This is a list of characters that appear in In the Night Garden....
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Igglepiggle (played by Nick Kellington) is a blue teddy bear-like creature with a bean-shaped head, a doll-like nose, a sideways red mohawk and average-sized legs. He always carries his red blanket and tends to fall flat on his back when surprised. He is the main character of the show but not featured in all episodes. He arrives in the Night Garden at the beginning of each episode and leaves the Night Garden at the end of each episode in a boat-like bed for himself, for which the blanket doubles and serves as a sail. Igglepiggle does not speak, but he has a bell in his left foot, a squeaker in his tummy and a rattle in his left hand. His best friends in the garden are Upsy Daisy, the Tombliboos and Makka Pakka. He is the only character not to sleep in the show (with one exception and apart from one time when he fell and fell asleep on Upsy Daisy's Bed) because he sometimes needs to find his boat; he sleeps on his boat instead of in a bed. He is the only character to walk on the Stepping Stone Path and in the Garden and the only character to ride in two carriages of the Ninky Nonk. Igglepiggle is not a full time resident of the Garden but a visitor; the garden exists in Igglepiggle's dream. He was first featured in the episode "Makka Pakka Washes Faces", his song was "Yes My Name is Igglepiggle", which had the same tune as the show's theme.
Upsy Daisy (played by Rebecca Hyland) is a rag doll-like creature, with a brown skin colour, a chime in her tummy and brightly coloured clothes. She likes walking through the Garden and blowing kisses on the other characters or the audience. She often hugs and kisses other characters, particularly Igglepiggle. Her catchphrases are "Upsy Daisy" and the more emphatic "Daisy Doo!" and she additionally says "Pip pip onk onk!", her way of saying goodbye. Her hair stands on end when excited or surprised and her skirt inflates to a tutu when she dances or pulls the ripcord on her waist. In Davenport's earliest sketch of the character, her face was more of a flower-like shape. She, along with Igglepiggle, was first featured in the episode "Makka Pakka Washes Faces" and pulls the ripcord on her waist in "Makka Pakka's Trumpet Makes A Funny Noise". She has a reprise song in "The Ninky Nonk Wants a Kiss", she additionally loves to sing, especially through her megaphone. usually, when she kisses Igglepiggle, Igglepiggle kisses back. Her song was "Upsy Daisy Here I Come". Her appearance is slightly similar to Rosie from Everything's Rosie.
Makka Pakka (played by Justyn Towler) is a beige, small, round-bodied doll-like creature. He has three rounded protuberances on his head, ears and bottom back to represent stones that he uses to make piles. He lives in a rock cave and likes cleaning things, such as his collection of stacking stones and sometimes the other characters. He often stacks freshly cleaned stones into piles resembling his head and body. He sleeps in and on a brightly coloured sleeping stone bag bed, often cuddling a stone as a toy. He travels around the garden riding his trolley/scooter, the Og-Pog, which carries: his sponge, soap, red/orange trumpet and a bellows-like apparatus device called "the Uff-Uff" which he uses to dry items after cleaning them. His house is approached by a stone-walled ditch, as his home is half-buried in the ground. He says his name and the phrase "Mikka makka moo" when he is happy, as well as the names of the Og-Pog and the Uff-Uff and other phrases from his song such as "agga pang" (his soap and sponge) and "hum dum" (his trumpet) and possibly "Ing ang oo" (when he wants to blow his trumpet). Like Upsy Daisy and the Tombliboos, he also uses a phrase meaning "goodbye", represented in publications as "pip pip onk onk". He, Igglepiggle and Upsy Daisy were first featured in the episode "Makka Pakka Washes Faces". As Makka Pakka is smaller than the other characters, he is filmed on another identical set (or garden) and where he appears with other characters, two scenes are shot in parallel and he is filmed far away, whilst the other costumed characters are filmed close up. He has a reprise song in "Everybody All Aboard the Ninky Nonk", his song was "Makka Pakka Mikka Makka Moo".