Captain Feathersword

This article is about the character. For the song, see here.
Captain Feathersword is a friendly pirate captain who owns The S.S Feathersword, and he's Wags the Dog's best friend. Captain Feathersword also has a Friendly Pirate Crew that idolize and have the same bright and cheerful personality as their captain. He has been primarily portrayed by Paul Paddick since 1995, although Anthony Field portrayed him in the very early days of the group.
He was introduced in 1993 on the EP The Adventures Of Captain Feathersword, The Friendly Pirate. He was created by Anthony because he recognized that predominately boys love pirates, but was given a feather sword rather than a normal sword to make him less intimidating to children.
== Official Description ==
Captain Feathersword is a friendly pirate who has a feather as a sword, which he uses to tickle everyone. He has magical, musical pirate buttons, which help the Captain sing in any way and dance like anyone and anything in the world! Whenever he sees his Wiggly friends, he says “Ahoy there, me hearties!”
== Performers ==
=== Primary ===
* Paul Paddick (1995–present)
* Anthony Field (1993–1995, 1997, 2001, 2021)
=== Secondary ===
* Jeff Fatt (only occasionally on Sundays circa 1993–1994)
* Paul Field (1995)
* John Field (1994–1995)
* Paul Rogers (early 1990s)
* Brad Carroll (2010–11: Dorothy the Dinosaur (TV Series 3) and Dorothy the Dinosaur's Rockin' Christmas)
* Lachlan Gillespie (2011, 2013: Dorothy the Dinosaur's Travelling Show! and select shows of the Taking Off! Live in Concert tour when Paddick was unavailable)
=== Tour Understudies ===
* Ben Murray (2004, some shows of the UK Tour)
* John Martin (2005-06, some shows of the Sailing Around the World Live! tour)
* Dominic Field (2015–present)
* Michael King (2019, some shows of the Wiggle Fun Tour!)
=== Other Alternates ===
* Sam Moran (2002 appearance on Celebrity Big Brother)
* Tony Henry (Drumming double in Cold Spaghetti Western)
* Ben Murray (The Dorothy the Dinosaur Show, some portions of The Wiggles Show!, and 2004 appearance on Good Morning Australia)
* Franco Torrelli (A Concert for Holly)
* John Martin (The Wiggles Show! (Latin American Adaptation), The Dorothy the Dinosaur Show, Dorothy the Dinosaur's Dance Party, the 2007 ARIA Awards, and The New Dorothy The Dinosaur Show)
* Kaeng Chan (Lights, Camera, Action! 好戲上場 and The Wiggles Show! (Mandarin Adaptation))
* Samuel McKeown (2021, Sydney Mardi Gras)
* Victor Valdes (2021, Latin American Wiggles Play Time videos and Fruit Salad TV's "Christmas Special")
* Zane Powell (Doing a handstand music video stunt double)
== Appearances ==
* Wiggle Time!
* Yummy Yummy
* Big Red Car
* Wake Up Jeff!
* Wiggledance!
* The Wiggles Movie
* Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas
* Wiggle Time! (1998)
* Yummy Yummy (1998)
* The Wiggles: Series 1 (all episodes)
* Toot Toot!
* The Wiggles: Series 2 (all episodes)
* The Wiggly Big Show
* Captain Feathersword the Friendly Pirate
* It's a Wiggly Wiggly World!
* Hoop-Dee-Doo it's a Wiggly Party
* Yule Be Wiggling
* Wiggly Safari
* The Wiggles: Series 3 - Lights, Camera, Action, Wiggles! (all episodes)
* Wiggle Bay
* Space Dancing!
* Whoo Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins!
* Top of the Tots
* Cold Spaghetti Western
* Santa's Rockin'!
* LIVE Hot Potatoes!
* The Wiggles: Series 4 - The Wiggles Show! (all episodes)
* Sailing Around the World
* Here Comes The Big Red Car
* It's Time to Wake Up Jeff!
* Splish Splash Big Red Boat
* The Wiggles: Series 5 - The Wiggles Show! (all episodes)
* Wiggledancing! Live In The U.S.A.
* Racing to the Rainbow
* Wiggledancing! Live In Concert
* Getting Strong!
