Originally a children's radio programme on BBC Radio 4, Wiggly Park was a British BBC

BBC

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 children's television animated cartoon

Animated cartoon

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 which was produced in 1997 and shown in 1998. The characters were voiced by British actor Andrew Sachs

Andrew Sachs

Andrew Sachs is a German-born British actor. He made his name on British television and is best known for his portrayals of Manuel in Fawlty Towers, a role for which he was BAFTA-nominated, and Ramsay Clegg in Coronation Street.-Early life:Sachs was born in Berlin, Germany, the son of Katharina , a...

 and Kate Sachs.
Wiggly Park [C] BBC TV

The show revolved around the adventures of six friends in their home, a large town park.
The characters included an earthworm

Earthworm

Earthworm is the common name for the largest members of Oligochaeta in the phylum Annelida. In classical systems they were placed in the order Opisthopora, on the basis of the male pores opening posterior to the female pores, even though the internal male segments are anterior to the female...

 named E.W., a slug

Slug

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 named Nifty (who was characterised as being rather slow and a bit dim), a snail

Snail

Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...

 called Shelly, (who was French and female) Moggy the caterpillar

Caterpillar

Caterpillars are the larval form of members of the order Lepidoptera . They are mostly herbivorous in food habit, although some species are insectivorous. Caterpillars are voracious feeders and many of them are considered to be pests in agriculture...

 who was very greedy, Buzz the bee, and a tortoise

Tortoise

Tortoises are a family of land-dwelling reptiles of the order of turtles . Like their marine cousins, the sea turtles, tortoises are shielded from predators by a shell. The top part of the shell is the carapace, the underside is the plastron, and the two are connected by the bridge. The tortoise...

named Thera who was very old.

its amazing :P

External links

• Info at: http://www.planet-science.com/text_only/sciteach/bstl/ks1sc2/wigglypark.html
• List of episodes and short clip available to view at: http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Other_Studios/B/BBC/Wiggly_Park/