4. Watch With Mother : Flower Pot Men

First  watched : Uncertain

Moving  onto  the  Wednesday  ( 9.10.68 )  I  can't  say  I  recall  finding  this  very  diverting. I  only  really  remember  that  annoying  paper  flower  going  "Weeeeed !"  all  the  time.

It  dated  back  to  1952  and  concerned  two  puppets ( with  strings  clearly  visible )  made  out  of  gardening  debris , Bill  and  Ben,  who  had  "adventures"  when  the  gardener  went  indoors  for  lunch. They  spoke  a  form  of  "gibberish"  invented  by  Peter  Hawkins  who  was  still  around  over  40  years  later  to  do  Teletubbies  and  attract  the  same  accusations  that  he  was  retarding  childrens'  language  development.  One  episode  was  hard  to  distinguish  from  another.

It  was  revamped  for  CBBC  in  2001.