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. :
Follow where the wool is led first the Yellow then the Red 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 programme, the celebrity guest reads a story, and solves a word puzzle with Pob. Over 28 celebrity visitors appeared on ''Pob's Programme'' like Nigel Hayes, some appearing twice. The visitors, many of them well known as actors, included
Roy Castle,
Jan Francis,
Charlie Williams,
Madhur Jaffrey,
Brian Blessed,
Brian Patten,
Hannah Gordon,
Su Pollard,
Kathy Staff,
John Duttine,
Ross Davidson,
Spike Milligan,
Toyah Willcox.
Bill Pertwee,
Anni Domingo,
Josette Simon, Tony Armatrading,
Rupert Frazer, Kjartan Poskitt,
Bernard Hepton,
Peter Howitt,
Cheryl Campbell,
Susan Gilmore,
Pat Coombs and
Patricia Hodge. One episode was filmed on location at
Birmingham Children's Hospital with
Barry Foy as a patient. Various celebrities had recurring segments on ''Pob's Programme'', including
Nigel Kennedy (who would attempt to teach Pob to play the
violin),
Dick King-Smith (who would follow nature trails based on clues that Pob would send him), Alan Dart (who would be seen, hands only, doing a different handicraft project each episode) and
Rod Campbell (who would devise different ways to open a mystery box). Pob was often accompanied in his mischief by a silent teddy bear called Teddy, operated by Bob Berk and Wanda Szajna-Hopgood. == Recognition ==