Pipkins: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Pipkins (originally Inigo Pipkin) 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. Pipkins was one of the first children's programmes on British TV where the characters had regional accents (Pig had a Black Country accent while Topov the monkey was a Cockney and Octavia the ostrich had a French accent).

Series details

• Title: Pipkins
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Children
• Premiere date: 1973-07-04
• Final broadcast date listed: 1981-12-29
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: ITV1
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 25 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 31979
• TVDB ID: 84147

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1973-07-04; final listed air date 1973-07-04; episode order: 5.
• Season 2: premiered 1973-07-04; final listed air date 1973-07-04; episode order: 11.
• Season 3: premiered 1977-11-20; final listed air date 1977-12-08; episode order: 11.
• Season 5: episode order: 6.
• Season 7: premiered 1975-10-28; final listed air date 1975-10-28.
• Season 9: premiered 1976-11-18; final listed air date 1977-04-08.
• Season 10: premiered 1977-09-26; final listed air date 1977-11-04.
• Season 12: premiered 1978-09-13; final listed air date 1978-09-13.
• Season 13: premiered 1979-04-11; final listed air date 1980-05-20.
• Season 14: premiered 1980-09-16; final listed air date 1981-12-29.

Source and licence

Adapted from Pipkins on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.