Wiggle Time! (1998 video)

Wiggle Time!
	; Original VHS Front Cover
Written by	The Wiggles
Directed by	Chisholm McTavish
Filmed	Early 1998
Released	April 13, 1998
Previous Video	Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas (1997)
Next Video	Yummy Yummy (released the same day)

"Wiggle Time!" is a remake of the original 1993 video of the same name. It and Yummy Yummy's remake, which were both released the same day, are arguably The Wiggles' two most popular videos, with both having been released worldwide numerous times.

Some songs were re-recorded for this version, such as Get Ready To Wiggle and Dorothy The Dinosaur. The songs Ponies and Captain Feathersword Fell Asleep on His Pirate Ship (Quack Quack) were also added to this version, as well as 3 songs recorded live in concert.

Song List

Note: Re-recorded songs have been denoted by an asterisk (*). Newly added songs have been denoted by a double asterisk (**).

Get Ready To Wiggle (new recording)*
Here Comes a Bear (from Here Comes A Song)
Captain Feathersword (from Stories and Songs: The Adventures of Captain Feathersword the Friendly Pirate)
Uncle Noah's Ark (from Here Comes A Song)
Ponies (from Yummy Yummy)**
Dorothy The Dinosaur (new recording)*
Whenever I Hear This Music (new recording)*
Henry the Octopus (from Toot Toot)*
Rock-a-Bye Your Bear (from The Wiggles Movie Soundtrack)*
I Love it When it Rains (from Here Comes A Song)
Captain Feathersword Fell Asleep on His Pirate Ship (Quack Quack) (from Toot Toot)**
Marching Along (new recording)*
Dorothy's Birthday Party (new recording)*

Live from The Wiggles Big Show

Plot

Title card: A clock is shown ticking, and later ringing as the video title shows.

Greg, Murray and Anthony introduce themselves, as well as introducing Jeff, who has fallen asleep. The Wiggles have to wake him up. Greg remarks that Jeff is always falling asleep. After Greg, Murray and Anthony wake Jeff up, Anthony tells everyone that it's time to wiggle!

Song 1: Get Ready To Wiggle (new recording)

Greg introduces the next song about a bear, a kangaroo, a snake, and a wombat.

Song 2 : Here Comes a Bear

Greg is introducing the next segment when Captain Feathersword comes behind each of the Wiggles and tickles them with his feathersword. Anthony introduces Captain Feathersword, and Greg tells the Captain "No more tickling", but Captain Feathersword tickles Greg again after he resumes his speech. This repeats a few times. Eventually, Captain Feathersword says, "We should do a pirate dance then." The Wiggles and the Captain start doing this dance.

Song 3: Captain Feathersword

Murray introduces the next song about a man who lived a long, long, time ago. His name was Noah. He had to save some animals from a flood so he built a boat and he called it an ark. Murray then does the animal noises which are the duck, cow, rooster, cat, goat and the donkey. He asks everyone if they can come aboard onto Uncle Noah's Ark with the Wiggles.

Song 4: Uncle Noah's Ark

Jeff is painting something that he saw on a farm. He takes the picture and shows it... it's a pony!

Song 5: Ponies

Anthony talks about Dorothy the Dinosaur, and introduces the song about the first time they met Dorothy.

Song 6: Dorothy The Dinosaur (new recording)

Song 7: Whenever I Hear This Music (new recording)

Jeff pretends to be an octopus, and tells everyone that he and the rest of the Wiggles have an octopus friend - Henry!

Song 8: Henry the Octopus (re-recording from Toot Toot)

The Wiggles are having a teddy bear picnic, and sing a song for everyone.

Song 9: Rock-a-Bye Your Bear (re-recording from The Wiggles Movie Soundtrack)

Song 10: Magic

Greg, in his magician outfit, preforms the magic colouring book trick.

Jeff is with two girls, who are painting by using droppers. Jeff watches the paint come out of the dropper, saying that it looks like rain.

Song 11: I Love it When it Rains

Anthony and Greg introduce Captain Feathersword, who accidently flings his feathersword into the air a few times while swinging it around. Captain remarks that he's "going a bit quackers", leading into the next song.

Song 12: Captain Feathersword Fell Asleep on His Pirate Ship (Quack Quack)

Greg and the other Wiggles leads a line of kids, who are holding presents. Greg says he and the others are going to Dorothy's birthday party.

Song 13: Marching Along (new recording)

The Wiggles sing a birthday song for Dorothy.

