A Wiggle Tale: Dorothy the Dinosaur Goes to Hospital (found promotional VHS tape; 1999)

The video's cover.

Status: Found

Date found: 7 Nov 2015

Found by: Daniel Celano

In 1999, the Australian children's group The Wiggles released a video about Dorothy the Dinosaur called The Dorothy the Dinosaur and Friends Video, as previously shown in the Toot Toot! video. Five months later, they released a promotional video titled Dorothy the Dinosaur Goes to Hospital. The video centers around Dorothy going to the Sydney Children's Hospital due to her tail anesthetic. In the video, Dorothy was voiced by Elisha Burke (who voiced the character in the Toot Toot video, the group's first television series and during their Disneyland concerts) rather than Carolyn Ferrie (who was the character's full-time voice actress at the time) and the video was shorter than a typical Wiggles video, running for 11 minutes and 30 seconds. Since the video was made in partnership with the Sydney Children's Hospital and Ronald McDonald House, very few copies of the video were made and the video faded into obscurity after its release.

For over 15 years, the video was completely lost and any copies were extremely rare. But on July 19th, 2014, it was first discovered by Facebook user Tim Reimer. The following year, 2015, Tim sold the video on eBay and during the auction, American Wiggles fan Daniel Celano bid the video's pricing and finally won on September 30th. Daniel ordered the video on eBay and later got it on October 6th. This video has now been found and viewable since November 7th, 2015. After the video's resurfacing, Anthony revealed in a since deleted Instagram story that the video will be uploaded as part of the group's Unreleased NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN Specials series on their YouTube channel.

Gallery

A mirror of the video.

See Also

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

• Wiggly, Wiggly Christmas (partially found original version of Wiggles video; 1996)
• Wake Up Jeff! (partially found original version of Wiggles video; 1996)
• 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)

Miscellaneous

• WiggleWorld (partially found interactive children's website; 2000-2001)
• Neighbours "Episode 3896" (partially found episode of Australian soap opera; 2001)
• Mister Moose's Fun Time (partially found spin-off of "The All New Captain Kangaroo" Fox Kids children's series reboot; late 1990s)