Hubble Bubble

1 9 6 9 – 1 9 7 1 (UK)
10 minute episodes

This Yorkshire Television afternoon programme featured the tales of Bella Donna the friendly witch and her familiars, Clarence Crocodile and Sebastian Cat, in Hubble Bubble Land.

Other characters included Colonel Bluster, Grandma (who ran a shop), Plob and Pippin.

Juliet Cooke told the stories while Eric Bramall and Christopher Somerville (of the Harlequin Puppet Theatre in Wales) handled the puppets. Somerville also wrote the stories and scripts.

The same team were responsible for Jimmy Green and his Time Machine and Sugarball the Little Jungle Boy.

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