Song 14: Dorothy's Birthday Party (new recording)

Concert Songs

Song 15: Wave To Wags
Song 16: Five Little Ducks
Song 17: Wiggly Medley

Cast

The Wiggles

Voices

Carolyn Ferrie - Dorothy's voice

Jeff Fatt - Henry's voice

Also Featuring

Paul Field as Dog Catcher and Father Duck
Leanne Halloran as Officer Beaples
Leeanne Ashley as Dorothy the Dinosaur
Edward Rooke as Wags the Dog
Leanne Halloran/Donna Halloran as Henry the Octopus
Paul Paddick as Captain Feathersword

Dancing Children

The Young Children

Album

File:WiggleTime-Album.jpg

The "Wiggle Time!" album was released on August 30, 2000 with 27 tracks. It is basically a reissue of Here Comes A Song, with some tracks added or removed. Only the new recordings of Get Ready To Wiggle, Rock-a-Bye Your Bear, and Dorothy The Dinosaur are featured, with the other songs re-recorded for the video remaining the original 1992 versions. The American version, Let's Wiggle fixes this error.

CD-Only Songs

Gallery

View Gallery

Behind the Scenes

Alternate Song Titles (TV Series 1, 2, Hot Potatoes (2010 and 2013))

Promo Pictures Slideshow

Dorothy the Dinosaur in promo picture
The Wiggly Group
The Wiggle Friends
The Wiggle Friends
Paul Hester and Paul Field

DVD and VHS Gallery

Australian Releases

United States Releases

Canadian Releases

United Kingdom Releases

DVD Menu Gallery (North America)

For the menus of the Australian double feature with Yummy Yummy, see here.

Release Dates

Australia - April 13, 1998 (VHS)

North America - October 12, 1999, August 2, 2000 (VHS), October 26, 2004 (DVD)

United Kingdom - March 29, 1999 (VHS) June 20, 2005 (DVD & VHS)

Trivia

This is the first remake video, along with Yummy Yummy, which was released the same day.
Ponies and Five Little Ducks make their video debuts.
The audio track of the Australian VHS and DVD, as well as the original UK VHS, is made up of mono mixes panned slightly to the left or right, except for the concert footage which is proper stereo. In addition, Murray is seen miming guitar in Marching Along, but no notes are heard. The North American VHS, Hong Kong VCD, and UK Double Bill VHS and DVD have every studio song re-dubbed with their stereo album versions (although Quack Quack remains in mono), and Marching Along is given a guitar track. Because of this change, the sound effects in Whenever I Hear This Music are gone, and the clapping sound effects in Captain Feathersword are replaced. The North American DVD also uses this version, however only the left channel is heard (as evidenced by some of the kangaroo "Boing!" sounds in Here Comes a Bear being muted), making it mono once again.
This is the first Wiggles video to use the 1998-2008 ABC For Kids Promo.

Similarities to 1993 Version

Jeff is sleeping at the very beginning before Get Ready To Wiggle.
The first four songs, in this particular order, are Get Ready To Wiggle, Here Comes a Bear, Captain Feathersword, and Uncle Noah's Ark.
Greg introduces Here Comes a Bear.
The Wiggles lean in close to each other and towards the camera as they growl like a scary bear at the very end of the song.
In the intro for "Captain Feathersword", the captain himself sneaks up on The Wiggles and tickles them. As Greg then tries to say something important, he is interrupted by Captain Feathersword's tickle. Greg asks Captain Feathersword if he tickled Greg. Captain Feathersword lies and says no. Greg then asks the others, who reply yes. Greg tells the captain no more tickling. After this happens again, they do a pirate dance.
Murray introduces Uncle Noah's Ark with the same dialogue and does the actions for each animal.
Anthony introduces Dorothy The Dinosaur, which is the sixth song in both.
There is no intro for Whenever I Hear This Music.
Jeff introduces Henry the Octopus, which follows Whenever I Hear This Music in both, and he wears an extra purple shirt pretending to be an octopus, then pulls his shirt down to show that it's just him, and introduces his friend who is an octopus, looking to his left afterwards.
The Wiggles and some kids have a teddy bear's picnic. Greg says that he knows a song about teddy bears and invites us to join in on the singing and actions.
Greg does the magic colouring book trick.
At least one wiggle is with some kids making paintings using droppers. Then shows us how the paint falling out of the dropper looks like rain.
The Wiggles and some kids (whom are carrying presents) sing Marching Along as they march to the party. Everyone stops as the wiggle in front tells us that they are going to Dorothy's Birthday Party, then invites us to come along too. Right after that, everyone continues marching and singing.

