Wiggly Safari Show (partially found footage of The Wiggles performances; 2002)

The tour's poster

Status: Partially Found

Wiggly Safari is the fourteenth album by the Australian children's group The Wiggles that was released on February 4, 2002 with it's video of the same name being released five months later. The album and video are known for it being a collaboration with Australian wildlife expert/television personality Steve Irwin a.k.a. "The Crocodile Hunter" and the video being filmed at the famed Australian Zoo in Queensland, Australia. Nearly twenty years after it's release, both the album and video have been regarded as fan favorites. A tour (without Irwin) would commence in December 2002 to promote the album and video.

History

Photo of the setlist from the tour's programme

The tour started on December 3rd at the Perth Challenge Stadium and ended on December 23rd at the Sydney Entertainment Centre with the group continuing to promote the Wiggly Safari album and video throughout the United States the very next year. The stage would feature mostly inflatable set pieces to resemble the safari setting supplied by Inflatable Image Technologies and the setlist would feature several songs from the Wiggly Safari album with some being sung just for the tour including Butterflies Flit, Cocky Want A Cracker, Wobbly Camel and The Wiggle Owl Medley (which debuted live a year earlier). The popular children's song Head, Shoulders, Knees And Toes (which appeared on the group's 1998 album Toot Toot!) would also debut live on the tour. The tour would also be notable for Greg departing halfway through the tour due to the death of his Mother In-Law with backup dancer (and future Yellow Wiggle) Sam Moran to fill in for the rest of the tour to a positive reception. The tour also marked the first time the cover of Rolf Harris' Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport (which appeared on the It's A Wiggly Wiggly World album and video in 2000) would be performed. The song would be performed several more times before permanently disappearing from live performances and album releases after 2014.

Availability

Alleged screenshot of Greg and Captain Feathersword

It's confirmed that at least one show from the tour was recorded as a photo of Greg (without his usually short-sleeved skivvy for touring) performing on tour has surfaced online with the exact date and venue being unknown. Outside of various photos from the tour being recorded, no pro-shot footage from the tour had surfaced. Until November 27, 2018, when the bassist from the tour Mark Slane, uploaded 66 seconds of pro-shot footage from the tour. The footage starts with the end of Captain Feathersword Fell Asleep On His Pirate Ship a.k.a. Quack Quack and Anthony introducing Slane as the new touring bassist before introducing Butterflies Flit. He also mentioned that "Greg had to go away of course.." meaning that this footage came from one of the shows Moran did. Just like the previously mentioned photo of Greg in his long-sleeved skivvy, the venue and date of this footage is unknown. It's unknown if Slane has the rest of the footage or if the clip he uploaded could be donated to him by the group. On March 4, 2022, Instagram user wigglesenthusiasts2 uploaded five muted seconds of one of Greg's performances that came from user charlieploughman, venue and date also unknown. Any full performances have yet to surface.

Footage

66 seconds of pro-shot footage uploaded by Mark Slane

5 muted seconds of pro-shot footage from charlieploughman and uploaded by wigglesenthusiasts2

Pictures

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  Photo of the stage during the Overture

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  Photo of the stage being set

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  Performance of Toot Toot and the Hoop-Dee-Doo prologue

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  Performance of Toot Toot (1/5)

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  Performance of Toot Toot (2/5)

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  Performance of Toot Toot (3/5)

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  Performance of Toot Toot (4/5)

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  Performance of Toot Toot (5/5)

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  Performance of Toot Toot with Sam Moran (1/2)

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  Performance of Toot Toot with Sam Moran (2/2)

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  Performance of Here Come The Wiggles (1/5)

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  Performance of Here Come The Wiggles (2/5)

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  Performance of Here Come The Wiggles (3/5)

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  Performance of Here Come The Wiggles (4/5)

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  Performance of Here Come The Wiggles (5/5)

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  Jeff falling asleep

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  Performance of Hoop-Dee-Doo

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  Performance of Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport (1/2)

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  Performance of Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport (2/2)

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  Performance of Marie's Wedding

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  Performance of Can You (Point Your Fingers and Do The Twist?)

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  Captain Feathersword during the concert

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  Performance of Butterflies Flit

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  Performance of Here Come The Reindeer

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  Photo of the group with Sam Moran filling in for Greg waving to the crowd

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  Performance of Christmas Medley

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  Performance of Butterflies Flit

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  Performance of Play Your Guitar With Murray

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  Performance of Toot Toot

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  Performance of Toot Toot

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  Performance of Here Come The Reindeer

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  Peformance of Play Your Guitar With Murray

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  Anthony during the concert

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  Dorothy during the concert

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  Performance of Marie's Wedding

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  Performance of Marie's Wedding

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  Performance of We're Dancing With Wags The Dog

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  Performance of And The World Is One On A Christmas Morning

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  Performance of Hoop Dee Doo

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  Performance of an unknown song

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  Performance of Here Come The Wiggles

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  Murray during the concert

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  Anthony, Jeff and the back-up dancers during the concert

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)
• 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)
• 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)

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)