The man who created Mr Squiggle for the ABC series of the same name has died after a long illness in Sydney. Norman Hetherington worked initially as a cartoonist before venturing into television in ...

One of Australia's favourite puppets, Mr Squiggle, turned 50 on Wednesday. The pencil-nosed moon-dwelling marionette who brought joy to generations of Australian children debuted on ABC television in ...

JILL MORRIS interviews the veteran ABC artist and broadcaster Mr Squiggle. Former presenter Pat Lovell with Mr Squiggle in 1962.ABC GREEN GUIDE: Mr Squiggle, you’ve been making pictures out of ...

Norman Hetherington's career spanned over seven decades, including cartooning in The Bulletin alongside luminaries like Norman Lindsay, The Courier-Mail reports. Mr Squiggle, the moon-dwelling ...

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 ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. It was April 12, 1961, and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had just become the first human to orbit ...

Mr Squiggle was the cheery pencil-nosed puppet who lived on the moon, turned scribbles into masterpieces and had a pet rocket. On air for more than 40 years, Mr Squiggle was Australia's ...

If you grew up in Australia any time between the 1960s and the late 1990s, chances are you knew a little man from the Moon with a pencil for a nose. His name was Mr Squiggle. Every week he would float ...

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 ...

The Royal Australian Mint has marked TV icon Mr Squiggle's 60th anniversary with a collection of $2 coins. Mr Squiggle and Friends debuted on TV in 1959 and aired all the way through to 1999, ...

Puppeteer and Mr Squiggle creator Norman Hetherington left the famous character, as well as Blackboard, Bill Steamshovel and Gus the Snail to his wife and daughter before his death in 2010. And his ...

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 ...