Watch With Mother Bill & Ben 1960s BBC
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- Bill and Ben the flower pot men Had a language all of their own, even if they do sound a little drunk now, they were big stars when I was a kid. Be warned heavy reference to pot and weed .
I used to love this show I have tears in my eyes how time flies 66years old now.
yes June time does fly but at least we can look back on here and enjoy times gone by
I agree its sad how time flies 😮
Back in day when cartoons were so cute and innocent
Still do
74 your not kidding
I'm a 68 year old man and I'm watching bill and Ben with my grandson
and your problem is? lol
thats what I mean theres no problem @@Djahto543
How old is he does he get it?
Well done I bet he was glued to the screen.
Aww thsts so sweet from a child watching to a granparent
Oh heck, I’m 75 and l remember them saying, alobadob or something similar. How lovely to see this on you tube. A different time, life, century and country. ❤️
so true
I too am 75, and it is so good to see this again - such happy memories of watching this with my late Mum. This has reduced me to tears - where has the time gone - such innocence.
Flobalopdop I think
Flobalopdop
Pleep Plop Little Weed!
Even as a child watching this I always hoped the gardener would come back from his lunch early and catch them....
lol
Yeah and shout come back here you little s@*%s 😅
Yeah same here.
But the little house could see everything..😂
Me too!❤😂❤
Charming and recalls happy magical days watching this as a toddler with my lovely late mum and baby brother . Brings a tear to my eye and makes you realise how lucky you were to be kiddies in those lovely days in an old England now sadly gone for ever .
I loved Bill and Ben. How great to see them again!
I'm 72 and remember Bill and Ben watching with mother.
was aired first in the 50's then went on into 60's
Yup, me too in the early fifties, my sister and me both kneeling over the arm of an easy chair, watching this on a Bush TV53 b&w television, I'd give a lot to be back there now.
Little weeeeed 66year ago and still remember all these wonderful TV shows.
No thanks don't smoke😂
At 76 this has brought happy memories especially Weed!
Living in a farm cottage,in the early 60s,watching this show along,with The Wooden Tops,Andy Pandy and Tales of the River Bank,such fantastic memories,brings a lump to the throat of a grown man....Thanks for posting this...!!!!
Sometimes brings a lump in the throat of this grown woman too seems a very long time ago I used to sit in front of the telly watching this 💕
@@dawnfinch8232 Yes,such innocent times,simple tv,which we loved,coupled with Listen with Mother on the radio...I cant see young children today being enthralled as much as we were.
@@tenburywellsmartin7576 I know it seems children nowadays grow up to fast ❣️
Andy Pandy was the first gay man on TV, Lubby lou tackled up, but Andy goes to basket with little Ted. The onion.. I'm rather stiff, would not get away that in 2023 😪
I grew up in farm cottages too, lovely times. Here I am at nearly 70 enjoying this all over again!
THEY DON'T MAKE CLASSICS LIKE THIS NO MORE.
Brings back lovely memories xx
thats what this channel is about
My brother used to sit and watch this, mezmorized, wide eyes, mouthing every word, weeeeed, floba dob, he wet himself when the Gardener came down the path! Seventeen he was!😀
lol
was Robert Plant also a fan of Bill and Ben when he was a little boy?
@@tsartodd No but he was a big fan of the little weed!😃
Great stuff! I think most of us commenting here still have the humour that such warm memories bring! Weren't we fortunate?
This was absolute magic to watch. I'm 73 now and the simpleness (is that a word?) of childhood came flowing back. I'm just a bit worried that I won't get their lingo like, 'FLOB-A-LOP', out my head when I try to drop off to sleep. Anyway, 'FLOB-A-LOP' to all Bill and Ben lovers. I'm off to search for some Noddy, next, though that will probably be too action-packed after this. Smiles.
as long as you don't shout weed in your sleep lol
They were all puppets and in black and white but they seemed amazing to me.
