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I have been looking for the name of this show for weeks.I stupidly had Floella Benjamin as presenter.Can anyone else remember it and fill in the blanks for...
2 Oct 14, 2009
6:46 pm

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TVlives.com states: Maria Bird was a producer at the BBC and the original narrator of Andy Pandy. Now there is something I'm very satisfied to read, there had...
2 Sep 17, 2009
11:48 am

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I have been trying to find the answer to the above simple question. Do any of the group know how man of the original b/w episodes of: 1.Andy Pandy 2.Bill & Ben...
1 Jul 4, 2009
11:28 am

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Hi, I have just restored a 1951 television and would love to see the Watch With Mother episodes again on it. I have them on VHS (no player) but it seems the...
5 Jun 8, 2009
7:06 pm

Brian
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Hi everyone, I loved this program as a kid and am glad that I am not imagining it, as I can't find it anywhere e.g. dvds, videos, youtube, google.... can...
1 Mar 19, 2009
9:47 pm

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Im sorry if this is a bit ott but can anyone tell me what that wonderful piece of guitar music is called that was used as the main theme for the above...
4 Jan 1, 2009
12:36 am

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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...
3 Dec 24, 2008
8:32 am

Geraint Thomas
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i remember watching counterattack way back and missed the last episode...
1 Dec 19, 2008
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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,...
1 Dec 9, 2008
7:16 am

malcyb2000
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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...
4 Nov 29, 2008
4:30 pm

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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...
1 Sep 20, 2008
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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...
1 Sep 7, 2008
9:37 am

Tim S.
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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...
2 Jun 11, 2008
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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...
9 Mar 8, 2008
10:46 am

Brian
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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....
1 Feb 28, 2008
11:24 am

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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 : /...
1 Nov 26, 2007
7:41 pm

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I'm trying to identify the 'Picture Book' theme tune, and I'm hoping someone here can help out. TIA....
1 Nov 26, 2007
1:22 pm

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TOTTIE From Monday 6th February 1984. First series of 5 films. From Wednesday 17th September 1986. Second series of 5 films. Tottie, a dutch...
2 Nov 12, 2007
8:31 pm

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Has anyone any info on this movie that was on BBC a long time ago. thanks, linda...
1 Nov 12, 2007
8:24 pm

Linda Bennett
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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...
1 Oct 30, 2007
8:45 pm

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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...
2 Oct 30, 2007
8:22 pm

Tim
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This is it seems one surviving episode of the above. Is it possible to obtain it somewhere?...
2 May 30, 2007
7:44 pm

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I am searching for the written music to the woodentops programme....
1 May 23, 2007
3:57 pm

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I remember watching a puppet series in the mid to late 60's centred as I recall around the living room of a house/cottage and maybe involving a talking poodle,...
3 May 15, 2007
10:08 am

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I talk to my grandchildren about watch with mother, bill and ben, andy pandy etc. I would love to be able to show them some footage. Can anyone help I would...
2 May 11, 2007
9:32 pm

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Can anyone help I am looking for a good picture of spotty Dog Many Thanks Paul...
1 May 3, 2007
4:06 pm

paul
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Hi everybody.I've now got about everything from 50's/early 60's Watch With Mother series (that was issued on VHS)on DVD! I'm still looking for Flowerpot Men 2...
6 Apr 26, 2007
12:46 pm

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Is there any way of getting the videos of the 1950s Watch With Mother programmes? Thanks. -- James Robinson...
9 Jan 23, 2007
4:56 pm

Jay Dee
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Well I've heard as the BBC couldn't possibly keep all the tapes of their programmes over many decades, so they destroyed many items to save storage space and...
1 Jan 17, 2007
7:27 pm

Stirling Nash
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Hi Guys, I wonder if anyone can help me with something which has been bothering me.Circa 1990/1991 there was a song released,I think it was called the ...
1 Jan 16, 2007
1:21 pm

Jay
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