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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 programme, the celebrity guest reads a story, and solves a word puzzle with Pob.
Before the end of the programme, 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 programme's end credits from the camera lens. The Ragdoll logo follows at the end of every episode, another ragdoll appears, but as a toy and Pob blows out the candle held by the toy ragdoll while the cartoon ragdoll stays on screen. 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, Nigel Kennedy, Madhur Jaffrey, Brian Blessed, Hannah Gordon, Kathy Staff and Spike Milligan.
Pob is often accompanied in his mischief by a silent and menacing teddy bear called Teddy.
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