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 ...

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. Mr Squiggle and Friends was the ...

Unlike other TV props that get thrown away, he has been kept in near-perfect condition. To this day the legendary carved wooden marionette with a pencil for a nose has been preserved by the family of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mr Squiggle, 1958, and Rocket, about 1975. National Museum of Australia If you grew up in Australia any time between the 1960s and ...

The original pencil-nosed puppet and objects including fellow puppets, artworks, scripts, costumes and more have become part of the National Historical Collection Generations of Australians have known ...

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