I was born in 1954 and this was My favourite children's TV Programme. I just loved spotty dog and thanks to him have had Dalmatian dogs as pets for last 21 years. 🌹🐕
Watched this every Friday. It was my favourite day of the week. Always wanted a picket fence; a spotty dog and a Mrs Scrubbit. I never had a picket fence or a dog and I became Mrs Scrubbit!
Wonderful memories of watching these good old children's programmes with Watch With Mother, etc. My Mum would watch with me back in the 50's. Sadly both my parents are long gone. I nice warm feeling watching these again. Thank you for uploading them.
Oh I just loved this - how gorgeous to see it again. I used to watch it after lunch. My mum would switch on the tv for the programme and then turn it off again after it had ended. Just like it happens for kids today!
If my memory hasn't failed me..Monday was Picture Book, Tuesday was Andy Pandy, Wednesday, the Flower Pot Men, Thursday we had Rag, Tag, and Bobtail and Friday The Woodentops :-) Happy Days
I remember breaking out in floods of tears when they sang the "Spotty Dog" song. The words went something like "Poor little spotty dog all on his own / / All alone without even a bone / ". At primary school we all walked around like spotty dog, legs and arms totally out of control and stupid great grins on our faces :-)
Ooh, now this takes me back. Why can't they entertain todays' children with these classics instead of all the cgi and digital trickery, plastered with copious amounts of overpowering colour designed to cause sensory overload?! 🏴
I grew up watching this (and other Watch With Mother programmes). Now children watch robots that turn into weapons and kill people with violent sounds in the background. Can we really be surprised our society has turned into a nightmare?
Such memories! I had a lovely childhood and 'Watch with Mother' was a big part of that (not to mention the fabulous pieces of music such as this Grieg classic). Thank you
Good days they were, my old neighbor god rest her soul she’d always watch with me with her homemade sponge cake when I was 6 when she babysit me, she was like a nan to me and until she passed away it made me think of her even today
this is so much more cleverer then the cartoons and the computerised programmes we have these days mum bought us the video when we were small although i was born in the 90s I still favour childrens programmes like this thank you for uploading this :-)
Where's Dobbin? The bovine interest must've come later..... "Oi feel you there, Dobbin", said Sam. That music caught me unawares. I'd forgotten how I sat on mother's knee, 65 years ago, to watch, waiting for the old valve TV to heat up, then that laconic melody.... nowhere is it played as meditatively as here. I think I lost my composure hearing it again as an ingrained memory.
I remeber watching this way back in 2001, about 5 at the time, and asking things like, "Why does the mum not go to work? Why did she leave Baby Woodentop outside, isn't that dangerous? Why is Daddy doing all the work?" and my own mum was like, "*pats head* When you're older ^-^" xD
this so beats all the rubbish i see my granddaughters watching like sponge Bob - thank you for taking me back to my childhood and wonderful memories, and thank you for uploading
There was an episode of "The Woodentops" where there was a song about poor Spotty Dog without a bone. Used to have me in tears as a kid. The words were something like: Everyone: "Poor little Spotty Dog all on his own" Spotty Dog; "Oh oh oh" Everyone "All alone without even a bone" Spotty Dog; "Oh oh oh" BBC woman - "Pooooor Spotty Dog" I think that episode of Watch WIth Mother hurt me so much that I shall be seeking compensation from the BBC....................... Thanks for the post!
We lived on a 3rd floor flat no garden no pets l longed for life and home like these and Dick and Dora with a mother there when I go home from school my mum bless her was at work all day
Ski lifts are closed for alpine skiing because of covid and we have been forced to learn cross county skiing instead. Spotty Dog (6.00 )is our role model. Speaking “Spotty Dog” is getting funny looks from passers by !
Daddy Woodentop: "What have we got for dinner today, Mummy Woodentop?" Mummy Woodentop: "Have you got wood for brains? We're having the usual wood and charcoal for dinner!"
