Wiggle and Learn (TV series)
Wiggle and Learn is an Australian TV show that aired on ABC. It ran from June 17, 2007 to September 8, 2008. It is The Wiggles 6th TV series. It was the first TV series to not feature Greg Page, who had to depart the group in 2006 due to poor health, and the only one to feature Sam Moran as the Yellow Wiggle, as well as the last Wiggles show until Ready Steady Wiggle in 2013. It was also the final series with Murray Cook and Jeff Fatt as the Red Wiggle and Purple Wiggle, respectively.
| Wiggle and Learn | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | Preschool Educational Music |
| Directed by | Paul Field |
| Starring | Sam Moran Anthony Field Murray Cook Jeff Fatt |
| Opening theme | "Wiggle and Learn" |
| Ending theme | "Goodbye from the Wiggles" |
| Country of origin | Australia United States Canada Latin America |
| Original languages | English (AUS, USA, & CAN) Spanish (Latin America only) |
| No. of episodes | 26 (22-minute versions) 52 (11-minute versions) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | The Wiggles |
| Producer | Paul Field |
| Production location | Hot Potato Studios |
| Running time | 22 minutes[1] 11 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC1 (Australia) Playhouse Disney/Sprout (United States) Treehouse TV (Canada) |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | 22-minute: 21 April (Canada) 8 December 2008 (United States) 11-minute: 12 May 2008 (Australia) – 22-minute: 26 May 2008 (Canada) 10 February 2009 (United States) 11-minute: 27 August 2008 (Australia) |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | The Wiggles Show! |
| Followed by | Ready, Steady, Wiggle! |
Unlike the Wiggles’ five previous TV series, Wiggle and Learn uses Nursery Rhymes instead of self-written songs. Also, the theme song was not written, either. Instead, it is a rewritten version of another song that was made in 2006 to promote ABC Kids, with Greg Page as the yellow Wiggle.,[2] although that might had been filmed alongside other filming materials while using animated backgrounds such as the ones in a Where Are They Now? episode about The Cockroaches.[3]
Supporting cast
- Paul Paddick as Captain Feathersword
- Emily McGlinn as Dorothy the Dinosaur
- Voiced by Carolyn Ferrie
- Adrian Quinnell, Kristy Talbot, and Ben Murray as Wags the Dog
- Voiced by Mic Conway
- Mario Martinez-Diaz and Rebecca Knox as Henry the Octopus
- Voiced by Paul Paddick
Production
Development
The Wiggles first pitched the idea in early 2006 and wanted to have Greg Page in it. They filmed three episodes, but the show was eventually cancelled and re-shot with Sam Moran. In 2015, Anthony Field, Murray Cook, and Jeff Fatt found the original footage while lurking around on the computer.[4] The original footage of the sets was also used for their very first documentary 15 Years of Wiggly Fun.[5]
Episodes
22-minute versions
| No. in series | Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Move and Groove" | 13 December 2008 (USA) |
| 2 | "Musical Landscape" | 10 December 2008 (USA) |
| 3 | "Wiggle Dance" | 17 December 2008 (USA) |
| 4 | "The King of Swing" | 9 December 2008 (USA) |
| 5 | "Bailar y Cantar" | 21 December 2008 (USA) |
| 6 | "Barnyard Boogie" | 11 December 2008 (USA) |
| 7 | "The Bobby Bounce" | 28 December 2008 (USA) |
| 8 | "The Black Velvet Band" | 19 December 2008 (USA) |
| 9 | "Fun in the Sun" | 12 December 2008 (USA) |
| 10 | "My Fair Lady!" | 14 December 2008 (USA) |
| 11 | "So Early in the Morning" | 15 December 2008 (USA) |
| 12 | "Soy Capitan!" | 16 December 2008 (USA) |
| 13 | "Together We Live So Happily" | 18 December 2008 (USA) |
| 14 | "Oh, Captain!" | 23 December 2008 (USA) |
| 15 | "The Biggest Smile of All" | 29 December 2008 (USA) |
| 16 | "The Queen of the Land" | 25 December 2008 (USA) |
| 17 | "Get the Rhythm of the Hips" | 26 December 2008 (USA) |
| 18 | "Hear the Drumbeat" | 22 December 2008 (USA) |
| 19 | "Teddy Bear Touch the Ground" | 22 January 2009 (USA) |
| 20 | "Meadowsweet and Lady Smocks" | 8 December 2008 (USA) |
| 21 | "Ding, Ding, Dong!" | 6 January 2009 (USA) |
| 22 | "Buzz, Buzz, Buzz" | 13 January 2009 (USA) |
| 23 | "Shall We Dance?" | 20 January 2009 (USA) |
