Wolf It

*Wolf It*
Wolf It
	Wolf It title caption
Created by	Ged Allen, Don Austen & John Ecclestone
Starring	Don Austen; John Eccleston
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	4
No. of episodes	35
Production
Producer	Ged Allen
Running time	25 minutes
Production company	Scottish Television
Original release
Network	ITV (CITV)
Release	4 November 1993 –; 18 September 1996

Wolf It is a British television series produced by Scottish Television and broadcast on CITV for 4 series between 1993 and 1996. The show is a spin off from the Saturday morning television series What's Up Doc? and features Bro and Bro, two English 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.

The wolves called each other "Bro". Their real names were never heard, as there was always some noise which would mask whatever was being said by any person who was saying their names at the time.

The show replaced Rolf's Cartoon Club, and like the previous show, also showed cartoons, all from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series, which ITV owned the rights to at the time, 2 shorts were shown each episode.

Bro and Bro were voiced by Don Austen and John Eccleston. Eccleston was replaced for series 3 onwards of What's Up Doc? by Dave Chapman, though Eccleston continued to perform his character for all episodes of Wolf It! ^{[citation needed]}

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

Releases[edit]

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 rerun.

Trivia[edit]

Eccleston and Austen have been frequent collaborators as puppeteers. The year before Wolf It's second series they introduced the leprechaun characters Mr Sage and Mr Onion on BBC Saturday Morning show Live & Kicking who remained on the series until its final broadcast. [1] They also puppeteered Iver & Groove on pre-school programme The Hoobs and Scratch and Sniff on both ITV Saturday Morning show Ministry of Mayhem and its spin-off Scratch & Sniff's Den of Doom. ^{[citation needed]}

Transmission guide[edit]

Series 1: 13 editions from 4 November 1993 – 10 February 1994
Series 2: 12 editions from 21 September 1994 – 7 December 1994
Renamed Wolf it - The Next Generation
Series 3: 8 editions from 23 August 1995 – 11 October 1995
Series 4: 4 editions from 28 August 1996 – 18 September 1996