They're iconic South African TV stars from the heyday of South African television which seemed as real - was as real - in a child's imagination as can be - until they all simply disappeared. So, what really happened to Sarel Seamonster?
An entire generation of millions of now-adult South African TV viewers who grew up watching, loved, and were shaped by children's television as South Africa's first childhood television generation when television started in South Africa in 1976, can find out this Thursday evening on Bravo! on kykNET (DStv 144).
Viewers can tune in to the weekly entertainment magazine show on kykNET this coming Thursday, 11 July, to see their childhood TV friends on television again - a little bit more worn after so many years, but definitely still alive.
Viewers will discover and get to see what happened to favourite South African TV puppet characters such as Liewe Heksie, Haas Das and Sarel Seemonster of Wielie Walie.
The puppet maker Hansie Visagie will once again bring life to beloved kids TV characters and creatures in an insert on Bravo! such as Sarel Seamonster, Haas Das and Liewe Heksie - TV dolls who enthralled small eyes from week to week and seemed so very real.
Sadly, one by one the shows which sparkled with amazing television puppetry were cancelled by the SABC which mothballed the once world class puppeteer television skills and local TV cottage industry which existed in South Africa during the seventies and eighties and produced shows such as Interster, Pikkewouters and others which rivaled and in some cases even surpassed international TV standards.
Bravo! went in search, and Sarel Seamonster might just puff some smoke through those yellow nostrils again come Thursday evening.
