Wiggly Safari (video)

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"**Wiggly Safari**" is the 12th Wiggles video. The video was made and released on July 8, 2002.

## Song List

Note: All songs are taken from the album of the same name.

1. The Crocodile Hunter
2. Australia Zoo
3. Wobbly Camel
4. Cocky Want A Cracker
5. Butterflies Flit
6. Dorothy Queen Of The Roses (In Concert)
7. Swim With Me
8. Koala La La
9. Dingo Tango
10. You Might Like A Pet
11. Old Man Emu
12. Feeding Time
13. Do The Owl (In Concert)
14. Kookaburra Choir
15. Snakes (You Can Look, But You Better Not Touch)
16. We're The Crocodile Band

## Filmed

* December 2001 (Concert)
* Early 2002 (Australia Zoo and SeaWorld)

## Locations

* Australia Zoo, Beerwah QLD
* Sea World, Gold Coast QLD (Swim With Me)
* Vodafone Arena, Melbourne VIC (Wiggly Party: Live in Concert songs)

## Credits

### Cast

* Murray Wiggle: Murray Cook
* Jeff Wiggle: Jeff Fatt
* Anthony Wiggle: Anthony Field
* Greg Wiggle: Greg Page
* With Special Guests: Steve Irwin, Terri Irwin, Bindi Irwin
* Captain Feathersword: Paul Paddick
* Dorothy the Dinosaur: Corrine O'Rafferty
* Wags the Dog: Andrew McCourt
* Henry the Octopus: Reem Hanwell
* The Wiggly Dancers: Chris Luder, Larissa Wright, Ben Murray, Naomi Wallace
* In Concert Wiggly Dancers: Corrine O'Rafferty, Ryan De Saulnier
* Children: Declan Andrew, Jesse Bayes, Georgia Bettens, Lauren Burley, Liam Beck, Eilish Porter, Julia Wyatt, Kristyn Rice-McDonald, Hannah Short, Emily Sultan, Ambrose Vargas, Gabrielle Vargas, Chelsea Wallace, Paris Whiteley, Isobel Wyatt

### Voice Talent (Uncredited)

* Dorothy's Voice: Jacqueline Field (Speaking) and Emma Pask (Singing)

### Crew

* Executive Producers: The Wiggles
* Produced by: Paul Field & Gary Mathisen
* Producer: Paul Field
* Director: Gary Mathisen
* Choreographer: Leeanne Ashley
* Production Co-ordinator: Roberta McNarma
* Production Assistant: Nicole McCourt
* Wardrobe: Kat Mills
* Make-up: April Harvie
* Camera: Gavin Wilkinson, Jarrod Ryan
* Boom Operator: Alex Keller
* The Best Picture Show Company: John Harrison
* Catering: Stu Morton
* Post Production: Big Buzz Media, Media Idea, Zero 1 Zero
* Sound Editing: Craig Abercrombie, Sydney Film and TV Studios

## Release Dates

* **Australia**: July 8, 2002 (VHS/DVD)
* **America**: August 6, 2002 (Screener VHS), September 3, 2002 (HIT Entertainment VHS/DVD)
* **United Kingdom**: August 7, 2006 (DVD)

## Album

 File:Wigglysafari.jpg  The "Wiggly Safari" album was released on February 4, 2002 featuring 32 tracks.