Ah, wonderful! Remember Thursdays with 'Rag,Tag and Bobtail'? Magical!
Excellent. Wish I could go back, but have the wisdom I have now. pipe dream over.
God I used to watch this with my dear mum.Im 59 years young now!
nice to look back
Yes I did as well. It's my earliest memory of television
Yes I would watch with my grandmother she would always call it quiet time bless her💜💜
You're still only a baby!
I am 68 and I bought a video of Bill and Ben and one of magic roundabout (the original) and my children grew up with them just as I did😊
That was a more gentle time growing up
My brother used to love watching Bill and Ben, happy days.
happy days indeed
My childhood show was happy days kinda have a
tv Friend The Fonz
73 and sitting here chuckling allo lipop weed, flobalopdop hahaha 😂
Oh god the memories just came flooding back ❤❤❤
Definitely my favourite!! Cuddled up with mum!!xxx
I'm sad that most of us who remember these shows will be dead soon, it's been an honor to be a part of your generation. Although Bill and Ben spoke mostly gibberish and I could take very little from it, I can honestly say that Weed has played an influencial role in my life.
My twin sister and I used to love this in the late 50s . We called them the polamot men. We were young lol
how cute
couple of minutes in i remembered the flowerpot men's lingo again, god bless the flobberdot men, and Mother thank you for watching this with me for a few years before i started infants school! god bless.
glad you enjoyed it
Dissolving in a sea of nostalgia.. thank you.
One of my first memories. This and Trumpton
That's what we have running this country of ours bill and ben.
I loved watching this I'm 62
your never too old too be young
Me too. 63
I'm a mere pup at 67 but I remember this so fondly, along with Torchy
Oh my. Great memories. We, of a certain age, remember this only too well along with all the other Watch With Mother shows. Transported back in time. Thank you!!
I used to love this. I was born in 1967. I can't imagine what my grandbabies would think of this now.
Same year as me. I still love this. I think this is eternal.
They do because it’s not AI so it’s genuine to them,kids are clever, we were
Magical xx
Im thankful i got to have a healthy and simple childhood, growing up when things happened slowly and magically.
Can't imagine modern kids being able to handle the simplicity now.
,..and to think folk moaned about The Teletubbies language skills 😊 great to see this again - thanking you x
You’re welcome 😊
It was so lovely to come across this video of Bill and Ben and off cause Weed. I loved to watch it when i was a little girl. It has brought back such wonderful memories. Thank you
I remember watching this when I was about 5. This and Andy Pandy, Noddy and a couple of other ones, my poor old brain can't readily recall.
I remember this episode. It captivated me, I thought it was magical.
86 and remember my kids glued to the tele Watching this!
Plus Tales of the Riverbank👍
Gosh that brought back memories!! The funny thing is that I used to understand exactly what they were talking about those days 😂😂😂😂
I remember they don't make them like this any more do they thanks for the memories 💚
I loved bill and Ben ❤and weed 🎉
I’m 70 I watched Bill and Ben with my Mum, the lady had such a posh voice but my favourite was Andy Pandy and Teddy
How could any nation whose kids grew up on this be all that bad.
One of my earliest childhood memories - I used to talk a bit like Bill and Ben.
Im 66 now but i loved boll and ben .andy pandy woodentops. I always worried the gardener would find them .
I searched for this because The Beatles mention this on their BBC live record. They received a letter from a fan talking about this.💜✌️
interesting
Golly gee...I am left nonplussed by this. I kind of love how...it feels like something terrible is going to happen at any moment.
And Weed is weirdly alluring.
Bill&Ben probably my favourite until Fireball XL5 came along.
Ice inside the windows. No 3d bit for the meter. I read The Hornet because everyone else got Beano.
Maria Bird did the narration. Love this We had picture book Monday, Andy Pandy Tuesday, Bill and Ben Wednesday ,Rag,Tag, & BobtailThursday, and Friday was The Wooden Tops ( with the biggest spotty dog you have ever seen).
