All Seasons

Season 1

Season 2

  • S02E01 Flower Pot Men : Seeds

    • December 18, 1952
    • BBC One

    The 2nd instalment in the 'Watch with Mother' series was about the adventures of Bill and Ben the Flower Pot Men. In this episode they grow some seeds ... very quickly!

  • S02E04 Flower Pot Men : The Potato Man

    • January 8, 1953
    • BBC One

    Bill and Ben find a man made out of potatoes

  • S02E17 Flower Pot Men : Icicles

    • April 9, 1953
    • BBC One

    Bill and Ben have fun in a frozen garden

Season 3

  • S03E01 Rag, Tag And Bobtail

    • October 13, 1953
    • BBC One

    The 3rd instalment in the 'Watch with Mother' series was about the adventures of Rag the hedgehog, Tag the mouse and Bobtail the rabbit. In 1987, a Watch With Mother video was released by the BBC. The episode of Rag, Tag and Bobtail featured a scene in which Bobtail discovered that the baby rabbits had been playing in a muddy pool and had turned black. He was unable to clean them, but in the end the mud was washed off.

  • S03E02 Rag, Tag and Bobtail : Snowballs

    • February 5, 1953
    • BBC One

Season 4

  • S04E01 The Woodentops

    • September 9, 1955
    • BBC One

    The 4th instalment in the 'Watch With Mother series' The Woodentops, the story revolved around a family of wooden dolls who lived on a farm.

  • S04E19 The Woodentops : Horse Shoe

    • March 14, 1958
    • BBC One

    The horse needs a new shoe

Season 5

  • S05E01 Picture Book

    • October 7, 1963
    • BBC One

    Picture Book was the 5th instalment in the 'Watch With Mother' series, It's main objective was to encourage young children to make things. Bottle Island The 1987 VHS release by BBC Video featured an episode including Sausage the puppet dog, the Adventures of the Jolly Jack Tars (a group of sailors), making paper lanterns, growing mustard and cress, and a regular cartoon of a little girl called Bizzy Lizzy, who had a magic flower. The 'Bizzy Lizzy' inserts for Picture Book were narrated by Maria Bird, who also narrated Andy Pandy

  • S05E02 Picture Book : Bush Baby

    • February 4, 1963
    • BBC One

    A further episode was included on a Watch with Mother 2 video released in 1989. The main feature involved the creation of hills and a valley using a sand tray, an item featured regularly in the programme. Both episodes were taken from the 1963 series, presented by Vera McKechnie.

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