I still remember the wonderfull roundabout about 1956 lol the wooden tops were real i was 5 years old ,thanks for the film 😊😊
@rayjennings3637 Жыл бұрын
As I watch this, I look on a shelf above my desk and see a boxset of DVDs with a couple of dozen or so of the 'Watch With Mother' shows on them. Monday to Friday, they were 'Picture Book or Muffin the Mule'; 'Andy Pandy'; 'Bill and Ben'; 'Rag, Tag and Bobtail' and 'The Wooden Tops'. The dates shown on the clips are much later than when I watched them from '52 to '55. My wife saw the in a Charity Shop and thought that with me going into my second childhood at the age of 74, I should have a permanent reminder of my first one! Only a woman would think that way! Bless her.
@Sandra-ww6oz2 жыл бұрын
Such memories lm in tears right now - such a gentler time. Thankyou my Friend. 🇬🇧❤️🇦🇺
@talmadge1926 Жыл бұрын
Every time i see a Dalmation I remember Spotty Dog. I cried and cried when they all climbed back into the basket and that song "Time to Go Home." I had a Muffin the Mule string puppet, and an Andy Pandy toy. So many memories. Another, kinder, world.
@zaker7214 жыл бұрын
What a lovely voice she has! I am an American and would be happy to listen to this young woman speak all day. This is too cool.
@jackbrown41202 жыл бұрын
Back then in Britain that was pretty much the only accent they allowed on telly.
@robwatts49882 жыл бұрын
Yeah upper middle class , needs to take that plumb out of her mouth as us working class say
@dpagain2167 Жыл бұрын
How calm and gentle it all is compared to what very young children watch today.
@tararuaman2 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful well spoken girl. When we look back on the past, like this, we can see just how much we have lost in manners and diction and much more. Very sad. TEMPORA MUTANTA NOS MUTAMUR IN ILLIS.
@pareshpanditrao11 жыл бұрын
what a lovely voice...and all spoken in the finest british english
@Corgipon6 жыл бұрын
Paresh Panditrao And nowadays people think American English is cool. Sounds scratchy to me.
@JohnSmith-el2nj5 жыл бұрын
@Henry Black Probably correct. Which is why it eventually disappeared. They sound ridiculous, like they'd all got something stuck up their backsides. Even as a kid I thought they sounded weird. I remember the first time I heard Bernard Cribbins and Johnny Morris and thinking "at last, people who sound fucking NORMAL for once. We had to wait decades before a female voice came on that kids could actually relate to.
@harrylawson55625 жыл бұрын
Give me RP over dreary local accents any day. Even Doctor Who speaks like a yokal these days.
@OldSkoolWax3 жыл бұрын
@TheRenaissanceman65 RP is received pronounciation, lad. It's the definition of contrived.
@oscarramage953 жыл бұрын
Well maybe not Bill & Ben
@stewedfishproductions79592 жыл бұрын
Jennifer Gay is now 87 (in November 2022) Born: September 22, 1935 in London, England
@aprilblossom92689 ай бұрын
Oh that is Libra and they always have the loveliest voices!
@mikesnyder17884 жыл бұрын
Well, that was so sweet! This Yank began watching the TV at about the same time in the early 1950's and I am sure I would have loved this program. Thanks so much for sharing!
@stephenguppy7882 Жыл бұрын
Pinky and Perky. Bless them. And my favourites The Flowerpot Men.
@malcolmdale96074 ай бұрын
Bip and Bop the floddlepop mop.
@glennjohnson81706 жыл бұрын
Glenn Johnson I remember all these programmes of the time.Feels like i have just travelled back in a time machine.The wonderful 50`s.Thanks for these wonderful film clips.These all survived as they were all shot on film.
@carolineandrews32928 жыл бұрын
Ah, a wonderful wallow in nostalgia. I remember all that.
@morriganravenchild66136 жыл бұрын
Wonderful. Brings back lovely memories.
@Roger.Coleman1949 Жыл бұрын
What a wonderful collage of nostalgia, had completely forgotten about Meet The Penguins !.The only thing missing from this era was The Bumblies with Michael Bentine .
