Little Red Tractor
| Little Red Tractor | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Children's television series |
| Created by | Colin Reeder |
| Voices of |
Stephen Tompkinson Derek Griffiths |
| Theme music composer | Michael Cross Stan Cullimore |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 28 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 10 minutes per episode (approx.) |
| Production company(s) | Little Entertainment Group |
| Distributor | BBC |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC (UK) |
| Picture format | HDTV (2004–2007) |
| Original release | January 1, 2004 – April 29, 2007 |
Little Red Tractor is a British children's television series produced by the Little Entertainment Group. The ten-minute episodes are usually broadcast in the UK by the BBC, usually on the CBeebies channel.
The series is produced using stop motion model animation and features unusually detailed sets and models. It features the voices of Stephen Tompkinson and Derek Griffiths. The characters are based on the books by Colin Reeder, which were narrated for TV in the mid 1990s by Brian Glover. It is mainly aimed at an audience of two to three-year-olds.
Little Red Tractor Projects Limited owned the original Little Red Tractor video series. Despite not having 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, 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.
The characters of the series are:
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