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!
@kj6146
11 ай бұрын
😂❤
@gazza2933
9 ай бұрын
Brilliant. 😅 Merry Christmas Mrs Scrubbit. 🎅 🎄
@aprilblossom9268
6 ай бұрын
Hee hee thanks for the chuckle!
@Peaceshiet812
3 жыл бұрын
My brother & I teared up watching this, remembering such a simpler world xx
@billow9721
2 жыл бұрын
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
@lindaalger9720
8 ай бұрын
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. 🌹🐕
@33rorynoah
2 ай бұрын
I'm 1956 vintage and feel exactly the same way as you. Kids were allowed to be kids then and not constantly micro managed by their parents as they are today. Such a pity.
@MichaelShaw-c9v
Жыл бұрын
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.
@shermoore1693
4 жыл бұрын
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?
@kenmillwall1885
5 жыл бұрын
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
@DianneRifkin
6 ай бұрын
Loved this and Rag, Tag & Bobtail mid 1950's was 5 years old, Happy Days !
@Dave_Cymru
3 жыл бұрын
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?! 🏴
@carolehayes9453
4 жыл бұрын
Wonderful stuff...innocent, simple and wholesome! Loved these characters when I was a kid...happy days...
@RayCyst310
4 ай бұрын
This was replaced by the exorcist to bring nursery aged children up to date with the world in the 21st century.
@TheMoll7
12 жыл бұрын
wish I was still 5 when I was with my mum and dad and life was just lovely !! xx
@matildabond..2390
8 жыл бұрын
A beautiful part of british television history.And I love spotty dog x
@ameritas2
8 жыл бұрын
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
@andrewstorey3395
7 жыл бұрын
ameritas2 Nah! Happy Days was much later!
@Tomfissh
5 жыл бұрын
Andy Pandy and Flower pot men received spin-offs right?
@paulbennett7021
5 жыл бұрын
Correct
@malcolmholmes893
4 жыл бұрын
Your Spot on, watched them on a 10" black and white TV
@robertroberts2666
4 жыл бұрын
I was born in September 1963 and only vaguely remember the Wooden tops!
@malcolmholmes893
4 жыл бұрын
Very very happy memories life was a lot simpler then good honest childhood years
@Siralantoon
12 жыл бұрын
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.
@bruceingram8007
5 жыл бұрын
I grew up watching these . So many memories.
@dawnfinch8232
6 жыл бұрын
AWw how I long for my childhood Thankyou for sharing this precious memory
@traceydaizy
Жыл бұрын
I actually remember watching this one 😲
@paigejones3638
2 жыл бұрын
29 years old and my mum and I still sing "What have we got for dinner today, for dinner, for dinner, for dinner today."
@lindaalger9720
8 ай бұрын
That is so wonderful to hear. My late mother used to do the same. Memories. X🌹🐕
@emmam.1176
2 ай бұрын
Saw dust and hay 😂
@amarpreetsingh7066
9 ай бұрын
Heart warming...yet...a tinge of sadness
@Poliss95
2 жыл бұрын
I can still do my Spotty Dog impression. 😁
@ianstrange5674
7 жыл бұрын
Spotty Dog is an absolute riot! BISCUIT!!!😀
@nervo6321
4 жыл бұрын
Just took me back 50 years...thanks.
@martindytham7705
9 жыл бұрын
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
@jimsmethurst6113
5 жыл бұрын
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.
@markandresen1
9 жыл бұрын
Baby Woodentop grew up to be Iain Duncan Smith.
@rutherfojr
8 жыл бұрын
Andy Pandy grew up to be boy george..
@robsatoz
8 жыл бұрын
So gentle and enchanting. Compare the world of 2016
@TheEx3rgj
8 жыл бұрын
Don't get me wrong, daddy Woodentop was probably a nice bloke but his acting was very wooden.
@robertroberts2666
4 жыл бұрын
Weren't they all?
@YorkyOne
2 жыл бұрын
@@robertroberts2666 Yes, they were all chips off the old block (or possibly bloke).
@probablygraham
5 жыл бұрын
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 :-)
@pjohnson9576
6 жыл бұрын
So glad I was a child in this era, feel so sorry for youngsters of today
@kenmarsh402
3 жыл бұрын
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??
