"At Play" is the sixth episode of Series 2.
This episode has also been referred to simply as "Play", including on the TV Series 2 Collector's Edition DVD box set and digital releases. This is not to be confused with episode 21 of this which is also called "Play".
Overview[]
When The Wiggles join Dorothy for a picnic, there's only one problem - she's lost her voice.
Songs[]
- Hot Potato (Live) from The Wiggly Big Show and Toot Toot Show!
- Having Fun At The Beach
- Henry's Underwater Big Band
- D.O.R.O.T.H.Y. (My Favourite Dinosaur) from Yummy Yummy
- Wiggly Medley (Live) from The Wiggly Big Show and Toot Toot Show!
Plot[]
Song 1: "Hot Potato" (from The Wiggly Big Show)
The Wiggles are sleeping and having dreams. Anthony climbs a bowl of spaghetti. Greg has clones of him playing different instruments. Murray flies around like a superhero. Jeff can't sleep in his dream and everyone tells him to go to sleep. Then, the alarm goes off and the Wiggles each do their morning routines. They arrive for breakfast, which magically appears.
Song 2: "Having Fun At The Beach" (new video, from the album Wake Up Jeff)
While having a picnic at Dorothy's place, the Wiggles discover that Dorothy has lost her voice. As they look around the garden, Captain Feathersword arrives and, after mistakenly thinking that they're looking for treasure at first, offers to help find it. Suddenly, the voice possesses him and taunts the Wiggles to catch it. Murray demands the voice to leave Captain Feathersword’s body, which it does, by briefly jumping over to Jeff’s body. They all rush after it after it taunts them again, while the Captain gets blown down.
Meanwhile, Wags is looking at himself in the mirror when his reflection starts talking and giggling like Dorothy! Frightened, he runs away to get help.
Dorothy is still depressed about her missing voice, so her friends decide to cheer her up the only way they know how: with music!
Song 3: "Henry's Underwater Big Band"
Wags tells the Wiggles about his encounter with Dorothy’s voice, but he has no idea where it went. The Wiggles get in their Big Red Car and drive all over town. The voice ends up on Anthony who is giggling and talking like Dorothy. The other Wiggles tell Anthony to cover his mouth so that it doesn't escape. After scolding the voice for its naughty behavior, it gives up and, promising not to cause anymore trouble or run away again, wants to return to Dorothy.
Song 4: "D.O.R.O.T.H.Y. (My Favourite Dinosaur)" (from Yummy Yummy 1998)
Dorothy, after a pause, thanks everyone for getting her voice back.
Song 5: "Wiggly Medley" (from The Wiggly Big Show)
Alternate titles[]
- Play (TV Series 2 Collector's Edition title)
- Dreaming/Dorothy's Runaway Voice (split 11-minute versions, used by Sprout)
Trivia[]
Script page including Rock-A-Bye Your Bear
- The title was originally called "Hobbies".
- In Hot Potato, the animations that were seen on the original version in The Wiggly Big Show are removed in this episode.
- The episode's script is currently on display at the Powerhouse Museum.
- The song Rock-A-Bye Your Bear originally appeared in the script in place of Henry's Underwater Big Band. It's unknown if the episode aired with this song in its original GMTV version.
- The episode entirely focuses on Dorothy the Dinosaur, because she loses her voice. It makes the first time in the second series that a Wiggly Friend is the main protagonist in an episode.