Yep, same here born in 1950 and we had a tiny box like tv but boy oh boy, did we kids love Watch With Mother. My favourite was probably The Wooden Tops, but to be honest, I loved them all including Muffin the Mule! Looking back it was such a simple time and we were easily pleased. Fond memories of a time long gone and will never be again. 💕
I am sad that those days and my country have disappeared, but so happy that I lived in that time and that place. We didn't realise we were in Narnia, between the war and global warming, but we realise it now, and should be joyful about it.
This was one of hose random things that pop up on UA-cam and it hit me like a hammer. I'm an old man for goodness sake why are my eyes watering? Fact is watching this I'm a small child again "watching with Mother" being bombarded with lovely memories from a time long gone. I am thankful that I still have them .
I was born in 1987 and whilst I'm possibly not of your era, I do appreciate is purity and simplicity. I had this on VHS and I so dearly loved it. I loved it back then and I still do today
As a 6 yr. old I was riveted to this and loved the appearance of the babies! I've never forgotten the tune throughout my lifetime or Bill and Ben.I think the narrator was Wilfred Hyde-White.Today's manic cartoons don't have the same magic alas!.-Innocence lost!
This was my favourite on watch with mother, my mum used to sit beside me and we'd have a cuddle while we watched. I'm 61 now, sadly mum is no longer with me . Beautiful memories , it's my turn now with my children and grandchildren .
I remember the series, but not individual episodes. Makes me want to cry. When I used to watch these in the early 1960s, I was 5 or younger, and my life had just begun. Now I watch them as an old man [spring 2023] and that life is almost over.
I was born in june 1955 and i can remember this programme, Can still see our very first TV in my head and the guy delivered it and tuned it in and this was the first thing we watched....brilliant
I remember those days fondly. I used to watch it on our 405 line black and white tv., whilst mum was usually in the kitchen, baking or ironing. If I remember correctly, Monday was Andy Pandy, Tuesday was the Picture Book Lady, Wednesday was Bill and Ben, the Flowerpot Men, Thursdays was Rag Tag and Bobtail, and Friday was The Woodentops. (If I've got it wrong, I'm open to correction, obviously.)
I think you have reversed Mon and Tues. I think I remember that Picture Book was discontinued and replaces by Tales of the Riverbank. If any of this is wrong perhaps someone will correct me.
Thank goodness my childhood was in England. Australia missed out on lovely shows. Before watch with Mother it was Listen with Mother I had a special stool next to the radio and never missed it.
we were well off comparatively , simple life dad made all our furniture cuboards , bedside cabinets out of recycled furniture, his bureau lasted 60 years was 2 drawers nailed together , they saved up for the tv. I guess, never had credit or HP .
Well, I'm almost 70, and I remember RT&B vividly and with great affection - but if you think going back to the 1950s would be a good idea you're really living in a dream world. It's a Golden Age that never existed. 'Beautiful Old England'? Can you not remember how grim it was most of the time? That's why we remember tv like this with such affection, not only were we children with no responsibilities but it is the exception that proves the rule. I doubt your parents thought it was all so wonderful.
My grandparents had Watch With Mother on VHS. I watched it nearly every time I went and stayed over at their house when I was a child, kept me quite for a while :-).
This was also my favourite children's programme. It came on a about three o'clock. It seemed like a massive place to me as a toddler. I would have liked to visit them as I believed it was a real place. It seemed very big at the time. I didn't remember that they spoke though.
It never ceases to amaze me that people can use any clip on UA-cam to voice their deeply held prejudices and hatreds. What a clip of 50 year old Childrens programme has to do with racism, only the person who commented will know. But then those people find any excuse to spew out the conntents of their troubled minds
and in no time at all Bobtail and the naughty rabbit were asleep too. [Yawn]... naptime ... my mum put this on so that i would have a nap... still makes me sleepy....
At the beginning it looks like he's got a gun ! lol. I love rag tag & bobtail. My partner Tony Knight shown me these little guys & I think they rock xxxx
Remember how you used to get up in the morning with frost patterns on the bedroom window? Grab your clothes and get dressed as quickly as possible before your feet froze to the lino? Maybe you had a rug by the bedside, just big enough to stand on - or drag your clothes into the bed and get dressed under the covers. Then you'd go downstairs and the fire wasn't lit yet so maybe you'd have to do it yourself (age 10) with newspaper and wood and coal brought in from the outside coal shed? Then put the kettle on the gas ring to make tea... And to cap it all, this was best TV had to offer in the way of entertainment back then, which incidentally didn't come on until 5pm and went off at 10:30. And we were well off by most standards of the estate. There were only two families in our street with a TV. Nostalgia is overrated imo. :D
@@petertabord9588 I could have done without the beatings. At home as at school, a slipper, belt or cane were always ready at hand for such vile offences as answering back or chewing gum. Still, as you say, no permanent damage that I'm aware of. In fact, some of it was quite funny in retrospect. God, I was dumb!
