Rosie and Jim (1990)

This video has been produced by British Waterways, which run the country's canals and rivers, with Ragdoll productions to help children to understand the dangers of Water in am imaginative way using Rosie and Jim, as well as Duck! The 7 minute video covers the safety points featured in a free Rosie and Jim leaflet which can be obtained from the address below. You might find it helpful to teach Children the safety song featured in the video which is sung to the tune of the Rosie and Jim theme song. British Waterways also produce "Rosie & Jim's Waterway pack", containing Children's activities and games plus guidance notes for parents priced £1.00 to cover postage and packing.

John plans to take the Ragdoll up the canal to Dudley, but in order to do so he has to navigate a series of locks.

Tree branches scrape against the Ragdoll, scratching off its smart paint. So John goes out to the shops to buy some paint to make his boat look nice and shiny again. Rosie and Jim do some painting of their own, and they learn about mixing colours together to make even more colours.

John is out of groceries, so he makes a trip to Sainsbury's to purchase what he needs. However, the two rag dolls have something else on their minds.

Whilst John is on his travels, he goes inside a tunnel leaving the two rag dolls to believe that pure darkness can be frightening to travel through.

Whilst attempting to travel to Dudley, the Ragdoll's tiller comes apart in John's hand, meaning he has to walk to a nearby stable so a horse can tow the boat to somewhere he can get it fixed.

John is very curious to know how glass is made, so he goes to a factory to see what ingredients are put together to make glass, sand being the main one. Rosie and Jim follow him there, and play in the sandpit making their own boat out of sand with marble glass windows.

John visits Black Country Narrow Boats, the boatyard that built the Ragdoll, where Rosie and Jim try making their own boats out of paper and foil.

It's a rainy day on the Ragdoll, and John's in need of washing his clothes, so he sets out to a local launderette to get them clean once again. Rosie and Jim have some dirty washing too, but they also have something else in mind.

It is quite cold on the Ragdoll, and John is running out of coal for his furnace to keep him and Rosie and Jim warm, so he and Rosie and Jim set out to a coal mine to see where exactly coal comes from.

As John sails down the canal, he notices lots of different things being cut, so he takes a walk and goes to a farm to see some sheep having their wool sheared off. Later on, John does some trimming of his own by giving his beard a snip. Rosie and Jim join in by taking some sheep wool and begin pretending to shear it off themselves.

John is looking for an idea for a story, so he sails down the canal to a falcon country park to see all kinds of different birds. Rosie and Jim follow him, and watch the demonstrations of the falcons.

John's woolly jumper is beginning to wear out, so he sets off to a mill to retrieve some wool to knit a new jumper. Meanwhile, Jim mistakes a sheep for a dragon, and is frightened, but soon learns that sheep are harmless. Then, Rosie and Jim finally get some coloured wool of their own.

John sets out to a wheat field to find out how bread is made. He then sees a windmill, and is shown how wheat is turned into bread. Rosie and Jim get up to their old tricks and fool around with John when he isn't looking.

John sets out to the shops to buy some food and drink for a picnic. Rosie and Jim are hungry and want to have a picnic too, so they add their own items to John's shopping list without him knowing. Bearing in mind that John doesn't even like the items that Rosie and Jim added, they're afraid that John is going to be upset. However, John isn't overly upset after all, as he sees a family having a barbecue and gives them Rosie and Jim's items.

John thinks the blanket on his bed is starting to wear out, so he decides to go and get a new one. Rosie and Jim play with his blanket, but they play too rough, and put large holes in it. So John pays a visit to the weavers workshop to see how blankets are made from scratch.

John goes off to Hampton to see a ferry. When Rosie and Jim see a boat that's going to the same place as the Ragdoll, they fear that it's going to cause a crash, but of course, it doesn't. John hops aboard a ferry to be transported from one path to another that has the river as a collision.

John travels to a farm to see how the milk we drink every day is made.

John travels to Tewkesbury Marina to see some sailing boats and get some ideas for a story about Rosie and Jim

While watching steam boats on the River Severn, John runs the Ragdoll aground in a mud bank needing help from another steam boat.

John visits Tewkesbury Abbey and explores the inside of the church.

It's time for John to take out the rubbish from the boat, so he attempts to catch up with the bin-man and takes the rubbish to the tip so it can be broken down and recycled.

John travels to visit a pottery at Elmley Castle near Pershore in Worcestershire.

John travels along the River Severn through Worcester to Stourport to ride the dragon at the Shipley Amusements Park.

