The Blackadder star recounts his memories of Watch With Mother and the zany legacy of British children’s shows
I was born in 1946 and my family got our first television for the Queen’s coronation in 1953. That coincided with the beginning of perhaps the first children’s television show, Watch With Mother. The reason it was called Watch With Mother was that the BBC wanted to flag to parents that children’s television wasn’t going to be a babysitting machine that you could just put your kids in front of.