The Wiggles Videography

Murray, Jeff, Anthony and Greg (1993-2006, 2012, 2018)
Wiggle Time! (1993) • Yummy Yummy (1994) • Big Red Car (1995) • Wake Up Jeff! (1996) • Wiggledance! (1997) • Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas (1997) • Wiggle Time! (remake, 1998) • Yummy Yummy (remake, 1998) • Toot Toot! (1998) • The Wiggly Big Show (1999) • It's a Wiggly Wiggly World! (2000) • Hoop-Dee-Doo it's a Wiggly Party (2001) • Yule Be Wiggling (2001) • Wiggly Safari (2002) • Wiggle Bay (2002) • Space Dancing! (2003) • Whoo Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins! (2003) • Top of the Tots (2004) • Cold Spaghetti Western (2004) • Santa's Rockin'! (2004) • LIVE Hot Potatoes! (2005) • Sailing Around the World (2005) • Here Comes The Big Red Car (2006) • It's Time to Wake Up Jeff! (2006) • Splish Splash Big Red Boat (2006) • Wiggledancing! Live In The U.S.A. (2006) • Racing to the Rainbow (2006) • Surfer Jeff (2012) • Celebration! (2012) • The Wiggles Reunion Show (2018)
Feature Film	The Wiggles Movie (1997)
Spin-Offs	The Dorothy the Dinosaur and Friends Video (1999) • Captain Feathersword the Friendly Pirate (2000)
Other	Dorothy the Dinosaur Goes to Hospital (Promo video, 1999) • Bonus Sampler Video (Promo video, 2004) • Happy 15th Birthday! (Documentary, 2006)
Murray, Jeff, Anthony and Sam (2007-2011)
Wiggledancing! Live In Concert (2007) • Getting Strong! (2007) • Pop Go The Wiggles! (2007) • You Make Me Feel Like Dancing (2008) • Sing a Song of Wiggles (2008) • The Wiggles Go Bananas! (2009) • The Wiggles Big, Big Show! (2009) • Hot Poppin' Popcorn (2009) • Hot Potatoes! The Best of The Wiggles (2010) • Let's Eat! (2010) • Ukulele Baby! (2011) • The Wiggles' Big Birthday! (2011) • It's Always Christmas With You! (2011)
Other		On The Road With The Wiggles (Documentary, 2008) • Wiggle Treats! (Promo video, 2011) • Everybody Clap! Everybody Sing! (Documentary, 2011)
Anthony, Lachy, Simon and Emma (2013-2021)
Taking Off! (2013) • Furry Tales (2013) • Pumpkin Face (2013) • Go Santa Go! (2013) • Hot Potatoes! The Best of The Wiggles (new version, 2014) • Apples & Bananas (2014) • Wiggle House (2014) • Rock & Roll Preschool (2015) • The Wiggles Meet The Orchestra! (2015) • Wiggle Town! (2016) • Dance Dance! (2016) • Wiggle Around Australia (2017) • Duets (2017) • Nursery Rhymes featuring CinderEmma! A Musical Fairytale! (2017) • Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas! (2017) • The Best of The Wiggles (2018) • Nursery Rhymes 2 (2018) • Wiggle Pop! (2018) • The Wiggles' Big Ballet Day! (2019) • Party Time! (2019) • Fun and Games (2020) • Choo Choo Trains, Propeller Planes & Toot Toot Chugga Chugga Big Red Car! (2020) • We're All Fruit Salad!: The Wiggles' Greatest Hits (2021) • Lullabies with Love (2021) • Halloween Party (2021)
YouTube videos	Nursery Rhymes (2016) • Emma's Bowtiful Ballet Studio (2017) • Nursery Rhymes 2 (2018)
Spin-Offs	Dial E For Emma! (2016) • Lachy! (2017) • The Emma! & Lachy! Show (2018)
Anthony, Lachy, Tsehay and Simon (2022-present)
Super Wiggles (2022) • Wiggly Nursery Rhymes (2022) • Fruit Salad Big Show (2022) • The Sound of Halloween (2023) • The Sound of Christmas (2023)
Dorothy the Dinosaur (2007-2012)
Dorothy the Dinosaur's Party (2007) • Dorothy the Dinosaur's Memory Book (2008) • Dorothy the Dinosaur Meets Santa Claus (2009) Dorothy the Dinosaur's Rockin' Christmas (2010) • Dorothy the Dinosaur's Travelling Show! (2011) • Dorothy the Dinosaur's Beach Party! (2012)
More from The Wiggles
ABC For Kids	Video Hits (1991) • Video Hits Volume 2 (1992) • Live In Concert (1993) • Featuring Banana Holiday and Lots of Other Great Songs (1994)
The Kingdom of Paramithi	The Kingdom Of Paramithi (2009) • All Time Favourite Fairytales (2009) • Tales of Enchantment (2010) • All Time Favourite Fairytales Bumper Edition (2010) • Cinderella Pantomime (2011)

This is the first video that didn't end with The Wiggles saying goodbye to the viewers.