Billy Bean and His Funny Machine Online

Since I was only six years old at the time this was on, my memory of it is necessarily sketchy. Basically, some kind of bird, perhaps a cuckoo that emerged from a clock, laid an egg which rolled down an incline and set in motion the "Funny Machine". After various weird and amusing mechanical goings-on, the machine produced - what? I can't recall. This was on the BBC around 5pm in the afternoon, although I might be wrong on that too. Anyway it was possibly better than Bill & Ben The Flowerpot Men. Belongs in the category of "the beginnings of British TV". I watched this on my parents' TV, a 9 inch Bush, we had the typical H aerial on the roof. Just wonderful.

I was ~10 when this was on, but remembered only the 1st two lines of Billy Bean's song as found on other web sites. I had not remembered the bird either, but the egg rolling down a to-and-fro incline sounds familiar. So many live shows are no longer available since no-one had recording equipment!

Mike.