Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. TONY EASTLEY: The man who gave Australian television the rocket riding puppet with a pencil for a nose ...

An exhibition pulls back the curtain on the artist’s most famous creations, and a large cast of other characters he prepared earlier Mr Squiggle and Friends: The Creative World of Norman Hetherington ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mr Squiggle, the marionette from the moon who entertained generations of Australian children, has a new home at the National Museum. The beloved children's television show, which first aired in July ...

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 ...