Iain Petrie | Sara and Hoppity in Colour. Now in HD! See link in Description. Very spooky pilot episode, early 60s @IKP1000 | Uploaded October 2020 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
I've enhanced and 2x upscaled "Sara and Hoppity" from its SD format, 720 x 540, to 1440x1080 HD (HDV). The difference in quality is remarkable, so please see the full colour HD version here: youtu.be/SUNUO8Ju-so
And the Black and White HD version is here:
youtu.be/KetGKkIz82A
Sara and Hoppity is a children's puppet television series, created and produced by Roberta Leigh, of Twizzle and Torchy The Battery Boy fame. If you find Torchy spooky, as I do, Sara and Hoppity will really freak you out!
This site here (link below) says that all the 53 original episodes tapes "have disappeared from the archives of Associated-Rediffusion archive. They were most likely destroyed or wiped and used for other programming" but a "16mm print of the pilot episode of the series [was] discovered in the 1990's under the possession of Leigh herself." This is that episode, colourised in Deoldify.
lostmediaarchive.fandom.com/wiki/Sara_and_Hoppity_(1960_Puppet_Series