Does anyone else remember the Wombles? (the furry animals, not the anarchist group)

They were in a children's book (I have a copy of it somewhere) and they were also characters (of the stop-motion animation sort) on the old Captain Kangaroo program. I remember them from when I was a child.

There are free patterns to knit them here. I've played with the idea off and on of making myself an Uncle Bulgaria, he was my favorite.