Pipkins (Inigo Pipkin) kids TV from the 70s

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Any mention of the Pipkins reminds me of this

 

[Spymaster]

I remember it but wasn't a fan.

Even when I was 8, Hartley Hare struck me as a total dickhead.

 

[Griff]

I remember it well.

There was another less well known programme at the time called Hickory House that had a freakish puppet called Humphrey Cushion that was far worse than anything Pipkins had. Also Dusty the Mop, a talking mop with a big pink cock for a nose. If I remember rightly.

Scarey stuff.

 

[tim]

I remember it well.

There was another less well known programme at the time called Hickory House that had a freakish puppet called Humphrey Cushion that was far worse than anything Pipkins had. Also Dusty the Mop, a talking mop with a big pink cock for a nose. If I remember rightly.

Scarey stuff.

Yes, it's all coming back to me, now!

 

[MrSki]

Yeah I liked Hickory House too. Rainbow was Thames TV Pipkins was ATV & I think HH was Granada.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Rainbow

 

[pogofish]

I remember it well.

There was another less well known programme at the time called Hickory House that had a freakish puppet called Humphrey Cushion that was far worse than anything Pipkins had. Also Dusty the Mop, a talking mop with a big pink cock for a nose. If I remember rightly.

Scarey stuff.

Yes, that made it to Grampian, along with Rainbow - Thames and Grananda were much better represented up here.

In fact, some years later I learned that Grampian and Granada had a long-standing reciprocal partnership to cover emergencies/outages and their network control centres were linked by early ISDN-type lines at the transmission control/engineering level, so if one was taken-out for whatever reason, the other could keep broadcasting going on each others transmitter networks virtually seamlessly.

Which paid-off when the first 24hr broadcasting started in what, the late 1980s/early 1990s - there was a point where Grampian could shut-up shop for the night and hand control over to Granada till the next day - which meant that they stole STV‘s thunder by some months for the first Scottish all-night transmissions. STV‘s much lower standard technical operation could only rush-in clunky VTR-based transmissions in response.

 

[MrSki]

Came out about the same time as Bagpuss iirc ? I remember them both and must have been pretty small at the time. These shows were like the follow on from watch with mother.

Today is the birthday of Bagpuss.

 

[MrSki]

As for rude rainbow, I miss Bungle73 and the clip i used to always drop into his threads.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Today is the birthday of Bagpuss.

Bagpuss can fuck off, the lazy fuck! Sitting on his arse, while those poor mice do all the work. The epitome of a fat cat.
But Emily loved him.
Yeah, but Emily was a fascist!

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Bagpuss can fuck off, the lazy fuck! Sitting on his arse, while those poor mice do all the work. The epitome of a fat cat.
But Emily loved him.
Yeah, but Emily was a fascist!

Said Augustus Barclay Yaffle ...in a gruff tone.

 

[UrbaneFox]

Pipkins intro. Self-centred drama queen if ever there was one.
ATV, and it was on at lunchtime, or dinnertime, if you insist.

 

[MrSki]

Self-centred drama queen if ever there was one.

Well Hartley Hare was. Originally Inigo Pipkin was the puppet maker but he died early on so the dynamics of the show changed.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I super loved it. Don't remember the indigo pipkin version but was well into the one where Hartley had a ball at the beginning and mrs Popov lived next door in their crappy inner city flat. Didn't the bloke run some kind of brick a brac shop?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I remember it well.

There was another less well known programme at the time called Hickory House that had a freakish puppet called Humphrey Cushion that was far worse than anything Pipkins had. Also Dusty the Mop, a talking mop with a big pink cock for a nose. If I remember rightly.

Scarey stuff.

Oh, I liked that as well. I remember the name dusty mop, and that I loved it, but can't visualise it without getting confused with paper play.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

When I hear Pipkins this comes straight to mind.
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Time for a story, I loved it. My brother 3 years older hated it. I'd say I was watching it mid to late 70's.

Fuck . . . .I still say that, and think of all the clocks in my head. . . . As I pause, before saying "for a story".
So basically, if I ever I am about to declare that it's time to do something, (go to the shops/finish a job/time we got moving) I can't help saying "for a story" instead.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Here!



Didn't an ostrich called Octavia stick her head in the sand all the time or am I imagining that?

 

[MrSki]

'Jelly, cakes & jam but he's not so keen on ham' Song about pig.

Octavia had a french accent but not as sexy as Madame Cholat.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I just realised I got the Pipkins opening music mixed up in my head (also) with paper play.

 

[MrSki]

I just realised I got the Pipkins opening music mixed up in my head (also) with paper play.

Check this out. Only a couple I don't remember.

 

[Calamity1971]

mrs Popov lived next door in their crappy inner city flat.

Wasn't Mrs Popov/popoff the woman who sneezed and popped off in rentaghost. That was sue nicholls as well.
People used to call me that cos I couldn't sit still for two minutes.

 

[MrSki]

Wasn't Mrs Popov/popoff the woman who sneezed and popped off in rentaghost. That was sue nicholls as well.
People used to call me that cos I couldn't sit still for two minutes.

Don't get me started on RentaGhost. Probably deserves its own thread.

 

[Calamity1971]

Don't get me started on RentaGhost. Probably deserves its own thread.

Totally. Except for that annoying jester.

 

[krtek a houby]

We got this show in Ireland. Depending on the reception, you'd either see it on UTV or HTV. Some of these kids programmes were well inventive back in the day.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Wasn't Mrs Popov/popoff the woman who sneezed and popped off in rentaghost. That was sue nicholls as well.
People used to call me that cos I couldn't sit still for two minutes.

Yes. I called her Popov (rentaghost) because I don't know what her name was in Pipkins.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Totally. Except for that annoying jester.

On repeat viewings he's the best one. Series one is the only good one.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Check this out. Only a couple I don't remember.

Why the fuck is Julet Bravo in there?
Added note. I used to think that Julet Bravo was the woman's name.

 

[Idris2002]

After farmerbarleymow saying he had never heard of Hartley Hare & the rest of the Pipkins gang, (Topov, Tortoise, Octavia, Pig & Mooney Badger) it got me wondering to who else had fond memories of this 70s show. I remember it more from a must watch when stoned era to that when I originally watched it as a nipper.

Wiki link here.

Looking at the clip I posted in the PS coming out thread I am amazed at what they could get away with.

One of the first kids programmes to have regional accents and a non white presenter (for a while).

Anyone else a fan & who was your favourite character?

This is obviously something from the Scarfolk extended universe that has leaked into our reality.

 

[Calamity1971]

Yes. I called her Popov (rentaghost) because I don't know what her name was in Pipkins.

Mrs muddles, I watched the episode you put up

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Mrs muddles, I watched the episode you put up

It was dreadful.

And you can see the bits that control the annoying puppet's arms. What a rubbish telly programme.