Watch with Mother was a cycle of children's programmes created by Freda Lingstrom and Maria Bird.

[2] Although Andy Pandy had been regularly broadcast every week since mid-1950 (normally on Tuesdays),[3] and was joined by Flower Pot Men in December 1952 (normally on Wednesdays),[4] the name Watch with Mother was not adopted until April 1953,[5] shortly before the programming was expanded to three afternoons a week with the addition of Rag, Tag and Bobtail that September.

[2] Broadcast at 1:30 pm each day,[7] it comprised:[2] 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.

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.

[citation needed] 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.