Wolf It

Wolf It

Infobox Television
show_name = Wolf It


caption = Wolf It title caption
format = Comedy
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picture_format = 576i 4:3
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runtime = 25 min
creator = Don Austen
John Eccleston
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starring = Don Austen
John Eccleston
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country = UK
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network = ITV
first_aired = 1993
last_aired = 1996
num_episodes = 35
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General Information

Wolf It was a TV series produced by Scottish Television and broadcast on CITV for 4 series between 1993 and 1996. The show was spin off from the Saturday morning TV series "What's Up Doc?" and features Bro and Bro, two puppet wolves who featured regularly in the aforementioned show. The programme was filmed in and around the Maidstone television studios, where it was also set, with Bro & Bro having set up home in a film vault.

series, which ITV owned the rights to at the time, 2 shorts were shown each episode.

Bro and Bro were played by Don Austen and John Eccleston. Despite Eccleston's shoes being filled on the original "What's Up Doc?" (series 3 onwards) by Dave Chapman, best known perhaps for playing Otis the Aardvark as well as multiple characters on Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow. Eccleston continued to perform his character for subsequent series of Wolf It!

Series 3 and 4 were known as Wolf It: The Next Generation.

Releases

In 1994, a video was released containing 4 episodes from the first series, albeit without the cartoon shorts. However, apart from this, there have been no further releases, and the episodes have not been repeated.

Trivia

*Eccleston and Austen have been frequent collaboraters, also working together as Sage & Onion- puppet leprechauns on BBC Saturday Morning show Live & Kicking, Iver & Groove on pre-school programme The Hoobs and Scratch and Sniff on ITV Saturday Morning show Ministry of Mayhem and spin-off Scratch & Sniff's Den of Doom.


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