History WesternAnimation / TheWindInTheWillows1983

--> '''Rat:''' You had three cheese sandwiches and a cream cake half an hour ago, Toad\\
'''Toad:''' Half an hour? No wonder I feel peckish!\\

--> '''Rat:''' You had three cheese sandwiches and a cream cake half an hour ago, Toad!
'''Toad:''' Half an hour? No wonder I feel peckish!

ChristmasEpisode: "The Yuletide Entertainment" and "Tunnels and Tremors". "Fancy Dress" takes place just after Christmas, but clearly before Twelfth Night as Christmas decorations are still in place at Toad Hall.
CommunityThreateningConstruction: A season-long arc about a railway being built through the forest most of the animals called home. [[spoiler: Luckily the ground is unstable because of all of the animals' tunnels and burrows, so it's abandoned.]]

* TalkingToHimself: David Jason voiced no fewer than three main characters in the TV series: Toad, the Chief Weasel and Billy Rabbit. Considering there are frequent conversations between different pairings of these characters, the trope is arguably taken UpToEleven here.

* CommunityThreateningConstruction: A season-long arc about a railway being built through the forest most of the animals called home. [[spoiler: Luckily the ground is unstable because of all of the animals' tunnels and burrows, so it's abandoned.]]

** '''Rat:''' 'Oh no!'. 'Great Heavens!'.
** '''Badger:''' ''growl''. ''As my dear father used to say...'.
** '''Mr. Toad:''' 'Poop-poop'. 'Hello you fellows!'. 'Hahaha!'. 'It's the only thing!'.

* PrecisionFStrike: Badger's line in Paper Chase.
--> '''Badger:''' Toad, you conceited ass!

* AdaptationalBadass: Badger, while always a stonecold but friendly badass he fights the weasels with his bare hands he brings his blunderbuss only for a warning shot. [[spoiler: When the weasels take over Toad Hall, instead of simply overpowering him, they have to sneak up and hit him from behind with a cudgel]].

* AdaptationalWimp: Toad very very much, he doesn't even fight the chief like in the book, he just hangs on the chandelier and falls on him.

* PrecisionFStrike: Badgers line in Paper Chase "Toad you conceited ass!"

* PrecisionF-Strike-: Badgers line in Paper Chase "Toad you conceited ass!"

* PrecisionF-Strike: Badgers line in Paper Chase "Toad you conceited ass!"

''The Wind in the Willows'' is a 1983 [[AnimatedAdaptation stop-motion animated adaptation]] of [[Literature/TheWindInTheWillows Kenneth Grahame's classic novel]]. Produced by [[Creator/CosgroveHall Cosgrove Hall Films]] for Creator/ThamesTelevision, it was first aired on Creator/{{ITV}} in Great Britain on the 27th of December 1983.[[NoExportForYou Internationally, it was released in cinemas, distributed by]] Creator/TheCannonGroup [[NoExportForYou in North America and by Communications and Entertainment Limited (CEL) in Oceania]]. It was well-received by critics and audiences alike, which resulted in it getting a television series by Creator/ThamesTelevision and a sequel, the latter of the two this time focusing on Mr. Toad.

** The book even has the logo of Creator/TheCannonGroup on the front, and the Creator/CosgroveHall logo on the back.

* CommunityThreateningConstruction: A season long arc about a railway being built through the forest most of the animals called home. [[spoiler:Luckily the ground is unstable because of all of the animals' tunnels and burrows, so it's abandoned.]]

''The Wind in the Willows'' is a 1983 [[AnimatedAdaptation stop-motion animated adaptation]] of [[Literature/TheWindInTheWillows Kenneth Grahame's classic novel]]. Produced by [[Creator/CosgroveHall Cosgrove Hall Films]] for Creator/ThamesTelevision, it was first aired on Creator/{{ITV}} in Great Britain on the 27th of December 1983.[[NoExportForYou Internationally, it was released in cinemas, distributed by Creator/TheCannonGroup in North America and by Communications and Entertainment Limited (CEL) in Oceania]]. It was well-received by critics and audiences alike, which resulted in it getting a television series by Creator/ThamesTelevision and a sequel, the latter of the two this time focusing on Mr. Toad.

