Hello fans.
It's controversial but important at the same time that I want to define what is unintentionally creepy and disturbing even by today's standards!
Chic Chat: one of NZ’s less well known kids shows has been a permanent television archive resident for a long time.
Therefore, the only good videotape of it is known to exist in the archive itself.
This is because it probably has a current reputation for being awkward and gross to Kiwi kids with the host's puppets speaking in pirate accents!
Even though it has many differences to the equally notorious Peppermint Park, particularly the Scottish accented rodent star Willie McNabb and the show's decent puppeteer host Chic Littlewood, it shares something in common with it, gross and awkwardly embarrassing puppetry!
It probably ran for two years in the early 80s, when dad was a model. Peppermint Park came later, in 1987.
Peppermint Park was set in a defunct American theme park of the same name, while Chic Chat's setting was a fake afternoon backyard.
