Upside down miss Jane

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About Upside down miss Jane

Mr Squiggle was my favourite childhood TV show.

It was all about a man from the moon (puppet) with a pencil for a nose...where is this going you may think, well see Mr Squiggle loved to draw and kiddies loved sending him squiggles which his assistant miss Jane used to place on his blackboard:

then....

Mr squiggle would draw away (with his nose of course) until he was satisfied it resembled something.

"It’s finished miss Jane", he would say, but miss Jane often couldn’t pick what it was, "I cant tell what it is mr squiggle?"

"Upside down miss Jane, it's upside down" mr squiggle would say franticly.... I so loved that part.

.... Basically I want to dedicate this group space to pool photos that go either way or even better upside down, side ways as well, post em any way but upright really.

I take no responsibility for crooknecks, view at your own risk!!!!!

somethings you might not know about mr squiggle:

1. Mr Squiggle lived at 93 Crater Cresent and travelled to Earth in his rocket or by going for a "moon-walk".

2. Mikey Robins, of Good News Week and Triple J fame, played one of the characters, Reg Linchpin, for a year from 1989 to '90. Other characters on the show included Soud the gardener, Bill Steamshovel, Gus the Snail, and grumpy Blackboard with only one good eye, who was with the show from the start.

3. A truly family affair, Mr Squiggle was created by cartoonist and puppeteer Norman Hetherington, whose wife, Margaret, wrote each episode and whose daughter, Rebecca, became the sixth presenter. In keeping with the times, she was just called Rebecca and not Miss Rebecca, unlike Mr Squiggle's former assistants, including Miss Pat and Miss Jane.

4. After it aired in 1959, originally as a six-week filler for the ABC, the length of the show varied from five minutes to an hour and a half. It is Australia's longest running television program and is believed to be one of the longest running children's television shows in the world.

5. Using his pencil nose, Mr Squiggle turned more than 10,000 viewer-supplied scribbles into pictures – most of them drawn upside down! One of his favorite sayings was:

"Everything's upside down these days".



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