As they leave the wood, the smaller animals begin to panic about the length of the journey, and the Newts become concerned for their child's health without water.
At this point, the Newt family decide the journey is too challenging and resolve to stay at the marsh, after Toad tells them that they will do just as well here as at White Deer Park.
Subsequently, when a careless smoker drops his cigarette, a massive fire sweeps across the army land, which nearly kills the exhausted Toad until he is rescued by Fox.
It soon begins to rain and the animals start swimming to the other side of the lake, planning to reach safe farm land.
A journey through very muddy terrain brings the animals to the border fence, but they are unable to rest comfortably due to rain.
Once inside the barn, Fox is worried about their close proximity to humans, but Kestrel, Owl and Mr. Pheasant all agree to take turns keeping watch from a plum tree.
Adder distracts Bruno the dog whilst the small animals eat through the floorboards, allowing Mole and Badger to dig a tunnel out.
The group are able to carry on walking until they reach a small copse in order to rest, until they realise Adder is still hiding at the farm.
At the copse, the animals make friends with the local rooks and spend the evening listening to their singing, and that of Weasel and Toad.
Although the animals begin debating about who should replace Fox, Badger takes charge as soon as Kestrel returns and decides to press on.
Meanwhile, after a long debate, the Voles stay behind with the Mice, while the rest of the Farthing Wood animals decide to continue their journey.
Hare continues on to find the Voles and Field Mice cowering in fear; they agree to rejoin the journey to White Deer Park.
Mrs. Rabbit blamed herself for not properly protecting him, while the others were left in awe, thinking back at the copse of how they saved him from the snare, only to be shot in the pheasant shoot.
A busy motorway lies ahead of the animals, which was under construction when Toad was making his way back to Farthing Wood.
When it comes, Badger, Mole and the Rabbits all make it across safely, but the instincts of the Hedgehogs overcome them, and they curl up when they see a truck heading towards them and tragically die.
A sinister blue fox called Scarface doesn't want the new arrivals to be in the park and feels that they are trespassing on his territory.
The cat then pretends to falling asleep, and when Mole himself does, he returns home, not wanting to stay near wild animals any longer.
Days later Badger is released from the Warden's cottage and is quite irritated to find out that none of his friends came to meet him (this undoubtedly because they did not know he was coming but he completely ignore it).
Owl tells the animals that two men took the Warden out of his cottage and put him in a white van and thought that he was very ill but he will be back in the spring; meanwhile a woman took his cat out in a basket.
After Owl learns of this, she loses confidence in the Farthing Animals and the oath and fails to alert Fox when the poachers return.
Hearing gunshots the warden runs out and catches the poachers in the act, putting a stop to their hunting for good and they got arrested for the poaching.
Meanwhile Toad has awoken from hibernation confused and his homing instincts drawing him back to Farthing Wood, but is soon caught by a young boy and put into a jar.
Later when hunting for pheasants, unable to see out of his injured eye he doesn't notice the farmer until it is too late and Bold is shot.
Meanwhile back in White Deer Park, Charmer the remaining female cub of Fox and Vixen meets and befriends Ranger, Scarface's son.
The Farthing Wood animals celebrate in the lieu of Fox's victory, but a fully recovered Scarface makes a shocking return, vengefully killing Mrs Rabbit.
When Fox and Vixen come to the fence in search of their son, Crow leads them to him just in time to say one last goodbye before he dies, Bold at last content with his father's approval.
Weasel and Measley find a seemingly nice burrow for them to live when they discover it is being occupied by a pack of vicious wildcats.
Also Ranger, Charmer, and Whisper confront Bully for the first time and he makes his intentions clear-to take over the entire park for himself and his rats.
The classic VHS titles of the series, released through BBC Video, were nine volumes in all, each amalgamating several episodes to form feature-length omnibuses.
Such scenes removed from the series on VHS titles, for example, included Fox's confrontation with the farmer's dog, and his conversation and 'employment' with the town cat, where he kills several mice.