The Animals of Farthing Wood

The Animals of Farthing Wood is a British-French adult animated cartoon drama series based on Colin Dann’s book series of the same name. It originally aired on Children's BBC block on BBC1 from January 6, 1993 to December 21, 1995, with over 39 episodes in total, this series is commissioned and produced for EBU/UER.

Plot
After their home was destroyed by humans in order to make room for houses, the animals that live there were forced to flee from the destruction and engage a journey to a protected nature reserve called “White Deer Park”.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) It follows the source material very faithfully.
 * 2) The dramatic and epic storyline.
 * 3) Impressive voice acting (e.g. Ron Moody, Rupert Farley)
 * 4) It deals with some serious issues, such as animal cruelty and racism between red and blue foxes.
 * 5) Speaking of blue foxes, Scarface is a legitimately threatening villain to begin with.
 * 6) The very concept of the animals moving to a new home is executed very well.
 * 7) Really enjoyable for both pre-teens and adults.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Even if the animation is reminiscent to Watership Down, it can sometimes get pretty mediocre at times.
 * 2) Season 3 is known by many fans for having a anti-climatic storyline, the disappearance of several characters (i.e. Kestrel and Hare) and the flanderization of some characters.
 * 3) Weasel can get mildly grating at times.
 * 4) Like Watership Down, deaths can get very saddening and disturbing for some people, even when it is claimed a children’s cartoon. (e.g. the baby mice being impaled in the hands of the butcher bird, even when it was released on video, it has a U rating, but it was re-rated as a PG rating when the complete series of Farthing Wood finally got released on DVD back in 2016)
 * 5) The direct-to-video American move-edit of Series 1 (Journey Home: The Animals of Farthing Wood), is insulting and poorly-made, due to removing some of the deaths (with the exception of the deaths of the Farthing Wood Hedgehogs and the Farthing Wood Pheasants), swaps some scenes around, trying to make it more kid-friendly, adding pointless songs (on CBS Fox Home Video/BBC Video's part, it was done to cash in on Disney's animated musicals of the time) and having Fox, Weasel and Adder be voiced by Ralph Macchio and Fiona Reid instead of Rupert Farley, Sally Grace and Stacey Jefferson.

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