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.
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.
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 !
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
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 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'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. 💜
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 😊
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.
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!
"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".
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.
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!
@@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” 😂
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.
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
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
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.
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 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)
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
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.
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.
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.
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'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.
Absolutely my favourite VHS I owned when I was little I'm 22and the nostalgia is going overboard lol I made a lantern out of a leaflet at my work hehe oops
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'll second that Katy and I'm 65. It's so simplistic and the woman actually speaks English properly too.
Gonna be honest, I find watching old kids show makes me feel better too.
@@Werten25 going to be honest
Same difference.
yes me too x tony uk
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 needs to be back on TV. No excuses.
@@coolguy-xd1bg Gen Y/Z pig get lost
Not enough violence for you then. You inbred moron
absolutely couldnt agree more
Dan Bull inihhhhhhh
This video is probably the first trigger of ASMR I ever experienced (when I was a kid)
me too! i still come back here for that voice :)
Same!!
I literally just said this before i read this comment!!!
@@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 had the exact same VHS tape when I was a kid. I loved watching this.
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.
Yes it certainly was......i think rag tag and bobtail, went first and tales from the riverbank replaced it, but i could well be wrong! Happy days
Billy Flan All this should be shown on tv today, to show the children of today what we watched as children. Great Times.
Hello steve!
What a world we have lost .
Ah! Rag, Tag and Bobtail. I had totally forgotten them. Thanks for reminding me. I must look them up too.
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 !
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 86 but for some reason I watched this show often as a kid and I now make these with my son.
I was born in 97! And I LOVED this so much, paper lanterns make me think of this every time 🤣 my mum made sure we liked this 😁
Born in 2005 and somehow ended up watching this and showing my friends at nursery how cool I was bc I could make lanterns
@@AlexSmith-qw3nl haha we literally made them last week!
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 sat on my dads nee and fell asleep
I grew up with all the watch with mothers in the fifties, but picture book was my favorite. This lady was so absolutely gorgeous.
make your children watch this in the future. save them from the rubbish
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.
I loved watching this episode as a child, made me feel very nostalgic to see it again here :)
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
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'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. 💜
That box DVD thing is a VHS 🙂.
@@AlisonBryen Ta x
@@UtterQueerNightmare Happy to help 🙂.
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 😊
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
Thank you so much for uploading this. It was my favourite as a child x
She has a lovely voice. Makes me feel nostalgic.
i love the accent i wish we all spoke like that again
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.
clawpuss2 My mothet was busy getting her shitter pounded by black men..😃😃😃
I've got to say that puppeteer was brilliant!
I had this on VHS at age 2 and watched it over and over 😂
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!
"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".
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.
Me too! This is the English language I ve learned when I was a little girl and this is the English I love!!
My mother was always working, it was my Grandmother I watched this with !
I remember this so well I’m 34 now
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!
Thank you, Picture Book was a favourite of mine :)
The voice of Sausage by Roy Skelton, went on to be the voice of Zippy!!
amazing
Is that true ?
@@gerry5134 As far as I am aware and I believe an early Dr Who Dalek.
@@tonycritcher3419 I thought you were kidding bcz his voice does sound like zippy's 😁
Also Now that mention the Dalek voice I think you are correct !😳
@@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!
When programmes were innocent and no four letter words from children.......
My little sister had this on VHS! The memories!
Wish I could go back in time when I felt safe and I didn't have to worry about anything.
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” 😂
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
I remember this so well..
I'm impressed by the puppeteering of Sausage Dog. Also I'd like to see a 3 year old try to make that lantern from those instructions by themselves!
What a treat to hear clear diction. EEee, it were grand when I were a lad : )
I'm 22 and I remember watching this as a child. Lol Thank you for uploading this :)
Me too!
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.
Jolly Jack Tars! This just gets better!
The Jolly Jack Tars scared me when I was little especially this episode the monkey gave me nightmares cos of the noises he makes lol
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!
Oh we kids were so innocent then, loved it.
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
This brings me tremendous comfort
I'm 12 and I used to watch this 10 years ago it brings back so many memories when I was so young !!!!:))
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
What a lovely woman.
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
Way better than all the American CGI crap that’s on TV nowadays.
Brings back ALL my childhood o3o
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
People back in the day had a lot more imagination and time on there hands that's for sure.
I'm 22 and I loved watching this when I was a kid.
makes me think back to when me and my mum would do this awwhhh the memories
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!
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.
They are repeating the adventure of Robin Hood. On Talking Pictures Television .
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.
Keep coming back to this video as her voice is so soothing 🤣
lovely childhood memories!♥
Now this takes me back, to my first experiences of Earthlings and how they live! 🌍🌎🌏🏞🛸
Watch with mother,from a better more innocent era,no mutants or fighting just simple entertainment for children.
Paul Morris Yeah but then she went off air and got her shitter pounded while watching thousands die in the Vietnam war ..😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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!!!
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 remember watching these programs. I was born in 1960, 15 years after the liberation of the Nazi extermination camps.
Still remember how to make the lanterns to this day. Funny how it stuck in my head for nearly 30 years.
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!
I believe that's Patricia Driscoll
No its Vera for sure.
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)
Muriel Young?
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
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.
i'm 24 and had this on video and i loved it
I loved Bizzy Lizzy!
Beautiful, polite
I'm 19 and I used to watch this when I was younger :)
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.
joseph hammond so very true x
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.
Im 49 and bizzy lizzy was my favourite, watched on tv before videos existed - programme repeats are not a new thing.
That was how I learned to make Chinese lanterns.
I used to have a vhs of this. It was my favourite!
I think I had the same VHS from the library and I remember this exact episode :)
I used to have this on VHS, I always made paper lanterns endlessly
im 23 too but this brings back 90's vhs 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.
The Jolly Jacktars,brilliant !!!!
Lovely memorys as a child
I loved the music too
Its J S Bach one of the best.
i cant just about remember this
It's looks so fun.
Childhood feels :')
Im only 20 and I used to watch this when I was younger
before staplers. Use to watch this in the 1950's.
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.
OMG THE MEMORIESSSSS
I used to have this on VHS
This taught me how to touch my flower
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.
Absolutely my favourite VHS I owned when I was little I'm 22and the nostalgia is going overboard lol I made a lantern out of a leaflet at my work hehe oops
wow i didnt know they had it on vhs crazy to think when it was originally videos werent even invented