Talk:The Woodentops (TV series)

Spotty Dog (in full "the biggest spotty dog you ever did see") -- I remember the tag as "The biggest Spotty Dog in Aa-ll the World". --195.92.40.49 10:52, 7 December 2005 (UTC) You remember in correctly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.196.242.133 (talk) 21:44, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Woodentop police slang…
“Woodentop” surely isn’t much used as slang for police by the public - it’s used *by* the detective branch to describe uniformed officers (from the old-fashioned cork-lined police helmet), hence it being the title of the pilot episode of what became long-running TV series “The Bill”. Jock123 (talk) 21:19, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Lead description
"The main characters were a family of wooden dolls who lived on a farm." Yes, the puppets were made of wood, but in what sense were they dolls? Did they self-identify as dolls? Did the average viewer, i.e. a child, see them as dolls, or as wooden people? Unlike, for example, Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House, where the characters really were dolls, surely The Woodentops were wooden puppets being used to portray a "real" farming family, i.e. the characters were human people? Martinevans123 (talk) 10:07, 17 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Fair point. I don't know who wrote that sentence but as far as I'm concerned it can do with a rewrite. I'll do some copy editing and sectioning.  Yinta n  21:54, 19 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks. In a way I can see the fairness of calling them a "family of dolls". But it sounds somehow kind of 1950's Home Service-ese, if you know what I mean. Martinevans123 (talk) 22:19, 19 August 2013 (UTC)


 * That's what I like about WP. I just happened to stumble across this article on Recent CHanges Patrol and now I'm extending it and adding sources. Maybe I should watch an episode sometime .  Yinta n  11:53, 20 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Indeed. Well, there's "original research" and there's "essential original research"! There are a few on YouTube and I would thoroughly recommend that small time investment. You'll hear, for example, what I meant about Daddy Woodentop's occasional Galway lilt! Martinevans123 (talk) 12:13, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Grieg's Opus 17
Tne title of Part 22, "So lokka me over den myra", actually translates from the Norwegian as "So enticed me over the marsh". Not sure where the ""Kulokk" and "Cow Call" came from? Martinevans123 (talk) 12:46, 20 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Maybe some of the editors at the Grieg Talkpage can help you out?  Yinta n  14:33, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Maybe they can help us out. Martinevans123 (talk) 14:37, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

nowhere on the internet that tells when every Woodentops episode was actually broadcasted on BBC TV on Friday's Watch with Mother slot.
The only video covers of Watch with mother episodes of Woodentops with dates on the back covers saying one episode on WATCH WITH MOTHER 1 was actually broadcast on Friday 9th September 1955 and the 'Horseshoe' episode on WATCH WITH MOTHER 2 was broadcasted on Friday 14th March 1958. No where that tells the exact date when the "PARTY" episode on VERY BEST OF WATCH WITH MOTHER VHS was first broadcasted. Very nice typing to you wiki folks. thank you bye be from WatchwithMotherfan xxx — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.4.29.208 (talk) 22:39, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Peter Hawkins
Do we know whether Peter voiced Daddy Woodentop and Sam as well as Spotty Dog? Some sources claim that PC Plod in Noddy 1955 was voiced by him, and Plod does sound like Daddy and Sam, but since the voices on both series were uncredited, could there be another voice artist responsible for both? Flower Pot Zip (talk) 07:31, 30 March 2023 (UTC)