@@qwadratix I don't think beatings were an obligatory part of those times. i certainly never had any. But beatings continue now. Spousal and child abuse continue now. Where is the change?
@SuperBashem.bravo!my feelings exactly.this country,indeed,the world,has slid into the brutal madness of the 21st century.progress?no!these were some of the last days of Great Britain but we didnt know it.some 10 or so years after this programme a Mr Enoch Powell warned us what we could expect...,,
Enoch Powell was a disgusting, scaremongering racist, it’s not brown people that have fucked this country, it’s decades of a neo liberal vision of over consumption of finite resources and systematic widening of inequality. Racist boomers blaming poor brown people for their problems need to get in the sea.
😊happy days in the 1950s i no there was no inside toilet toliet in the yard no wasing machines dolly and peg for the washing and mangul but children were happy cause we could play outside none of these bloody mobile phones not even phone in the house call box corner of the street if you were lucky but as kids we were always happy
@Mrfairchap.i totally concur.happier,safer and more ordered times.society had its flaws of course but it had COMMUNITY which "progress " totally destroyed and so much more with it.
they were great days, before beautiful england became a cesspit pit and a dumping ground for every immigrant on the planet. its not safe to walk the streets of london now !!
my mum used to make me watch this when i was younger. while there were things on the tv like pokémon and the power puff girls i was watching stuff like this ahaha it's very creepy indeed!!! The theme song is sooooo nostalgic though i didnt even realise i'd been humming it for years without knowing where it was from!!!
Such wonderful days, so innocent, no internet, no mobiles, no texts, no emails,people actually spoke to each other, wrote letters to each other, police everywhere, respect for everyone. I was only 4 when this came out but I remember Watch with Mother so well. Then there was the Flowerpot Men, Andy Pandy, the Woodentops. What do the kids have today? No discipline. Mobiles at the age of 5 with access to who knows what! And we wonder why they have so many problems. Todays generation have an awful lot to answer for! It’s wrecked a generation with its disgusting technology and all this tosh about gender! Seems like a different world to today. What a mess!
that's what has brought this country down, and yet, they still blame the Brits, even when parts of London was torched last year, it was black folk & foreigners, barely any Brits, absurd!
From a slower more sedate and simpler puppets and paper mache analogue era. I think today's youngsters would be bored sick with this. It has to be edgy, technological, fast, flashy, loud with attitude these days. However, I'm 62 and this was what we were brought up with. It now seems rather tame for today's world.
Born in 1950 and loved watching this every weekday with my lovely Mom.
Yep, same here born in 1950 and we had a tiny box like tv but boy oh boy, did we kids love Watch With Mother. My favourite was probably The Wooden Tops, but to be honest, I loved them all including Muffin the Mule! Looking back it was such a simple time and we were easily pleased. Fond memories of a time long gone and will never be again. 💕
Yes it's so very nice 2 see them again .. Dawne Foulds 👍💓
If you are in your 60 s and have tears , prepare to shed them now .
I know. I just did. That music had me back 60 years on mummy's knee in front of the open fire and totally engrossed in Watch With Mother.
Loved watching this with my Maman - brings tears to my 75 year old eyes. Wonderful times, how life has changed!
Join the club Marie…I’m 74 going on 75 and treasure this too🥰
@@derrickgreen9020
66 in July I remember them all.
Bizzy lizzy too
Life will never be the same, unfortunately. Remember this so well. Now 67,but seems like yesterday. Happy days
I am sad that those days and my country have disappeared, but so happy that I lived in that time and that place. We didn't realise we were in Narnia, between the war and global warming, but we realise it now, and should be joyful about it.
Born in 54 I used to love this. I had completely forgotten it till it started to play. Thanks for the memory of those innocent years.
This was one of hose random things that pop up on UA-cam and it hit me like a hammer. I'm an old man for goodness sake why are my eyes watering? Fact is watching this I'm a small child again "watching with Mother" being bombarded with lovely memories from a time long gone. I am thankful that I still have them .
The beauty,innocence and decency of these wonderful stories has been replaced by the ugly violence of American brainrot culture!!