@johnhearn5680 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant !!!!! Many thanks, John.
@clovelly194610 жыл бұрын
nnifer when i was a child watching her on TV well I got her..my daughter Jennifer is now 38 and has just had her own baby Ruby and now will have my most teasured book..Jennifer and the Flower fairies.my dad bought me in 1954.Wish i knew where she is now wate joy she gave me. thanks Jennifer Gay.xx
@johnferguson89936 жыл бұрын
The dancing piggies really got me and accompanied by a Hammond organ, what a great sound.
@johnseal563 жыл бұрын
Sounds like it was a Novachord!
@zacmumblethunder74662 жыл бұрын
Pinky and Perky. They git into trouble in the early sixties for singing a song that made fun of the forthcoming general election.
@josephlandrut41545 жыл бұрын
Every memory of the past is golden
@joannegray51389 жыл бұрын
Good grief, Larry the Lamb! I was born in 1971 and remember the version that was (presumably) made in the late 1960s. I knew Larry the Lamb started out on radio but had no idea stories featuring him and Dennis the Dachshund had been televised before that.
@Caslon1596 жыл бұрын
Toytown started out on Children's Hour (radio) in the 1930s and Larry was voiced by Derek McCulloch (a.k.a. Uncle Mac). The radio recordings survived until the early 1960s when radio Children's Hour ceased. The interesting thing is that Hulme Beaman also illustrated the series and he drew the characters as marionettes or wooden toys (similar to the clip). I still recall Mr Growser the grocer: "It's disg-r-r-r-r-raceful! it ought not to be allowed!
@dee74raz12 жыл бұрын
Such a soothing voice - I could listen to that 24 hours a day !! Very pretty face - looks very much like a younger Queen Elizabeth, before she took the throne.
@douglassharpe557 жыл бұрын
Soo sweet, and novel! Just what small children need, not the vile Disney Jr.!
@Werten254 жыл бұрын
It is surprising how drastically different kids' TV is now.
@wjrs52 жыл бұрын
Fascinating. This was my childhood.
@malcolmdale8 жыл бұрын
Born in 1939 I grew up with these programmes on our little black and white TV.
@leahrowden39396 жыл бұрын
Malcolm Dale Black and white television is boring!
@christopherlockery96296 жыл бұрын
@@leahrowden3939 No it isn't! I'm 34 by the way...
@leahrowden39396 жыл бұрын
christopher lockery How dare you say that?!
@christopherlockery96296 жыл бұрын
@@leahrowden3939 Well we can agree to disagree...
@christopherlockery96296 жыл бұрын
If anything you've got a good taste in music.
@Snake-qw9oh8 жыл бұрын
Oh how history has not been kind to vintage British television, so thank the Lord that this episode never became a television casualty like so much of its kind! 😊
@bletheringfool2 жыл бұрын
these were shot by the BBC film unit so a stronger chance for survival over video tape
@michaelwilliams32329 ай бұрын
Does anyone else remember 'The Magic Feather'? A kind of western puppet show which was my favourite.
@dippey9 ай бұрын
Hi Michael, I remember back in the mists of time a children's show called 'Four Feather Falls' which was a very early Gerry Anderson Production (he of thunderbirds etc fame) which was based on a Western puppet character, probably in the early sixties, but I cant say I have ever heard of ''The Magic Feather, perhaps others have.
@OnlyEpicEmber6 жыл бұрын
Strange how Pinky and Perky and Bill and Ben were both rebooted in the 2000's
@neilsaunders93094 жыл бұрын
Yes. Very badly, unfortunately.
@garythomas49972 жыл бұрын
Bringing up little tories during the 50s and 60s
@cal08157 жыл бұрын
The dancing piggies 🐷 made my day!
@SuperGingerBickies7 жыл бұрын
+Carlos Leiva ... Those dancing piggies look like Pinkie and Perky - two legendary piggy puppets.
@johnseal566 жыл бұрын
Love the Novachord; it just matches perfectly.
@christopherlockery96296 жыл бұрын
@@SuperGingerBickies They sure do look like they belong together...
