Zaza and Hector are two of the stars of the 1960s children's series Hector's House.I only recently discovered the charming children's series
Hector's House, but I absolutely love it! Originally a French show called
La Maison de Toutou that began airing on the BBC in the late 1960s. The show stars Hector, a somewhat henpecked hound dog with a stuffy British accent who lives with a female cat and her fussy frog friend who seem to spend their entire day sitting around in the garden and nagging poor Hector incessantly.
The show is very simple, but features some nice glove puppetry work. I haven't been able to discover the names of the French puppeteers who worked on the series, the voice of Kiki the Frog in the English version of the show was performed by
Denise Bryer, who is probably best known as the voice of
Noddy and also voiced the Junk Lady in
Labyrinth. You can watch an episode of
Hector's House on YouTube. The show is also
available on DVD
.
Special thanks to
Nikole for originally turning me on to this!
