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Watch with Mother was a cycle of children's programmes created by Freda Lingstrom and Maria Bird. Broadcast by BBC Television from 1952 until 1975, it was the first BBC television series aimed specifically at pre-school children, a development of BBC radio's equivalent Listen with Mother, which had begun two years earlier. In accordance with its intended target audience of pre-school children viewing with their mothers, Watch with Mother was initially broadcast between 3:45 pm and 4:00 pm, post-afternoon nap and before the older children came home from school.
The choice of Watch with Mother for the title of the series was intended "to deflect fears that television might become a nursemaid to children and encourage bad mothering".
Show cycles
Although Andy Pandy had been regularly broadcast every week since mid-1950 (normally on Tuesdays), and was joined by Flower Pot Men in December 1952 (normally on Wednesdays), the name Watch with Mother was not adopted until April 1953, shortly before the programming was expanded to three afternoons a week with the addition of Rag, Tag and Bobtail that September. The "classic" cycle of shows was in place by September 1955, with the first showing of The Woodentops.
Broadcast at 1:30 pm each day, it comprised:
Picture Book – Mondays, from 1955
Andy Pandy – Tuesdays
Flower Pot Men – Wednesdays
Rag, Tag and Bobtail – Thursdays
The Woodentops – Fridays, from 1955
Each of the five classic shows actually consisted of only a very small number of episodes, all made on film – and all in black-and-white. Typically, not more than 26 programmes were filmed for each show, this being sufficient for a run of six months as there was only one broadcast per week. The aim was to provide children's programming on the cheap: the BBC Children's department had an extremely tiny budget, and needed a collection of films which could be endlessly repeated, typically in six-monthly cycles, for its undemanding pre-school age audience.
From April 1963, Watch with Mother was moved to 10.45am (with a further slot at 1.30pm from September 1963). Tales of the Riverbank joined the Watch with Mother Monday slot in December 1963, and caused worries that the original five shows would be replaced.
Subsequent shows that occupied the Watch with Mother slot were as follows:
Pogles' Wood - Mondays from 1966 to 1973
Joe - Mondays in 1966, Tuesdays from 1971 to 1972
Camberwick Green - Mondays from 1966 to 1985
The Herbs - Mondays from 1968 to 1975
Fingerbobs - Mondays from 1972 to 1984
The Flumps - Mondays from 1977 to 1988
Bizzy Lizzy - Tuesdays from 1967 to 1971
Trumpton - Tuesdays from 1967 to 1985
Mary, Mungo and Midge - Tuesdays from 1969 to 1973
Bagpuss - Tuesdays from 1974 to 1986
Mr. Men - Tuesdays from 1974 to 1988
Bod - Tuesdays from 1975 to 1984
Thomas - Tuesdays in 1975
How do You Do! - Tuesdays from 1977 to 1980
On the Farm - Wednesdays from 1970 to 1973
Barnaby - Wednesdays from 1973 to 1978
Ragtime - Wednesdays from 1973 to 1980
In the Town - Wednesdays from 1973 to 1977
Heads and Tails - Wednesdays from 1977 to 1988
Over the Moon - Wednesdays from 1978 to 1982
Chigley - Thursdays from 1969 to 1985
Mr Benn - Thursdays from 1971
Along the River - Fridays from 1970 to 1972
Along the Seashore - Fridays from 1970 to 1975
Along the Trail - Fridays from 1970 to 1977
Teddy Edward - Fridays from 1973 to 1978
Ring-a-Ding - Fridays from 1973 to 1977
Rubovia - Fridays in 1976
Play Board - Fridays in 1977 to 1980
After 1978 – Name change and later developments
In 1978, the Watch with Mother title was dropped, as it was considered to be dated, and the strand was known as See-Saw from 1980 to 1990. A Watch with Mother video became a best-seller in 1987, and was followed by a second and a third in 1989 and a 'best of' in 1993.
A 45rpm promotional single was available to radio disc jockeys, for promo only, entitled "Flob-A-Dob-A-Ben", in 1987. The single was not released on general release and was played often as a novelty record by Radio Trent on the Andy Marriott Television Show.
In the early 2000s, the shows Andy Pandy and Flower Pot Men were remade as stop motion animations (the latter as Bill and Ben), which aired on CBeebies.
UK VHS releases (1987–1993)
Between 1987 and 1993, four compilation videos with Watch with Mother shows have been released by the BBC.
See also
For the Children, a television programme for school-age children that ran from 1937.
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
More information and clips from the programmes
Link to complete listing & details about all the programmes
Link to Museum of Broadcast
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