Wiggle and Learn

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| image = Wiggle and Learn logo.jpg

| caption =

| genre = {{ubl|Children's series|Educational}}

| writer =

| director = Paul Field

| starring = {{ubl|Sam Moran|Anthony Field|Murray Cook|Jeff Fatt}}

| theme_music_composer =

| opentheme = "Wiggle and Learn"

| endtheme = "Goodbye from the Wiggles"

| composer = Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field, Greg Page, John Field and Dominic Lindsay

| country = Australia

| language = English

| num_seasons =

| num_episodes = {{ubl|26 (22-minute versions)|52 (11-minute versions)}}

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| executive_producer = The Wiggles

| producer = Paul Field

| editor = Liam Donaghy, David Roberts and George Barillaro

| location = Hot Potato Studios

| cinematography = Borce Damcevski

| camera =

| runtime = {{ubl|22 minutes{{cite web|url=https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/documents/SA_publications/AusKidsContent_11.pdf|title=Australian Children's Content 2011|publisher=Screen Australia|accessdate=6 April 2012}}|11 minutes}}

| company =

| channel = ABC1 (Australia)

| first_aired = {{Start date|2008|5|12|df=y}}

| last_aired = {{End date|2008|8|27|df=y}}

| related = {{Plainlist|

The Wiggles Show!
Ready, Steady, Wiggle!

}}

Wiggle and Learn is an Australian TV show that aired on the ABC. It ran from 12 May 2007 to 10 February 2010. 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.

Unlike the Wiggles' five previous TV series, Wiggle and Learn uses Nursery Rhymes in addition to self-written songs.

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. Page helped write all the songs for a related video and album called Getting Strong!. However, one of the songs, the series' theme song, was originally written for one of the idents that promoted ABC Kids, with Page as the lead singer and the chorus lyrics "ABC Kids" in place of the actual "Wiggle and Learn", as well as a different backing track where additional instruments and back-up voices were added.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psf1QOHadfI|title=The Wiggles ABC For Kids Promo Song (2006)| website=YouTube }} After filming three episodes, Page was diagnosed with Dysautonomia and was unable to participate and the episodes were eventually re-shot with Sam Moran. In 2015, Anthony Field, Murray Cook, and Jeff Fatt found the original footage while lurking around on the computer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/thewiggles/photos/a.458904277017.242950.274289477017/10153525966147018/?type=3|title=The Wiggles|website=Facebook}} The original footage of the sets was also used for their very first documentary 15 Years of Wiggly Fun.{{Citation|author1=Field, Paul|author2=Roberts, David|author3=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|author4=Wiggles (Musical group)|author5=Sunday Telegraph (Sydney, N.S.W.)|title=The Wiggles 15th birthday|date=2006|publisher=Consolidated Press Ltd?|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/26479398|accessdate=5 April 2013}}

Episodes

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| Title = Move and Groove

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|12|13|df=yes}} (USA)

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| EpisodeNumber = 2

| Title = Musical Landscape

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|12|10|df=yes}} (USA)

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| EpisodeNumber = 3

| Title = Wiggle Dance

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|12|17|df=yes}} (USA)

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| EpisodeNumber = 4

| Title = The King of Swing

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|12|9|df=yes}} (USA)

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| EpisodeNumber = 5

| Title = Bailar y Cantar

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|12|21|df=yes}} (USA)

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| EpisodeNumber = 6

| Title = Barnyard Boogie

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|12|11|df=yes}} (USA)

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| EpisodeNumber = 7

| Title = The Bobby Bounce

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|12|28|df=yes}} (USA)

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| EpisodeNumber = 8

| Title = The Black Velvet Band

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|12|19|df=yes}} (USA)

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| EpisodeNumber = 9

| Title = Fun in the Sun

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|12|12|df=yes}} (USA)

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| EpisodeNumber = 10

| Title = My Fair Lady!

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|12|14|df=yes}} (USA)

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| EpisodeNumber = 11

| Title = So Early in the Morning

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|12|15|df=yes}} (USA)

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| EpisodeNumber = 12

| Title = Soy Capitan!

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|12|16|df=yes}} (USA)

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| EpisodeNumber = 13

| Title = Together We Live So Happily

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|12|18|df=yes}} (USA)

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| EpisodeNumber = 14

| Title = Oh, Captain!

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|12|23|df=yes}} (USA)

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| EpisodeNumber = 15

| Title = The Biggest Smile of All

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|12|29|df=yes}} (USA)

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| EpisodeNumber = 16

| Title = The Queen of the Land

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|12|25|df=yes}} (USA)

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| EpisodeNumber = 17

| Title = Get the Rhythm of the Hips

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|12|26|df=yes}} (USA)

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| EpisodeNumber = 18

| Title = Hear the Drumbeat

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|12|22|df=yes}} (USA)

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| EpisodeNumber = 19

| Title = Teddy Bear Touch the Ground

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2010|1|22|df=yes}} (USA)

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| EpisodeNumber = 20

| Title = Meadowsweet and Lady Smocks

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2010|1|8|df=yes}} (USA)

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| EpisodeNumber = 21

| Title = Ding, Ding, Dong!

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2010|1|6|df=yes}} (USA)

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| EpisodeNumber = 22

| Title = Buzz, Buzz, Buzz

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2010|1|13|df=yes}} (USA)

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| EpisodeNumber = 23

| Title = Shall We Dance?

