The Flowerpot Men

In the 1950s and 1960s, BBC television ran a series of children's programmes under the collective title of Watch with Mother. There was a different programme on each weekday, one of which was Flower Pot Men. The characters were devised by Freda Lingstrom and Maria Bird. Three later stories were by Hilda Brabban. The puppeteers were Audrey Atterbury and Milly Gibson. The voices and other noises were produced by Peter Hawkins, Gladys Whitred and Julia Williams. The plot changed little in each... full article at wikipedia