''The Wind in the Willows'' is a 1983 [[AnimatedAdaptation stop-motion animated adaptation]] of [[Literature/TheWindInTheWillows Kenneth Grahame's classic novel]]. Produced by [[Creator/CosgroveHall Cosgrove Hall Films]] for Creator/TheCannonGroup, it was first released in cinemas on the 27th of December 1983. It was well-received by critics and audiences alike, which resulted in it getting a television series by Creator/ThamesTelevision and a sequel, this time focusing on Mr. Toad.

* AdaptationalBadass: Badger, while always a stonecold but friendly badass he fights the weasels with his bare hands he brings his blunderbuss only for a warning shot. [[spoiler: The weasels instead of simply overpowering him have to sneak up and hit him from behind with a cudgel]].

* AdaptionalBadass: Badger, while always a stonecold but friendly badass he fights the weasels with his bare hands he brings his blunderbuss only for a warning shot. [[spoiler: The weasels instead of simply overpowering him have to sneak up and hit him from behind with a cudgel]].

** '''Mole:''' 'Bother and blow'. 'Oh my'.
** '''Rat:''' 'Oh no!'
** '''Badger:''' ''growl''
** '''Mr. Toad:''' 'Poop-poop'. 'Hello you fellows!'.

** The book even has the logo of Creator/TheCannonGroup on it.

''The Wind in the Willows'' is a 1983 [[AnimatedAdaptation stop-motion animated adaptation]] of [[Literature/TheWindInTheWillows Kenneth Grahame's classic novel]]. Produced by [[Creator/CosgroveHall Cosgrove Hall Films]] for Creator/ThamesTelevision, it first aired on the British network Creator/{{ITV}} on the 27th of December 1983. It was well-received by critics and audiences alike, which resulted in it getting a television series sequel.

** '''Toad:''' 'Poop-poop'. 'Hello you fellows!'.

'''Toad (in disbelief)''': Nineteen years?\\

** It is not shown how Toad escaped from his bedroom
* AllStarCast: This version featured the voice acting talents of Sir Michael Hordern, David Jason, Ian Carmichael, Richard Pearson, Una Stubbs, Beryl Reid and Brian Trueman.

'''Rat''': I hope.

* CoolOldGuy: Badge starts to be seen as this the more the audience gets to know him

* ShoutOut: The film begins and opens with the opening and closing of a book in live-action footage.

* ShoutOut: The film begins and opens with the opening and closing of a book in live-action footage.

''The Wind in the Willows'' is a 1983 [[AnimatedAdaptation stop-motion animated adaptation]] of [[Literature/TheWindInTheWillows Kenneth Grahame's classic novel]]. Produced by [[Creator/CosgroveHall Cosgrove Hall Films]] for Creator/ThamesTelevision, it first aired on the British network Creator/ITV on the 27th of December 1983. It was well-received by critics and audiences alike, which resulted in it getting a television series sequel.

** At the Battle of Toad Hall, in a CrowningMomentOfAwesome, the Chief Weasel is surprised to see that Toad is out of gaol.

''The Wind in the Willows'' is a 1983 [[AnimatedAdaptation stop-motion animated adaptation]] of [[Literature/TheWindInTheWillows Kenneth Grahame's classic novel]]. Produced by Cosgrove Hall Films for Thames Television, it first aired on the British network ITV on the 27th of December 1983. It was well-received by critics and audiences alike, which resulted in it getting a television series sequel.

* AdaptedOut: The character Otter, and the chapters ''The Further Adventures of Toad'', ''Wayfarers All'', and [[EnsembleDarkhorse ''The Piper at the Gates of Dawn]] were all left out of the film.

* AdaptedOut:

* AnimatedAdaptation: Of ''Literature/TheWindInTheWillows'' by Kenneth Grahame.