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.

Do you remember when Dr Who was half hour episodes and was really scary? I used to have to hide behind the sofa!

And Four Feather Falls....that theme sung by Michael Holliday. "In Four Feather Falls, there's always magic in the air....Anything can happen, anything at all....."

Indigo I'm a bit of a weirdo in that I never find anything (book, TV, film at least) scary. Not now, not as a child. I was always surprised when people told me they found Dr Who scary.
Come on, daleks are ridiculous!

I remember the shorter episodes, though, each ending on a cliffhanger!

Anyone remember those random 'childrens foundation' films on a Sunday afternoon? They were a bit strange.

A lot of the forementioned on here:

Keith Chegwin was a child actor in the Children's Film Foundation days.

Ahhh, Screen Test, with the dishy Michael!!

My childhood crush. Apparently he's aged very well!

Look and learn films were also weird in the 70s, they were meant to teach us to read, but some of those films frightened the life out of me, with aliens running around and children being scared.
I do remember Screen test, it was actually quite hard at times as they had to remember things that happened in short clips of film and dialogue too. They always used films made by the children's film foundation.

ChockABlock
T-Bag
The Mysterious Cities of Gold
Moomins
Greenclaws
Telebugs
Grotbags

Does anyone remember ‘Watch’? We used to be shown it at school. I remember a Hallowe’en episode where the presenter dressed up as a witch and sang a song about ‘black and gold’. At least I think that was on ‘Watch’!

liverbird10 The Mysterious cities of gold - another great theme tune! I have younger siblings and remember them watching it.

Mum used you take us to the cinema in the summer holidays to see ‘children’s film foundation films’

I loved them.

The boy with the red balloon was an Eastern European film that made me cry when i was about 9 or 10. All i can remember is that he lost the balloon. it was very odd, but also very moving.

I am more upset that a few of the presenters i remember , such as Rolf Harris, were later found out to be child molesters! Its tainted my childhood a bit.

Until this very day I still fancy living at the very top of a block of flats due to Mary, Mungo and Midge.

Very sinister !I remember HH well.

Mary, Mungo and Midge was an ace cartoon - the set was so sterile and clean and the characters seemed to love living up there.
Not at all like the high rise close to where i lived!! ( they are gone now)

Oh, i didnt see that post about Black Beauty - i always thought it was Canadian? i dont know why!
it was good though - all those victorian clothes and the horses were lovely.

Joe 90 was great, loved the theme tune
We have a cd of tv theme tunes with that, The Adams Family, The Musters, Black Beauty, Batman and loads more on it, I wind my dh up by playing it in the car on long journeys, DS likes them though.

I also adored those BBC adaptations of classic books. My all time favourite was Thursdays Child.

My childhood was mainly in NI and pre TV!!!!!!

I named my rabbit after Hartley hare. I can't for the life of me remember what he actually looked like despite me being obsessed with the show apparently!

Children's books being read out by Kenneth williams were always great fun on Jackanory.
Kizzy about the gypsy girl was also good.
They always seemed to do a Dickens adaptation for sunday tea time viewing as well. I knew then that the weekend was over and back to school on monday!

Children's books being read out by Kenneth williams were always great fun on Jackanory. I loved him.

my dad was a bit of a TV snob, so we got to watch The Adventure Game, and The great egg race - anyone remember those!

The Great Egg Race &

We used to go to a spare room in the school to watch 'educational' tv programmes too. Loved it. I remember 'Watch'.

Just looked at 'Thursdays Child' I watched that too, had forgotten all about it, loving this thread.

Kizzy is on youTube if anyone wants to watch it.