Talk about having one foot in the grave by remembering these!
good times
That's the one I couldn't remember, Picture Book, thanks for reminding me. ❤
Brilliant! I liked Pogles wood too!
thats on my channel too.
Watching watch with mother back in the 1960s brings back so many happy memories for me. If I remember rightly the BBC only ever produced 26 episodes of Bill and Benn and all they did was keep repeating them over and over again but they kept us children happy 😊❤
I remember watching Bill n" Ben in Watch With Mother, I'd watch at home and when I started school. Those were good days. None of the violence, drugs, religious fanatics, illegal immagrants and no gender bias with preferred pronouns. You were either male or female. If you wanted to swap gender one did it without forcing it down societies throats. We also had Free Speech which we seem to be quick to be rid of these day's.
so sad but true
Just a question, how per se is anyone forcing it down society’s throat now? Providing that you don’t personally know a trαns person, how exactly must you accommodate for them? I really don’t understand the levels of knicker-twisting over this.
Also, there was absolutely vι olence, drugs, crime, and that sort of thing in those days- you were just probably a kid and therefore didn’t notice it.
Also also, free speech? Really? All the “red scare” stuff that led to quite a lot of the west having an aneurysm at the thought of any vague lεft-wing policies? All the censoring of books that were perceived as “commuπist” (including 1984)?
Look, all that to say it’s understandable to reminisce but please don’t wear the rose tinted glasses all the time.
Now, back to the video about puppets who speak Inkling.
Having just seen The Woodentops - Bill and Ben, my favourites. I should go to bed, but memory lane is pulling me. I gather they took them off because of the lack of language - can't have imagination now can we! The best one for me was the lovely white squirrel.
I am 74 Andy Pandy was also a favourite
just a number Linda stay young at heart and enjoy
used to watch this early 2000's 1 of my favorites
No you didn't it had been gone forever
I remember Bill & Ben but this made me laugh but in a good way, all I can remember them saying is "Blob a lob" but they were very good days
So many memories, love it
It keeps referring to it as a 60's program but I remember watching it in 1952, by the 60's it was gone
your right but it it was repeated in the 60s, I remember watching it as a Kid
I was born in 1958, I watched these shows as a toddler/preschooler and in school holidays later. I remember the series and also other WWM series, but not individual episodes. I now know that only 26 episodes of each were made so each programme was repeated every six months.
I watched at grandparents in the early 50s we didn't get a television till I was around 7 yrs old 😊
?? I watched it and I wasn't school age of yet then ,almost into the 60s but can't remember as at that age I didn't know sugar from sh..
These guys can understand Inkling, mad props
My favourite childhood show seems such a long time ago now
it is sadly
@@sixtieschild1035 ❤️
I watched as a child, they don’t make them like this anymore.
THEY CERTAINLY DONT
I remember watching this when I was 4 yrs old in England. We shortly moved to Canada but I never forgot Bill and Ben the flower pot mean of the one with the Hampster in the motorboat going down the river and all the characters were real animals.
ua-cam.com/video/-VTn6VlUXNA/v-deo.html try this video of mine
Yes that's the one Tales of the Riverbank@@sixtieschild1035
OMG I remember watching this with my mum! Little weed looks a bit manic .
She was certainly neurotic. Poor Weed, being stuck between those two and not being able to move.
The gardener never pulled little weed out???🤣
1950's: WEEEEEEEED!!!!
2000: Hi! My name is Little Weed!
It really shows how much BBC children’s programming has changed over 70 years, even comparing it to its reboot.
This is what I grew up with.
and me
Loved it! Here`s a `Bill and Ben` Joke. Bill and Ben are at the Pub; Bill says "Ooh, Flobbalobalob, Flibbaddy lob" Ben sighs and replies "Smashed again Bill! You just can`t hold your ale - I'm taking you Home!"
old but gold
My mum used to watch bill and ben.