@lotusgroup1233 жыл бұрын
Their names were Pinky and Perky
@Horatio-Nelson10 жыл бұрын
Yes indeed. Ms. Gay was very attractive and made an impression of great modesty and poise - sorely missed qualities in today's world. Very attractive indeed. I must have been about 5 years of age when she recorded this film and, in this connection, I must make a very delicate confession(!). At THAT time, when she was shown in close-up, my nose was pressed - very tightly - to the television screen. I was hoping for a fleeting, feather-like contact with her countenance. But - woe is me - this was never to be! That's why I've got another profound confession to make ..... I've recently spent hours upon hours, repeating the above proceedure between 0:36-0:58 ! My best wishes now, belatedly, to Ms. Gay. Regards, Horatio Nelson.
@tanagerbirder4 жыл бұрын
She is now 85 and still lives in Hampstead London
@javamann10008 жыл бұрын
I was told that there was almost an uprising when Children's Hour was reduced to 55 minutes, to give time for Shipping Forecasts. (What ever they were!)
@kevinmoffatt4 ай бұрын
I used to be incandescent when, on getting home from school, they cancelled children's tv to facilitate extended play at Wimbledon; even worse it meant no tea for hours whilst mum watched it.
@omnibus41574 жыл бұрын
I am chuckling at the thought of the English performers and pop stars I loved to watch as a child on US TV in the 70s themselves watching these programmes when they were children in the 50s. I guess until 1955, this was the only game in town for kids like Michael Palin and David Bowie, eh?
@susanmoran52264 жыл бұрын
Yes they watched these programmes.
@hilaryharris57703 жыл бұрын
I tried sharing this on FB and it wouldn't let me, saying it had content that people had reported as being abusive, what narrow mind people have, this is pure innocence, it's only abusive if you have twisted thoughts. :( .
@patrickmccune59298 жыл бұрын
I remember all of that great stuff. lol.
@haku864510 жыл бұрын
Good heavens, you could cut diamonds with her accent
@errolnicholson94483 жыл бұрын
Memories!!
@PaulRoundhill7 жыл бұрын
I worked with Nat Jackley as a stooge, I was ASM in Music Hall at the Palace in Brighton.
@PaulRoundhill7 жыл бұрын
it was the end of the "end of the pier" at the end of the pier then we transferred to th Windmill in Great Yarmouth, Jack Jay's theatre. Promotors were Arthur Lane and Audrey Lupton, I would love to hear ny stories about Nat Jackley and his world, Nat was a great chap!
@raphcaswell-jones9325 жыл бұрын
The Hammond organ never fails to bring a mid-20th drive
@Mazalinda2 жыл бұрын
As a council estate child I watched these children’s programmes and copied the way they spoke. I was “educated” to raise myself out of what would today be considered a deprived area. This was what the BBC was supposed to do. These days it’s programmes are dumbed down to the lowest level of society who will never have anything to aspire to and be kept down which is probably the plan all along.
@oldchildhood86464 жыл бұрын
It is amazing how film has improved over the years.
@raphcaswell-jones9324 жыл бұрын
2:58 the melody was played on what I believe a Hammond Series 1 organ on a drawbar preset.
@11carbuff195720116 жыл бұрын
And to think she did that voxpop at a primary school in Birmingham for the 1964 General Election that appears on "From Headlines to Tight Lines" the story of "ATV Today".
@tanagerbirder4 жыл бұрын
That is the only other bit of footage that I have seen of her and she only appears briefly at the end.
@maximusfalcone32422 жыл бұрын
The Sad Story of Henry 1953
@RobotGooseStudios3 жыл бұрын
I can barely find any information on "Meet the Penguins". Anyone have some info on it?
@naguerea12 жыл бұрын
Pinky and Perky, how right you are Matt571. (Did anyone like them ?) Besides all that, what a charming post. thank you David Jones.