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2010|1|20|df=yes}} (USA)

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| EpisodeNumber = 24

| Title = Dance This Way

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2010|1|27|df=yes}} (USA)

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| EpisodeNumber = 25

| Title = Kittens and Mittens

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2010|2|3|df=yes}} (USA)

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| EpisodeNumber = 26

| Title = Surf, Sand and Sun

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2010|2|10|df=yes}} (USA)

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=11-minute versions=

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| Title = We Feel Like Dancing!

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| Title = The Shimmie Shake

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2007|5|13|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 3

| Title = Let's Get the Rhythm

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2007|5|14|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 4

| Title = Over in the Meadow

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| EpisodeNumber = 5

| Title = I Spy

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| EpisodeNumber = 6

| Title = Keep Moving!

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2007|5|19|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 7

| Title = Who Am I?

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2007|5|20|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 8

| Title = Murray Had a Turtle

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2007|5|21|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 9

| Title = La Bamba

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2007|5|22|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 10

| Title = Oranges and Lemons

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2007|5|23|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 11

| Title = Hey Diddle Diddle

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2007|5|26|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 12

| Title = This Way and That Way

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2007|5|27|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 13

| Title = Jeff Gets a Letter

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2007|5|28|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 14

| Title = This Old Man

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2007|5|29|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 15

| Title = A Sailor Went to Sea

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| EpisodeNumber = 16

| Title = Her Eyes Shone Like Diamonds

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| EpisodeNumber = 17

| Title = Beach, Beach, Sandy Beach

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2007|6|3|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 18

| Title = Old Dan Tucker

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2007|6|4|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 19

| Title = London Bridge

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2007|6|5|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 20

| Title = There Was a Princess

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2007|6|6|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 21

| Title = The Banana Boat

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2007|6|9|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 22

| Title = Incy Wincy Spider

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2007|6|10|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 23

| Title = Fairy Dancing!

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2007|6|11|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 24

| Title = Getting Strong

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2007|6|12|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 25

| Title = Pussycat, Pussycat

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|1|13|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 26

| Title = Fun at Wigglehouse

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|1|16|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 27

| Title = Hello!

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|2|23|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 28

| Title = The Five Senses

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|1|24|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 29

| Title = Big, Bigger, Biggest!

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|2|25|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 30

| Title = See-Saw

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|2|28|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 31

| Title = Musical Landscape

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|2|29|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 32

| Title = D is for Dorothy

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|2|df=yes}}{{clarify|reason=This originally said 30 February, but that date did not exist in 2008.|date=April 2025}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 33

| Title = The Sporting Salsa!

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|2|df=yes}}{{clarify|reason=This originally said 31 February, but that date did not exist in 2008.|date=April 2025}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 34

| Title = Jack and Jill

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|8|6|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 35

| Title = Wags House

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|8|4|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 36

| Title = Two Fine Gentlemen

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|8|5|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 37

| Title = Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|8|6|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 38

| Title = Wiggletastic

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|8|7|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 39

| Title = English Country Garden

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|8|8|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 40

| Title = Circus Fun

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|8|11|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 41

| Title = Frère Jacques

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|8|12|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 42

| Title = The Turkey in the Straw

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|8|13|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 43

| Title = Twinkle Twinkle

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|8|14|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 44

| Title = Sam Gets a Letter

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|8|15|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 45

| Title = I'm a Cowboy

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|8|18|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 46

| Title = Smell Your Way Through the Day

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|8|19|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 47

| Title = The Horn Pipe

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2008|8|20|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 48

| Title = Miss Polly Had a Dolly

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|8|21|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 49

| Title = Allo, Allo, Allo!

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|8|22|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 50

| Title = Three Little Kittens

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|8|25|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 51

| Title = Nick Nack Paddy Wack

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|8|26|df=yes}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 52

| Title = I Drive the Big Red Car

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2009|8|27|df=yes}}

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=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 on Treehouse TV and the US version aired December 2008 at 7/6c am on Playhouse Disney. It also re-ran on that block in January 2009 running at 11am weekdays, 7am weekends, and would continue to do so up until May of that year.

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 aired in Spanish as "Wiggle y Aprende" on Playhouse Disney in Latin America and later Disney Junior, and on Disney Junior in Brazil as "Wiggle e Aprenda".

The show remained in reruns in some countries, most notably Australia and Latin America, until 2013 or 2014, despite Moran being fired from the Wiggles in 2012 due to Page's return, and Cook and Fatt leaving the group in 2013.

DVD releases

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DVD Title !Region 1 !Discs !Episodes !Extras
style="text-align:center;" \|Wiggle and Learn: Vol 1 \| August 22, 2007 \| 2 \| 1-12 \| Behind the scenes; Special Extras; Pilot & 2nd episode of The Wiggles Show
style="text-align:center;" \|Wiggle and Learn: Vol 2 \| September 1, 2011 \| 1 \| 13-19 \| Bonus Episode; Photo gallery

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!Discs

!Episodes

!Extras

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|Wiggle and Learn: Vol 1

| August 22, 2007

| 2

| 1-12

| Behind the scenes; Special Extras; Pilot & 2nd episode of The Wiggles Show