I was born in 1987 and whilst I'm possibly not of your era, I do appreciate is purity and simplicity. I had this on VHS and I so dearly loved it. I loved it back then and I still do today
Omg! The watch with mother unfurling cloud flower I always used to think was so magical! And it still is!
Wonderful happy childhood memories of children's tv in long ago old England before....
the sixties?
As a 6 yr. old I was riveted to this and loved the appearance of the babies! I've never forgotten the tune throughout my lifetime or Bill and Ben.I think the narrator was Wilfred Hyde-White.Today's manic cartoons don't have the same magic alas!.-Innocence lost!
Not seen this since I was a little kid years ago now I'm sixty nine I still remember it
Lovely reminder of my childhood, fondly remember seeing watch with mother, clever stories.
This was my favourite programme as a small child. I am 71 now and it brings back many happy memories. Thank you for posting!
Delightful, innocent, nostalgic. Took me right back to my childhood. Brought tears to my eyes. A lost world
This was the first thing on our new TV.....lol about 1957.Happy days.
Beautiful
A wonderful reminder of an extremely happy fifties childhood. Thank you for posting.
good old classics ....i watched all of these as a child
This was my favourite on watch with mother, my mum used to sit beside me and we'd have a cuddle while we watched. I'm 61 now, sadly mum is no longer with me . Beautiful memories , it's my turn now with my children and grandchildren .
me too , just like yesterday.
I'm also 61 but must admit this was my least favourite of the Watch With Mother series.
Neither is mine and I'm 66. I miss her and have regrets. .. Time marches on so make the best of it. We have go easy on ourselves.
how good is that Lynne. Blob a lob Weed. so brings back me
Lynne Henderson great memories it was the same with me
my favourite watch with mother show
Loved this as a kid Brings back very fond memories of those long special afternoons.
Life was so uncomplicated
This is cute beyond words
I was 2 years old when this came on tv. Shame show's are not like this any more. Maybe that's what is wrong with the world....
I wasn't born I'm the 50s I was in the 60s but still use to watch it I loved it
Oh the memories 🥰
I remember the series, but not individual episodes. Makes me want to cry. When I used to watch these in the early 1960s, I was 5 or younger, and my life had just begun. Now I watch them as an old man [spring 2023] and that life is almost over.
😢 😭😭...very true...
I have just found it. I'm not even 30 and do you know what? I like it! I'd like to show it to my own kids.
This was a favourite of mine. I am now 73 and really enjoyed it ❤
I was born in june 1955 and i can remember this programme, Can still see our very first TV in my head and the guy delivered it and tuned it in and this was the first thing we watched....brilliant
Loved.this.im.67
I thought these were so sweet when I was little, almost seen all my childhood on youtube now. Happy days! :)
I am nearly 64 and Rag, Tag and Bobtail was my favorite. I still have my original tag hand puppet and my grandchildren love him. Alan Beesley
Alan Beesley that's lovely
Loved it too but had forgotten it until now! I have a playlist of (G)Olden Times where I put videos like this.
That puppet is probably worth a fortune now.
So nice 2 see these children's watch with mother programes. Thanks Dawne Foulds❤
What happy days Watch with Mother gave. Ahhhh the memories of childhood.
I remember those days fondly. I used to watch it on our 405 line black and white tv., whilst mum was usually in the kitchen, baking or ironing. If I remember correctly, Monday was Andy Pandy, Tuesday was the Picture Book Lady, Wednesday was Bill and Ben, the Flowerpot Men, Thursdays was Rag Tag and Bobtail, and Friday was The Woodentops. (If I've got it wrong, I'm open to correction, obviously.)
I think you have reversed Mon and Tues. I think I remember that Picture Book was discontinued and replaces by Tales of the Riverbank. If any of this is wrong perhaps someone will correct me.
@@michaelhaywood8262 That could be the case. I don't remember Tales of the riverbank, so it could have been after I started school, in 1957.
I'm 67 and remember these fondly. I don't think of myself as an old lady.
Agreed - and as an aside, I was always in awe of Hammy the hamster, voiced so eloquently by the one and only Johnny Morris@@michaelhaywood8262
Monday was Picture Book (Patricia Driscoll), Tuesday Andy Pandy, Wednesday The Flower Pot men, Thursday Rag Tag and Bobtail, Friday The Woodentops
Oh thank you so much I really thought this was lost for ever. How strange to go back to such an innocent time, before I was corrupted by Crackerjack!
oh happy days Watching with my wonderful mum
Thank goodness my childhood was in England. Australia missed out on lovely shows. Before watch with Mother it was Listen with Mother I had a special stool next to the radio and never missed it.
