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 anthropomorphic traits.

• Mr Jones - Stan's neighbor 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. It features the voices of Derek Griffiths and Stephen Tompkinson

Despite apparent similarities to Tractor Tom, Little Red Tractor has a completely different feel, with more realistic storylines, a larger human cast and no surreal livestock behavior. It is mainly aimed at an audience of two-to-three year olds.