TV Fame

After finding work at the BBC in 1953 he appeared on children’s show ‘Jigsaw’ on which he carried out a 10-minute cartoon drawing section which was the start of Rolf becoming a fixture on TV screens.

Rolf’s other initial stints included a regular spot on ‘Whirligig’ in 1954 and illustrating ‘Paper Magic’ in 1956.

Harris briefly returned to Australia in 1959, when TV was introduced to the country, after being headhunted.

During his time back Down Under he worked on five episodes of a half-hour weekly children’s programme as well as his own show that had a weekly slot. He then went to work on TBW-7’s first locally produced show ‘Spotlight’ where he recorded the song ‘Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport’.