English version of "Oczekiwanie", adapted by
Anne Wood of the production company FilmFair, consists of two separate ~5 minute episodes titled "The Winter Bonfire" (as episode 31) and "Return of the Sun" (as episode 32). They were originally broadcast in the UK in 1983 on Central Independent Television, as part of its "Watch It!" strand of children's programming.
Missing from the UK episode "The Winter Bonfire":
- The opening sequence (apart from the first shot of the snowy Moominvalley): the montage of Moominvalley, the bathing hut and the Moominhouse; Moomintroll going through some drawings and pictures and placing them on the wall.
- An additional shot of Moomintroll walking in the forest and a crow dropping snow over him from a tree; Moomintroll finding traces on the ground and the place where the firewood has been stolen.
- Back inside the Moominhouse, Moomintroll checks the clocks, kisses her sleeping mother and climbs the stairs leading to the attic.
- When it gets dark outside, an additional shot of Moomintroll pulling the sledge full of wood for the bonfire; some shots of the winter creatures dancing around the fire (inc. goat-like creature playing a flute); Moomintroll watching the bonfire and placing his lamp on the snowbank; Little My pulling and throwing a chair to the bonfire; wide shot of the bonfire and the full moon, Moomintroll throwing some wood to the bonfire (with Too-ticky on the background); another shot of the goat-like creature playing a flute.
- When the Groke arrives, shot of the goat-like creature and some other creatures running away (inc. a small forest creature with the drum); Moomintroll peeking behind the rock, and the additional shot of the Groke next to a bonfire (before she puts it out).
Notes from the UK episode "Return of the Sun":
- The first half of the UK episode includes the ending sequence of the original episode "Oczekiwanie" (#21), starting from the scene where Moomintroll is searching ribbons from the cupboards.
- The second half of the UK episode is taken from the original episode "Wiosenna kanonada" (#25). It opens with the montage of the Moominvalley where spring is finally arriving and shows Moomintroll and Too-ticky on the bridge. The UK episode ends with the scene where Moomintroll watches the flight of the geese at the stairs of the bathing hut.