Hartley Hare and Pipkins - am I the oldest Mumsnetter in the world?

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There is another thread where a chaperone gave a child with SN a toy rat to keep them quiet. I read the thread and was appalled and yet comforted by the pictures of the rat. Didn't want to hijack that thread but it reminded me of Hartley Hare, who was a terrifyingly bad puppet in a kids show in my youth. The show was called Pipkins I think and included Topov the Monkey and a tortoise, whose name I can't remember.

Am I the oldest and/or most disturbed MNer? As, while Hartley terrified me he also brought joy to my heart because he was such a bad little shit! I think 70s kids TV may have been dominated by people on some sort of recreational substances to be fair.

How we use to live - now that's the way to study history at school

Oh if we're talking themes, you'll never beat this one:

Heidi !!!
I want to be 10 again

The Swiss family Robinson. I wanted to be one of them😀

Anyone remember a Hungarian series about some children? Round about 1980ish?
Also The Children of Fire Mountain?

Actually it might have been Czechoslovakian not Hungarian.

I remember the Children of Fire Mountain! It was set in New Zealand, I think.

Yes. It had a snobby English girl in it. There was a boy in it who used to say "Me mum'll skin me."

This was good.

Swish of the Curtain. - starred a young Sarah Greene who later became a Blue Peter presenter. I was envious of them finding a stage.

Phoenix series - loved this

Ballet Shoes - loved this series

Trumpton and Camberwick Green were wonderful. Hugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew...

Also the best children's film Escape to Witch Mountain (1975). Not the ridiculous remake.

Kizzy was "The Didakoi" by Rumer Godden
and "The Phoenix & The Carpet" by E Nesbit. (She also wrote "5 Children & It" about the same family of children. Just fabulous, well-written stories worth a read.

I can also remember a foreign series about a young lad called Silas, he had a red-headed friend called Godick.

And Will O The Wisp, the one about the ark "All aboard The Skylark!" as a pp has mentioned, The Moomins (which was the 80s I think, but fantastic theme music) Paddington with the 2D background, 3D Paddington and fabulous sound effects, The Perishers and of course, these guys ^:

Has Lizzy Dripping been mentioned?

Loved The Phoenix and the Carpet.

No one else I know remembers the Clifton House Mystery in the late 70s. A family moved into a house and one of the children found a helmet and when he looked in the mirror he could see soldiers fighting. The drumming noise scared the life out of me! An old woman used to appear on the wall too. Very scary for a child of 6 or 7!!

Also around that was a public information film about playing on escalators. A girl dropped her doll and its dress got caught at the bottom - I used to run out of the room whenever it came on! Never found it online

I loved Pipkins

I think I must be pretty old....

I don't quite remember Muffin the Mule. The Woodentops is the earliest I can remember, together with Andy Pandy and Bill and Ben.

Then a bit later on Singing Ringing Tree, which is the scariest thing I've seen! I still have nightmares about that dwarf...

Blue Peter's been going for ever, and I'm glad others remember the Banana Splits and Double Deckers. Peter Firth was in it, and Melvyn Hayes.

Belle and Sebastian was lovely too.

Catweazle!

I was petrified of the clangers
Hated the voice in Ivor the engine
And also scared of the witch in charlton and the wheelies.

I was a wimp.

No one else I know remembers the Clifton House Mystery in the late 70s

Was that the one where they found a hidden room in their house which was sort of possessed, Hunting?

see you next week

Do you know that Harry from spooks was a double decker kid? Google it

bugger

We must be similar ages but had to google the tree thing!

Fuck me there scary. I think my mum must have banned that as I was a woss.

Loved King Rollo!

Yes! I knew I hadn't imagined it

Pah! I remember a puppet show called Four Feather Falls - which I always thought was called Four Feathered Fools until about 2 minutes ago (thanks Google).
It finished production in 1960 when I was 2, so I must have seen repeats in my toddler years!
For some bizarre reason I thought it had something to do with the Goons...........

And The Wombles too- loved Orinoco - he was always in trouble!
Underground, overground, Wombling free
The Wombles of Wimbledon Common are we
Making good use of the things that we find
Things that the everyday folk leave behind...