There she is at her kitchen stove looking to see if the potatoes were cooked and the meat was done. Mummy wooden top began to serve the dinner, Brilliant :-). The good old days when women were women.
This provokes memories I thought no longer exist..The smell of my mums stew crept into my mind, chickenpox and Farleys Rusks. It's day at nursery, I ran out, they couldn't find me for an hour. I'm gonna turn this off and keep it off it's too provoking...
When these programmes went out, everybody did! Mothers would leave their babies outside shops in their prams safe in the knowledge that they'd still be there 5, 10 or even 30 minutes later. Seems incredible now but all of us babies from the sixties are living proof of happier days. In that respect, anyway
I was born in 1954 and this was My favourite children's TV Programme. I just loved spotty dog and thanks to him have had Dalmatian dogs as pets for last 21 years. 🌹🐕
Loved this and Rag, Tag & Bobtail mid 1950's was 5 years old, Happy Days !
My brother & I teared up watching this, remembering such a simpler world xx
Watched this every Friday. It was my favourite day of the week. Always wanted a picket fence; a spotty dog and a Mrs Scrubbit. I never had a picket fence or a dog and I became Mrs Scrubbit!
😂❤
Brilliant. 😅
Merry Christmas Mrs Scrubbit.
🎅 🎄
Hee hee thanks for the chuckle!
My late mom let me watch this on our B/W TV I was 6 years of age wonderful happy memories that are with me now, thank you mom and dad both gone now xx
Grew up with watch with mother much simpler times but good gentle times
How has the world changed since then .
Wouldn't like to be a child now
Wonderful memories of watching these good old children's programmes with Watch With Mother, etc. My Mum would watch with me back in the 50's. Sadly both my parents are long gone. I nice warm feeling watching these again. Thank you for uploading them.
That's a seriously evocative piece of piano playing. 'Watch with Mother' is woven into the very
fabric of my childhood. Thank's for sharing.
Wonderful stuff...innocent, simple and wholesome! Loved these characters when I was a kid...happy days...
This was replaced by the exorcist to bring nursery aged children up to date with the world in the 21st century.
wish I was still 5 when I was with my mum and dad and life was just lovely !! xx
Heart warming...yet...a tinge of sadness
I grew up watching these . So many memories.
🥰 awwww how things change . Lovely unassuming family life . Love the Wooden tops.
Just took me back 50 years...thanks.
AWw how I long for my childhood Thankyou for sharing this precious memory
29 years old and my mum and I still sing "What have we got for dinner today, for dinner, for dinner, for dinner today."
That is so wonderful to hear. My late mother used to do the same. Memories. X🌹🐕
Oh I just loved this - how gorgeous to see it again. I used to watch it after lunch. My mum would switch on the tv for the programme and then turn it off again after it had ended. Just like it happens for kids today!
If my memory hasn't failed me..Monday was Picture Book, Tuesday was Andy Pandy, Wednesday, the Flower Pot Men, Thursday we had Rag, Tag, and Bobtail and Friday The Woodentops :-) Happy Days
ameritas2 Nah! Happy Days was much later!
Andy Pandy and Flower pot men received spin-offs right?
Correct
Your Spot on, watched them on a 10" black and white TV
I was born in September 1963 and only vaguely remember the Wooden tops!
A beautiful part of british television history.And I love spotty dog x
Loved watching these with my mum.I tell the wooden top stories to my grandchildren,they love them,so innocent.How it should be,.❤️❤️❤️
So many fond memories of the 50s.
brings, back, lovely, memories
I'm 50 this month and not seen this program for well over 40 years. Thanks for taking me back.
