Ossie Ostrich & Plucka Duck!
Australian Children’s Television but with a clever adult twist, especially with Ernie Carrol behind the voice of Ossie. This aired on Saturday mornings originally.
This show, Hey Hey It’s Saturday, was later placed in an evening time slot and was a very popular variety show, smutty innuendos, tongue in cheek humour I think was the best laugh.
And who’d forget Humdrum with our own Molly Meldrum, a music rave from the Guru himself, who was the most picked on personality in the show, often being subject to things falling on him, breaking, being thrown and harassed by Dicky Knee.
The plush characters from the show are becoming desired by collectors now that the show is no more. A plush Plucka Duck was recently sold on E-bay with 3 or 4 signatures of the Hey Hey cast, Red, John Blackman, Daryl Somers & Wilbur I believe.
As I collect Australian Children’s Television items, I have these in my collection (pictured). Two of these have their original swing tags and copyright tags, which are harder to find. This Ossie is made by Croner 1982, there is a few different Ossies from 70’s & 90’s , some have hard plastic eyes.
What’s it worth? These characters can sell for varying prices, pending on condition, rarity, signatures, tags, etc, starting at $10.00. Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that yours is a rare one which will fetch around $70.00, study what you have and price accordingly to sell.
It’s great to see Aussies take up this collection, cause preserving fun childhood memories like these are good for the soul!
Page First Published on: Aug 14, 2013 @ 08:39
Hi, I was just wondering if you’ve ever seen an Ossie Ostrich cowboy plush. I have a Croner 1982 Ossie with a sewn on cowboy hat and necktie. I’ve tried to look it up but haven’t had much success.
https://imgur.com/a/jds7jDL
Wow, yeah this has me baffled. I do remember they often dressed up silly on special occasions, and I do remember seeing a show with Ossie as a cowboy… It would be interesting to know more about this, thanks for sharing, very unusual, sorry could shine any light for you.
No worries. I also remember the shows when they’d dress up and I’m super curious about this Ossie too. I’ve had this one since I was a toddler – late 1980’s. It was just bought at a local shop – maybe Kmart or similar. The neckscarf is original. The eyes are not. It had slightly different eyes made from a thin, stiff felt. Over time those eyes cracked and peeled off so I replaced them with these new eyes that I made out of felt.
Right, and the hat is sewn in, so obviously done for a special edition one perhaps? Well hopefully someone else reads this that could shed a little light on your lil mate!
Here is Majella’s photo that we are discussing.