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.

Oh thanks spider! Will search you tube for kizzy!

God, I've got the Barnaby the Bear song stuck in my head now...

Birds taught me to sing
When they brought me to their king
First I had to fly
In the sky so high so high so high so high so high

Altogether now
Barnaby the bear's my name
Never call me Jack or Jane
I will sing my name in vain
Barnaby the bear's my name.

Aaaaaaaaargh

Boom boom Basil!!! See this is why I love mumsnet!! Great memories. Thank you.

Barnaby the Bear

Parsley the lion was in ‘the herb garden’

I’m a very friendly lion called parsley

I named one of my cats after him. If I had a dog I would call him ‘dill, I’m a dog named dill’

I remember Listen with Mother on the wireless! Also watched The Woodentops. I have my own spotty dog now!

See, loved those herbs songs... each character had their own. I remember Parsley and Dill, and
"I'm Bay leaf, I'm the gardener..."

Loved Marine Boy!

www.bing.com/videos/search?q=marine+boy+youtube&ru=%2fsearch%3fpc%3dTHWI%26form%3dAMZNS1%26q%3dmarine%2bboy%2byoutube&view=detail&mid=A1827C7B5CC19EB7FA5FA1827C7B5CC19EB7FA5F&&mmscn=vwrc&FORM=VDRVRV

That's it Daisy, I also remember Muffin the Mule and Noggin the Not, Stingray, Captain Scarlet, How.

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Yeeees!! To white horses!

And The Double Deckers!

www.bing.com/videos/search?q=double+deckers+youtube&&view=detail&mid=74B6034EDF0D3BBA8AFC74B6034EDF0D3BBA8AFC&&FORM=VDRVRV

If I had a dog I would call him ‘dill, I’m a dog named dill’

Beat you :)

Rhubarb & custard - best theme tune ever!

No, you're not the oldest - you're a spring chicken .

My favourite programmes as a child in the late 1940s/1950s were Muffin the Mule, the original Andy Pandy and Bill and Ben on a black and white 9 inch tv on the one channel broadcast back then. That's old .

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That takes me right back.😀

Always I have a big golden retriever, and when he's running at full pelt towards me I can't help but sing the Roobarb and Custard theme to myself.

Ivor the engine! But does anyone else remember ‘bleep and booster’ it was a space cartoon and I was terrified of it I have no idea why! Aged about 3.

Also Trumpton and Queen Victoria’s head on the statue anyone?

Again as a teenager anyone remember ‘the chamges’ terrifying

There are many mumsnetters as old op

I had a cloth Andy pandy that my mum made me from a printed pattern in women's weekly, I loved it.

Anyone remember ‘Jamie and the Magic Torch’? Mid to late 70s I think. Jamie shone his torch and went to a magical world with his dog Wordsworth.

Look and read.

Yes! Watching 'The boy from Space' on the TV on wheels at junior school. God knows why? I don't think it was discussed by the class afterwards, just a time filler perhaps?

Anybody else remember Tingha and Tucker (the 2little Bears) with Auntie Jean and Katy Kookaburra

How We Used To Live

The Flashing Blades - badly dubbed Belgian drama for a Saturday

and The Sunday Gang every Sunday

also loved Mary Mungo and Midge and Handful Of Songs

I once had a letter read out on TISWAS as well