Fantastic! happy memories watching this back in the sixties. Simple innocent fun, with my mother in the background, I was as happy as could be 😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
Splendid. More please.😊
Blobalot little weed 😂😂
Was that not mr bloby bloby
Loved it.
Stick man has survived then. 😊
Flowerpot Men have been on the weed
I was born in 1993 but i still used to love watching this as child
How
Was it on in the 90s I really can't recall ??
Bill and Ben got busted for smoking a little Weed.
memories of being a milk monitor in winter and playing footy on the fields of summer. I am so happy to have lived in Sunderland and spent my kid years in the 60s with Bill and Ben and Roxy and Zappa in the 70s and wore a green corduroy jacket in the 80s down in that London
ah Sunderland gods country we are lucky to have lived in those times
@@sixtieschild1035 why aye man, nowt's the bother. champion. love a plodge meself and a bag of chips and batter.
@@mehcol lol
Oh yes !!I'm just up road from Sunderland, was a lovely inocentctime yes.
@@mehcolyi cani get batter now née traditional chippies now
I remembered the signature tune and its words with instant recall as well as Little Weed's song. Didn't there used to also be a tortoise? It has brought back some happy times from my preschool years. I'd love to turn the clock back!
sorry but that cannot be
Slow coach was the tortoise I think
We watched this in Canada. Now I am a senior!
The weed's on helium!
😂😂
as a child i used to watch this on a black and white telly cos my dear old granny told me The Lone Ranger would " turn my 'ead "
theres a phrase I have not heard for ages
Imagine watching this if u were high 😂
Little were we to know that 10 years later we would be skinning up weed
Most of us were allowed to be innocent in those days.
First broadcast December 1952.
I loved this as a kid but I’m only 34 my parents must of played it on video
Maybe you had an old tv.
Only through here I am catching up on it, I am way too young as well and from the states. Now l get the crack when somebody commented elsewhere on a video that seems to be gone that he suspects bill and Ben were welsh. I am part welsh too.
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Yep get caught red handed 😂😂😂😂❤❤❤
The wood looks creepy, my favourite episode is the Flying Boot.
I love that you have a favourite episode of B & B.
@@camt9967 I’m 73 and remember it like last week😊
This must surely be where Julia Donaldson got her inspiration for her book 'The Stick Man' from.
could be
Hilda Brabben wrote the original 3 stories. Inspired by her two florist brothers of the same names she took the stories to the BBC where they were aired on the wireless programme Listen With mother.
These were first shown in the early 1950's. My favourite was Andy Pandy
yes and repeated for many years
Oh I do agree with the older people I am 70 and loved these.
Wooden tops.andy and Pandy.
Didn't like picture book very much.tales from the riverbank and rag tag and bobtail.
Love to see it colourised
so would I but don't think it will happen
Next episode: Bill and Ben wait for Godot
Classics
yep
Still beats me why the gardener didn't put some weed killer on the Little Weed...
how very dare you lol
@@sixtieschild1035 There's also a lot of things that were withheld from children back in the 50s and 60s. For example, I have it on good authority that Mummy Woodentop had a serious drink problem and Daddy Woodentop used to kick the biggest spotty dog you ever did see when he had a bad run on the horses.
..not forgetting that Bill and Ben were raging queens and demanded a lipstick allowance from the BBC...
Bloba dop little weed Lol
the drink does that lol
Oh my golly gosh.. these tree drawings i tried to re create,let alone copying the F.P.Mens language😂...thankyou utube
this takes my back to watching this with mum cousin ray and aunty nancy in 4 mindelgief rd newport quent south wales uk in 1960 it ONLY seems like yesterday but a marvlous time when children were ALLOWED TO INNOCENT AND PLAYFUL
I used to watch this as a kid I'm 34 now.
still a youngster for this channel lol