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|imagecaption=The only remaining image.  
|imagecaption=Title card.  
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'''Billy Bean and His Funny Machine''' was a puppet TV series that aired on ITV from 1954 to 1956.<br/> It never had any VHS or DVD releases. Hence, the show is lost to this day, and only one screenshot remains as visual proof of its existence.
'''''Billy Bean and His Funny Machine''''' was a puppet TV series that aired on BBC from 1954 to 1956.
 
It never had any VHS or DVD releases. Hence, the show has not surfaced to this day. Whether or not the show is truly lost is unknown however only one screenshot remains as visual proof of its existence.


==Plot==
==Plot==
The show involves Billy Bean (who was part of a train company) and a machine he made. He usually operated the machine with a bird named Yoo Hoo that laid an egg at random intervals.
The show involves Billy Bean (who was part of a train company) and a machine he made. He usually operated the machine with a bird named Yoo-Hoo that laid an egg at random intervals.


==Song Lyrics==
==Song Lyrics==
 
<blockquote>"Billy Bean built a machine to see what it could do.
"Billy Bean built a machine to see what it could do.


He made it out of sticks and stones, and nuts and bolts and glue.  
He made it out of sticks and stones, and nuts and bolts and glue.  
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So he called it his fun machine, machine,
So he called it his fun machine, machine,


Billy Bean and his fun machine."
Billy Bean and his fun machine."</blockquote>


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
 
<gallery mode=packed heights=175px>
<gallery mode=packed heights=100px>
Billy_bean.jpg|The only known image from the show.
Billybeantitle.jpg|Title Card
Billybeanpic.jpg|"Key to the Machine" illustration.
Billybeanpic.jpg|Key to the Machine
Billy_bean2.jpg|Billy Bean toy by Sacul #1.
Billy_bean2.jpg|Billy Bean toy by Sacul #1
Saculbilly.jpg|Billy Bean toy by Sacul #2.
Saculbilly.jpg|Billy Bean toy by Sacul #2
</gallery>
</gallery>
==External Link==
*[http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/children/other/billybean.htm Details of the programme from whirligig-tv.co.uk.] Retrieved 01 Mar '20


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Revision as of 19:28, 9 May 2020

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This article has been tagged as Needing work due to its lack of concrete references.



Billybeantitle.jpg

Title card.

Status: Lost

Billy Bean and His Funny Machine was a puppet TV series that aired on BBC from 1954 to 1956.

It never had any VHS or DVD releases. Hence, the show has not surfaced to this day. Whether or not the show is truly lost is unknown however only one screenshot remains as visual proof of its existence.

Plot

The show involves Billy Bean (who was part of a train company) and a machine he made. He usually operated the machine with a bird named Yoo-Hoo that laid an egg at random intervals.

Song Lyrics

"Billy Bean built a machine to see what it could do.

He made it out of sticks and stones, and nuts and bolts and glue.

The motor sang Chuffaty Bang, Rattata Rattatarator,

And all of a sudden a picture appeared on the funny old cartoonerator

Billy Bean built a machine to see what it would do,

It did the funniest things he'd seen,

So he called it his fun machine, machine,

Billy Bean and his fun machine."

Gallery

External Link