Michael Bentine's Potty Time (1973)

Michael Bentine's Potty Time

Michael Bentine's Potty Time was a long-running British children's show, starring Michael Bentine, and directed and produced by Leon Thau for Thames Television on ITV. It ran from 1973 to 1980. The episodes consisted largely of distinctive, bearded puppets, comically re-enacting famous historical situations. The Potties' faces were always obscured by facial hair, with only their noses protruding. They were operated from beneath and had two distinct sizes - approximately two feet and one foot tall. All of the Potty characters were designed by Bentine, who also provided all of their voices. Their operators were from The Barry Smith Theatre of Puppets. In 2001, it was voted into 71st place in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Kids' TV shows poll. Several Region 2 DVDs of the series have been released by Network DVD.

Michael Bentine's Potty Time

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Season 2

Season 2

Season 3

Season 3

Season 4

Season 4

Season 5

Season 5

Season 6

Season 6

Season 7

Season 7

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    Episode 1: treasure island

  • 1x2

    Episode 2: king arthur

  • 1x3

    Episode 3: north west frontier

  • 1x4

    Episode 4: movie monster

  • 1x5

    Episode 5: robin hood

  • 1x6

    Episode 6: world war one aces

  • 1x7

    Episode 7: father christmas

  • 1x8

    Episode 8: foreign legion

  • 1x9

    Episode 9: up the amazon

  • 1x10

    Episode 10: the armada

  • 1x11

    Episode 11: 7th. cavalry

  • 1x12

    Episode 12: the vikings

  • 1x13

    Episode 13: the mounties

  • 1x14

    Episode 14: sports round up

  • 1x15

    Episode 15: marie celeste

  • 1x16

    Episode 16: sherlock holmes

  • 1x17

    Episode 17: on the pirate buses

  • 1x18

    Episode 18: marco polo

  • 1x19

    Episode 19: hadrian's wall

  • 1x20

    Episode 20: potty school

  • 1x21

    Episode 21: farmers vs. moles

  • 1x22

    Episode 22: the scarlet pimpernel

  • 1x23

    Episode 23: arabian knights

  • 1x24

    Episode 24: army cookery corps

  • 1x25

    Episode 25: crown jewels

  • 1x26

    Episode 26: potty magic

Episodes season 2

  • 2x1

    The three musketeers / where eagles daren't

  • 2x2

    Robinson crusoe / the great potsby

  • 2x3

    Christopher columbus / ghost hunters

  • 2x4

    Holidays / gunfight - potty city

  • 2x5

    Fu manchu / the great train robbery

  • 2x6

    Inventions / hastings 1066

  • 2x7

    Dick turpin / waterloo

  • 2x8

    Viva zapotti / horatius

  • 2x9

    Cavaliers vs roundheads / wagons west

  • 2x10

    Craftsmen / 55 days peking

  • 2x11

    Explorers / olympics

  • 2x12

    Postmen / japanese

  • 2x13

    Prisoner of potzenda / troy

Episodes season 3

  • 3x1

    Ancient britain / 20,000 potty leagues under the sea

  • 3x2

    China / jason and the argonauts

  • 3x3

    Mysteries of the mighty thames / seven wonders of the world

  • 3x4

    Potty marsh under-the-wall / age of chivalry

  • 3x5

    The conquistadores / gulliver in lilliput

  • 3x6

    The industrial revolution / the faeries

  • 3x7

    The great climb / salamis

  • 3x8

    The pilgrims / the blotting paper bomb

  • 3x9

    The foam fighters / the great transcontinental rail road

  • 3x10

    The gardeners / hannibal the great

  • 3x11

    The mighty rig / ye gods

  • 3x12

    The mighty press / camouflage corps

  • 3x13

    Ali baba / acacia avenue triangle

Episodes season 4

  • 4x1

    The invisible potty / drake's circumnavigation

  • 4x2

    The secret war / the potty roman games

  • 4x3

    The potty lifeboat / u.s. independence

  • 4x4

    The fun factory / the potty bypass

  • 4x5

    The potty safari park / the potty in the iron mask

  • 4x6

    Theseus and the minotaur / the great potty escape

  • 4x7

    The hillbillies / the private enterprise monastery

Episodes season 5

  • 5x1

    Series 5, show 1

  • 5x2

    Series 5, show 2

  • 5x3

    Series 5, show 3

  • 5x4

    Series 5, show 4

  • 5x5

    Series 5, show 5

  • 5x6

    Series 5, show 6

Episodes season 6

  • 6x1

    Series 6, show 1

  • 6x2

    Series 6, show 2

  • 6x3

    Series 6, show 3

  • 6x4

    Series 6, show 4

  • 6x5

    Series 6, show 5

  • 6x6

    Series 6, show 6

Episodes season 7

  • 7x1

    Series 7, show 1

  • 7x2

    Series 7, show 2

  • 7x3

    Series 7, show 3

  • 7x4

    Series 7, show 4

  • 7x5

    Series 7, show 5

  • 7x6

    Series 7, show 6

  • 7x7

    Series 7, show 7

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