TONY EASTLEY: The man who gave Australian television the rocket riding puppet with a pencil for a nose has died. Norman Hetherington's Mr Squiggle landed on Australian television screens in 1959; he ...

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If you grew up in Australia any time between the 1960s and the late 1990s, chances are you knew a little man from the Moon with a pencil for a nose. His name was Mr Squiggle. Every week he would float ...

One of Australia's most beloved television characters, the pencil-nosed blue-haired puppet Mr Squiggle, is being celebrated with an exhibition at the National Museum.

Brought to life by puppeteer and cartoonist Norman Hetherington, Mr Squiggle captured the hearts, and harnessed the creativity, of Australian children for 40 years, first airing in 1959 and running ...

We celebrate some of the most iconic shows we grew up with in the 80s and 90s. How many do you remember? “Upside down! Upside down!” rang the familiar catchphrase of Mr Squiggle, the moon-dwelling ...

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