* Pop Go The Wiggles
* The Wiggles: Series 6 - Wiggle and Learn (all episodes)
* You Make Me Feel Like Dancing
* Sing a Song of Wiggles
* The Wiggles Go Bananas!
* The Wiggles Big, Big Show!
* Hot Poppin' Popcorn
* Hot Potatoes! The Best of The Wiggles
* Let's Eat!
* Ukulele Baby!
* The Wiggles' Big Birthday!
* It's Always Christmas With You!
* Surfer Jeff
* Celebration!
* Taking Off!
* Furry Tales
* Ready, Steady, Wiggle!: Series 1 (all episodes)
* Pumpkin Face
* Go Santa Go!
* Hot Potatoes! The Best of The Wiggles (2014)
* Apples & Bananas
* Wiggle House
* Ready, Steady, Wiggle!: Series 2 (all episodes)
* Rock & Roll Preschool
* The Wiggles Meet The Orchestra!
* Wiggle Town!
* Dance Dance!
* Nursery Rhymes
* Wiggle Around Australia
* Duets
* Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas! (2017)
* Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle! (all episodes)
* The Best of The Wiggles
* The Wiggles Reunion Show
* Nursery Rhymes 2
* Wiggle Pop!
* The Wiggles' Big Ballet Day!
* Party Time!
* The Wiggles' World (all episodes)
* Fun and Games
* Choo Choo Trains, Propeller Planes & Toot Toot Chugga Chugga Big Red Car!
* We're All Fruit Salad!: The Wiggles' Greatest Hits
* Lullabies with Love
* Ready, Steady, Wiggle!: Series 3 (all episodes)
* Halloween Party
* Super Wiggles
* Fruit Salad Big Show
* Ready, Steady, Wiggle!: Series 4 (all episodes)
* Ready, Steady, Wiggle!: Series 5 (all episodes)
* The Sound of Halloween
* The Sound of Christmas
* Ready, Steady, Wiggle!: Series 6 (all episodes)
* The Wiggles Show (TV Series) (all episodes)
== Trivia ==
* Captain is the only human Wiggly Friend, and because of this (along with the fact that out of the Wiggly Friends he spends the most time with the Wiggles), people like to call him the "Fifth Wiggle".
* Starting from 2010, Captain regularly played bass during live concerts, but this has happened less frequently in recent years due to an increased use of touring musicians. Since 2018, Captain (when played by Dominic Field) has also occasionally played the drums during live concerts.
* Captain's crew has changed over the years:
** His original pirate crew consisted of him, Imran, Penelope and Raj, with the latter three only appearing on the aforementioned EP.
** The crew's numbers then expanded a bit in the The Wiggles Movie before shrinking back down to three members again in TV Series 2, which featured pirates Rudolf, Charlie, and James (as well as an unnamed additional 4th member seen in "Manners") as his only crewmates.
** In The Wiggles Show!, his crew grew in numbers again and officially gained the name "The Friendly Pirate Crew", as well as a new outfit change. The FPC were also featured in Racing to the Rainbow, and later made brief appearances in You Make Me Feel Like Dancing (during "Follow The Leader") and Rock & Roll Preschool (during "It's A Tickle Party")
* One of Captain's favorite dances is the reindeer dance from "Here Come The Reindeer".
* Captain's favorite animals include ducks, roosters, horses and camels.
* Despite no longer performing the character after 1995, Anthony Field has briefly reprised the character on a few occasions, including some concerts in 1997, a couple of songs in the late 90s, various audiobooks and PC games in 2001, the miniseries Wiggly Fruit Salad and in a Instagram video featuring Henry the Octopus, Tsehay, John, Simon, Jeff and Dorothy the Dinosaur.
* The Fruit Salad TV Christmas Special was the only video that had a Spanish Captain Feathersword.
* He’s the only Wiggly friend to visually have different people portray him because of the understudies, and Anthony and his brothers.
* He’s the only Wiggly friend to have his ear pierced.
== See Also ==
* Shirley Shawn the Unicorn
* Dorothy the Dinosaur
* Wags the Dog
* Henry the Octopus
* Officer Beaples