''Brum'' (), is a British

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about the adventures of a small, sentient vintage car. The series was originally narrated by

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, who also provided the voice for Brum and all the characters. The show aired for three series between 1991 and 2002 with two revived CGI series airing on YouTube in 2016. The show was first aired on

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on the children's block, Children's BBC (

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) and later on

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. Set in

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and produced by

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, ''Brum'' was first broadcast in 1991 and the last live-action series was broadcast in 2002. It was initially directed, written and produced by

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and initially narrated by

who also provided the voice for Brum and all the characters in story form. In series 3, all the characters including Brum were silent except for the car noises. The narrator provided commentary rather than the previous story form. A new CGI-animated series, aimed at young pre-school children, was produced in 2016.

Plot and setting

''Brum'' is the story of a small, sentient replica car who ventures out into Big Town when his owner isn't looking and gets up to all manner of adventures. Each episode begins and ends in the same way, with Brum leaving the other cars in the motor museum when the owner's back is turned and heading out to explore Big Town, before eventually returning to his place. Each series has had its own background music. From series 1–2, the introduction music was the same, but in series 2, they used different instruments. From Series 3, the music became jazzy and a new title sequence was directed by Nigel P. Harris. The car can express himself in various mechanical ways including opening and closing his doors and bonnet, bobbing his suspension, and flashing and swivelling. The actors in ''Brum'' do not speak – mime and off-screen narration help propel the story. It was therefore easy to prepare episodes for airing in other countries, and the series has been broadcast in many parts of the world and in many languages. The stories are mostly set in the city of

, England, since in addition to its onomatopoeic nature of a car engine revving, Brum (as a contraction of "

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") is a common colloquial name for Birmingham. Although later series make no direct mention of Birmingham, calling it simply Big Town, many of the city's streets and landmarks can be seen in each episode. The show was written by a range of writers.

primarily wrote all the first series, while the second was written by Tom Poole, Dirk Campbell,

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and Morgan Hall. The last two series were written by Nigel P. Harris (5 Episodes) and the existing Ragdoll team. The car itself – a half-scale replica of a late-1920s

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Chummy convertible – was designed and built by

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. It is now housed at the

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, which is also where the opening and closing sequences of the programme were filmed.

Characters

1990s

* Museum Owner (Mike Cavanagh): The owner of the car museum where Brum lives. He is the only human character who appears in every episode and the only character who is apparently oblivious to Brum's adventures, despite finding items in Brum's backseat at the end of each episode in Series 1 and 2. The actor, Mike Cavanagh, actually owned the Cotswold Motor Museum until 1999. He passed away in 2021 and there is a plaque dedicated to him on the wall at the entrance to the Museum. * The Lollipop Lady (Shirley-Anne Bohm): A lady who helps people, and Brum, cross the road safely, she appears in every episode in the second series. * WPC Truncheon (

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): the police officer in Big Town. * The Big Town Robber (

): Always up to mischief, the robber's antics include stealing the trophy for the big race. Brum is usually the one that foils his plans as seen in "Brum and the Big Chase/Dancing in the Street", and "Brum and the Big Town Race/Brum and the Trophy". * Mr. and Mrs. La-Di-Dah: A

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married couple who regularly featured in the second series. * Mr. and Mrs. Doolally (Mark Barnsley) A friendly, if slightly absent-minded, couple who regularly featured in the first and second series. * Vicky Spoon: A regular cast member of the second series, Vicky is Brum's special friend. * Micky Mender: A handyman, a regular cast member of the second series. * Big Town Bullies (Shazad Mahmood and Georgina Treharne) * The Scrap Dealers (Dave Evans and Mark Walter) * Two Masked Bank Robbers (Robert Goodman and Barry Robinson)

2000s

Townspeople

* Traffic Policeman (Mark Powlett): A "knockabout" policeman, who owns a horse called Arrow who loves being fed apples. He wishes to sing in Big Town's pop band, and always followed the rules when he was youngert. * Granny Slippers (Linda Kerr Scott): An old lady who wears slippers wherever she goes. She also has a kitten named Lucky. * The Visiting Man Jos Houben]): A tourist who loves taking photographs with his camera, especially Brum. * Mr. Brillo (Rob Thirtle): A man who lives next door to Granny Slippers. He has a wide collection of

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and wishes to own over 100 of them. His favourite gnome is a 342-year-old one named Gnorman. His favourite picture is the Gnoma Lisa. * Gorgeous Gordon (Enoch White): A self-centred, full-of-himself hairdresser who wears a wig as hair. * Bob & Job (Kevin McGreevy & Adam Schumacher): Two comically clumsy men, who wear green dungarees and yellow T-shirts and help the town in a way of

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style from

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. * Scruffy: Brum's friend, a dog who loves burying things. * Big Town Mayor (John Woodford): The town manager. * The Visiting Lady (Iona Kennedy / Carole Davies): The Visiting Man's wife who lives in the town. * The Mayoress: The mayor of Big Town * The Celebrity (Johnnie Fiori): A celebrity who appeared in the episode 'Brum and the Airport Adventure' when she had her jewels stolen by Bubble & Squeak at the Big Town Airport. * Sally: A woman in the Big Town who had her cake stolen by teenagers on her birthday in the episode "Brum and the Birthday Cake/Brum and the Cake Gang". * Policewoman (Lisa Allen)

