[2] The ten-minute episodes were broadcast in the United Kingdom by the BBC on the CBeebies channel.
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.
Although it didn't have television exposure, Little Red Tractor broke into the top ten children's videos and stayed there for several weeks.
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.