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The Age
a day ago
- Entertainment
- The Age
The blue-haired man from the moon celebrated for 40 years on television
The squiggle lives. For 40 years Norman Hetherington was known for his creation, Mr Squiggle, a blue-haired man from the moon who used his pencil nose to turn a child's squiggle into a giggle. From 1959 to 1999 on ABC television, Mr Squiggle, a puppet made, voiced and operated by Hetherington, transformed 10,000 children's drawings into what they saw as masterpieces. 'It's a duck that wants to be a ballet dancer,' he said of one. Very often they were drawn upside down. Now the next generation can have a squiggle. A new exhibition, Mr Squiggle and Friends, The Creative World of Norman Hetherington opening at the National Museum of Australia on Friday includes an interactive screen where a new generation can turn an original squiggle into a drawing of their own. It includes nearly 300 objects from the Hetherington collection of more than 800 items, including hundreds of puppets, and was curated by museum deputy director Dr Sophie Jensen. Jensen said that as a unique piece of Australian history, it was hard to imagine another television program that had touched as many people as Mr Squiggle. 'It doesn't matter who you talk to,' she said, someone will have been on the show, watched it or knew someone who was on it. 'It's part of its magic. You only get that with a show that was on the air for 40 years, that covers generations. And 1959 to 1999 was a pretty remarkable stretch in Australian life.
Sydney Morning Herald
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
The blue-haired man from the moon celebrated for 40 years on television
The squiggle lives. For 40 years Norman Hetherington was known for his creation, Mr Squiggle, a blue-haired man from the moon who used his pencil nose to turn a child's squiggle into a giggle. From 1959 to 1999 on ABC television, Mr Squiggle, a puppet made, voiced and operated by Hetherington, transformed 10,000 children's drawings into what they saw as masterpieces. 'It's a duck that wants to be a ballet dancer,' he said of one. Very often they were drawn upside down. Now the next generation can have a squiggle. A new exhibition, Mr Squiggle and Friends, The Creative World of Norman Hetherington opening at the National Museum of Australia on Friday includes an interactive screen where a new generation can turn an original squiggle into a drawing of their own. It includes nearly 300 objects from the Hetherington collection of more than 800 items, including hundreds of puppets, and was curated by museum deputy director Dr Sophie Jensen. Jensen said that as a unique piece of Australian history, it was hard to imagine another television program that had touched as many people as Mr Squiggle. 'It doesn't matter who you talk to,' she said, someone will have been on the show, watched it or knew someone who was on it. 'It's part of its magic. You only get that with a show that was on the air for 40 years, that covers generations. And 1959 to 1999 was a pretty remarkable stretch in Australian life.
