HIT Entertainment

**Mattel Television** (**HiT Entertainment** during business with The Wiggles; **Mattel Creations** 2016-2019) is a British-American production company/distributing company that was founded in 1983 and originally the international distribution arm of Jim Henson Productions called **H**enson **I**nternational **T**elevision (later reincorporated as "**HiT Communications plc**."). However, the subsidiary was later sold to its division-head Peter Orton, in 1989.

HIT Entertainment began releasing The Wiggles VHS tapes in the United States and Canada on October 16, 2001, after a merger with their previous distributor Lyrick Studios. DVD releases followed on April 9, 2002. On April 4, 2006, they began distributing through Paramount Home Entertainment 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, HIT Entertainment's contract with The Wiggles for DVDs in the United States and Canada expired on May 19, 2007.

In 2005, they began releasing The Wiggles VHS tapes and DVDs in the United Kingdom and continued to do so until 2012.

## USA and Canada Releases

### Retail releases

All VHS releases from Hoop-Dee-Doo! It's a Wiggly Party up to Here Comes The Big Red Car were available in small plastic clamshell cases in the United States, and larger clamshell cases in Canada (Yule Be Wiggling was in a large case in both countries). In the US, cardboard slipcase versions were also sold of all VHS except Yule Be Wiggling and Wiggly, Wiggly World!.

Many DVDs released in both countries after 2003 also contained a Canadian Rating "G" symbol on the back of Canadian copies that the American releases lack. All DVDs except Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas and Santa's Rockin'! were re-released in 2006 with the 20th Century Fox logo and copyright notice on the disc art.

* Yule Be Wiggling (VHS) - 10/16/01 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Wiggly, Wiggly World! (VHS) - 1/22/02 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Hoop-Dee-Doo! It’s a Wiggly Party (DVD and VHS) - 4/9/02 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Wiggly Safari (DVD and VHS) - 9/3/02 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Yule Be Wiggling (DVD) - 10/22/02 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Dance Party (DVD) - 2/4/03 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Yummy Yummy (DVD) - 2/4/03 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Magical Adventure! A Wiggly Movie (DVD and VHS) - 2/4/03 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Wiggle Bay (DVD and VHS) - 5/6/03 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Space Dancing (DVD and VHS) - 9/9/03 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas (DVD) - 9/30/03 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Top of the Tots (DVD and VHS) - 1/13/04 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Cold Spaghetti Western (DVD and VHS) - 3/30/04 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Toot Toot! (DVD) - 3/30/04 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Whoo Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins! (DVD and VHS) - 7/27/04 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Santa's Rockin'! (DVD and VHS) - 9/28/04 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Wiggle Time (DVD) - 11/2/04 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Wiggly Play Time (DVD) - 11/2/04 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* LIVE Hot Potatoes (DVD and VHS) - 1/11/05 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Wiggly, Wiggly World! (DVD) - 4/26/05 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Lights, Camera, Action! (DVD and VHS) - 5/24/05 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Sailing Around the World (DVD and VHS) - 7/19/05 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Here Comes The Big Red Car (DVD and VHS) - 1/3/06 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Wiggle Around the Clock (DVD and VHS) - 4/4/06 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Splish Splash Big Red Boat (DVD) - 6/6/06 (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)
* Wiggledancing! Live In The U.S.A. ["Live in Concert" in Canada] (DVD) - 8/15/06 (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)
* Racing to the Rainbow (DVD) - 3/6/07 (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)

#### Canada Only

* Wiggly Play Time (alternate DVD) - 5/11/04 (Paramount Home Entertainment)

#### 3-Packs

* Holiday Video 3-Pack! (VHS) - 9/30/03 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Wiggly Party Pack (DVD) - 5/24/05 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Holiday 3-Pack (DVD) - 12/13/05 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Wiggle and Dance Pack (DVD) - 12/23/05 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* DVD 3-Pack (DVD) - 5/23/06 (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)
* A Wiggle-Tastic Collection (DVD) - 10/17/06 (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)
* Wiggly, Giggly Adventures! (DVD) - 5/15/2007 (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)

### Rental Videos

Two videos on one tape or disc were made available exclusively for renting at places like Blockbuster. The DVDs contained no menus or special features.

