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3	''Michael Bentine's Potty Time'' was a long-running British children's show, starring Creator/MichaelBentine, 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 (called "Potties"), comically re-enacting famous historical situations. There were two or three 2-foot tall Potties and about six 1-foot tall ones, with numerous costume changes. Bentine appeared as himself, introducing two stories in each half-hour episode and often arguing with the Potty characters over some of the more implausible incidents.
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5	!!''Michael Bentine's Potty Time'' includes examples of:
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7	* EdibleAmmunition: An episode had the host interviewing a puppet Royal Army catering unit. Their equipment included a tank full of "bangs" -- sausages -- which were instantly flash-cooked and fired out of its main gun, and an anti-aircraft-artillery piece which had been adapted with an integral cooker to cook rissoles and fire them up to descending paratroopers.
8	* GreatEscape: "The Great Potty Escape".
9	* MonumentalTheft: One episode had someone stealing Nelson's Column, the Eiffel Tower and the Art/StatueOfLiberty. It turned out he had only removed them so he could have them cleaned as gifts to the respective governments.
10	* POWCamp: "The Great Potty Escape".
11	* StolenGoodReturnedBetter: A thief steals Nelson's Column, the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty. It turns out the thief was actually having them cleaned as a gift to the governments of the United Kingdom, France and the USA and returned them in 'as-new' condition.
12	* StudioAudience: In later series.
13	* TrainJob: One episode retold the story of a train robbery during the UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar (the same incident, incidentally, that inspired Creator/BusterKeaton's 1926 film Film/TheGeneral).

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