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Mr. Squiggle meets Collectors

The segment with iconic children’s character Mr. Squiggle and his maker Norman Hetherington was originally due to air in June.

Tonight’s episode of Collectors features iconic children’s character Mr. Squiggle makes an appearance with his maker Norman Hetherington.

The segment was originally due to air in June before the show was taken off air.

Hetherington talks about Mr. Squiggle, who went to air in 1959 for a trial season of six weeks only. The cartoonist and self-taught puppet-maker also shares Blackboard and many of his 400 puppets.

It also features Dr Joe Gumbula talking about his exhibition at Sydney Uni’s Macleay Museum, Gordon visits beautiful Como House in Melbourne, plus a gramophone collector and a man with the neatest gigantic shed full of items he has saved from becoming extinct.

It airs at 8pm tonight on ABC1.

5 Responses

  1. I owe a lot to mr squiggle. When we didn’t feel like doing any work at school. We would ask the art teacher how does mr squiggle work. Then spend the rest of the lesson. talking amongst ourselves as the teacher rambled on about it.
    But anyway. I think they should re run mr squiggle. Despite the generation difference. Young kids are young kids. And most likely what interested them back then, will do so again now.

  2. Thanks for the update David, I was worried that this had already aired and I had missed this ep with all the turmoil surrounding the show. Love TV history, thanks heaps for the heads up!

  3. I’ve been waiting for Mr Squiggle repeats, I think my kids would love it. Still nothing on the horizon last I heard so at least this may be a catalyst for his return.

    Its not like the ABC has hours and hours and hour sof children’s programming to fill or anything…

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