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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i miss mr squiggle! i can only vaguely remember him =( i was about 4 when they took him away! i wish they'd bring him back! why did they take him away? he was awesome!
didn't he sometimes get a trip to the garden and there was a grumpy digging machine out there - like a back hoe or a bobcat - something with a scoop/shovel at the front and he was always in a bad mood? - very early squiggle so maybe someone else may recall - I loved it when he'd get all frantic and call out to miss jane - I think it was jane - pretty sure - such a wonderful show - 5*
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