Wolves, Witches and Giants

Wolves, Witches and Giants, narrated by Spike Milligan, is a children's animated series of humorous adaptations of classic fairy tales, featuring a collection of villains including the wily wolf, a wicked witch and a ginormous giant. It was written by musician Ed Welch, based on an LP, also performed by Milligan.^[1] The directors and producers were Simon & Sara Bor of Honeycomb Animation. There were 4 series of 13 episodes and 3 specials produced for ITV from 1995 to 1999. Reruns ran on Discovery Kids until its defunct in 2007 and later, on CITV from July 2005.

GenreAnimation
Fantasy

Written byEd Welch

Directed bySara Bor
Simon Bor

Narrated bySpike Milligan

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Wolves, Witches and Giants
Genre	Animation Fantasy
Written by	Ed Welch
Directed by	Sara Bor Simon Bor
Narrated by	Spike Milligan
Composer	Ed Welch
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	4
No. of episodes	53
Production
Executive producer	John Marsden
Running time	9 minutes
Production company	Honeycomb Animation
Original release
Network	ITV (CITV)
Release	9 October 1995 (1995-10-09) – 21 October 1998 (1998-10-21)

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It included adaptations of many tales such as Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, and Three Billy Goats Gruff.^[2]

It was made by the same producers that made the original Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids (and its new series), Tube Mice, Binka, and Funky Valley.^[3][4]

Although being based in Medieval times, it has featured some modern equipment, such as the Wily Wolf driving a blue sports car, a tailor playing on a handheld game console, Little Red Riding Hood's bed-ridden grandmother watching an Australian soap on her TV, or the Wicked Witch using a microwave.

All the series was animated in hand-drawn cel animation, but the title sequence itself from the 4th series uses digital-ink-and-paint animation.