I’ve rewatched The Animals of Farthing Wood. Here’s the horrific casualty list in full. Brace yourselves... (1/13)

• The newt family - burned to death
• Mrs Pheasant - shot, cooked and presumably eaten
• Mr Pheasant - shot dead while recoiling in horror at the sight of his roasted wife’s carcass

• Baby rabbit - nearly strangled in a snare
• Rabbit family almost drown in a river
• The rabbits almost drown Fox, who is swept down river
• Mole - almost eaten by a pike
• 3 baby mice - murdered by shrike bird who impales them on spikes as their parents are forced to watch

• Fox and Vixen - almost hounded to death by a pack of ravenous dogs
• Toad - almost eaten alive by a carp
• Baby rabbit - shot dead by poachers in front of his parents and sister
• Mr and Mrs Hedgehog - squashed to death on a motorway while paralysed by fear

• Mrs Fieldmouse - murdered and eaten by Kestrel within minutes of both of them arriving at White Deer Park
• Cat - savaged by Kestrel when she thinks he’s attacking Mole
• Mrs Vole - eaten by Scarface Fox
• Kestrel - mauled by Cat in revenge

• Cat - attacked by Badger to protect Kestrel
• Mr Vole - dies of hypothermia
• Two deers and a blue fox shot dead by poachers
• Mole - dies of old age/hypothermia
• Dreamer the fox cub - murdered by Scarface
• Mrs Hare - murdered and eaten by Scarface

• Shadow the badger’s paw mangled in a trap
• Bold the Fox’s eye mangled by barbed wire
• Bold - shot by a farmer
• Fox instructs Adder to murder Scarface. She murders Scarface’s son by mistake
• Scarface bites Adder’s tail off in revenge
• Badger - dies of old age

• Fox and Scarface tear strips off each other
• Mrs Rabbit - murdered and eaten by Scarface
• Scarface - murdered by Adder
• Bold - dies of his injuries
• The Great White Stag - dies after drinking water contaminated by toxic waste

• A rabbit dies from the toxic waste
• Trey the stag tries to drown Shadow, who then almost dies from the toxic waste
• An angry elderly donkey attempts to kill Weasel, Measley, Cleo and Fido

• Wildcats try to kill and eat the entire Weasel family
• The foxes, badgers and adders start launching killing raids on the rat headquarters, killing at least 6 each

• Fido and Cleo almost drown. A wildcat tries to eat Measley. Rollo saves him by trying to drown the wildcat, but almost drowns himself in the process
• Owl - encased in cement
• sinuous the Adder - murdered by the rats
• The rats try to murder Toad

• 12 squirrels - die in a hurricane
• Shadow - crushed and seriously injured by a falling tree in the hurricane
• 14 frogs - killed in the hurricane
• Trey - Seriously injured by a falling tree
• Hundreds of rats killed in a final battle with the other animals

Conclusion - this is one of the greatest children’s shows ever made but it’s no wonder so many of my generation are screwed up.

OK Farthing Wood fans (and wow, there’s thousands of you), should I rewatch the entire series yet again and live-tweet it under - #FarthingWoodLive?

First #FarthingWoodLive thread is up! Series 1 episode 1: “The Wood in Danger” https://twitter.com/bilbo983/status/958394998634008576