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This is Mr Pipkin's Workshop.  Come on in and look around.  See all those puppets ?  Well, Mr Pipkin made them and they are rather special, for they can dance and sing just like humans.

Mr Pipkin’s Workshop

Mr Pipkin and Johnny have finished making a monkey puppet, but as Hartley Hare points out, it doesn’t move...

Topov the Monkey

Now that the monkey can move, Mr Pipkin and Johnny think very hard for a name, they even ask Tortoise for help. What can they call the newcomer ?

A Name for the Monkey

Mr Pipkin’s nephew, Fred, visits the workshop and tells his uncle that he is entering a bicycle race, but funny things seem to happen to Fred…

Mr Pipkin’s Nephew

Hartley cannot find his glasses. Are they lost, or has someone hidden them? Poor Hartley is in for a worrying time…

Hartley’s Glasses

Octavia

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Mr Pipkin, Johnny, Hartley, Tortoise and even naughty Topov are all going away to the seaside for a holiday. Dr Stethoscope is going with them to make sure that no one, especially Hartley, gets a cold.

Going to the Seaside

Inigo Pipkin has problems. When he had a telephone put into the workshop, he didn’t realize the trouble it would cause…

The Telephone

Topov keeps getting his beard in the cornflakes…

Topov’s Beard

Bertha sets out for the workshop to see Johnny but when she arrives Mr Pipkin and Johnny are out. Although she’s a bit cross, she decides to clean up while they are out. Hartley helps out, but finds the vacuum cleaner too loud for his big ears!

Hartley and Bertha Clean Up

A new puppet has been made and it’s nearly ready to be shown. But Hartley can’t wait. He wants to see it now, and it’s through trying to take peep at it that he has an accident.

The New Puppet

The new puppet makes snorting noises. He also eats all the time, often rather strange things. Hartley puts up with this for a while, until he finds drawings of food among his own pictures…

Episode 6

A dustman calls to take away the old junk, but Mr Pipkin wants to keep it. He can make animals out of things that people throw away. The dustman is so excited by what he sees in the workshop that he gets left behind by the dust cart.

The Dustman

Charlie the dustman brings some "useful junk" round to Mr Pipkin...

An Old Glass Door

Episode 24

It's Hartley's birthday - and there are lots of surprises. He doesn't know he's going to have a party, a present and a surprise telephone call!

Hartley's Birthday

Johnny is now in charge but without Mr Pipkin to teach him to make puppets, how will he earn money to buy food ? He has an idea…

Johnny’s Flat, Hartley’s Office

Johnny, Hartley, Tortoise, Topov and co start up in business as 'Pipkins', the help people. Hartley answers the phone in the office, while Pig and Topov go out in the van to help people…

Their First Job

With everyone working, who is going to do the housework ? The only one who could do it is Octavia but she breaks everything with her feet. So they advertise for a housekeeper…

New Housekeeper

Mrs P, the new Penguin housekeeper, feels she should not be asked to sleep in the kitchen sink. So Johnny gets a new kitchen sink unit and puts it out in the yard.

Mrs P’s Suite

Tortoise can’t go on keeping money under the settee, he needs somewhere special to put it. Charlie the dustman comes to the rescue with an idea.

Building the Bank

Bertha tries to help run the office but she upsets Hartley’s way of doing things. However she does find a quick way of planting potatoes…

Bertha’s Spuds

Uncle Hare takes Mrs P into town and finds he likes his own hollow much better. But Mrs P likes one place they visit... where they keep fish on ice!

Uncle Goes a-Wooing

Hartley feels poorly, but he’s in good hands as Charlie is looking after him. However as Hartley recovers, strange things start to happen to Charlie…

Charlie the Nurse

Pig, Topov and Hartley all have very different ideas on how to spend the money they have saved from their work.

The Money Programme

Stripe

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Charlie and the Duck

Growing

It's holiday time for Pipkins, and they are camping in the woods. Everyone has a job to do, and they are all happy. At least, almost everyone... Octavia can’t stand the mud!

Camping

Pipkins - the help people, have another job to do. A man who looks after elephants is unhappy with his bath...

Elephants

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Topov wants to know why an eggshell breaks if you kick it - his football never does. He also wants to know why all sorts of other things happen...

Topov Asks: Why ?

Topov wants to know why he can't play with the typewriter, mess about with Tortoise's lift and have fun with his toy spider. Nobody tells him. They just say, "Don't"

Topov Asks: Why Not ?

Uncle Hare comes up from the country and discovers a public library: a place where they lend you books - even picture books for Topov who can’t read...

Uncle and the Books

Charlie asks Pipkins to look after a homeless dog. But he doesn’t tell them that the dog is enormous. Uncle Hare, however comes to the rescue…

Charlie and the Dog

Pig learns that if you eat too much you need more money to pay for the food, and to get more money you have to do more work. Isn’t life unfair ?

Pig’s Greed

Johnny and Hartley are going to make a garden swing for a child they know. They’re not too keen on Pig helping them, but yet when it comes to solving their biggest problem, Pig proves to be surprisingly helpful.

The Garden Swing

Bertha brings a present for Johnny, but before Johnny gets back from work, the present has disappeared. Where did it go ? And could Hartley have had anything to do with it ?

Bertha Loses Her Scarf

Johnny finds out the hard way that there are some things you just can’t mend yourself. You need a special machine to do it or send it back to the factory where it was made…

The Broken Bicycle

Pipkins set off in a boat along the canal to work for the lock keeper.

On the Canal

Topov is supposed to telephone Hartley to tell him where he is when he’s out working, but naughty Topov doesn’t do this… yet, somehow Hartley finds out… how ?

Where is Topov ?

Pipkins was a British children's TV programme. Hartley Hare, Pig, Topov and the gang were the stars of ATV's pre-school series which ran from January 1973 to 29 December 1981.

The Best Seasons of Pipkins

The Best Seasons of Pipkins

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5

Season 6

Season 7

Season 8

Season 9

Season 10

Season 11

Season 12

Season 13

Season 14