## Trivia

* During "Koala La La", Greg is playing the Maton EM225C acoustic guitar although there is no guitar music.
* "Butterflies Flit" was originally sung by Greg on the Yummy Yummy album. This version has Dorothy singing the verse twice and making comments in between verses.
* The concert footage in this video was filmed at the Sydney Entertainment Centre during the December 2001 tour. Clips from Wiggly Party: Live in Concert can also be seen in the TV documentary The Wiggles Take on the World.
* At the beginning of this video, The Wiggles were lost in the Big Red Car, this was similar to The Wiggles Movie when The Wiggles were lost, and found themselves on Brrrrrr Street.
* This is the third non-concert video to have footage from one of The Wiggles' concert tours, the first was Wake Up Jeff with the footage from the Big Red Car Show at the Lea Theatre and the second was the Wiggle Time! video remake with footage from The Wiggles Big Show at the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Centre. However, those two videos had the concert footage come at the end as a sort of bonus, whereas the concert footage appeared during this video. The audio from this concert also is not used, instead its dubbed over with the album tracks.
* After the credits are over, there is a dedication to the memory of FDNY's Brian Cannizzaro, and everybody else who lost their lives on September 11, 2001. Special thanks go to Engine 202, Ladder 101, Battalion 42. Posing with the firefighters are The Wiggles, Paul Paddick, and Steve Irwin wearing FDNY T-shirts.
* The back cover song list order for the American and UK DVD & the American VHS is not the same order in the video.
* This is the final video where Reem Hanwell performs Henry.
* This is the first collaboration video, with a co-producer (The Best Picture Show Company) and a group of guest stars appearing throughout (the Irwin family), followed by The Wiggles' Big Ballet Day!, co-produced with The Australian Ballet and featuring some of its dancers. Similarly, Yummy Yummy previously featured Paul Hester as a guest throughout.
* The 1997-2001 outfit is used during the prologues of Swim With Me and Kookaburra Choir where Anthony gets wet. (This 2001-2006 outfit is done so the outfit wouldn't get damaged by the water).
* During "The Crocodile Hunter", Murray is not wearing his Wiggles belt buckle. This is fixed later in the video.
* In the prologue of "Wobbly Camel", the Big Red Car wouldn't start. This part is similar to Toot Toot! because in that video the same thing happened.
* According to a bonus clip of The Wiggles' Big Birthday!, Steve Irwin's son Robert Irwin suggested that The Wiggles should make a sequel called "Wiggly Safari 2".
* The Big Red Car in this video is the same one that was used in The Wiggles Movie, but it lacks the windshield and now has The Wiggles Logo on the front bonnet.
* This is the first video where The Wiggles' skivvies have turtlenecks, and pants with trimming of the speciffic color, however, the 1997-era skivvies were still used for photo shoots before filming this video, and one was used for the intros of Swim With Me and Kookaburra Choir.
* The UK Main menu is a bit different from the Australian and American one. It has extra text saying "Coming Soon!" and The Wiggles Logo is pushed down a bit to make room for it.
* During the scene at the beginning where The Wiggles drive in the bush, the instrumental version of "We Like To Say Hello" can be heard.
* The video shows that John Field's name is in the credits of Australia Zoo, although according to the album booklet he did not write it, and The Wiggles' names were removed from "Cocky Want A Cracker" although they wrote it, and Dominic Lindsay's name is in the credits of "You Might Like A Pet", although he did not write it.
* The cover is shown in an Instagram post by The Wiggles posting on May 9, 2018, being their take on the "Avengers: Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover event in history" meme.
* Although listed in the credits, The Wiggles' backing vocals are not heard in any of the songs.
* This video was filmed in 2 well-known parts of Queensland Australia, one, Australia Zoo in Beerwah, and the other, SeaWorld on the Gold Coast.
* "Butterflies Flit" makes it's video debut after Greg sang it on the Yummy Yummy album.
* This is the first video to have Jacqueline Field voice Dorothy the Dinosaur.
	+ Compared to the other Dorothy voices, Jacqueline's Dorothy voice is noticeably much deeper and her giggle is more fluttery than usual.
* The Hong Kong DVD release does not contain any menus or special features. But, it strangely has the ABC Video logo at the end.
* On the US/Canada DVD release, it does not show the HIT Entertainment logo at the end like on the VHS release.
* On October 17th 2020, the full video was uploaded on The Wiggles' YouTube channel as part of Classic Wiggles.
* The footage of Steve Irwin was later used in Duets for the new version of The Crocodile Hunter.
* This is the first video in which Anthony has gray hair.
* This is considered by some fans to be a Series 2 special. As such this video can be considered to be the Series 2 finale.
* The VHS inside cover advertises the following videos:
	+ Left side
	+ The Wiggly Big Show, Wake Up Jeff!, Big Red Car
	+ Right side
	+ The Dorothy the Dinosaur and Friends Video, Captain Feathersword the Friendly Pirate, Hoop-Dee-Doo it's a Wiggly Party
* The American DVD was pressed on July 9, 2002, just a day after it released in Australia.

## References

1. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20020606045116/http://www.thewiggles.com.au:80/new.html