@Krzyszczynski4 жыл бұрын
Yes, I remember all this stuff, even though by the time we got a telly I was a bit too old for most of it. These shows were recorded, and on endless rotate for much of the fifties. Schedule in 1957: Mondays: Picture Book Tuesdays: Andy Pandy Wednesdays: Bill and Ben Thursdays: Rag, Tag and Bobtail Fridays: The Woodentops. Picture Book had a tie-in publication called "Making Things With Patricia Driscoll" (one of the presenters). My sister was given a copy. That over-long 30-second intro at the beginning of this clip must have saved hundreds of pounds' worth of script writing and filming over the years. (ITV had something similar - a circular railway with a train carrying all sorts of figures.) Don't remember ever seeing Jennifer G; before my time, I guess. Likewise the Penguins. Have to agree they didn't look much chop. Pinky and Perky never appealed either, until they "got with it" and started having the puppets dance and mime to current pop hits. (From 1964 on there was even a puppet beat group on their show, called The Beakels.) Looks as though some of the characters Jennifer mentions haven't survived on film. Hank was a cowboy with a cheeky nephew called Cassie and a cliche-Mexican enemy, whose name I forget. And there was Prudence Kitten, who appeared to understand everything her human co-performer said, but only ever answered "miaow". Even in our pre-TV days I'd heard of Muffin the Mule. The girl next door had a Muffin puppet, which I was once allowed to borrow for a few days (and which had to be hastily returned when I started whacking it in frustration at being unable to make it walk or dance properly!!).
@0b13F4st32 жыл бұрын
I maybe two years late to reply to you. But I would like to say, that I'm pretty sure that Hank the Cowboy's Mexican rival was actually called 'Pete'. I know this because I just watched the 'Dinosaur' episode today here on KZbin.
@Krzyszczynski2 жыл бұрын
@@0b13F4st3 Ha ha, yes .... Mexican Pete! A sly nod perhaps to a certain well-known bawdy ballad (which we well-sheltered 1950s kids would naturally have known nothing about)?
@davidgibbs72326 жыл бұрын
She sounds a bit like the Queen.
@gwishart2 жыл бұрын
The Queen sounds like a Teesside docker by comparison.
@davidgibbs72322 жыл бұрын
@@gwishart 😂👍
@effyleven9 жыл бұрын
My goodness those Penguins were seriously NAFF puppets, weren't they? Things is, I remember being about seven and thinking they were not up to much even back then. Children do have an eye for quality and can tell when they don't get it,.... (a mantra within children's broadcasting.)
@shirleywilliams30689 жыл бұрын
Who remembers the BBC television serial of Heidi shown in the 1950's. She was played by a little girl with short curly hair and I wonder if anyone knows her name and if the series is available on video or dvd ?
@luciatilyard28279 жыл бұрын
SHIRLEY WILLIAMS I remember it being on.
@alanmoore72939 жыл бұрын
SHIRLEY WILLIAMS "Heidi" was shown live on BBC in 1954 and starred Julia Lockwood in the title role. She was the daughter of the British film star Margaret Lockwood. As the series was live it is unlikely there are any recordings as this was an age before such things had been thought of!!
@IanHawthornThain8 жыл бұрын
+SHIRLEY WILLIAMS I do remember the series, and in particular the Swiss folk song "The Old Chalet" which featured in it. I expect somebody here has the whole thing recorded on DVD!
@shunt5318 жыл бұрын
Ian Hawthorn Thain y
@IanHawthornThain8 жыл бұрын
+Sue Hunt Unfortunately Alan is probably right. The only means of recording in those days was film, film was expensive, and was therefore normally reserved for programmes considered to be of historic importance. Childrens' TV seldom figured on that list. I have however seen film of Annette Mills and Muffin the Mule (though never a mention of the puppeteer Anne Hogarth), and some people seem to have unexpected clips tucked away. So keep looking. Something may turn up one day.
@WALUIGIWAAAH2 жыл бұрын
If anyone has any meet the penguins clips it would be appreciated, my grandma would love to watch before she dies
@advancedroadcraft59869 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1958 so I really don't remember anything until the 60's I suppose
@SugarLizards5 жыл бұрын
the old cbbc
@hilarioph2 жыл бұрын
This could be the first BBC puppet show for kids
@MerleOberon9 жыл бұрын
Those Flowerpot men reminded me of Teletubbies.