I remember breaking out in floods of tears when they sang the "Spotty Dog" song. The words went something like "Poor little spotty dog all on his own / / All alone without even a bone / ". At primary school we all walked around like spotty dog, legs and arms totally out of control and stupid great grins on our faces :-)
Very very happy memories life was a lot simpler then good honest childhood years
My absolute favourite, I was 9 before we got a telly & this spawned a whole language that my brothers & I used as baby talk.
i was born 1997 im 15 and i love this programme
Love this I loved watching this when i was a little girl
I can still do my Spotty Dog impression. 😁
Ooh, now this takes me back. Why can't they entertain todays' children with these classics instead of all the cgi and digital trickery, plastered with copious amounts of overpowering colour designed to cause sensory overload?! 🏴
I actually remember watching this one 😲
Love it, i'll have to show this along with Bill and Ben and Andy Pandy to my Catalan wife. A different world
"Sawdust and hay for dinner today" Yum, yum!
I wanted to have Spotty Dog more than anything when I was small. Infact I think I still do! Thanks for the memory!
So glad I was a child in this era, feel so sorry for youngsters of today
They were the days great memories! Watching watch with mother! The remake of the flowerpot men was terrible and was Andy pandy a boy or girl??
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i find life great now haha
I used to love the wooden tops
Why?
I grew up watching this (and other Watch With Mother programmes). Now children watch robots that turn into weapons and kill people with violent sounds in the background. Can we really be surprised our society has turned into a nightmare?
Spotty Dog is an absolute riot!
BISCUIT!!!😀
Like the comment. 57 and now living in the USA, but I too remember these show's as well as Bill and Ben,
Such memories! I had a lovely childhood and 'Watch with Mother' was a big part of that (not to mention the fabulous pieces of music such as this Grieg classic). Thank you
Friday was always special. And that music was by grieg. It's called cow call or something similar. Spotty was my favourite. Such a cool dog.
Good days they were, my old neighbor god rest her soul she’d always watch with me with her homemade sponge cake when I was 6 when she babysit me, she was like a nan to me and until she passed away it made me think of her even today
thanks for this it takes me back years !! lovely
Loved this when a child.Find it comical now in a nice way.Memories !
wow i so remember this when i was little and the biggest spotty dog you ever did see
very fond memories of 56 yrs ago,,,
how true, i was the same, sadly my mum died 3yrs ago[94yrs]
such happy memories
this is so much more cleverer then the cartoons and the computerised programmes we have these days mum bought us the video when we were small although i was born in the 90s I still favour childrens programmes like this thank you for uploading this :-)
My daughter went to Eastbourne today. She rang to say she had bought me a present - a book about The Woodentops!.
So gentle and enchanting. Compare the world of 2016
Where's Dobbin? The bovine interest must've come later..... "Oi feel you there, Dobbin", said Sam. That music caught me unawares. I'd forgotten how I sat on mother's knee, 65 years ago, to watch, waiting for the old valve TV to heat up, then that laconic melody.... nowhere is it played as meditatively as here. I think I lost my composure hearing it again as an ingrained memory.
I remeber watching this way back in 2001, about 5 at the time, and asking things like, "Why does the mum not go to work? Why did she leave Baby Woodentop outside, isn't that dangerous? Why is Daddy doing all the work?" and my own mum was like, "*pats head* When you're older ^-^" xD
this so beats all the rubbish i see my granddaughters watching like sponge Bob - thank you for taking me back to my childhood and wonderful memories, and thank you for uploading
Awwww such happy memories of watching this when I was a kid
thank you for uploading, I felt like a child again watching it
This is cool. I love puppets and marionettes. Thanks for preserving this.
I remember this well thanks for the memories😺😺😺😺😺
The pace is so calming whereas kiddies programmes now leave your head in a whirl
Thank you for these uploads xx
Baby Woodentop grew up to be Iain Duncan Smith.
Andy Pandy grew up to be boy george..
There was an episode of "The Woodentops" where there was a song about poor Spotty Dog without a bone. Used to have me in tears as a kid. The words were something like:
Everyone: "Poor little Spotty Dog all on his own"
Spotty Dog; "Oh oh oh"
Everyone "All alone without even a bone"
Spotty Dog; "Oh oh oh"
BBC woman - "Pooooor Spotty Dog"
I think that episode of Watch WIth Mother hurt me so much that I shall be seeking compensation from the BBC.......................