My favourite programme when I was 4 years old. So good to see them again.
Thank you so much. This was the first programme I saw in 1958 when my parents first rented a television.
Absolutely Ace , a trip back to a warm and fuzzy place free from care , thank you ‘😊
Loved seeing this again - thank you for posting it. This programme was part of my childhood in the 50s.
thankyou for a jaunt down far off memory lane
Classic, 5 baby rabbits, utilizing 4 fingers and 1 thumb, no CGI back then. Love it.
Such memories!! Thank you…
This was the first programme I saw on our own TV when I got home from junior school aged 6.
Jack Hancock Funnily enough, when I asked my mother about her first television, she told me that this was the first thing she saw too.
Your family must have been rich if you had your own TV at age 6 back in those days.
we were well off comparatively , simple life dad made all our furniture cuboards , bedside cabinets out of recycled furniture, his bureau lasted 60 years was 2 drawers nailed together , they saved up for the tv. I guess, never had credit or HP .
My favourite programme, i was 4 years old when I used to watch it, I never understood where the baby rabbits came from. 😅
Six days on from your comment... I trust you've learned where the baby rabbits came from...😊😅😂❤🤔🏴🙂🇬🇧🖖
beautiful england gone for ever, as that old saying goes. "you reap what you sow"
How I agree with you...I'm 65..just waiting for a time machine I'm going back home....how sad am i😍😍😍😍
Well, I'm almost 70, and I remember RT&B vividly and with great affection - but if you think going back to the 1950s would be a good idea you're really living in a dream world. It's a Golden Age that never existed. 'Beautiful Old England'? Can you not remember how grim it was most of the time? That's why we remember tv like this with such affection, not only were we children with no responsibilities but it is the exception that proves the rule. I doubt your parents thought it was all so wonderful.
@@MisterBethanyWell said!
I used to have Watch with mother on VHS, this brings back memories
Me too!
Apparently this narrator narrated the first 11 books of the Railway Series back in 1956. I have to say I love his voice!
Happy childhood days
My grandparents had Watch With Mother on VHS. I watched it nearly every time I went and stayed over at their house when I was a child, kept me quite for a while :-).
Watched this. Youngsters still enjoy games like this LOL XX🤣
It must be 50 years since I last saw this :) thanks for posting x
Oh I remember it well 😢
I am sending it to mine and to my sisters. I am nearly 71 xx
Wonderful!
This was also my favourite children's programme. It came on a about three o'clock. It seemed like a massive place to me as a toddler. I would have liked to visit them as I believed it was a real place. It seemed very big at the time. I didn't remember that they spoke though.
Bobtail used to spook me out when I was four year old, Fifty six years on and he still does!
I love so much.
It never ceases to amaze me that people can use any clip on UA-cam to voice their deeply held prejudices and hatreds. What a clip of 50 year old Childrens programme has to do with racism, only the person who commented will know. But then those people find any excuse to spew out the conntents of their troubled minds
@Mrfairchap Keep your miserable opinions for other forums and don't infect strands where people want to remember childish innocence and decency
Shut up Mr unfair chap.
How old are you?
and in no time at all Bobtail and the naughty rabbit were asleep too. [Yawn]... naptime ... my mum put this on so that i would have a nap... still makes me sleepy....
Loved
Quiet, gentle, well meaning.
At the beginning it looks like he's got a gun ! lol. I love rag tag & bobtail. My partner Tony Knight shown me these little guys & I think they rock xxxx
If it was around today it would have been!
Remember how you used to get up in the morning with frost patterns on the bedroom window? Grab your clothes and get dressed as quickly as possible before your feet froze to the lino? Maybe you had a rug by the bedside, just big enough to stand on - or drag your clothes into the bed and get dressed under the covers.
Then you'd go downstairs and the fire wasn't lit yet so maybe you'd have to do it yourself (age 10) with newspaper and wood and coal brought in from the outside coal shed? Then put the kettle on the gas ring to make tea... And to cap it all, this was best TV had to offer in the way of entertainment back then, which incidentally didn't come on until 5pm and went off at 10:30.
And we were well off by most standards of the estate. There were only two families in our street with a TV.
Nostalgia is overrated imo. :D
Yes the icy house and paper, kindling and paraffin then big newspaper to help the fire draw. Recipe for disaster sometimes!
And was any of that actually a problem? Didn't seem to do me any harm.