John travels to Worcester to visit the Worcester Post and Sorting Office

John travels along the River Severn through Worcester, and then goes to Ragley Hall in Alcester to a maze.

John visits Ashorne Hall to see some musical instruments that play by themselves.

John visits Stratford Butterfly Farm in Stratford-upon-Avon.

John Visits Charlecote House.

John visits Renoir Hair Salon in Birmingham.

John visits Reaside Nursery School in Birmingham.

John visits Northcot Brick Ltd in Blockley.

John visits Evesham in Stratford-upon-Avon to see some small animals at Twyford Country Centre.

John visits The Rag Market in Birmingham.

John visits Birmingham Children's Hospital.

John visits The National Waterways Museum in Gloucester.

John visits Netherly Farm in Mathon to see a sheepdog at work.

John visits Severn Trent Water.

John visits The National Waterways Museum in Gloucester for a second time.

John visits The Children's Library in Sutton Coldfield.

John visits a bucket dredger digging mud from a river.

John visits Bewdley to get a new rope for The Ragdoll Boat.

John accidentally breaks a plank of wood and decides to get a new one. He visits a timber yard to see how trees get turned into planks of wood.

John visits Worcester to buy some shoes from Blunts Shoes.

John visits the Bewdley Museum to see how a brass windlass is made while Rosie and Jim try to return his jelly to him.

John visits Bidford-on-Avon to learn to fly in a plane at Avon Soaring Centre.

John visits the Bewdley Museum to see how a coracle is made after seeing some on the River Severn.

John visits the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon to see a puppet show performed by Major Mustard.

John visits Stratford-upon-Avon to visit the Stratford Shire Horse Centre.

John visits A. E. Beckett and Sons at Heath Farm in Wythall to see where eggs come from.

John visits the National Waterways Festival.

Pat Hutchins visits the BBC CWR radio studios in Coventry.

Pat visits Hillfields Nursery Centre.

Pat visits the Battlefield Line Railway.

Pat notices a barn owl flying over the canal and meets its owner.

Pat visits Coggans Bakery in Nuneaton to see how gingerbread men are made.

Pat visits Leicester to meet Unity Brass.

Pat visits Mill Lane Nurseries in Evesham.

Pat leaves Duck on the canal side while cleaning the roof of the Ragdoll and accidentally leaves him behind.

Pat visits a bowling alley in Coventry.

Pat visits The Uppingham Road Health Centre in Leicester when she has a cold.

Pat notices someone digging up potatoes in his garden and offers to help.

Pat comes across a gymkhana and stops to watch.

Pat notices a family with fruit and stops to buy food at a street market in North Warwickshire.

Pat visits Longford Park Primary School where the pupils draw pictures for her.

Pat visits Gorse Hill City Farm in Leicester.

Pat visits Wilson & Stafford's hat factory and sees how hats are made.

Pat comes across a family with suitcases for a boating holiday. Rosie and Jim want to go on a boating holiday too and start packing their things for the holiday. Jim wants to pack some sausages but Rosie refuses. After they finish packing, they accidentally throw their suitcase onto another boat and their suitcase gets mixed up with someone else's suitcase.

The Ragdoll and Duck get dirty from the road bridge above and Pat loses her bar of soap so she visits The Standard Soap Company's factory nearby to get a new one, and finds out how soap is made.

Pat notices a bouncy castle and visits Gaz Inflatables which makes them.

Pat notices the Leicester Morris Men group on their way to Abbey Primary School and watches them dance there.

Rosie and Jim overhear Pat saying she is thirsty and get her a glass of water. However, Rosie forgets to turn off the tap and floods the boat. Fearing a hole in the boat, Pat has the Ragdoll lifted out of the water for inspection by Rose Narrow Boats.

Pat notices a child with shoes she likes, so she visits Gerry's Shoe Repairs to have some made especially for her.

Pat meets two children building a scarecrow and offers to join them with a donation of her old clothes.

Pat comes along with friends to Coventry Sports Centre to watch their daughter, Jade, roller skating.

As dusk falls, Pat notices a family stargazing and joins them before going to bed back on the Ragdoll.

Pat Visits the Chinese State Circus in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Pat accidentally drops an earring into the water and has a new one made especially for her at a jewellers.

Pat visits Stratford-upon-Avon to have a ride in a gondola.

Rosie and Jim, along with Pat, find a mouse running around the Ragdoll. Thinking it would not be happy living on the boat, Pat catches it and tries to find it a new home.

