Both Jimmy and Jiminy Cricket were rooted in polite euphemisms for the expletive “Jesus Christ! Fronted by Mulgrew as Cricket, the 24 episodes included regular appearances by comedy actors Nicholas Smith (Are You Being Served?) The purity and implied puritanism of his comedy was perhaps rooted in a Roman Catholic upbringing in Northern Ireland in the 1950s, a creed and era noted for their censoriousness. (Mulvey’s Northern Irish peer, Frank Carson, though rather less scrupulously clean mouthed, had received the same honour from Pope John Paul II, creating an intriguing trend among Northern Irish jokers of that generation.) “Always let your conscience be your guide,” sings Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio and that was the credo of his near namesake during a career in which he aimed to provide unthreatening fun – and succeeded.