@@petertabord9588 I could have done without the beatings. At home as at school, a slipper, belt or cane were always ready at hand for such vile offences as answering back or chewing gum. Still, as you say, no permanent damage that I'm aware of. In fact, some of it was quite funny in retrospect. God, I was dumb!
@@qwadratix I don't think beatings were an obligatory part of those times. i certainly never had any. But beatings continue now. Spousal and child abuse continue now. Where is the change?
Exact description of my childhood too dad always made the fire up.no fitted carpets no central heating.
We were really happy kids tho.
Remember making mud pies in the back garden with sisters. xx
Crikey it must be over 50 years since I saw this! Amazing. Remember Walter Hottle Bottle and Sparky and the Magic Piano? Thank you UA-cam!
Don't really remember this the ones i loved were bill and ben andy pandy more innocent times in the world take me back
ha ha! childhood memories, never quite got rag tag and bobtail!♥
@SuperBashem.bravo!my feelings exactly.this country,indeed,the world,has slid into the brutal madness of the 21st century.progress?no!these were some of the last days of Great Britain but we didnt know it.some 10 or so years after this programme a Mr Enoch Powell warned us what we could expect...,,
Enoch Powell was a disgusting, scaremongering racist, it’s not brown people that have fucked this country, it’s decades of a neo liberal vision of over consumption of finite resources and systematic widening of inequality. Racist boomers blaming poor brown people for their problems need to get in the sea.
@@madratladyExcellent ❤
Beautiful , such things could never be made again as it has a certain innocence that is now lost. What was the name of the narrator?
Same with me. Ah happy days
😊happy days in the 1950s i no there was no inside toilet toliet in the yard no wasing machines dolly and peg for the washing and mangul but children were happy cause we could play outside none of these bloody mobile phones not even phone in the house call box corner of the street if you were lucky but as kids we were always happy
@Mrfairchap.i totally concur.happier,safer and more ordered times.society had its flaws of course but it had COMMUNITY which "progress " totally destroyed and so much more with it.
Gosh Thanks I had totally forgotten them! Bang into Holden Times playlist it goes! Cheers for that.😀👍
i agree!
♥
What of "Tales of The Riverbank"?
@DharmaxWay.here here.what constitutes the grotesque furniture of their minds heaven only knows..
The Belstone Fox brought me here...
Zoella's vlog brought me here lol
Which vlog was it? :)
+Charizarzar the vlogmas 2015 day 5 :)
they were great days, before beautiful england became a cesspit pit and a dumping ground for every immigrant on the planet. its not safe to walk the streets of london now !!
my mum used to make me watch this when i was younger. while there were things on the tv like pokémon and the power puff girls i was watching stuff like this ahaha it's very creepy indeed!!! The theme song is sooooo nostalgic though i didnt even realise i'd been humming it for years without knowing where it was from!!!
Such wonderful days, so innocent, no internet, no mobiles, no texts, no emails,people actually spoke to each other, wrote letters to each other, police everywhere, respect for everyone. I was only 4 when this came out but I remember Watch with Mother so well. Then there was the Flowerpot Men, Andy Pandy, the Woodentops. What do the kids have today? No discipline. Mobiles at the age of 5 with access to who knows what! And we wonder why they have so many problems. Todays generation have an awful lot to answer for! It’s wrecked a generation with its disgusting technology and all this tosh about gender! Seems like a different world to today. What a mess!
For some reason, my Mum hated this programme, my favourite Watch with Mother. She liked The Woodentops, which I hated.
Probably objected to the lack of a comma after Rag.
Or the unscientific use of a divining rod.
that's what has brought this country down, and yet, they still blame the Brits, even when parts of London was torched last year, it was black folk & foreigners, barely any Brits, absurd!
I remember loving this programme when I was a toddler. Bobtail looks so fat!
*rag* *tag* and *BOBTAIL*
And, "Bill and Benthe Flowerpot Men"
😂😂 😂
From a slower more sedate and simpler puppets and paper mache analogue era. I think today's youngsters would be bored sick with this. It has to be edgy, technological, fast, flashy, loud with attitude these days. However, I'm 62 and this was what we were brought up with. It now seems rather tame for today's world.
was that johnny morris
I was sure he said "Apples" not "animals".
what are you doing with a lewis gun Tag ?
These comments are disgusting. i hope i dont end up so bitter and twisted.
its to late to do any thing about it now, your never find any polly with enough spine to deport these bastards.while theres a vote to be had !!
A good plot, but spoiled with the unnecessary violence and swearing.