The Wind in the Willows is a 1983 British stop motion animated film produced by Cosgrove Hall Productions for Thames Television and aired on the ITV network.

The film's music and songs are composed by Keith Hopwood, late of Herman's Hermits and Malcolm Rowe.

Mole asks where he lives, and Ratty explains that Badger's domain, the Wild Wood, is not a safe place for animals such as themselves.

Mole asks what kind of creatures live there that make it so dangerous, but is interrupted by the arrival of the Chief Weasel and his henchman before Rat can answer.

Toad invites them to join him on a road trip in his latest source of amusement, a garishly-decorated gypsy caravan, with his horse Alfred pulling the vehicle.

On the group's first camp out for the night, Ratty quietly reminisces about his home by the river, but declines Mole's suggestion that they return, needing to keep Toad out of trouble.

The following day, disaster strikes as a passing motorcar spooks Alfred and sends the caravan crashing into a ditch.

Toad impulsively decides that motor cars are his calling in life after seeing one go so fast, and he derides the "nasty, common, canary-coloured cart" as antiquated, proclaiming that motorcars are the only way to travel.

He soon starts ending up in hospital in some instances, and Ratty and Mole fear Toad is going to get badly injured or worse, and are even more worried he will hurt someone else.

Fearing the worst, Ratty takes a brace of pistols and a cudgel and bravely enters into the Wild Wood.

Toad then escapes and flags down a passing motorist named Reggie, who continually mistakes him for a frog, and his wife Rosemary.

Posing as a fellow motorist, Toad asks them to inspect his "flat crank shaft" and steals their car as soon as they step out of it.

This false story, concocted by Badger, leads the Chief Weasel to place most of his men at the gates and on the walls, which will make retaking Toad Hall from the inside easier.

During the end credits, his friends are pulling Toad and his machine out of the river - life on the Riverbank and in the Wild Wood appears set to continue as before.

The weasels have a greater role and are considerably more villainous and menacing in this adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's beloved story.