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!
@@Sobbles-world I too had a `crush` on this lady! I know she is `not` Patricia Driscoll (Who played Maid Marion in the `Robin Hood`) Series) but one of the other two ladies who took over from Pat, Might be Very McKechnie. She was/is such a beautiful woman.
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
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 😊
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 😊
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. 💜
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!
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.
@@gerry5134 Seeing your reply I decided to google Roy Skelton, seems he did the cyber men too and many other voices in tv over 50 year career. Have been a Zippy fan from the start....I don't feel the same about Bungle bonce though!
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
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
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.
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.)
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
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.
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!
This might help! I don’t remember the series - although Busy Lizzie was shown in isolation, as I recall - the flower granted her four wishes per day - but, if she made five, everything she wished for that day disappeared: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_Book_(TV_series)
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.
The streets were safer. I was allowed to roam my village without hindrance in the early 1950's. But we didn't know that Russians were plotting to obliterate our way of life with Atomic Bombs. So in that global sense it was very dangerous.
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
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.
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.