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Jo Coghlan, Associate Professor, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, University of New England

Mr Squiggle entertained Australia’s children for 40 years. Now, he’s back in the spotlight

Mr Squiggle, 1958, and Rocket, about 1975. National Museum of Australia

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 down to Earth in his rocket to turn random scribbles into magical drawings.

Mr Squiggle was a ritual for Australian kids. He was a mix of creativity, patience and whimsy that made him one of television’s most unlikely treasures.

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