watch with mother ..picture book full episode. 

This show is my happy place. Whenever I feel down or emotional I put this on because it reminds me of happier times when I was younger.

I had the exact same VHS tape when I was a kid. I loved watching this.

I can't believe I actually remember this exact episode. It reminded me of the dozens of wallpaper lanterns I made! Busy Lizzy was my favourite and I had a dress like hers, with a flower on which proved to be disappointingly unmagical!

This video is probably the first trigger of ASMR I ever experienced (when I was a kid)

This needs to be back on TV. No excuses.

I can just about remember watching Watch with Mother . They showed one from a selection of kids shows each time. I hated the Woodentops and Andy Pandy but loved Bill and Ben. I thought I didnt remember seeing this Picture book show until she told the story of busy lizzie and the magic flower patch on her dress then it stirred a memory at the back of my brain. Weird how we can still recall little things from our childhoods ! Sad too !

Ahhh memories back in the good old 50s. Never missed watch with mother. 12.15 every day. Monday Picture Book...Tuesday Andy Pandy...Wednesday The Flowerpot Men...Thursday Rag,Tag and Bobtail...Friday The Woodentops. There wasn't much kids TV back in those days so it was a real treat for us little ones then.

This seemed so MODERN and a NEW APPROACH to children's television when it first appeared , used to love this prog , back in the day :) memories are flooding back x

I was born in 2003 but my older brothers watched this as they were born in 89 and 92 so the tape just passed onto me and i was obsessed with it xD

make your children watch this in the future. save them from the rubbish

I was born in 86 but for some reason I watched this show often as a kid and I now make these with my son.

I grew up with all the watch with mothers in the fifties, but picture book was my favorite. This lady was so absolutely gorgeous.

My gran would sit me down to watch this sunday mornings while she ironed all the laundry, then when she got to watch her video after (Pavarotti in concert) she kept me entertained by making lanterns 😊

I had this on video when I was little. Every time I watched it, I would go and make tons of paper lanterns and cover the house with them :')

I loved watching this episode as a child, made me feel very nostalgic to see it again here :)

Thank you so much for uploading this. It was my favourite as a child x

I've got to say that puppeteer was brilliant!

Thank you, Picture Book was a favourite of mine :)

Really enjoying the video As a small child i loved to watch with Mum as we had lunch together before going back to junior school. The lady had a lovely smooth kind voice 😊

Way better than all the American CGI crap that’s on TV nowadays.

I had this on VHS at age 2 and watched it over and over 😂

When programmes were innocent and no four letter words from children.......

I remember this so well..

I'm 15 and when I was 6/7 I would go to my Gran's house and watch this on her video player. She had the whole weeks worth recorded on a VHS, and I'd watch it whilst eating my tea. 💜

i love the accent i wish we all spoke like that again

Ooooh Picture book,I would sit mesmerised and opened-mouthed with the anticipation at what was in the book! I miss my childhood in the 1950's!

Me too! This is the English language I ve learned when I was a little girl and this is the English I love!!

Thanks so much for uploading this. I used to have this one episode on VHS and watched it over and over... my memory of it is so vivid. I even remember making the lanterns once!

She has a lovely voice. Makes me feel nostalgic.

It's cool that Zoella watched this. I was born in 94 and would watch this over and over again. It might seem old to some people but I think it's a really good thing to let kids watch!

Feeling nostalgic. Started with Bill and Ben. Born in 1958 and remember them all. Such innocent times. No responsibilities no worries. Wouldn't I love to go back to these times, for just a little while.

My Mom nick named me bizzy lizzy, she died when I was 6, the last thing she ever wrote me was Dear Bizzy Lizzie......, didn't realise is was an actual character and I know why now, I too had short wispy hair lol

I watched this as a kid more than 45 years ago. Once I said to Mum, "Come on you HAVE to watch this, its called watch with Mother"...However, she was busy with housework...ahhh memories.

This is so charming, she sounds just like Julie Andrews. Children's shows nowadays are so in your face and overwhelming. Even 90s shows like Art Attack were obnoxious.

"Watch with Mother brings back happy childhood memories of myself at eight years old and my six year old brother watching it at Nana and Granddads when we used to stay with them". "My brother, Myself, Nana and Granddad used to make the paper lanterns when the video had finished, we had such good fun making them"! "It's lovely now to have these wonderful memories as an adult"! "I feel Society and Children's Television has moved on greatly nowadays".

I remember my mom having this on video tape. It reminds me of my childhood. I'm 31 so this was way before my time but non the less, it makes me nostalgic

Taking me back to my childhood in the 60s, a time of innocence and much slower pace of life, sadly i think kids would find this boring these days , not enough action.

The voice of Sausage by Roy Skelton, went on to be the voice of Zippy!!

I would watch this at my grans on video, my grandad would make paper lanterns with me! Good old memories xx

What a lovely woman.

I remember getting drunk with all my work colleagues and watching the video of the Jolly Jack Tarts. To this day, the boss still says “Me first, I’m the captain” 😂

so lovely and innocent and well spoken a refreshing change from the rubbish on tv now i guess peppa pig is good though. they taught children how to nurture things and love animals

Wish I could go back in time when I felt safe and I didn't have to worry about anything.

