Mr Squiggle

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jackoejacko
June 10, 2007

Intro to ABC's "Mr Squiggle" during Miss Jane's era. For More read on... "Mr. Squiggle was Australia's longest-running children's series, and the name of the title character from that ABC TV show....

Intro to ABC's "Mr Squiggle" during Miss Jane's era. For More read on...

"Mr. Squiggle was Australia's longest-running children's series, and the name of the title character from that ABC TV show. Mr. Squiggle (the character) was a marionette string puppet with a pencil for a nose who visited his friends from his home on the moon (93 Crater Crescent), flying in his pet rocket (named Rocket). In every episode he would create several pictures from "squiggles" sent in by children from around the country.

Mr. Squiggle was created by Norman Hetherington, and the show first aired on 1 July 1959. Hetherington voiced all the show's puppets, while his wife Margaret wrote the scripts. The last episode went to air just over 40 years later on 9 July 1999.

The show has been presented in many formats, from five minute slots to a one-and-a-half hour variety show featuring other performers, and has had several name changes, originally airing as Mr. Squiggle and Friends. Yet the basic premise of the show remained the same: children wrote in with their "squiggles" and Mr. Squiggle would turn them into a recognisable drawing by connecting lines with his pencil nose. More often than not, the picture would be drawn upside down (Hetherington manipulated the puppet from above by viewing the drawing upside down), and then Mr. Squiggle would chant "Upside down! Upside down!" -- turning the picture the right way up and revealing the completed drawing.

Mr. Squiggle was helped by a human female assistant in all the show's incarnations; they included Miss Gina (Gina Curtis), Miss Pat (Pat Lovell), Miss Jane (Jane Fennell), and later series featured Roxanne (Roxanne Kimmorley) and Rebecca (Rebecca Hetherington, Hetherington's daughter).

Other puppet characters that appeared in the show included:

Blackboard, the grumpy blackboard that Mr. Squiggle would draw upon, whose catchcry was "Hu-rry u-p, hu-rry u-p"
Gus the Snail (who had a TV for a shell and later, a flower pot)
Bill the Steam Shovel" -- (Info direct from wikipedia)

Be sure to check out NormKangaroo's channel for other Mr. Squiggle clips.

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Joshiesmooth (2 weeks ago) Show Hide

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you can hear someone saying "tape's rolling"

MaxFuckinFightmaster (1 week ago) Show Hide

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Hahahahaha

ThatGurlWithTheHat (2 months ago) Show Hide

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They took him away to a prison because the actor turned out to be very 'into' little kids.

Joshiesmooth (2 weeks ago) Show Hide

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yeah apparently he was exciting a lot of kids with his pencil

fasttrackme (3 months ago) Show Hide

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what came first. MR squiggle or vegimite? Because that intro sound a hell of a lot like the vegimate song.

Flinklehurst (1 month ago) Show Hide

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The only similarity is that there are a bunch of children singing in unison. The rhythm and melody is completely different.

fasttrackme (1 month ago) Show Hide

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yea i think your right. its just that from 0:11 to 0:16 it kinda sounds like it.

randomthingsstudios (3 months ago) Show Hide

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i remember the one form the 90s but when i saw this i was ....frightened

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hurry up

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