The series was created by Martin Andrews and Allan Wargon, who was also the producer.
[1] The show's host was a large Canadian opera tenor Alan Crofoot, dressed as a Pied Piper with a flower in his hat.
He would introduce four segments in each half-hour programme: Thirty-nine episodes were produced.
It was originally shown by CBC Television and also became well known in the United Kingdom,[2] where it was repeated on ITV throughout the 1960s and 1970s, often as part of school summer holiday programming.
In May/June 1972, some Mr. Piper episodes were transmitted, dubbed into Italian, by the RAI-TV network.