Camberwick Green's Forgotten Adventures

Mrs Honeyman's cat causes chaos for the locals

Following on from The Lesser Known Adventures of Bagpuss, it’s time to take a look at what the inhabitants of Camberwick Green were getting up to within the pages of Pippin in Playland.

These continuing adventures for Gordon Murray’s finest came several years after Chigley aired in 1969, a fact which underlines how enduringly popular they were even when they were relatively new. Whether Gordon Murray was involved in these extracurricular activities is difficult to confirm. In fact, there appear to be no hard facts available that he had anything to do with them. Sure, the strips are titled Gordon Murray’s Camberwick Green, but this may simply have been a licensing requirement.

Nonetheless, they are official and much like the Bagpuss strips, can be considered canon. Naturally, the real fun comes from reading these tales, so let’s stop faffing about and take a look at them.