The Wiggles' first TV series premiered on the Seven/Prime Network in Australia in 1998.
Premise
Every episode contains three songs, and the segments Kaz the Cat, Wigglehouse, a Henry the Octopus puppet show, and Captain Feathersword's Pirate Show. Kaz the Cat segments were replaced by Dorothy narrating scenes taking place in a kindergarten in later versions of these episodes. This series' genre is sketch comedy/variety show.
It was filmed in 1997, following the production of The Wiggles Movie, and as such the sets are very similar, especially Wigglehouse, Wags World and Captain Feathersword's Dockyard. The exterior of Wigglehouse remains pink and orange in the episodes "Muscleman Murray" and "Funny Greg", but was repainted to blue and orange in all its other appearances.
The songs used in the series are primarily taken from the remakes of Wiggle Time! and Yummy Yummy, with every studio song from both videos appearing once, in addition to one song from their newest video, Toot Toot!. Some music videos especially filmed for the series also appeared infrequently, as well as songs filmed live in concert.
History on Sprout
The series premiered on Sprout in 2009, when The Wiggles joined the network, and presumably stopped airing in 2015, when several shows were removed months shy of the channel's tenth anniversary rebrand.
Notes
- After 2012, when the show aired on The Sprout Sharing Show, a purple background with pompoms on the sides of the screen was seen.