@debraleighton6658
2 жыл бұрын
@@kenmarsh402 I
@worldwidepotato8651
2 жыл бұрын
i find life great now haha
@lauraann4014
2 жыл бұрын
I used to love the wooden tops
@Muninman
Жыл бұрын
Why?
@Francinekaye
12 жыл бұрын
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!
@lencarter4072
3 жыл бұрын
Beautiful innocent days 😇😇😇
@noriemeha
4 жыл бұрын
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.
@cathyserafinowicz6374
2 жыл бұрын
Loved watching these with my mum.I tell the wooden top stories to my grandchildren,they love them,so innocent.How it should be,.❤️❤️❤️
@urchingreaser9182
5 жыл бұрын
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
@jillbeaven5468
11 ай бұрын
🥰 awwww how things change . Lovely unassuming family life . Love the Wooden tops.
@janicewilliams5900
4 жыл бұрын
Love this I loved watching this when i was a little girl
@realwizard1
11 жыл бұрын
wow i so remember this when i was little and the biggest spotty dog you ever did see
@sootydave1
11 жыл бұрын
Like the comment. 57 and now living in the USA, but I too remember these show's as well as Bill and Ben,
@TheTheoldgit
12 жыл бұрын
I wanted to have Spotty Dog more than anything when I was small. Infact I think I still do! Thanks for the memory!
@TimC9712
11 жыл бұрын
i was born 1997 im 15 and i love this programme
@martindoherty4843
Жыл бұрын
brings, back, lovely, memories
@davidgriffiths1391
6 жыл бұрын
My absolute favourite, I was 9 before we got a telly & this spawned a whole language that my brothers & I used as baby talk.
@rolandhemsley4446
2 жыл бұрын
So many fond memories of the 50s.
@hillarydonnolly8149
8 жыл бұрын
I remember this well thanks for the memories😺😺😺😺😺
@sexyoldlady2010
12 жыл бұрын
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
@deanrobertcrabb
2 жыл бұрын
This is cool. I love puppets and marionettes. Thanks for preserving this.
@Partidismo
12 жыл бұрын
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
@4727Shadow
8 жыл бұрын
very fond memories of 56 yrs ago,,,
@robertroberts2666
4 жыл бұрын
"Sawdust and hay for dinner today" Yum, yum!
@horatio59
7 жыл бұрын
What ! no black or Asian woodentops and mummy does the housework ? Shocking,lol innocent days free of political correctness
@simikess
6 жыл бұрын
J Hawa And there is a Mummy (female) and a Daddy (male). Ah, yes! Those were the days...
@braindeadvirtually
5 жыл бұрын
@@simikess The world today must seem so frightening to you. How dare anything change since those simple days where everybody was free to discriminate or be discriminated against depending on how and where they were born.
@simikess
5 жыл бұрын
Chris P I was replying to (and expanding on) J Hawa's comment (which somehow didn't seem to provoke you). I gather the satire went over your head. You need to read both comments together.
@colinsurrell2088
4 жыл бұрын
Yes, terrible isn't it, and that's where your brainwashing started. Sad that you still haven't broken with it, you Bigot.
@MassiveLib
4 жыл бұрын
Ha ha. So true ignore these wankers. It was a simple time
@Bullseyearchery
11 жыл бұрын
I'm 50 this month and not seen this program for well over 40 years. Thanks for taking me back.
@raidermanuk
12 жыл бұрын
My daughter went to Eastbourne today. She rang to say she had bought me a present - a book about The Woodentops!.
@northmidst
11 жыл бұрын
Love it, i'll have to show this along with Bill and Ben and Andy Pandy to my Catalan wife. A different world
@milliewilkie1969
5 ай бұрын
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
@morpheusatloppers
10 жыл бұрын
To be fair, despite being filmed in 35mm, you can barely see the wires.
@rayg4360
5 жыл бұрын
wires ! whatever do you mean?
@neil03152
6 жыл бұрын
My friend, Gregory Dites Walters (Wally) could do a wonderful impression of Spotty Dog walking. Cheers mate. Best Wishes Neil
@mattmale7183
10 жыл бұрын
Mummy Wooden Top has a maid, how very middle class.
@CrankCase08
5 жыл бұрын
Not a Romanian one either.
@IanMSpencer
5 жыл бұрын
But dad works in the turnip field, rather working class, take your pick. We haven't established whether he is landed gentry or serf.
@annemccarthy-bonard3124
8 жыл бұрын
Loved this when a child.Find it comical now in a nice way.Memories !
