Flower Pot Men was a British programme for young children produced by BBC Television. It was first transmitted in 1952 and repeated regularly for more than twenty years. A remake of the programme called Bill and Ben was aired in 2001. 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. Flower Pot Men featured the story of Bill and Ben, two men made of terracotta flower pots who live at the bottom of an  English garden. Peter Hawkins, who voiced both Bill and Ben, inventing their gibberish language, named Oddle-Poddle. He based the language on select words such as "Slogalog" (Slowcoach the Tortoise) and "Haddap" (Hello). The puppets were made to look as if they were made from flowerpots. Cupcake holders were used for their hats, which sometimes caught onto their strings.