* Wiggle Mania (VHS and DVD) - 5/6/03 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* The Wiggles Show (DVD) - 8/9/05 (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Wiggly Giggly Adventures (DVD) - 2/7/06 (Paramount Home Entertainment)

### Screeners

Some VHS and DVDs were available ahead of official retail release for screening purposes. These exclude the trailers included in the final releases, and contain the HiT Entertainment logo in the corner of the video throughout. Some of these were released in unique packaging, while others used the final retail packaging with a sticker on the back reading "Not for Individual Sale" (**please note that a release containing this sticker is not necessarily a screener, as it was also used for VHS and DVDs released in multipacks**). The ones listed are ones where photo or video evidence exists online (i.e. YouTube uploads of opening/closing), but there may be more out there.

**NOTE:** These did not have formal release dates. Please do not add any unless you can cite a verifiable source, or else you may be banned.

* Yule Be Wiggling (VHS) (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Wiggly, Wiggly World! (VHS) (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Hoop-Dee-Doo! It's a Wiggly Party (VHS) (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Wiggly Safari (VHS) (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Magical Adventure! A Wiggly Movie (VHS) (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Wiggle Bay (VHS) (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Space Dancing (VHS) (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Top of the Tots (VHS) (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Cold Spaghetti Western (VHS) (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Whoo Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins! (VHS) (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Santa's Rockin'! (VHS) (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* LIVE Hot Potatoes (DVD) (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Lights, Camera, Action! (DVD) (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Sailing Around the World (DVD) (Paramount Home Entertainment)
* Here Comes The Big Red Car (DVD) (Paramount Home Entertainment)

## United Kingdom Releases

* Toot Toot! plus Yummy Yummy (DVD and VHS) - 1/31/05
* Magical Adventure! plus Wiggle Time (DVD and VHS) - 6/20/05
* Hoop-Dee-Doo! It's a Wiggly Party plus It's a Wiggly Wiggly World! (DVD) - 9/12/05
* Yule Be Wiggling plus Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas (DVD) - 11/21/05
* Here Comes The Big Red Car (DVD) - 1/30/06
* Top of the Tots (DVD) - 4/24/06
* Wiggly Safari (DVD) - 8/7/06
* Santa's Rockin'! (DVD) - 11/27/06
* It's Time to Wake Up Jeff! (DVD) - 2/12/07
* Wiggledancing! Live In Concert (DVD) - 5/7/07
* Splish Splash Big Red Boat & Wiggle Bay (DVD) - 7/23/07
* Racing to the Rainbow (DVD) - 10/29/07
* Space Dancing! (DVD) - 2/18/08
* Whoo Hoo! Wiggly Gremlins (DVD) - 4/21/08
* Here Comes The Big Red Car (Handle-case DVD) - 6/2/08
* LIVE Hot Potatoes! (DVD) - 7/14/08
* Magical Adventure! A Wiggly Movie (Handle-case DVD) - 7/28/08
* Pop Go The Wiggles! (DVD) - 10/13/08
* The Wiggles Go Bananas! (DVD) - 4/13/09
* You Make Me Feel Like Dancing (DVD) - 6/15/09
* The Wiggles Big, Big Show! (DVD) - 9/28/09
* Sing a Song of Wiggles (DVD) - 1/18/10
* Hot Potatoes! The Best of The Wiggles (DVD) - 3/22/10
* Hot Poppin' Popcorn (DVD) - 6/7/10
* Getting Strong! (DVD) - 8/30/10
* Ukulele Baby! (DVD) - 5/30/11
* Let's Eat! (DVD) - 10/10/11

### 3-Packs

* Triple Pack (DVD) - 7/27/10
* Triple Pack - 3 Wiggly Festive Favourites (includes exclusive DVD, Dorothy the Dinosaur Meets Santa Claus) - 12/6/10
* Wiggle Pack (DVD) - 6/4/12

## Trivia

* A 4:3 cropped version of the CGI logo can be found on some Wiggles UK DVDs.
* The first four US tapes were released around the same month and year as four of the Barney tapes, as both Barney and Wiggles tapes each had trailer of each other stating Now Available