stephen Fry, Rik Mayall, Phil Jupitus, Jane Horrocks, Dawn French, John Hurt, and Richard Briers, among others. Stephen Gately sang a new arrangement of Art Garfunkel's "Bright Eyes", which had been included in the 1978 feature film, while Mike Batt and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra contributed a completely new score. In 2003, composer Eric Robertson as well as David Greene and Mike Batt were nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Original Music Score for a Dramatic Series for their work on the show. Some episodes from the adaptation were released on VHS and later, DVD. In October 2005, a Region 2 DVD box set of all three series was released in the UK.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Producer

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Casts : 17 / Crews : 2

Season 1 ( 1999-09-28)

The Promised Land

Episode: 1

Home on the Down

Episode: 2

The Easy Life

Episode: 3

Strawberry Fayre

Episode: 4

The Shadow of Efrefa

Episode: 5

The Raid

Episode: 6

Challenge to Efrefa

Episode: 7

Escape from Efrefa

Episode: 8

The Vision

Episode: 9

A Tale of a Mouse

Episode: 10

Lost

Episode: 11

Friends and Enemy

Episode: 12

Kidnapped

Episode: 13

Season 2 ( 2000-08-03)

Prisoner of Efrafa

Episode: 1

The Roundabout

Episode: 2

The Market

Episode: 3

The Great Water

Episode: 4

The Stand

Episode: 5

The Orchard

Episode: 6

The Great Game

Episode: 7

Christmas on Watership Down (1)

Episode: 8

Christmas on Watership Down (2)

Episode: 9

The Mysterious Visitors

Episode: 10

The Invasion

Episode: 11

Bigwig's Way

Episode: 12

The Homecoming

Episode: 13

Season 3 ( 2001-09-11)

Campion Lives

Episode: 1

A New World

Episode: 2

The Wanderer

Episode: 3

The Nestling

Episode: 4

The Secret of Redstone

Episode: 5

My Fair Gull

Episode: 6

The Dark Deal

Episode: 7

Darkhaven

Episode: 8

The Eyes of Silverweed

Episode: 9

The Spy

Episode: 10

The Betrayal

Episode: 11

The Beginning of The End

Episode: 12

The Magic

Episode: 13
Sep 28, 1999 (en)
Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
[70] Min
  • First Air Date Sep 28, 1999
  • Production
    Decode Entertainment, Nepenthe Productions, Alltime Entertainment Ltd.
  • Rotten tomato 75%
Original Title Watership Down
en

Overview

Watership Down is an animated television series, loosely adapted from the novel of the same name by Richard Adams. It was a co-production of Alltime Entertainment of the United Kingdom and Decode Entertainment of Canada, and produced by Martin Rosen, the director of the 1978 feature film adaptation. Watership Down aired for 39 episodes and three series from 1999 to 2001, on both YTV in Canada and CITV in the UK, though the latter did not broadcast the third series. It starred several well-known British actors, including Stephen Fry, Rik Mayall, Phil Jupitus, Jane Horrocks, Dawn French, John Hurt, and Richard Briers, among others. Stephen Gately sang a new arrangement of Art Garfunkel's "Bright Eyes", which had been included in the 1978 feature film, while Mike Batt and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra contributed a completely new score. In 2003, composer Eric Robertson as well as David Greene and Mike Batt were nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Original Music Score for a Dramatic Series for their work on the show. Some episodes from the adaptation were released on VHS and later, DVD. In October 2005, a Region 2 DVD box set of all three series was released in the UK.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Producer