Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas (partially found original version of Wiggles video; 1996)
Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas is a Christmas video made by the Australian Children's group The Wiggles that was released on October 13th, 1997, international releases of the video in the United States, Canada and United Kingdom followed in the next 9 years. It is the group's sixth video released after the concert film Wiggledance! four months earlier and is also the group's first Christmas video. The video named after the album of the same name and all songs from the album (outside of "Reindeer Express" and "Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer" in later releases after 1999) did appear on the video. The video began production in September 1996 around the time the album came out, making it the first Wiggles video to start production a year before it's released.
Two known songs that were filmed for the video were "Go Santa Go" and "It's a Christmas Party," "On The Goodship Feathersword" and lots of blue screen stock footage of Santa and his reindeer and elves followed not long after. The video for "Go Santa Go" was used as promotion for the album. After production of Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas was complete, The Wiggles updated their shirts and costumes and production on their theatrical film simply titled The Wiggles Movie began and completed filming after 6 weeks in mid-April 1997. When the Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas video came out in October 1997, the group's shirts, costumes and sets were different from what they looked like before the production of The Wiggles Movie, though footage of Santa and his reindeer and elves were left in the final version. It's unknown when production on the video restarted or if production on the original version ever completed and it's likely production restarted when The Wiggles Movie (that would be released two months after the video's release) used the updated shirts and costumes.
The video for "Go Santa Go" that was used for album promotion became pretty hard to track down until December 15th, 2016 when YouTube user Atsartas10 ABCforkidsfangirl uploaded the final 105 seconds of the video. Where they got the footage is unknown. Outside of a few production photos, no footage from "It's a Christmas Party, On The Goodship Feathersword" has surfaced. During Greg Page's now deleted "Remembers... Or Tries To" Q&A series, he mentions he has the "It's a Christmas Party, On The Goodship Feathersword" video, but he may not be allowed to release it due to copyright. It's unknown if any of the songs from the final version were filmed before reshoots began.
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TV
- The Wiggles Live at Disneyland (found Australian TV special; 1998)
- The Wiggles (partially found alternate versions of episodes of children's show; 1998-2011)
- The Wiggles Series One (partially lost deleted scenes of children's live-action series; 1997-1998)
- The Wiggles Show (partially found animated songs from children's show; mid-2000s)
- The Wiggles (lost unaired ABC pilot featuring children's group; 1995)
- The Wiggles Show (found Latin American adaptation of children's series; 2006)
- Let's Wiggle (partially found short series for children's band; 1997-1999)
- The Wiggles (partially found Taiwanese adaptation of children's series; 2003-2007)
- Wiggle and Learn (lost unreleased original version of children's TV series; 2006)
- A Wiggly Postcard from Asia (lost TV special of The Wiggles tour; existence unconfirmed; 2003)
- Dorothy The Dinosaur (lost episodes of unreleased fourth season of children's TV series; 2016)
- The Wiggles (lost Indian adaptations of children TV series; existence unconfirmed; 2006)
Concerts
- The Wiggles Big Show (partially lost footage of Melbourne performance; 1997)
- Wiggly Party: Live in Concert (partially found footage of Vodafone Arena performance; 2001)
- Yule Be Wiggling Christmas Show (lost footage of "The Wiggles" live performance; existence unconfirmed; 2000)
- Toot Toot Show! (partially lost footage of The Wiggles performance; 1998)
- The Wiggles - NASA (lost footage of National Aeronautics and Space Administration performance; 2004)
- Santa's Rockin'! Live In Concert (partially lost footage of Sydney Entertainment Centre performance; 2004)
- Wiggly Safari Show (partially found footage of The Wiggles performances; 2002)
- Wiggledancing! Live On Stage (partially found pro-shot recordings of concert tour; 2006)
- Greatest Hits In The Round (partially lost Acer Arena performance of The Wiggles; 2010)
- Christmas Celebration (lost footage of The Wiggles final performance; 2012)
- The Wiggles LIVE In Concert Tsunami Relief Benefit Concert (partially found footage of Indian Ocean earthquake fundraiser performance; 2005)
- The Wiggly Big Show Tour (lost footage of "The Wiggles" live performance; 1999)
- The Wiggles Reunion Show (partially lost footage of Melbourne performance; 2016)
- Pop Go The Wiggles Show (partially found footage of The Wiggles tour; 2007)
- Sailing Around The World Live! (partially lost recordings of The Wiggles tour; 2005-2006)
- Big Red Car Tour (partially found footage of The Wiggles concert tour; 1995-1996)
- The Wiggles (lost video recordings from Wonderland Sydney concert; 2001)
Videos
- Wake Up Jeff! (partially found original version of Wiggles video; 1996)
- A Wiggle Tale: Dorothy the Dinosaur Goes to Hospital (found promotional VHS tape; 1999)
- Getting Strong! (partially found original version of Wiggles video; 2006)
- The Wiggles (partially lost widescreen versions of children's videos; 2002-2004)
- Dancing Ride (found The Wiggles music video; 2001)
- LIVE Hot Potatoes! (found uncut version of Wiggles video; 2005)
- Overture Introductions (lost pre-show videos from The Wiggles tour; 2004)
- The Wiggles (partially found unreleased music videos of children's group; 2000s-2020s)
- Toot Toot! (found original version of The Wiggles video; 1998)
- Pop Go The Wiggles (lost unreleased version of The Wiggles video; existence unconfirmed; 2006)
Music
- Get Ready To Wiggle! (lost "The Wiggles" UK album; 1999)
- The Wiggles Show (partially lost songs from Latin American children's series; 2006)
- The Wiggles (partially lost re-recorded instrumentals of Australian children's band; 2000s)