Pat sees some friends aboard a restaurant boat, so she dresses up to join them. Meanwhile, Rosie tries to help the waiter and Jim tries to eat the ice cream when he is hungry.

Pat visits Woburn Safari Park in Bedfordshire and rides the minibus to see the animals.

Pat visits The Metropolitan Club to do some exercise.

Pat finds a lost kitten and takes it back to a family at Barton Dovecote Leisure.

Pat visits Woburn Safari Park a second time to get ideas for a drawing. She sees the tigers and Jim's drawing of stripy clothes.

Pat has been invited by the Lord Mayor of the town to help turn on the Christmas lights in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Pat visits Gourmet Pizza Company in Oxford.

Pat visits Oxford to help take a mannequin to a shop and dress it.

Pat gives two friends a lift on the Ragdoll to take their pet rabbit to the vet for a health check.

Pat sees the Oxford open-top tour bus and goes for a ride on it.

Pat sees a dog by the river and meets the owners who are taking her to agility training at the Wallingford Dog Training Club.

Pat comes across her real-life husband Laurence Hutchins who invites her to a café by the river. He offers to give her a lift in his car, but she declines. Rosie and Jim dislike his remark of the Ragdoll being slow and decide to race him in the boat.

Pat visits the milkman to buy milk and offers to help with his round.

Pat hears music that makes her want to dance and comes across a ballroom dancing session.

It is raining and Pat's umbrella has a hole in it so she visits Stephens Umbrellas Limited to see how they are made.

Pat comes across some busy friends, so she offers to look after their baby and help him go to sleep.

Neil Brewer's harmonica slips out of his hand and falls into the children's water bowl. When he gets it back, it no longer works as well as it used to. He then goes to Mickleburgh Music Shop and tries some other instruments before deciding on a new harmonica.

Neil gives the Ragdoll a spring clean but has to deal with clutter before he goes anywhere.

Neil decides to try water skiing, and so do Rosie and Jim.

Some children on another boat are devastated when their birthday cake falls into the water, so Neil decides to decorate a cake for them while Rosie and Jim secretly help him.

Neil comes across the Avon Cub Scouts & Brownie Guides singing by a campfire and joins in.

Neil meets a friend riding a pony and trap. She agrees to let him ride it with her and they go around the Gordano Valley Riding Stables' course.

Rosie and Jim notice some ducks in the canal and their Duck wants to meet them, so they take him as they follow Neil to visit a place with more ducks.

Neil visits Bristol City F.C. to watch the 1996 Gloucestershire Cup match versus the Bristol Rovers F.C..

Neil notices a chimney sweep who lets him watch him sweep another chimney.

Neil's hat blows off in the wind, so Rosie and Jim chase after it for him.

Rosie and Jim accidentally break one of the chairs on the Ragdoll, so they follow Neil to the Woodland Workshop to learn how to make a chair.

Neil sees some children flying kites and wants to do so himself, so he visits a workshop to have one made for him.

Neil visits a tailor shop to get a new jacket, but with help from Rosie and Jim up to their tricks behind the scenes.

Neil visits the 1996 Bristol International Balloon Festival to see the hot air balloons. (With a cameo of Sonic the Hedgehog)

Neil visits The Lock Inn Bike Hire Centre to ride on a tricycle.

Neil visits Rode Bird Gardens where he meets a talking parrot.

Neil sees some children playing with sand and then walks to a beach by the sea.

Neil visits Brean Leisure Park to ride on a merry-go-round.

Rosie and Jim accidentally break Neil's mattress so he goes to buy a new one from Furnitureland in Bristol.

Neil visits the Bristol Old Vic Theatre Royal to watch a play.

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Neil feels hungry, so he goes to a Chinese restaurant where he sees noodles being made.

Neil visits Trafalgar Square in London to meet some pigeons.

Neil feels like camping so he sets up his old tent by the Ragdoll.

Neil visits Big Ben in Westminster, London.

Neil plays golf with Neil Jordan at Sudbury Golf Course.

Neil visits the Tower of London

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Neil, with Rosie and Jim secretly following, has fun riding the slides at an indoor water park.

Neil visits the London Aquarium to see some fish and other sea creatures.

Neil sees some children walking on stilts with their instructor and joins them with Rosie and Jim secretly joining in.

Neil turns to DIY after a cabinet on the Ragdoll falls apart.

Neil visits a tomato ketchup factory to see how ketchup is made.

