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1. Watch With Mother was the collective title of a daily 15 minutes of programming aimed at young children .
The BBC first began broadcasting the Watch With Mother series in what year?
2. One of the programmes that was shown under the Watch With Mother 'umbrella' involved two 'people' who lived at the bottom of the garden in flower-pots. What were their names?
3. 'The Flower-pot Men' lived in the flower-pots, but who, or what, was growing between the pots?
4. The old clown doll called Andy Pandy also appeared on Watch With Mother, he had two friends, Ted, the Teddy Bear and who else?
5. At the end of the Andy Pandy programmes, Andy and Teddy climbed into the toy basket and a song was sung, can you complete the lyric?
'Time to ... ...,
Time to ... ...,
Andy and Teddy are waving goodbye'
6. Three animals appeared in another series of short programmes, there was Hammy, the Hamster, GP, the Guinea-pig and Roderick, the rat. What was the title of this programme (as shown on the BBC)? 'Tales of the ...'
7. Who remembers 'The Woodentops'? If you do then I am sure you can tell me the name of the Woodentop twins.
8. One of the programmes from the 'Watch with Mother' series was 'The Woodentops' in this programme who was it that helped Mummy Woodentop in the kitchen?
9. 'The Woodentops' was a 'marionette' show that was a part of the long running 'Watch With Mother' series; one of the characters was described as 'The very biggest spotty dog you ever did see' Have I remembered that correctly?
10. Is it correct that Watch With Mother always began with the famous phrase 'Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin'?
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