Pob was a thug.
Totally irrelevant piece of info coming up..................................................now.
I used to have a cat called Pipkin. She wasn't nammed by us, we got her from an old couple who had taken her in. (she came with the sofa we bought from them)
Is that where the name came from? I'd never heard of it before then. I used to watch Hartley Hare, but don't remember anything/one called Pipkin. If so, what was the character like?
I was a Hectors House fan...............
(and don't pretend you've never heard of that??)
Vague TV Cream-ish memories surfacing.....Topoff the Monkey, Pig, Octavia the Ostrich, Tortoise. We need an expert to give the deifinitive account.
Send for Paul Ross.
Actually I'd like to know more about Mr Trimble too. I remember a fish.
Where Pipkins came into it - the series was originally called "Inigo Pipkin", which was the name of the old puppet maker who created Hartley, Pig, Topov and Tortoise. Unfortunately, he was so old that he died after about two years, and the series was renamed "Pipkins", which became the name of an organisation set up by Hartley and co to help people.
There's a brilliant website that explains all of this far better than I ever could...
the only worse name than Pipkin, is probably Pippin, which is the name given to almost every dog owned by a mad old 'Barbera Cartland-esque' upper class British woman who wears big flowery hats.
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>There's a brilliant website that explains all of this far better than I ever could...
Scuse my ignorance - it can be found where?
BTW Pipkin was the bestest cat that ever was.
All black, half burmese with a miaow that was just like taliking!!
No I'm not a middle-aged lady with a large frilly hat.............well not just yet anyway!
can't remember the address, but there's a link to it on my site...
Does anyone know when Pipkins was last shown on ITV? Did it end totally in 1981, with the passing of ATV, or was it ever shown on Central (who I know replaced it with the nowhere-near-as-good Let's Pretend)?
The conversation on the Bagpuss thread has made me wonder how old I would have been when I last saw it.
It ended totally and utterly in 1981, and hasn't been seen from that day to this.
Only about three broadcast quality episodes still exist. Shocking.
It ended totally and utterly in 1981, and hasn't been seen from that day to this.
Only about three broadcast quality episodes still exist. Shocking.
I thought there were a lot more than three episodes existing - according to that Pipkins site there were something like 70 tapes remaining, though I suppose not all of them were broadcast quality and some of them were duplicates of episodes and still more had various faults.
So, about 3 decent quality episodes and about 67 rough copies? Could be worse, but isn't as good as it should be. I bet the bloody Tweenies will have every bastard episode perfectly preserved until the end of time.
Oh and I'd have been 5 when Pipkins was last shown then. I didn't know about Inigo Pipkin until I started reading about old kids' tv shows on the web, up until then I thought Pipkins was just a collective name for the puppets in the programme (a bit like Tweenies, in fact).
As far as I know, the other existing episodes are ATV produced offline cassettes (the colour ones), and some that some bloke somewhere recorded at home (black and white).
>can't remember the address, but there's a link to it on my site...
Please tell me how to access your website....
Ta!
strictly for the dedicated, but...
if you're in bradford and bored (like i was that afternoon six years ago) wander into the national museum of etc and go up to their viewing rooms, where one of the programmes you can watch on request is an ep of pipkins.
and believe me, it's among the shoddiest stuff you'll ever see. i had fond memories, but couldn't believe what a loveless shower of cack it was.
poor old hartley.
j xxx
(but if anyone finds the morris minor van from the opening titles, i'll give you a fiver for it. a tenner if hartley's still on top.)
http://www.bluejam20.freeserve.co.uk/