Flower Pot Men

Flower Pot Men
Still from original BBC series, with Little Weed (centre)
Created byFreda Lingstrom
StarringPeter Hawkins
Narrated byMaria Bird
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes26
Production
Running time14–16 minutes
Production companyBBC
Original release
NetworkBBC Television Service
Release18 December 1952 (1952-12-18) –
10 June 1953 (1953-06-10)
Related
Bill and Ben
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Flower Pot Men is a British programme for young children produced by BBC Television. It was first transmitted in 1952, and repeated regularly for more than twenty years.[1] A remake of the programme called Bill and Ben was aired in 2001.[2]

The original programme was part of a BBC children's television series titled Watch with Mother, featuring a different programme each weekday, most of them involving string puppets.

  1. ^ "The Flowerpot Men (1952)". BFI. Archived from the original on 31 August 2014. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  2. ^ McGown, Alistair (2003–2014). "BFI Flowerpot Men, The (1952-54)". BFI Screenonline. Retrieved 9 December 2021.