Iain Petrie | Sara and Hoppity. Now HD! B&W version. Restored & enhanced. Very spooky! Unaired pilot. early '60s @IKP1000 | Uploaded August 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Full colour HD version here: youtu.be/SUNUO8Ju-so
I've enhanced and 2x Upscaled Sara and Hoppity from its SD format, 720 x 540, to 1440x1080 HD. (The correct name for this format is actually HDV but in a general sense HD and HDV are both High Definition formats, as they have a higher resolution than the standard definition).
The difference in quality is remarkable. I'll leave the original SD versions (both Colour and B&W) here on YouTube if you want to compare them with this. I'll also be uploading the B&W HD / HDV version here soon.
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