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Pob's Programme was a children's television programme, which was broadcast in the United Kingdom on Channel 4 between October 1985 and 1990. The show was presented by a puppet named Pob (played by puppeteer Robin Stevens), who spoke a primitive version of English and who supposedly lived inside the viewer's TV (the casing and red, green and blue electron guns visible behind him). The opening titles of the show would consist of the character breathing on the camera lens (this breathing was often mistaken for spitting, given the loud noise accompanying it and the thick condensation appearing on screen), and tracing his name in the condensation. Each week on the show, a celebrity guest visits Pob's garden, and entertains him — though Pob and the guest never appeared on screen together.
Pob's Programme was created by Doug Wilcox and Anne Wood of Ragdoll Productions, which went on to create Rosie and Jim and Anne Wood the Teletubbies.

In a typical episode, the celebrity visitor to the show finds a label attached to a piece of string on the gates of Pob's garden;

If in my programme you would be,
Wind the wool and follow me.
The celebrity guest then follows the woollen string, winding it as they go, and encountering a second label;
Wind it slowly, wind it fast,
A secret you will find at last.

Ultimately the wool is found to be Pob's unravelled jumper, and he is awoken to trace his name on the screen. Over the course of the show, the celebrity guest reads a story, and solves a word puzzle with Pob.

Before the end of the show, the celebrity guest gives Pob a gift, usually related to their story, which they attach to the woollen thread of Pob's jumper. Pob retrieves the gift, and plays with it, stopping periodically to wipe the show's end credits from the camera lens. The episode always ended with Pob blowing out a candle held by a ragdoll. The next celebrity visitor is seen arriving at Pob's garden, realises they are a week too early, and leaves.
Celebrity guests on the show included; Roy Castle (the first), Madhur Jaffrey, Brian Blessed, Hannah Gordon, Kathy Staff and Spike Milligan.
Pob was often accompanied in his mischief by a silent teddy bear called Teddy.

In 2001, Pob's Programme was number 60 on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Kids' TV shows

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HOW TO POB
Hold your ears out blow out your cheeks and go boss eyed, thats all you need to know.

Top photos

Edz & Discam & Pob get together to wish Raindance a Happy 20th Birthday!

hardcore wknder pob off

day pobbin

Pob gets the Twisted Bliss Treatment

DJ Pob

Pob monkeying around

juuunnneeee pob

htid in the sun

Top photos archive

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Pobbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb :o)	Slinky-Ralph 96 watching	0 / Mon 05 Oct
Pobbing it up @ We Love Bounce	V4UGH4N 21 watching	1 / Tue 28 Jul by Slinky-Ralph
Pobbing it @ Custard Factory	V4UGH4N 95 watching	2 / Sun 19 Jul by V4UGH4N
Pob!	Nat-Wild-One-TS-NC 100 watching	2 / Tue 07 Jul by Daisy-Marie-DD
Addicted dance crew get pobbing at Stayhardcore...	Slinky-Ralph 837 watching	2 / Thu 09 Apr by WeLsHsIdEGoDeSs-AD
*******Big relaunch of this group******* Page: 1 2	Martin-B-Smart 1,364 watching	21 / Mon 09 Mar by Slinky-Ralph
miss my pobbbbbbbs	Eggalicious-JHR 92 watching	9 / Sun 01 Mar by Eggalicious-JHR