I remember this so well I’m 34 now

I taught my youngest cousin how to make paper lanterns thanks to this little beauty of a program, and sometimes still make them now when I'm bored XD

I'm 22 and I remember watching this as a child. Lol Thank you for uploading this :)

I had this on video in the early 90's when I was 3 to 6 years old. Thanks for upload Andy Pandy, Bill and Ben and the others. Brings back my childhood memories

I'm 12 and I used to watch this 10 years ago it brings back so many memories when I was so young !!!!:))

My little sister had this on VHS! The memories!

Watch with mother,from a better more innocent era,no mutants or fighting just simple entertainment for children.

1963? I remember the Picture Book series a long time before this, with Patricia Driscoll (She was also Maid Marion in Robin Hood at the time). Loved it.

Now this takes me back, to my first experiences of Earthlings and how they live! 🌍🌎🌏🏞🛸

My mother was always working, it was my Grandmother I watched this with !

makes me think back to when me and my mum would do this awwhhh the memories

What a treat to hear clear diction. EEee, it were grand when I were a lad : )

Growing mustard crest, all 1960's infants had to go through that ritual at school. Just in case your parents weren't evil enough to do it.

As a baby my parents bought this on VHS for me so when I got a bit older I could watch it and I did a lot! I think I came with this and the next episode which had the flowerpot men Bill and Ben! I even tried to make lantern in this very episode too and it was one of the first things I tried to make that came out the same. That and the chicks she showed were the first time I ever saw baby animals. Probably inspired my love for animals in the first place! Man this takes me back... (p.s. It's probably the oldest bit of media I still have. It's also the one of, if the only one in black and white.)

Aaaaaah I remember this! We had this exact segment on VHS when I was like 3 but I couldn't remember what it was called!

Jolly Jack Tars! This just gets better!

I'm 22 and I loved watching this when I was a kid.

This brings me tremendous comfort

Oh we kids were so innocent then, loved it.

brilliant - thank you so much for keeping these programmes and putting them on youtube for us all to share.....I always wanted to be Bizzy Lizzy...Im sure I would have made four good wishes! They were wasted on her....lol

Still remember how to make the lanterns to this day. Funny how it stuck in my head for nearly 30 years.

Omg the memories. That episode inspired us to try growing mustard and cress on the window sill when we were tiny. Hilarious. I seem to remember my cousin had a bizzy lizzy sunflower too

I watched this with my mother as she kept the video for us, i always loved this so it brings back lovely memories. you can hear the chicks cheeping in the background if you listen carefully :) thankyou for uploading this.

Brings back ALL my childhood o3o

I'm 18 and I even remember this from my childhood. My mum introduced me too it. I made the paper lanterns all the time!

I remember making those paper lanterns, Bizzy Lizzy went on to have her own show later on.

this was the episode i had on vhs :) x so many memories!!!

Keep coming back to this video as her voice is so soothing 🤣

People back in the day had a lot more imagination and time on there hands that's for sure.

I remember watching these programs. I was born in 1960, 15 years after the liberation of the Nazi extermination camps.

who else is here because of zoella and Mark!?!?!

im 23 too but this brings back 90's vhs memories

I used to have this on VHS, I always made paper lanterns endlessly

I'm 19 and I used to watch this when I was younger :)

These were filmed in an ordinary office hence the traffic noise. Busses used to stop outside so they tried to time recordings to avoid them. I once worked with the camera man at Ealing.

I think this lady (Vera McKechnie?)is adorable. I'm sure I watched this as a very small boy, and it shaped my taste in women. She would have made a great Moneypenny, too!

lovely childhood memories!♥

That was how I learned to make Chinese lanterns.

it is always the privilege of the present to idolise the past, but perhaps it really was a far safer and better time than. innocence is such a precious and beautiful thing, it's such a shame we tend to lose it as one gets older, it's a pity, that for some, it isn't replaced with wisdom.

I used to have a vhs of this. It was my favourite!

Im 49 and bizzy lizzy was my favourite, watched on tv before videos existed - programme repeats are not a new thing.

I think Mr Bean got his voice from "sausage dog " !!!!!

On Monday we had picture Book, Tuesday Andy Pandy, Wednesday Bill and Ben, Thursday Tales of the Riverbank. Friday was The Wooden zTops ( with the biggest spotty dog you ever saw) magic memories

Beautiful, polite

i'm 24 and had this on video and i loved it

Im only 20 and I used to watch this when I was younger

before staplers. Use to watch this in the 1950's.

I loved Bizzy Lizzy!

Lovely memorys as a child

Don't recall these diy ones, but my wife has overheard the video and commented she sounds like the uppity newsreader on the Victoria Wood series. :) It is fun.

You've got to watch this stoned. It's brilliant!

The Jolly Jacktars,brilliant !!!!

i cant just about remember this

Vera is the lady here. She was the narrator on the one colour (in 1970) series of `Andy Pandy`

i made those lanterns =D oh good old memories.

The picture book theme tune used to be a tune on the old Nokia 3310 mobiles haha.

I'm only 15, and I remember watching this episode, especially the paper lanterns part - the house was full of them for days after. Mum says that this is the only reason I have a nice accent, I used to be proper little lady when I was little. Can't believe how old this is.