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Duck finds himself floating away on some driftwood on the River Thames when Rosie and Jim accidentally push him off the boat.

Neil visits Tower Bridge in London to see how it works.

Neil gives the Dulwich Junior Brass Band a lift on the boat where they play Rosie and Jim's theme tune.

Neil records a new song to listen to on the boat, with composer Andrew McCrorie-Shand.

A one-man-band busker loses his drum when it falls into the canal so Rosie and Jim secretly help him get it back.

Neil is invited to take part in a lion dance at London's Chinatown to celebrate Chinese New Year.

Neil feels lonely, despite it being his birthday, so Rosie and Jim make invitations to send to guests who Neil met earlier in the series, to a party at the Ragdoll.

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Neil follows a bee to a honey farm to see how honey is made.

Neil has to replace the Ragdoll boat's anchor and chain after he loses it in a lake, and goes to see how the chain is made.

Neil sees a knight in shining armour riding along the canal bank, who suddenly drops his plume. He meets up with the knight at Belvoir Castle and hands his plume back, but is blissfully unaware that Rosie and Jim have sneaked in.

A frog suddenly appears inside one of Neil's shoes, and Neil removes it from the boat, only for the frog to find itself inside Neil's hat, and later in his biscuit box.

Neil comes across a man gathering reeds who then shows him using them to thatch a house's roof.

Neil comes across a sailing class on a lake and the instructor invites him to try.

An artist is drawing the Ragdoll boat, but runs into several mishaps along the way, most notably Rosie and Jim continuously moving Duck around the boat.

One night, Neil comes across a disco party on another boat and is invited aboard by the guests.

Neil takes part in a remote control boat race in Daventry.

Neil decides to keep fit, but is startled when he sees what appears to be a ghost under a sheet, which turns out to be Rosie and Jim.

Neil comes across a man carrying rocks to repair a dry stone wall and offers to help with Rosie and Jim secretly also helping.

Neil comes across a man carrying equipment to wash a "very big baby". After offering to carry the equipment to Twycross Zoo, Neil, along with Rosie and Jim, discovers that it is a baby elephant.

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Neil calls the lifeboat rescue crew in Caister-on-Sea to rescue the Ragdoll, after Rosie and Jim untie the mooring ropes at the wrong end.

Neil visits a knitting factory to see how woolly sweaters are made, and gets a new sweater after his original one gets snagged in the Ragdoll's control panel.

Neil has the Ragdoll transported on the back of a lorry through Loughborough, to reach the next canal.

Neil joins in a country western dance party at Lynroy's club in Loughborough.

Neil is called to redecorate a woman's living room, with Rosie and Jim also lending a hand.

Neil visits the City of Birmingham Gymnastics Club.

Neil learns to ride a horse at Bourne Vale Riding Stables in Birmingham, but is in for a surprise when Rosie accidentally jumps onto the back of his horse.

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Neil looks after Poppy the dog and takes her for a walk. However, she runs off after Rosie and Jim intervene.

Neil is trying to find a bottle of glue to secure a loose floor tile, and vows to find it if he has to turn the Ragdoll boat upside-down.

Neil goes to Nandy and Greg's wedding at St Peter's Church in Reading as the best man but leaves behind the ring. Fortunately Rosie finds it and brings it along.

Neil's mother, portrayed by Eileen Armstrong, is coming to lunch aboard the Ragdoll and Rosie and Jim try to help prepare. However, they end up making a mess.

Neil comes across a musician named Bubbles who shows him how to make steel drums and sees him perform with his band.

Neil goes to buy some new trousers with Rosie and Jim secretly joining in.

Neil joins in a jumble sale with clutter from the boat and Duck accidentally gets sold.

Neil comes across a woman laying a trail of flour, a practice called hashing, for runners to follow and joins in the race.

Neil is invited to Chloe's birthday party so he goes to Woolworths to buy her a present.

Neil has to replace the Ragdoll's bow fender after it gets caught a lock gate.

Neil volunteers to be rescued by the Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service as part of a fire safety demonstration for children.

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Neil checks into the Royal Berkshire Hospital after spraining his ankle while mooring up the Ragdoll.

Neil decides he's had enough cruising for one day and decides to relax, but his day isn't as relaxing as he may have hoped.

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Three little ducklings manage to get onboard the Ragdoll, causing their mother to follow the boat. Rosie and Jim gently sing to the ducklings, then show them to Duck, before returning them to their mother.

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