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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] which aired on KYW-TV (known as WPTZ until 1956, then WRCV-TV from 1956-1965) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which ran from 1954 to 1966. [2] He was portrayed as a brown-colored character with ...
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The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia. Bertie the Bunyip & Lee Dexter. circa 1954. In 1950, local artist and cartoonist, Pete Boyle started to put together a kid's program on Channel 3, then WPTZ. He decided to bring his old Australian buddy Herbert Dexter into the fold. Dexter created the puppet used on Pete's show, Snoopy (sometimes called ...
Bertie the Bunyip & Lee Dexter, Broadcast Pioneers. Watch in Real Video. Watch in Windows Media. We also have a clip from some video tape footage of Bertie. It is believed that this footage dates from about 1967 and was not recorded in a TV studio but at a live performance at a local, area mall.
Dec 30, 2018 · Bertie1. Publication date. 1961. Topics. bertie the bunyip, philadelphia, puppets. color film of Bertie the Bunyip program aired over WRCV-TV, Channel 3 in Philadelphia in 1961. Since the program was never aired from film, it must have existed for some promotional purpose. Here's a small video clip from that film. Addeddate.