Mannemerak

Manemarak is an Afrikaans puppet television show about a tiny alien who regularly travels from his far-away planet to study life on earth.
Story.
Manemarak, following in the footsteps of his grandfather, travels to and explores the earth. His faithful companion is an artificially intelligent space-ship computer. The computer has knowledge of earth that was recorded by Manemarak's grandfather.
Trivia.
Manemerak is an anagram of "kameraman", which means cameraman in Afrikaans.
The little character's spaceship was actually a walnut shell. The name Manemarak is still in use today, as a nickname by itself, and in many portmanteaus with similar-sounding Afrikaans names.