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.

Hartley Hare had a voice just like our old head teacher at school - they were both pretty odd tbh.

Imagine being the person creating that programme and thinking "ooh yes, here's a nice cute puppet that the kids will adore."

I loved Indigo Pipkins! Hartley was manic and it was ' Any more cream cakes, Hartley?' In a Brummie accent. Rem Octavia very well but not pig of the others, really.
I was terrified of the witch in Chorlton and the Wheelies ( shudder) and the old, pelican (?) in Bagpuss.
Itsy and Bitsy was a favourite, as was Fingerbobs. As I got older Crackerjack and Rentaghost ( on drugs for definite) and Runaround were magic- I was desperate to be on it! Ah, days of innocence!

Whatever happened to this guy?

Thanks all for the Itsy memories! And the clip DJ!

This little sod

the one which was odd is Mr Ben - a man who walked in and dressed up in a different costume every time?

Finger bobs was also odd as was Bod

Jamie and the magic torch
Magic Roundabout
Clangers
I think kids programme makers in the 70s were definitely on drugs

Me!

Bizzy Lizzy Watch with Mother.

Am here!
I would of course remember most of these!
I also loved
Barnaby the bear
Tomorrow's people
And I remember a story about a traveller girl being taken in by grumpy old man. Kizzy or something.

I have vague memories of a children's cooking or baking show with a middle aged lady with a big apron on? At the end, she used to open a little tiny door and let a load of children out of the door who were hiding to taste the biscuits or cakes she had made? How strange!

And a painting programme where the lady had a huge easel with toilet rolls hanging across the bottom to wipe her trowel and paintbrushes? She used to start painting on a huge white paper but with a kind of grid with hideous brown colours?

Can't for the life of me remember the names of these programmes! They must have been in the early 70s as I'm 45 (today!)

Skim read so apologies in advance.
Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley were my faves, Hartley hare definitely the stuff of nightmares, and I am going to add to the mix Animal Crackers (if not already mentioned), now that really was bizarre!!.

And I remember a story about a traveller girl being taken in by grumpy old man. Kizzy or something

I watched that on youtube a few months ago! It was called Kizzy.

Remembered another Follyfoot.

It was Tiny. I used to watch it when I was home for lunch at school.

I loved Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley.

Windy Miller diced with death with those windmill sails, and once got drunk on homemade cider! Only in the 70's...

quest. Farmhouse Kitchen and Painting with Nancy.

time4chocolate I mentioned Animal Kwackers earlier on! It scared the bejesus out of me then and still does now. It must have been created by someone who did too many drugs in the 60's.

Luxury Woman I had a Woofits bedspread!

I loved Kizzy!

Does anyone remember Sky? Sci fi series. About an alien boy.

I’ve never met anyone else who remembers it other than my friend.

Please tell me someone else remembers the frog conducting the orchestra in Bod!

@spiderwilly

Thank you! Off to YouTube I go for a trip down memory lane......

Also 46. I loved Pipkins!!! I grew up in London, then went to uni in Wales then moved to the NE. No one I met had ever heard of it, for ages I partly thought I'd made it up.

Also, Issy Noho.

So many happy childhood memories! I loved Hartley Hare, and Michael Bentine's Potty Time! Better than most of the rubbish on kid's TV now.

I remember all of these!

Loved White Horses, had the theme tune on 7" vinyl

www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+white+horses+theme+tune&view=detail&mid=66014E218CA949F7B72A66014E218CA949F7B72A&FORM=VIRE

I was talking about this with a friend recently. We both got quite nostalgic. Andy Pandy, Woodentops, Bill and Ben.. Weeeeeed"

50s and early sixties. Great stuff.