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''Billy Bean and His Funny Machine'' is a UK children's TV series which was first broadcast by the

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in 1953. It concluded in 1957 after 36 episodes.

Premise

The show featured a puppet called Billy Bean, who operated a large machine which possessed devices such as a Dorset-Faucet (named after the inventor, Mr. Faucet of Dorset) and a Mixerator. Billy could produce anything he drew on the "cartoonerator", although misunderstanding led to many mistakes made with humorous results. Billy was accompanied by Yoo-Hoo the Cuckoo, who always laid an egg at least once every episode, which would be rolled down the machine via zig-zag chutes, and Lester, the unseen engine room operator.

Production

Based upon Chuck Luchsinger's American children's show "Jolly Gene & His Fun Machine", like Jolly Gene, Billy Bean also ran a train and was dressed as an American locomotive engineer (train driver). John Wright made the puppets and equipment, the series was written by Lisa Lincoln, with Reginald Jeffryes drawing what was seen on the cartoonerator, and the puppeteers were Jane Tyson and

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. The show was produced by

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. The first series of six episodes Final episode of series 1. featured

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as Billy Bean and Gaylord Cavallaro as Yoo-Hoo, broadcast twice per month. For series 2 onwards

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took over as Billy, with Ivan Owen as Yoo-Hoo. Series 4-6 went under various names, including The New Adventures of Billy Bean and his Funny Machine, The Further Adventures of Billy Bean and his Funny Machine and The Adventures of Billy Bean and his Funny Machine respectively.

Episodes

Series 1 (1953)

*Untitled – 9 July 1953 *Untitled – 20 July 1953 *Untitled – 3 August 1953 *Untitled – 17 August 1953 *Untitled – 31 August 1953 *Untitled – 14 September 1953

Series 2 (1954)

*Untitled – 30 June 1954 *Untitled – 12 July 1954 *Untitled – 28 July 1954 *Untitled – 11 August 1954 *Untitled – 23 August 1954 *Untitled – 8 September 1954

Series 3 (1955)

*Untitled – 4 April 1955 *Untitled – 18 April 1955 *Untitled – 2 May 1955 *Untitled – 19 May 1955 *Untitled – 1 June 1955 *Untitled – 6 July 1955 *Untitled – 20 July 1955 *Untitled – 3 August 1955 *Untitled – 17 August 1955 *Untitled – 31 August 1955

Series 4 (The New Adventures of Billy Bean and his Funny Machine, 1956)

*Not a Sausage – 9 January 1956 *The Atomic Train – 23 January 1956 *The Giant Beanoscope – 6 February 1956 *Yoo-Hoo Takes the Air – 20 February 1956 *Billy's Day Off – 5 March 1956 *The Secret of the Machine – 19 March 1956

Series 5 (The Further Adventures of Billy Bean and his Funny Machine, 1956)

*The Great Clean-Up – 6 September 1956 *The Jet Propelled Cuckoo – 27 September 1956 *Billy's Bonfire Night – 5 November 1956 *The Atomic Power House – 19 November 1955 *Nuts and Crackers – 3 December 1956 *Santa Billy – 17 December 1956

Series 6 (The Adventures of Billy Bean and his Funny Machine, 1957)

*Billy Bean: Speed King – 1 March 1957 *Yoo-Hoo's Zoo Quest – 15 March 1957

References

Details of the programme from whirligig-tv.co.ukIMDB entry
Billy Bean and His Funny Machine BBC children's television shows British television shows featuring puppetry 1954 British television series debuts 1950s British children's television series {{UK-kids-tv-prog-stub