@halion9
6 жыл бұрын
The correct procedure would be to nail the blanket to the pram thereby removing the option to throw it out.
@erika7674
8 жыл бұрын
Aah, a simpler time. I don't see what's creepy about it though, Sue Sundowner.
@meelofoster3658
9 жыл бұрын
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.
@leethomson3955
5 жыл бұрын
Wake up widden heed
@funkyfender1
6 жыл бұрын
I really don’t think Willie and Jenny are exactly alike! They’ll be fraternal twins since identical twins are always the same gender!
@bryans9008
10 жыл бұрын
The narrator here is Maria Bird-with very distinct 'BBC English' enunciation - very 50's BBC.
@Zinwaq
8 жыл бұрын
Is it me or does she speak/sound like actress Jean Simmons?
@allanmacbadger5692
10 жыл бұрын
I think the baby is speaking in Navajo.
@patriciabennett-siciliap802
8 жыл бұрын
Lovely memories of this kiddy show for me
@rg1ish1
13 жыл бұрын
thanks for this it takes me back years !! lovely
@yoyozippy
12 жыл бұрын
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 :-)
@sleepcrime
8 жыл бұрын
Don't you go hiding your old bone in my turnips you rascal.
@rupert2591
8 жыл бұрын
+Andy Smith Euphemism?
@micksmith7398
5 жыл бұрын
Andy Smith
@TheWaterfallprincess
11 жыл бұрын
'Im so pleased this show is still going strong 60 years on..shame they changed the name to Hollyoaks..but hey the 'acting' is still up to par!
@probablygraham
12 жыл бұрын
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!
@mrobson59
12 жыл бұрын
thank you for uploading, I felt like a child again watching it
@plainjayne1981
8 жыл бұрын
Thank you for these uploads xx
@patriciabennett-siciliap802
8 жыл бұрын
I'm still reading the awful comments and my god some people are so sick
@dexbabe
12 жыл бұрын
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
@lillianflorence6056
2 жыл бұрын
I watched with mom, they were made from clothes pegs
@alansmith2426
9 жыл бұрын
Actually, Mummy Woodentop has quite a rack... %^%$# did I actually write that???
@stanssoapbox
9 жыл бұрын
+Ally Gator Animator Don't feel bad out it. As a child I fancied ''Neptina' the topless mermaid in 'Marine Boy'.
@TheShotenZenjin
8 жыл бұрын
+Alan Smith How come I didn't notice that 58 years ago?
@Slawterer098
12 жыл бұрын
Lol... Willy woodentop XD... how immature am i...
@Deepthought-42
3 жыл бұрын
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 !
@markandresen1
8 жыл бұрын
Odd. It made me cry back then --- and makes me cry now.
@RosieHarp
4 ай бұрын
Simpler times, happier times ❤
@nuclear1250
9 жыл бұрын
It has taken years of therapy to not die of laughter whenever Spotty Dog is on. It still hasn't worked.
@TheShotenZenjin
8 жыл бұрын
+nuclear1250 I would like to have seen the actor's face while he was performing Spotty's "lines".
@nickladey
9 жыл бұрын
you wont get better than this remember them all kids don't know the half of it
@Blaqjaqshellaq
7 ай бұрын
If they're made of wood, sawdust for dinner would make sense...
@eikohime9071
2 жыл бұрын
So wholesome ❤
@risenshine2783
5 ай бұрын
The pace is so calming whereas kiddies programmes now leave your head in a whirl
@Sunburst75
8 жыл бұрын
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.
@lornavictoriafr
12 жыл бұрын
Takes me back half a century.... yesterday!
@RosieHarp
4 ай бұрын
Awwww such happy memories of watching this when I was a kid
@lillie1951
10 жыл бұрын
I love Spotty Dog.
@kckazcoll1
8 жыл бұрын
puppetry skills on point
@julieinnes6541
3 жыл бұрын
When was this made?
@EdEditz
9 жыл бұрын
"I'm a friend of, The Woodentops" Adam Ant - Friends (So that's what he meant with that lyrics ) :)
@leggyfredbob3965
3 жыл бұрын
There is your dinner... A bone. holy shit
@HowardTowl
11 жыл бұрын
Its a Britain from long ago!
@colinkeating1964
11 жыл бұрын
Classic, I may show this to my grandkids see what they think...
@CrankCase08
5 жыл бұрын
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!"
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