Thanks for the post!
hahaha ... was just thinkin the same thing ... but it hasnt stopped me from watchin it over and over again - so many memories!
Lovely memories of this kiddy show for me
Beautiful innocent days 😇😇😇
Classic, I may show this to my grandkids see what they think...
We lived on a 3rd floor flat no garden no pets l longed for life and home like these and Dick and Dora with a mother there when I go home from school my mum bless her was at work all day
My friend, Gregory Dites Walters (Wally) could do a wonderful impression of Spotty Dog walking. Cheers mate. Best Wishes Neil
Takes me back half a century.... yesterday!
Odd. It made me cry back then --- and makes me cry now.
Simpler times, happier times ❤
It has taken years of therapy to not die of laughter whenever Spotty Dog is on.
It still hasn't worked.
+nuclear1250 I would like to have seen the actor's face while he was performing Spotty's "lines".
It's such a lovely clear quality.
Don't get me wrong, daddy Woodentop was probably a nice bloke but his acting was very wooden.
Weren't they all?
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Yes, they were all chips off the old block (or possibly bloke).
puppetry skills on point
The correct procedure would be to nail the blanket to the pram thereby removing the option to throw it out.
I love Spotty Dog.
I watch them too....all them years agoxx
Such memories!!
Ski lifts are closed for alpine skiing because of covid and we have been forced to learn cross county skiing instead.
Spotty Dog (6.00 )is our role model.
Speaking “Spotty Dog” is getting funny looks from passers by !
I think I still remember this episode !
what have we got for dinner today for dinner for dinner for dinner today. Nothing for you but sawdust and hay, sawdust and hay for dinner today.
Wake up widden heed
Daddy Woodentop: "What have we got for dinner today, Mummy Woodentop?"
Mummy Woodentop: "Have you got wood for brains? We're having the usual wood and charcoal for dinner!"
So wholesome ❤
Mummy Wooden Top has a maid, how very middle class.
Not a Romanian one either.
But dad works in the turnip field, rather working class, take your pick. We haven't established whether he is landed gentry or serf.
teletubbies were not the first to mess with young brains
Aah, a simpler time. I don't see what's creepy about it though, Sue Sundowner.
There she is at her kitchen stove looking to see if the potatoes were cooked and the meat was done. Mummy wooden top began to serve the dinner, Brilliant :-). The good old days when women were women.
Those where the days of childhood memories*
Fabulous acting 😁😅😂....(I loved it really)...
This provokes memories I thought no longer exist..The smell of my mums stew crept into my mind, chickenpox and Farleys Rusks. It's day at nursery, I ran out, they couldn't find me for an hour. I'm gonna turn this off and keep it off it's too provoking...
To be fair, despite being filmed in 35mm, you can barely see the wires.
wires ! whatever do you mean?
The narrator here is Maria Bird-with very distinct 'BBC English' enunciation - very 50's BBC.
I reckonised the dog's voice right away: It's Peter Hawkins. Better known for Captain Pugwash, Bill and Ben and the Daleks.
Is it me or does she speak/sound like actress Jean Simmons?
Sawdust and Hay!
I think the baby is speaking in Navajo.
Love it love it love it ,good times 😁
I really don’t think Willie and Jenny are exactly alike! They’ll be fraternal twins since identical twins are always the same gender!
"I'm a friend of, The Woodentops"
Adam Ant - Friends
(So that's what he meant with that lyrics ) :)
When these programmes went out, everybody did! Mothers would leave their babies outside shops in their prams safe in the knowledge that they'd still be there 5, 10 or even 30 minutes later. Seems incredible now but all of us babies from the sixties are living proof of happier days. In that respect, anyway
Men Behaving Badly brought me here.
I need to children's TV to friday & saturday the Woodentops.
....yup.....so good....