The Wind in the Willows is a 1995 British animated television film directed by Dave Unwin and written by Ted Walker, and based on the 1908 novel of the same name, a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame.

Disenchanted with spring cleaning, Mole ventures out of his hole for the first time and stumbles across a river and a friendly inhabitant, Ratty.

They call on Mr. Toad, who to Ratty's annoyance has chosen to abandon the river and takes them on a road trip with a gypsy caravan.

When Springtime approaches, Mr. Badger visits Ratty and Mole and the three animals confront Toad to persuade him to end his destructive obsessions, but to no avail.

Failing to see the extended consequences of his actions, Toad escapes his house, forcing Ratty, Mole, and Badger to chase him, and gets himself in serious trouble for stealing and crashing a motor car, and is sentenced to 20 years in prison.

It received positive reviews like the first film, and Rik Mayall and Loraine Marshall won Emmy Awards for Best Voice Acting and Art Direction respectively.

Toad, giving into his recurring consuming control lusts, knocks out the pilot and commandeers the plane with Ratty in the leading seat on aerial lookout.

Ratty's rowboat, having drifted downstream after the river started to thaw, eventually reaches the island and Mole uses it to save himself.

That night, Badger holds Mole's funeral and delivers a grand eulogy in honour of his friend, but Portly gets bored and wanders off.

Recuperating in the judge's house, Toad is invited to dinner, but does not wish to blow his cover, so he blocks up the fireplace in his room and requests a chimney sweep.

The house is flooded due to the bursting pipe in the attic during the thaw, so they take everything for safekeeping, Ratty also finds a letter with an American postmark for Toad.

Badger reads about Toad's arrest and, knowing things can only get worse if he doesn't do something, he quickly writes a letter to an old friend of his, the editor of The Times newspaper.

A miserable Toad appears in court on trial, where he is manipulated into forfeiting his right to have a lawyer and is denounced by everyone present, including the sweep's supposed widow.

In a drunken state from too much wine, Toad assumes the worst to his riverbanker friends for all of his recklessness, and accidentally knocks over a candle which sets the house on fire.