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Genre | Children's television series |
Created by | Colin Reeder |
Directed by | Russell Haigh |
Voices of | Stephen Tompkinson Derek Griffiths Jimmy Hibbert Shireen Shah Florence Jones Stewart Majkowski Euan Dick |
Theme music composer | Michael Cross Stan Cullimore |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 3 |
No. of episodes | 75 |
Production | |
Producer | Keith Littler |
Editor | Fred Tay |
Running time | 10 minutes per episode (approx.) |
Production companies | The Little Entertainment Company [1] TRACK Productions Limited Entertainment Rights (Series 1-2) |
Original release | |
Network | CBeebies |
Release | 5 January 2004 – 29 April 2007 |
Little Red Tractor is a British stop motion animated children's television series produced by The Little Entertainment Company and was co-produced by Entertainment Rights for the first two series. [2] The ten-minute episodes were broadcast in the United Kingdom by the BBC on the CBeebies channel. [3]
Produced in stop motion model animation, the series is mainly aimed at preschoolers and features unusually detailed sets and models. The series features the popular voices of Stephen Tompkinson and Derek Griffiths. The characters are based on the books by Colin Reeder, which were narrated for video in the mid 1990s by Brian Glover and Richard Briers.
Little Red Tractor Projects Limited owned the original Little Red Tractor video series. Although it didn't have television exposure, Little Red Tractor broke into the top ten children's videos and stayed there for several weeks. In total, the original series sold over 300,000 copies. Contender the distributor wanted to duplicate that success. However, the television rights were sold to Keith Littler's Little Entertainment Group because Peter Tye, the director/writer of the series, preferred their expertise in stop frame animation and empathy with the original. Despite losing the television rights to Little Red Tractor, Contender went ahead and produced their similar series, CITV's Tractor Tom. Despite apparent similarities to Tractor Tom, Little Red Tractor has a completely different style, with more realistic story-lines, a larger human cast, and no surreal livestock behaviour.
Several DVD releases of the series have been released. The first five releases were also on VHS as well.
DVD/VHS name | Season | Episodes | Release date | Distributor | Source |
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Let's Go! | One | "Big Bang" "Garage Sale" "Tiger Tiger" "Ladder" "Making Hay" "Windy Day" | 25 October 2004 | Right Entertainment Universal Pictures Video | [4] |
Winter Lights | One | "Winter Lights" "Farm of the Year" "Mr Fixit" "Lucky Day" "Gold Cup" "Flying" | 29 November 2004 | Right Entertainment Universal Pictures Video | [5] |
Happy Birthday | One | "Happy Birthday" "Berries" "The Dam" "Silence of the Cows" "Secret Den" "Mr Big" | 18 April 2005 | Right Entertainment Universal Pictures Video | [6] |
Enter the Dragon | One | "Enter the Dragon" "The Big Sneeze" "The Detectives" "Roof Tops" "Dog Gone" "Bye Bye Blue" | 18 July 2005 | Right Entertainment Universal Pictures Video | [7] |
Glorious Mud | Two | "Glorious Mud" "Water Water" "Beast of Babblebrook" "Town Boy" "Circles in the Corn" "Spuds" | 31 October 2005 | Right Entertainment Universal Pictures Video | [8] |
Hot Hot Hot | Two | "Hot Hot Hot" "The New Engine" "Little Red Rocker" "The New Addition" "The Treehouse" "Traction Trouble" "Marrow Mangler" "Buried Treasure" "The Ghost of Tawny Owl Wood" "Beech Farm Flyer" "Paperchase" "Molehills and Windmills" | 16 April 2007 | Right Entertainment Universal Pictures Video | [9] |
One Potato, Two Potato... | Three | "Thunder and Lightning" "Row Yer Boat" "Lost" "Up, Up and Away" "One Potato, Two Potato..." "The Show Must Go On" | 21 July 2008 | Revelation Films Ltd | [10] |
Topsy Turvey | Three | "Furry Jumper" "Topsy Turvy" "The Map" "Run!!" "Movie Madness" "The Hill" | 19 April 2010 | Revelation Films Ltd | [11] |
Down on the Farm | Three | "The Show Must Go On" "Up, Up and Away" "Furry Jumper" "The Map" "The Hill" "Electric Trickery" "Raindance" "Welcome Home" | 31 August 2015 | Abbey Home Media | [12] |
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