Thread:Nanagina/@comment-35106828-20190304010824/@comment-27598576-20190306082540

Whenever “the man who worked in the garden” went off to have dinner, Bill and Ben would appear and get up to mischief. They would talk to their friend Little Weed, a sunflower-like plant with a smiling face, and would occasionally be visited by a tortoise named Slowcoach.

The programme was only originally broadcast until 1954, but was repeated regularly over the next 20 years. In 2001 a new updated, stop-motion animation series of the programme was broadcast on the BBC.