Watched this every Friday. It was my favourite day of the week. Always wanted a picket fence; a spotty dog and a Mrs Scrubbit. I never had a picket fence or a dog and I became Mrs Scrubbit!
I was born in 1954 and this was My favourite children's TV Programme. I just loved spotty dog and thanks to him have had Dalmatian dogs as pets for last 21 years. 🌹🐕
I'm 1956 vintage and feel exactly the same way as you. Kids were allowed to be kids then and not constantly micro managed by their parents as they are today. Such a pity.
Wonderful memories of watching these good old children's programmes with Watch With Mother, etc. My Mum would watch with me back in the 50's. Sadly both my parents are long gone. I nice warm feeling watching these again. Thank you for uploading them.
Oh I just loved this - how gorgeous to see it again. I used to watch it after lunch. My mum would switch on the tv for the programme and then turn it off again after it had ended. Just like it happens for kids today!
If my memory hasn't failed me..Monday was Picture Book, Tuesday was Andy Pandy, Wednesday, the Flower Pot Men, Thursday we had Rag, Tag, and Bobtail and Friday The Woodentops :-) Happy Days
Such memories! I had a lovely childhood and 'Watch with Mother' was a big part of that (not to mention the fabulous pieces of music such as this Grieg classic). Thank you
I remember breaking out in floods of tears when they sang the "Spotty Dog" song. The words went something like "Poor little spotty dog all on his own / / All alone without even a bone / ". At primary school we all walked around like spotty dog, legs and arms totally out of control and stupid great grins on our faces :-)
I grew up watching this (and other Watch With Mother programmes). Now children watch robots that turn into weapons and kill people with violent sounds in the background. Can we really be surprised our society has turned into a nightmare?
Where's Dobbin? The bovine interest must've come later..... "Oi feel you there, Dobbin", said Sam. That music caught me unawares. I'd forgotten how I sat on mother's knee, 65 years ago, to watch, waiting for the old valve TV to heat up, then that laconic melody.... nowhere is it played as meditatively as here. I think I lost my composure hearing it again as an ingrained memory.
Ooh, now this takes me back. Why can't they entertain todays' children with these classics instead of all the cgi and digital trickery, plastered with copious amounts of overpowering colour designed to cause sensory overload?! 🏴
Good days they were, my old neighbor god rest her soul she’d always watch with me with her homemade sponge cake when I was 6 when she babysit me, she was like a nan to me and until she passed away it made me think of her even today
I remeber watching this way back in 2001, about 5 at the time, and asking things like, "Why does the mum not go to work? Why did she leave Baby Woodentop outside, isn't that dangerous? Why is Daddy doing all the work?" and my own mum was like, "*pats head* When you're older ^-^" xD
this is so much more cleverer then the cartoons and the computerised programmes we have these days mum bought us the video when we were small although i was born in the 90s I still favour childrens programmes like this thank you for uploading this :-)
There was an episode of "The Woodentops" where there was a song about poor Spotty Dog without a bone. Used to have me in tears as a kid. The words were something like: Everyone: "Poor little Spotty Dog all on his own" Spotty Dog; "Oh oh oh" Everyone "All alone without even a bone" Spotty Dog; "Oh oh oh" BBC woman - "Pooooor Spotty Dog" I think that episode of Watch WIth Mother hurt me so much that I shall be seeking compensation from the BBC....................... Thanks for the post!
this so beats all the rubbish i see my granddaughters watching like sponge Bob - thank you for taking me back to my childhood and wonderful memories, and thank you for uploading
We lived on a 3rd floor flat no garden no pets l longed for life and home like these and Dick and Dora with a mother there when I go home from school my mum bless her was at work all day
Ski lifts are closed for alpine skiing because of covid and we have been forced to learn cross county skiing instead. Spotty Dog (6.00 )is our role model. Speaking “Spotty Dog” is getting funny looks from passers by !
Daddy Woodentop: "What have we got for dinner today, Mummy Woodentop?" Mummy Woodentop: "Have you got wood for brains? We're having the usual wood and charcoal for dinner!"
This provokes memories I thought no longer exist..The smell of my mums stew crept into my mind, chickenpox and Farleys Rusks. It's day at nursery, I ran out, they couldn't find me for an hour. I'm gonna turn this off and keep it off it's too provoking...
I watched this when I was a litte boy when we lived in Manchester.....Australian kids never heard heard of it nor Andy Pandy, Rag tag and bobtai.... Television didnt arrive in Australia until 1956. The age of Innocence.....now its all super heros and sci fi crap
Watched every morning before school in Sydney in 1966 Bill & Ben - Andy pandy- Raggedy Ann - ECT it was all British children's television programs back then.
When these programmes went out, everybody did! Mothers would leave their babies outside shops in their prams safe in the knowledge that they'd still be there 5, 10 or even 30 minutes later. Seems incredible now but all of us babies from the sixties are living proof of happier days. In that respect, anyway
