Produced in Adelaide (Australia), this Network Ten series was designed for preschool children and focused on early childhood education through interactive segments.
The show typically featured storytelling, sing-alongs, basic computer graphics, abstract shapes, puppets, and live-action educational segments. Elements ranged from musical segments teaching road safety to physical movement and creative arts.
The series is best remembered for its host – a disembodied, floating face (played by Diana Kidd) that appeared against a solid blue or purple background to guide the audience and introduce segments.
The visual effect was achieved by applying heavy blue, yellow, and black makeup to isolate the actor’s eyebrows, eyes, eyelashes, nostrils, and mouth.
To heighten the child-friendly appeal, the voice was electronically fed through a modulator to give it an unnaturally high pitch.
While designed as a comforting daytime companion for young viewers, retrospective pop culture remembers the floating face as distinctly uncanny and nightmarish.
Mulligrub face
Di Kidd
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The series is best remembered for its host – a disembodied, floating face (played by Diana Kidd) that appeared against a solid blue or purple background to guide the audience and introduce segments.
The visual effect was achieved by applying heavy blue, yellow, and black makeup to isolate the actor’s eyebrows, eyes, eyelashes, nostrils, and mouth.
