From Thursday 18th December 1952. 26 black-and-white episodes of Bill and Ben (The Flower Pot Men) were shown every Tuesday.
This was a puppet series with a regular format which proved so popular with children even though the language of Bill and Ben left a little to be desired... `Flobba-dobba-flobba-lob`.
The man who worked in the garden went home for his lunch and in the potting shed at the bottom of the garden lived a little weed who sat between two big flowerpots.
In the flowerpots lived the flowerpot men Bill & Ben and when it was safe to come out to play they would pop-up from their flowerpots, say hello to the little weed and proceed to have fun and get up to mischief with their friends, including Slowcoach the tortoise but in the episode below, ‘Slowcoach’ must have been sleeping somewhere, ‘cos he isn’t in this one!
I didn’t start watching it until about 1957 – I loved it!!! LoL