Little Red Tractor

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Little Red Tractor is an animated children's television series broadcast by the BBC, usually on the CBeebies channel. The main characters are:

• Little Red Tractor - a small, old but reliable farm tractor, mute but capable of expressing emotions.

• Stan - Little Red Tractor's driver and constant companion.

• Big Blue - a large, up-to-date farm tractor. Has no anthopormorphic traits.

• Mr Jones - Stan's neighbour and owner of Big Blue. He often appears selfish, materialistic or otherwise antisocial, but tends to be socially inept or smug rather than actually unpleasant.

• Stumpy - the miller. Friendly and mildly eccentric. Drives his quadbike, "Nipper" very badly.

• Elsie - Stumpy's wife.

The series is produced using stop motion model animation and features unusually detailed sets and models.

Despite apparent similarites to Tractor Tom, Little Red Tractor has a completely different feel, with more realistic storylines, a larger human cast and no surreal livestock behaviour.