Inigo Pipkin later renamed Pipkins after the untimely death of George Woodbridge is a jolly old man who runs a puppet store and goes around collecting used and discarded items to create puppets from. His assistant is Johnny played by Wayne Laryea who coincidentally aired in an American children show The Bugaloos in 1970; I love that show
Anyways the puppets included in the show are Hartley a hare that looks like road kill; a tortoise named Tortoise, an ostrich, a penguin, a cat and a ugly pig. I forgot about the monkey Topoff and a pigeon too as well as a badger with an Irish accents, There's also Hartley's uncle who lives on a farm and a Scottish cousin that both look freaky
Mr Pipkins passed away two weeks into filming the second season and in 1974 Pipkins became the first preschool series to include a storyline about death well, two story lines about death. Mr Pipkins death episode became a strong topic about death. I had not seen the death of Mr Pipkins but I did see an episode where the Pipkins gang bought a goldfish and it died causing a brief discussion on eventually everything dies including people Johnny left the program in 1978 to star in Empire Road to be replaced by Tom Jonathan Kydd and later by Peter Potter
The show aired 313 episodes and sadly the only episodes remaining are 57 off air recordings from the guy who voiced Hartley and Tortoise and another presenter Jonathan Kydd who came in 1978 and left in 1980
The show aired from 1973 to 1981 and many episodes are present on four DVDS in the UK. Volume 4 came out in November and although I live in America I've bought the DVDS on Ebay
Not a bad show for little kids
Anyways the puppets included in the show are Hartley a hare that looks like road kill; a tortoise named Tortoise, an ostrich, a penguin, a cat and a ugly pig. I forgot about the monkey Topoff and a pigeon too as well as a badger with an Irish accents, There's also Hartley's uncle who lives on a farm and a Scottish cousin that both look freaky
Mr Pipkins passed away two weeks into filming the second season and in 1974 Pipkins became the first preschool series to include a storyline about death well, two story lines about death. Mr Pipkins death episode became a strong topic about death. I had not seen the death of Mr Pipkins but I did see an episode where the Pipkins gang bought a goldfish and it died causing a brief discussion on eventually everything dies including people Johnny left the program in 1978 to star in Empire Road to be replaced by Tom Jonathan Kydd and later by Peter Potter
The show aired 313 episodes and sadly the only episodes remaining are 57 off air recordings from the guy who voiced Hartley and Tortoise and another presenter Jonathan Kydd who came in 1978 and left in 1980
The show aired from 1973 to 1981 and many episodes are present on four DVDS in the UK. Volume 4 came out in November and although I live in America I've bought the DVDS on Ebay
Not a bad show for little kids