| 24 | "Dance This Way" | 27 January 2009 (USA) |
| 25 | "Kittens and Mittens" | 3 February 2009 (USA) |
| 26 | "Surf, Sand and Sun" | 10 February 2009 (USA) |
11-minute versions
| No. in series | Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "We Feel Like Dancing!" | 12 May 2008 |
| 2 | "The Shimmie Shake" | 13 May 2008 |
| 3 | "Let's Get the Rhythm" | 14 May 2008 |
| 4 | "Over in the Meadow" | 15 May 2008 |
| 5 | "I Spy" | 16 May 2008 |
| 6 | "Keep Moving!" | 19 May 2008 |
| 7 | "Who Am I?" | 20 May 2008 |
| 8 | "Murray Had a Turtle" | 21 May 2008 |
| 9 | "La Bamba" | 22 May 2008 |
| 10 | "Oranges and Lemons" | 23 May 2008 |
| 11 | "Hey Diddle Diddle" | 26 May 2008 |
| 12 | "This Way and That Way" | 27 May 2008 |
| 13 | "Jeff Gets a Letter" | 28 May 2008 |
| 14 | "This Old Man" | 29 May 2008 |
| 15 | "A Sailor Went to Sea" | 30 May 2008 |
| 16 | "Her Eyes Shone Like Diamonds" | 2 June 2008 |
| 17 | "Beach, Beach, Sandy Beach" | 3 June 2008 |
| 18 | "Old Dan Tucker" | 4 June 2008 |
| 19 | "London Bridge" | 5 June 2008 |
| 20 | "There Was a Princess" | 6 June 2008 |
| 21 | "The Banana Boat" | 9 June 2008 |
| 22 | "Incy Wincy Spider" | 10 June 2008 |
| 23 | "Fairy Dancing!" | 11 June 2008 |
| 24 | "Getting Strong" | 12 June 2008 |
| 25 | "Pussycat, Pussycat" | 13 June 2008 |
| 26 | "Fun at Wigglehouse" | 16 June 2008 |
| 27 | "Hello!" | 23 July 2008 |
| 28 | "The Five Senses" | 24 July 2008 |
| 29 | "Big, Bigger, Biggest!" | 25 July 2008 |
| 30 | "See-Saw" | 28 July 2008 |
| 31 | "Musical Landscape" | 29 July 2008 |
| 32 | "D is for Dorothy" | 30 July 2008 |
| 33 | "The Sporting Salsa!" | 31 July 2008 |
| 34 | "Jack and Jill" | 1 August 2008 |
| 35 | "Wags House" | 4 August 2008 |
| 36 | "Two Fine Gentleman" | 5 August 2008 |
| 37 | "Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear" | 6 August 2008 |
| 38 | "Wiggletastic" | 7 August 2008 |
| 39 | "English Country Garden" | 8 August 2008 |
| 40 | "Circus Fun" | 11 August 2008 |
| 41 | "Frère Jacques" | 12 August 2008 |
| 42 | "The Turkey in the Straw" | 13 August 2008 |
| 43 | "Twinkle Twinkle" | 14 August 2008 |
| 44 | "Sam Gets a Letter" | 15 August 2008 |
| 45 | "I'm a Cowboy" | 18 August 2008 |
| 46 | "Smell Your Way Through the Day" | 19 August 2008 |
| 47 | "The Horn Pipe" | 20 August 2008 |
| 48 | "Miss Polly Had a Dolly" | 21 August 2008 |
| 49 | "Allo, Allo, Allo!" | 22 August 2008 |
| 50 | "Three Little Kittens" | 25 August 2008 |
| 51 | "Nick Nack Paddy Wack" | 26 August 2008 |
| 52 | "I Drive the Big Red Car" | 27 August 2008 |
Writing
The original draft consists of three plots:
- The Wiggles and Dorothy the Dinosaur plan to go on a picnic.
- The Wiggles play soccer on the beach.
- The Wiggles must save their friends by singing songs.
Broadcast
The Australian version aired from 2007 to 2008 on ABC and Playhouse Disney. Then the Canadian version premiered April 2008 and the US version aired December 2008 at 7/6c am on Treehouse TV. It also re-ran on that channel on January 2009 running at 11am weekdays, 7am weekends.
It is also the first Wiggles TV show to be completely dubbed in another language (In other countries such as Italy, earlier Wiggles TV shows had the dialogue dubbed but the songs remained in English). It airs in Spanish as "Wiggle y Aprende" on Playhouse Disney weekdays in the afternoon[6] and on Disney Junior in Brazil as "Wiggle e Aprenda".
DVD releases
| DVD Title | Region 1 | Discs | Episodes | Extras |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiggle and Learn: Vol 1 | August 22, 2009 | 2 | 1-12 | Behind the scenes; Special Extras; Pilot & 2nd episode of The Wiggles Show |
| Wiggle and Learn: Vol 2 | 2011 | 1 | 13-19 | Bonus Episode; Photo gallery |
References
- "Australian Children's Content 2011" (PDF). Screen Australia. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
- "The Wiggles ABC For Kids Promo Song (2006)".
- "Cockroaches WATN".
- "The Wiggles".
- Field, Paul; Roberts, David; Australian Broadcasting Corporation; Wiggles (Musical group); Sunday Telegraph (Sydney, N.S.W.) (2006), The Wiggles 15th birthday, Consolidated Press Ltd?, retrieved 5 April 2013
- https://www.extremista.com.ar/tv/1443-wiggle-y-aprende/