Watership Down – TV Series

Watership Down is a British-Canadian animated fantasy children’s television series, 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. It was produced with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund, the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit and the Ontario Film and Television Tax Credit from the Government of Ontario.

• First Aired:
• 28th September 1999
• Kiefer Sutherland:  Hickory (Season 2)

Voice Cast

All Seasons

• Rob Rackstraw as Campion, Captain Holly, Hickory (Series 3), Raincloud, Granite
• Stephen Mangan as Bigwig, Silverweed (Series 3), Black Rabbit of Inle, Shale
• David Holt as Vervain, Bluesky, Boxwood, Darkling
• Andrew Falvey as Fiver, Flax (Series 1), Feldspar
• Sue Elliot Nichols as Blackberry, Tabitha
• Lee Ross as Hawkbit
• Richard Briers as Captain Broom

Series 1/2 only

• Ian Shaw as Hazel
• Rik Mayall as Kehaar
• Elliot Henderson-Boyle as Pipkin
• Stephen Fry as Cowslip
• Kiefer Sutherland as Hickory
• Stephen Gately as Blackavar
• Kate Ashfield as Primrose
• Tim McInnerny as Silverweed
• Dawn French as Buttercup
• Stephanie Morgenstern as Marigold
• Anthony Barclay as Culoci
• John Hurt as General Woundwort
• Matt Wilkinson as The Weasel
• Phill Jupitus as Dandelion
• Jane Horrocks as Hannah
• Tom Eastwood as Moss
• Jo Rodriguez as Clover
• Robert Harper as Strawberry
• Janet Dale as Bark, Tassle, Frost, Katrina
• Alice Welsh and Sean Welsh as Primrose’s Bunnies

Series 3 only

• Anthony Jackson as Kehaar, Cowslip
• Maria Darling as Hannah, Pipkin
• Paul Panting as Strawberry, Flax
• Penny Freeman as Primrose, Marigold
• Nigel Pegram as Hazel, Moss, Blackavar, General Woundwort, Dandelion

Watership Down TV Opening Credits