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Mr Squiggle

1959–1999ABC (Australia)Comedy

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A marionette from the moon with a pencil for a nose, turning children's scribbles into drawings for forty years.

Mr Squiggle opens with a main title sequence of 21 seconds.

At 21 seconds, it opens well under the 38-second median for comedy sequences in this catalogue.

1 sequence41st most looked up of 46 in the 1950s
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The opening titles

Season 1

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