Daddy Otter's Wiggles Resources

The Wiggles TV Shows Seasons

• Season 1: The Wiggles (1998)
• Season 2: Wiggles World (1999)
• Season 3: Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles! (2002)
• Season 4: The Wiggles Show! (2005)

Season 1, I'm calling "The Wiggles". It's opening credits background music is the "Get Ready to Wiggle" song. Each episode includes these segments:

• Dorothy narrates video of a place where real kids are playing.
• Wigglehouse-- The wiggles always have something going on here, and sometimes includes Dora (their sassy front door).
• Henry the Octopus-- A puppet show that usually tells a rather lenghty story about underwater life and his friends in the band.
• Captain Feathersword's Pirate Show-- The captain and his crew or Wags do a skit, often involving teaching Wagsy a trick, looking for treasure, taking a photograph, or dancing a pirate dance. The captain always has to say "Well blow me down" at least once, which results in whoever's standing nearby to do just that.

Season 2, I'm calling "Wiggles World", named after the title song which accompanies a computer generated world where the view flies around town showing each character dancing in their home to the song. The show uses computer graphics much more extensively than the first season. There aren't specific segments that always appear, but the following locales are common.

• Wigglehouse-- Indoors or out, a good place to have adventures.
• Dorothy's garden-- A place to have a picnic, eat roses, or talk.
• Wag's house-- Inside or outside his doghouse, where he and the Wagettes usually have some trick in store for Captain Feathersword.
• The dock-- Captain feathersword never really gets onto his ship, but spends his time dancing with his crew, or plotting new adventures.
• Underwater-- Henry leads his Underwater Animal Big Band and always has an activity planned for his friends.
• The town-- Whether driving the Big Red Car, or walking down the odd streets (like Windy street, where the wind is always blowing), there are lots of computer generated places to see. Officer Beaples is often around to keep everyone safe.

• Wiggle News-- Greg is the news anchor announcing the next 3 skits.
• Dorothy the Field Reporter-- Dorothy goes on assignment and reports on some activity with kids. She goes to the zoo, store, gym, class, etc.
• Captain Feathersword's weather-- Captian Feathersword stands in front of a weather map and predicts what will fall on his head.
• Sports report-- Dorothy, Henry, Wags, and the captain play a sport, often with speeded up action, and goofy moves.
• Community Service Announcement-- one of the Wiggles is either lost, hungry, tired, etc, and is told what to do about it.
• Captain Feathersword's Magic Buttons-- the Captain makes sound effects by request when his buttons are pushed.
• Music With Murray-- a group of kids is introduced to a concept in music. There is an oscilloscope running, showing the sound waves. Often there is a guest, which may be Jeff at the keyboards, or may be someone else.
• Where's Jeff-- One wiggle acts as host, another as the contestant who stands under a drop down helmet called the Quizmotron, and asks questions until he can guess where Jeff has fallen asleep. Everybody says Wake Up Jeff!, he wakes up and says he has to get back to Network Wiggles.
• Anthony's Workshop-- Anthony and four kids do a craft project. Usually painting or making something. Occasionally there will be a guest along, like Alfonso the Italian chef.

Season 3 closing credits are played over the last song, and a brief skit saying goodbye.
Season 3 Songs

• Little Wiggles-- Four kids act out a familiar scene based on the characters as we know them from the first two seasons. Jeff is sleepy, Anthony eats so much food, Murray plays the guitar and asks questions, and Greg does magic tricks. This is followed by them singing a classic song.
• Dorothy's Dance Class-- She and two of the Wiggly Dancers teach a dance like the windshield washer or airplane.
• SS Feathersword-- The captain and his crew have some reason to go visit someplace in the world. This is followed by a song about that place, and finally a short segment showing that their problems are solved. The one episode I've seen of this was Chef Antonio didn't have any sauce for the spaghetti, so they went to Sicily and ended up eating too much.

Season 4 closing credits are sped by along the bottom over a brief skit with everyone in a group saying goodbye. Someone usually is missing and comes in at the end.
Season 4 Songs

Notes

To solve this problem, I've started to have my ReplayTV record every episode and copy them up to the computer with DVArchive. I've run through the episodes and made lists of what songs are in which episodes, so if I get a song stuck in my head, I can play a show that has it and thus free myself to get stuck on something different.

I've looked online for Wiggles resources, lyrics, episode guides, etc. but have not found a good reference for this series. This webpage is my place to put everything other mommies and daddies need to get their own Wiggles fix taken care of.

Note that for now, I'm focusing on what I'm calling The Wiggles and Wiggles World episodes. There is also something called Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles (or Network Wiggles), but which didn't appeal to my son as much, so I did not consider those here (yet). Since the TV guide calls all these shows The Wiggles, I don't know if there is an official name for these different shows. [The Wiggles website seems to refer to these shows as "Wiggles-The Series" vs. "Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles!", but not consistantly.] There are also a bunch of videos released that I am not looking at here. I would recommend Wiggly Play Time for fans of this series as it is a collection of the following three episodes: History, Family, and Play.

Links

• The Wiggles Official Homepage - Very little information on this series, but lots about the characters and their videos. Home to the WMB!
• Wiggly Lyrics - Excellent site, saves me a ton of time!
• Boardie Links and Info - Just that, lots of links and info from those in the know
• The Wiggly Mix - a 10 year retrospective animated
• Amazon.com sells Wiggles videos.
• Disney TV Episodes list - Playhouse Disney has almost no information on their website about The Wiggles.
• Wiggles on Nick Jr (UK) has just slightly more Wiggly information.
• There are lots of Fields in the shows, here's a list of a bunch with explanations of who they all are!
• More cast notes