I have just joined the bbc archive via their website There are limited episodes of bbc tv from 50's 60's 70's on there for viewing including WWM stuff People...
can anyone help me I remember when i was a kid i used to watch a programme called either saugar ball lived in the jungle or big cheif bilo does anyone else...
sue41harrison
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Oct 30, 2007 7:32 pm
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Hi Sue Sugarball was made by Yorkshire TV between 1968 - 69 the puppets were made and performed by Eric Bramall and Chris Somerville of The Harlequin Puppet...
In the "Files" area here something new! http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/watchwithmother/files/ My latest articles and full A-Z details of every BBC-1...
Here's some more info Linda taken from "The Internet Movie Database" Based on the children's novel of the same name by Rumer Godden, this 10- part stop-motion...
I'm trying to identify the 'Picture Book' theme tune, and I'm hoping someone here can help out. TIA....
be_more_imaginative
be_more_imaginative@...
Nov 26, 2007 1:22 pm
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Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the watchwithmother group. File : /...
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Nov 26, 2007 7:41 pm
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Do any members know for sure who narrated The Flowerpot Men originals? Speaking in a very BBC English and plummy baritone voice, now some say it was Maria...
Enjoyed watching this program during the 1950s. All I remember was that the program closed with a rabbit hopping down the road. I'm assumming it was Bobtail....
If Maria Bird was responsible for the music then I guess we can safely assume Vera McKechnie and Peter Hawkins did the voices. Come to think of it when she...
... Thanks Malcy; this seems to clear it up; though websites(s) have said Maria Bird "brings Andy out to play" I always thought, therefore, she had narrated...
Nope, I don't think this does clear it up Brian. As you raise a valid point about the tone in the voice in the three programmes. Personally, I think the tone...
The 'Matronly' i.e: deeper and more resonant voice is clear in the early (1950?) episodes; whereas Vera, if you listen carefully (esp in 'Picture Book') sounds...
Dear Malcyb!! I have FOUND that voice on a you tube clip, please click on Picture Book where there is a 'Buzy Lizzie' clip well THERE is the narrator with the...
The 'Matronly Voice' of early Andy Pandy/Bill and Ben episodes was narrator: Julia Williams, I found after an internet search; Julia also narrated 'Buzy...
A new CD produced by the guy behind "A Girl In A Suitcase", "Department TV", "Natural Born Fillers" etc, Steven Wills from Winchester Hospital Radio in the UK...
I have been searching the web for clear photos of the original Bill & Ben (not the modern charlatans posing as them) If at all possible I am looking for full...
I can remember a lot of puppet shows on the BBC from 1972 till 1989. I have a friend and we both like the old childerns shows made by the BBC and ITV. We both...
matthewf36
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Sep 20, 2008 9:27 pm
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I have been doing some research into Watch with Mother in conncection with 1953. I have discovered - I think - that children's television was only broadcast...
Hello Jane. I have gone through each month for 1953 and can confirm that Watch With Mother was only shown on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Wednesday was added from...
I used to watch Tales of the Riverbank with my children and now that I am a grandmother would like to watch them with my grandchildren. We used to enjoy all...
judithchico88
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Nov 29, 2008 4:26 pm
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Hello Judi. I just typed "Tales Of The Riverbank DVD" in the Search Engine "Google" and lots of stuff came up. The DVD can be bought all over the place and at...
News just in of the sad passing of Oliver Postgate today, aged 83. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7772620.stm Dearly remembered for episodes of Pogles Wood,...
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