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.

Superman (the cartoon series) oh and batman as well.

I remember all of these! Well, not the Woofits or Tingha and Tucker

I loved all the Brummie accents in Pipkins and remember thinking they all looked a bit homemade!

I still remember the music to pipkins even though I've not heard it since the 70s

Got loads of theme tunes going round in my head now.

Magpie - the slightly cooler version of Blue Peter.
And Why Don't You - always on in the summer holidays.

Why don't you switch off your television set and go and do something less boring instead!

I remember Andy Pandy, looby loo and teddy.
Loved them.
In fact in 1981 my children were in a fancy dress parada. My son wore the Andy pandy suit, my daughter I dressed as looby loo and she carried a teddy.
They didn't win, but they did the next year as Cinderella and her ugly sisters. We dressed her brothers as the ugly sisters, with my grandmothers old wigs and a couple of old bridesmaids dresses!
Those were the days!

Oh what a lovely thread!

I can never find anyone who remembers Pipkins - I loved it.

Also the Flumps and how they wiggled their toes all in a row.

Also 'I'm a rather fat feathery owl called...Sage' (The Herbs).

Bod was brilliant because it was so simple. Still remember Grandma with her bun.

Best of all: 'Here is a box. A musical box. Wound up and ready to play. But this box can hide - a secret inside. Can you guess what is in it - today?' and it went round and round and the main character of the episode came out.

'Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb' (Trumpton?)

Such great programmes and happy memories.

White Horses anybody - thought the music was so beautiful when I was about 6.

Folly Foot!

OMG Follyfoot - fab music too - The Lightning Tree.

I agree with a pp that Hamble was the creepiest doll ever! Jemima was benign enough...

My Friday treat was being allowed to eat tea (egg and homemade chips) in front of the telly at Grandma and Grandpa's house, my absolute favourite was 'Horses Galore'

The Flashing Blades - badly dubbed Belgian drama for a Saturday

Well, we've had so many "best theme tune ever"s on this thread, but The Flashing Blade's theme truly was. So dramatic!

I still have a hardback novel of Follyfoot. Loved that programme. Does anybody remember "Swish of the curtain" ? Dramatisation of a Noel Streatfield book with Sarah Greene.

i remember lots of these, even had an Itsy Bitsy hand puppet which had 6 fingers!?
One programme that used to scare the bejeesus out of me was Paulus the Wood Gnome with a witch that makes Hartley Hare look cuddly! It didn't help that the theme tune went along the lines of "She's out to get you, she's out to get you, beware!"
Google if you dare!!

According to the BBC website Chloe Ashcroft "did a terrible thing to Hamble. She just would not sit up...so one day I got a very big knitting needle, a big wooden one, and I stuck it right up her bum, as far as her head. So she was completely rigid, and she was much much better after that."

No wonder Hamble looked pained...

Apocalyptic

Ah the Little Mole. Sobbing at the thought. You are my people

just for you NearLifeExperience

Thank you Inigotaran

Loved that show hence my name. Big smile on my face now.

Barnaby the Bear! I can still sing it all - birds taught me to sing, when they took me to their king?

Does anyone remember teddy Edward? He was a teddy with a medal round his neck.

I also recall Barbapapa which was a big pink blob that could shape shift into anything. And the flumps, Mary mungo and midge where midge crept out along the arm of a crane. And now I'm remembering one that was on around the same time as M,M &M, and the titles were wooden blocks or something? I never liked it.

Tiddlywinks are you thinking of Larry the Lamb? My grandma knitted is replicas. Recently found them clearing my parents' loft, he's now sat on my bedside table (along with some more questionable '70s' characters!

Can't believe Issi Noho has been mentioned twice. Where I live now, no one has heard of it. I presumed it was a regional programme.

How we used to,live. - watched this at school. I still remember one programme where a colonel was hunting and fell and got lockjaw from it. Towards the end there wqs a scene of him in bed being attended to.

I still find myself singing the Barnaby. the Bear tune.

Lots of programmes mentioned above I recognise also.

Does anyone remeber the cartoon strips that finished childrens tv. ?There was the strange Ludvig. My favourite was Fred Bassett and I had a FB bedspread.

White horses. Belle and Sebastian. Timeslip. Pogles Wood. Twizzle. Andy Pandy. The Woodentops. Escape into night. The singing Ringing Tree. Blue Peter. Play School. Jackanory. Worzel Gummidge and I used to hide behind the sofa when Doctor Who came on! Does anyone remember a series called Island Of The Great Yellow Ox? I am old. I still make an advent crown out of tinsel and old coat hangers though.

I loved poplins. Wasn't there an Ostrich called Octavia too?