Bertie the Bunyip
Bertie the Bunyip was the lead puppet character on the popular American children's television series The Bertie the Bunyip Show[1] in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the 1950s and 60s.He was portrayed as a black-colored seal-looking character with a duck-bill-type face. For children he was cute and friendly, getting into harmless situations.
Created by Australian Lee Dexter, Bertie was a bunyip (a mythological Australian creature), described by Dexter as "a cross between a bunny, a collie dog and a duck billed platypus."
Bertie's enemy was an aristocratic fox by the name of Sir Guy de Guy (a newspaper article published shortly after his death featured an interview with Lee Dexter, who noted that Sir Guy was named after the ubiquitous TV Guide).
References
- ↑ http://www.tvacres.com/creatures_bunyip.htm (retrieved March 18, 2014)
External links
- Definitive exposition of the LD/BTB relationship
- BTB at TV land
- nice pic of Lee and Bertie
- Imaginative use of BTB's legacy
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