@christopherlockery96296 жыл бұрын
There was even talk from concerned parents at the time regarding fears that kids would only be able to speak Bill and Ben Lingo.. Just like what later happened with the Teletubbies...
@Matt57113 жыл бұрын
Why have they included Pinky and Perky? They didn't come onto the BBC until the late 50s, way after Jennifer Gay was the BBC Children's announcer.
@zacmumblethunder74662 жыл бұрын
Mary Whitehouse must have had a warped imagination when she complained about Andy and Teddy sharing a basket.
@sumisusan1517 Жыл бұрын
Before Jim Henson, puppeteers had to take what they could get to make their characters look charming without being too uncanny, with interesting results
@Abbieeffectgirl Жыл бұрын
Baby channel !!! 😭😊☺️😍🎉❤
@queenmingming61806 жыл бұрын
8:07 Muffin the Mule Song
@davidmccann98112 жыл бұрын
I used to be afraid of Pinky & Perky. I didn't mind the Daleks, it was those two pigs that made me hide.
@normanmeharry584 жыл бұрын
gosh, you could say weeed then without the risk of arrest.
@yourchildhood66523 жыл бұрын
wait.. how many noddy tv adaptiojs are there and what are their names?
@ExtremeKaicey2 жыл бұрын
But Noddy isn't on there!
@charlie8916 жыл бұрын
oh boy, imagine having the last name "Gay" in this day and age
@tanagerbirder4 жыл бұрын
Gay was her middle name from her mother's maiden name. Don't forget that it means 'bright and cheerful', which she was.
@JohnnyNorfolk4 жыл бұрын
When you think of just how rotton the BBC has become.
@zacmumblethunder74662 жыл бұрын
All of TV is crap now.
@robwatts49882 жыл бұрын
BBC been rotten since 1926 and even protected the likes of Jimmy Saville from the 60s on wards
@usernamename29784 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, I remember watching and listening to these southerners with their speech defects - Watch with Mother, Listen with Mother and the rest. Even after years, they couldn't manage ordinary pronunciation. The BBC, based and operating almost entirely in London, was a refuge for the terminally ineloquent.
@susanmoran52264 жыл бұрын
And if your a Scot, Welsh or Irish forget it.
@leahrowden39396 жыл бұрын
0:37 Ah, who’s that?!
@mekydro4 жыл бұрын
It appears that my former comment on this video has been misinterpreted and misunderstood, so I have removed it.
@iiTrendyz3 жыл бұрын
what was your former comment on this video?
@mekydro3 жыл бұрын
@@iiTrendyz Hmm, i'm not reposting it as it appeared to offend some users. I was commenting on the hostess and her charm, style and presentation.
@gangsnapp_yt59453 жыл бұрын
the card WAS TILTING
@dbedits12595 жыл бұрын
0:36
@FaerieCrone11 жыл бұрын
weeeeed
@alexmckenna11713 жыл бұрын
So nostalgic, but they DID get away with some terrible rubbish back then. Pinky & Perky! Grim, but if you were drunk or worse, you could laugh yourself crazy at the awfulness of it.
@wolflupus7886 жыл бұрын
Pinky & Perky the camp pigs & the nosie cow,Bill and Ben the flower pot men, little weed,and the Wooden Tops.
@MrMrh19583 жыл бұрын
Pinky and Perky!😂
@kevinmoffatt4 ай бұрын
Utter dross; used to love sooty and sweep though.
@ToeInHamHotspur4 жыл бұрын
Kgs
@amyclarke412 жыл бұрын
ok
@rtcp20204 ай бұрын
The intro is so depressing
@leahrowden39395 жыл бұрын
BBC could have launched Children’s Television in the 1980s, not the 1950s.
@peggysaffer10785 жыл бұрын
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@johnpot5 жыл бұрын
Why is Called Ms.Gay
@trevordance51815 жыл бұрын
BBC tv post Brexit.
@janeokeeffe52975 жыл бұрын
😂
@leahrowden39395 жыл бұрын
1950’s Children’s BBC is boring!
@trevordance51815 жыл бұрын
No wonder kids prefered The Adventures Of Robin Hood, and The Buccaneers on ITV!