Watership Down political sensibilities of the 1990s when it was published. In 1978 Martin Rosen wrote and directed an animated film adaptation of "Watership Down". The voice cast included John Hurt, Richard Briers, Harry Andrews, Simon Cadell, Nigel Hawthorne, and Roy Kinnear. The film featured the song "Bright Eyes", sung by Art Garfunkel. Released as a single, the song became a UK number one hit. Although the essentials of the plot remained relatively unchanged, the film omitted several side plots. Though the Watership Down warren eventually grew to seventeen rabbits, with the additions of Strawberry, Holly, Bluebell, and three hutch rabbits liberated
Watership Down (TV series) on the CD and none of the recorded songs are present, possibly due to either copyrights involving many of the guest singers and their record labels and/or perhaps due to the death of Stephen Gately. The re-released soundtrack has recently become available separately from the Cube in a 2-CD set, along with the soundtrack to the film Caravans. Currently the music cube re-released version of the soundtrack is also available to download in Mp3 format from Amazon's UK website. Watership Down (TV series) Watership Down is a British-Canadian animated fantasy children's television series, adapted from the novel of the same