Little Red Tractor
Little Red Tractor is a British stop motion animated children's television series produced by The Little Entertainment Company and was co-produced by Entertainment Rights for the first two series. The ten-minute episodes were broadcast in the United Kingdom by the BBC on the CBeebies channel.

Produced in stop motion model animation, the series is mainly aimed at preschoolers and features unusually detailed sets and models. The series features the popular voices of Stephen Tompkinson and Derek Griffiths. The characters are based on the books by Colin Reeder, which were narrated for video in the mid 1990s by Brian Glover and Richard Briers. The show is mainly aimed at preschoolers.

History
Little Red Tractor Projects Limited owned the original Little Red Tractor video series. Although it didn't have 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, CITV's 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.

Characters
Stan (voiced by Stephen Tompkinson) is Little Red Tractor's driver and constant companion. Stan lives at Gosling Farm, and keeps two cows Daisy and Veronica, and two pigs.
Little Red Tractor (leader) is a small and old but reliable red farm tractor, mute but capable of expressing emotions. Stan restored him to his farm as in new condition.
Patch is Stan's dog. In the 2004 series, Patch is depicted as a male, whereas in the original stories, Patch is depicted as a female.
Mr. Jones (voiced by Derek Griffiths) is Stan's neighbour and owner of Big Blue Tractor and Harvey. He often appears selfish, materialistic or otherwise antisocial, but tends to be socially inept or smug rather than actually unpleasant. His first name is revealed to be Jasper and he lives at Beech Farm.
Big Blue Tractor (co-leader) is a large, up-to-date blue farm tractor owned by Mr. Jones. He has no anthropomorphic traits but can blow his horn by himself. In the original stories he was named Big Fred.
Harvey is an orange combine harvester owned by Mr. Jones but sometimes borrowed by Stan.
Thomas is Mr. Jones' nephew who comes to stay at Beech farm with him on occasion since Mr. Jones' sister moved back from the city to the country. Thomas is learning to like the country life which he initially thought was smelly, dirty and not as good as computer games.
Stumpy (voiced by Jimmy Hibbert) is the miller. He appears friendly, mildly eccentric and clumsy. He drives his quadbike, "Nipper" very badly. Stumpy plays in Walter's band.
Elsie is Stumpy's wife.
Nipper is a purple quadbike ridden by Stumpy.
Ryan is the child neighbour of Stan. He and his sister like to play with Little Red Tractor and help out.
Amy is Ryan's sister.
Mr. Turvey (voiced by Jimmy Hibbert) is Ryan and Amy's father. He likes to run and plays keyboards in Walters band.
Mrs. Turvey (voiced by Shireen Shah) is Ryan and Amy's mother. She likes to paint and does arts and crafts.
Walter (voiced by Derek Griffiths) is a mechanic who runs the Babblebrook garage and likes to play rock and roll. Walter is easily led astray. Walter is lead singer and plays the guitar for his band called Walter and the Wolverines.
Nicola (voiced by Shireen Shah) is Walter's daughter who also runs the garage. She tends to be far more sensible than her father. Nicola also plays an instrument in her father's band.
Leo is Walter's nephew, becomes a friend of Ryan and Amy. He is a more than competent drummer who stands in for Nicola in Walter's Band.
Sparky is a yellow and blue tow truck which Nicola and Walter drive.
Rusty is Walter's burgundy unreliable car and restoration project who unfortunately breaks down regularly.

Episodes

Series 1 (2004)
 1. The Big Bang
 2. The Ladder
 3. The Gold Cup
 4. Little Red Tractor's Birthday
 5. Making Hay
 6. The Lucky Day
 7. Berries
 8. Mr. Fixit
 9. Flying
 10. The Garage Sale
 11. Tiger, Tiger
 12. The Windy Day
 13. Farm of the Year
 14. The Dam
 15. The Silence of the Cows
 16. The Big Sneeze
 17. The Secret Den
 18. Mr. Big
 19. The Detectives
 20. Roof Tops
 21. Winter Lights
 22. Dog Gone
 23. Bye Bye, Blue
 24. Enter the Dragon
 25. Water Water
 26. The Party

Series 2 (2005)
 27. The Beast of Babble-Brook
 28. The New Engine
 29. The Town Boy
 30. Circles in the Corn
 31. Spuds
 32. Little Red Rocker
 33. Glorious Mud
 34. The New Addition
 35. The Tree House
 36. Traction Trouble
 37. Gone With the Wind
 38. Llama Drama
 39. Read All About It
 40. Marrow Mangler
 41. Buried Treasure
 42. The Ghost of Tawny Owl Wood
 43. The Beech Farm Flyer
 44. Paper Chase
 45. Molehills and Windmills
 46. May Day
 47. Scrambled Eggs
 48. Farm Games
 49. Double Trouble
 50. Hot Hot Hot
 51. Cheesed Off
 52. Magic Hat

Series 3 (2007)
 53. Thunder and Dancing
 54. Row Yer Boat
 55. Lost!
 56. Up, Up and Away
 57. One Potato, Two Potato
 58. The Show Must Go On
 59. Too Cold for Snow
 60. Furry Jumper
 61. Topsy Turvey
 62. The Map
 63. The Hill
 64. Run
 65. Movie Madness
 66. Kart Race
 67. What's Up, Duck?
 68. Rambling Rabbits
 69. Milkshake
 70. Electric Trickery
 71. An Unwanted Tractor
 72. Raindance
 73. Bubblegum
 74. Countryside Code
 75. Welcome Home

Home Media
Several DVD releases of the series have been released. The first five releases were also on VHS as well.

References

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2004 British television series debuts
2007 British television series endings
2000s British animated television series
2000s British children's television series
2000s preschool education television series
Animated preschool education television series
Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
BBC high definition shows
BBC children's television shows
British children's animated adventure television series
British children's animated fantasy television series
British preschool education television series
British stop-motion animated television series
British television shows based on children's books
English-language television shows
CBeebies
Television shows set on farms