Wolf It was a TV series produced by Scottish Television

Scottish Television

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 and broadcast on CITV

CITV

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 for 4 series between 1993 and 1996. The show was spin off from the Saturday morning TV series What's Up Doc?

What's Up Doc? (TV series)

What's Up Doc? was a Saturday Morning children's variety series produced Scottish Television and aired on ITV from 1992 to 1995 and hosted by Andy Crane, Yvette Fielding and Pat Sharp...

and features Bro and Bro, two English

English people

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 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" however 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

Rolf's Cartoon Club

Rolf's Cartoon Club was a television show presented by Rolf Harris on CITV between 1989 and 1993.The show had some similarities to Harris' earlier BBC programme, Rolf's Cartoon Time, in that it saw him introducing cartoons and drawing pictures of characters from them. The cartoons shown were mostly...

, and like the previous show, also showed cartoons, all from the Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes

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and Merrie Melodies

Merrie Melodies

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

Bro and Bro were played by Don Austen

Don Austen

British puppeteer Don Austen joined the Jim Henson Creature Shop in 1986 for the movie Labyrinth.He was a puppeteer for other blockbuster movies including Santa Claus: The Movie , The Little Shop of Horrors , Who Framed Roger Rabbit , The Bear , The Witches , and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom...

 and John Eccleston

John Eccleston

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. Despite Eccleston's shoes being filled on the original What's Up Doc?

What's Up Doc? (TV series)

What's Up Doc? was a Saturday Morning children's variety series produced Scottish Television and aired on ITV from 1992 to 1995 and hosted by Andy Crane, Yvette Fielding and Pat Sharp...

(series 3 onwards) by Dave Chapman

Dave Chapman

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, best known perhaps for playing Otis the Aardvark

Otis the Aardvark

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 as well as multiple characters on Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow

Dick and Dom in da Bungalow

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. 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
  BBC
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   Saturday Morning show Live & Kicking
  Live & Kicking
  Live & Kicking was a BBC Saturday morning children's magazine programme, running from 1993 to 2001. The fourth in a succession of Saturday morning shows, it was the replacement for Going Live!, and took many of its features from it, such as phone-ins, games, comedy, competitions and the showing of...
  
  , Iver & Groove on pre-school programme The Hoobs
  The Hoobs
  The Hoobs is a BAFTA-winning children's television programme created and produced by The Jim Henson Company. It stars five creatures called Hoobs from the fictional Hoobland, and their interactions with Earth and the human race...
  
  and Scratch and Sniff on ITV Saturday Morning show Ministry of Mayhem and spin-off Scratch & Sniff's Den of Doom.

Transmission guide

• Series 1: 13 editions from 4 November 1993 - 10 February 1994
• Series 2: 12 editions from 21 September 1994 - 7 December 1994
• Re-named 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