Thieves

* Rob & Nick (Dan Carey and Jason Segade): A bumbling pair of thieves who are best known for stealing Mr. Brillo's gnome, robbing the golf buggy at the Big Town Golf Course, a posh celebrity's dog, Money hat from the artist and a waiter's apron at the pizza restaurant. * Bubble & Squeak (Chalky Skywalker Chawner and Paul Jackson): A pair of thieves who love anything shiny, especially jewels. They wear clothes that never fit because they were stolen from washing lines. who appeared in Brum and the Airport Adventure, Brum and the Bank Robbers/Brum and the Heavy Safe, and Brum and the Golden Loo. * Big Bad (Paul Filipiak) Appeared in Brum and the Pantomime Cow/Brum and the Theatrical Thieves, Brum and the Snow Thieves, Brum and the Splash and Grab and Brum - Chasing Balloons. * Big Bad's 1st Girlfriend (Christine Nayrolles) Appeared in Brum and the Snow Thieves, Brum and the Shop Window Dummy/Brum and the Mannequin. * Big Bad's 2nd Girlfriend (Kay Stanley) Appeared in Brum and the Splash and Grab. * Big Bad's Assistant's Girlfriend (Justine Marriott) Appeared in Bushes on the Run. * Big Bad's Assistant (Eric Mallett) Appeared in Brum and the Pantomime Cow/Brum and the Theatrical Thieves with Big Bad, Bushes on the Run with his girlfriend. * The Shadow (Miles Anthony) A menacing thief who appeared in Brum and the King of Thieves and Brum and the Gorilla Caper. * Pickpocket Polly (Catherine Marimer): A thief who stole a wallet from a visiting man, and, of course, she took the items from people and put them in her swag bag. * Penny Pincher (Julia West) Appeared in Brum and the Music Box and Brum and the Stopwatch Botch. * Cake Gang: (Kerry Dean, Gavin Cooper, David Smith, Charmaine Samuels and Liam Mullan): A group of greedy teenagers who stole a birthday cake from Sally in "Brum and the Birthday Cake/Brum and the Cake Gang". * Magic Paul (Andy Dawson) a Magician who is his assistant of Pickpocket Polly * The Beady-Eyed Robber (Heather Tyrrell) Appeared in Brum and the Stolen Necklace.

Episodes

Series 1 (1991)

* 1. Brum to the Rescue - 26 September 1991 * 2. Brum and the Kite – 3 October 1991 * 3. Brum and the Scrapyard – 10 October 1991 * 4. Brum at the Opera – 17 October 1991 * 5. Brum and the Mad Mower – 24 October 1991 * 6. Brum at the Seaside – 31 October 1991 * 7. Brum and the Little Girl Lost – 7 November 1991 * 8. Brum and the Wheels – 14 November 1991 * 9. Brum and the Removal Van – 28 November 1991 * 10. Brum and the Magician – 5 December 1991 * 11. Brum and the Runaway Pram – 12 December 1991 * 12. Brum on Safari – 19 December 1991 * 13. Brum and the Stilt Walker – 26 December 1991

Series 2 (1994)

The second series of the show was first broadcast on Children's BBC in October 1994 and consisted of thirteen episodes with the runtime of each episode being increased to 15 minutes. Toyah Wilcox reprised her role as the narrator. Most episodes of this series were later edited by the BBC in the late 90s cutting the length of the episodes down to 10 minutes to fit with the runtime of the first series. These were broadcast until 2001. * 1. Brum and the Helicopter – 6 October 1994 * 2. Brum and the Crane – 13 October 1994 * 3. Brum Goes Ice Skating – 20 October 1994 * 4. Brum Dances in the Street – 27 October 1994 * 5. Brum at a Wedding – 3 November 1994 * 6. Brum and the Rascally Robber – 10 November 1994 * 7. Brum and the Supermarket – 17 November 1994 * 8. Brum and the Very Windy Day – 24 November 1994 * 9. Brum and the Street Party – 1 December 1994 * 10. Brum and the Naughty Kitten – 8 December 1994 * 11. Brum and the Marching Band – 15 December 1994 * 12. Brum and the Flood – 22 December 1994 * 13. Brum Goes House Painting – 29 December 1994

Series 3 (2001-2002)

The third series featured a brand new format, depicting Brum as a superhero car, where he stops thieves and even has his own song at the end of every episode ("Brum Gets Things Done"). There is no narrator in this series but instead, it has children commenting on what is happening. There were 40 episodes broadcast across 2001 and 2002 on CBBC One and CBeebies. * 1. Brum and the Airport Adventure – 3 September 2001 * 2. Brum and the Naughty Dog – 10 September 2001 * 3. Brum and the Pizzeria – 17 September 2001 * 4. Brum and the Gymnast – 24 September 2001 * 5. Brum and the King of Thieves – 1 October 2001 * 6. Brum and the Skateboarding Bride – 8 October 2001 * 7. Brum and the Balloons – 15 October 2001 * 8. Brum and the Necklace – 22 October 2001 * 9. Brum and the Theatrical Thieves – 29 October 2001 * 10. Brum and the Runaway Train – 5 November 2001 * 11. Brum and the Cake Gang – 12 November 2001 * 12. Brum and the Mobile Phone – 19 November 2001 * 13. Brum and the Bushes – 26 November 2001 * 14. Brum and the Posh Dog – 3 December 2001 * 15. Brum and the Music Box – 10 December 2001 * 16. Brum and the Statue Rescue - 17 December 2001 * 17. Brum and the Snow Thieves – 27 December 2001 * 18. Brum and the Kitten Rescue - 8 April 2002 * 19. Brum and the River Race – 15 April 2002 * 20. Brum and the Golden Loo – 22 April 2002 * 21. Brum and the Golf Buggy – 29 April 2002 * 22. Brum the Football Hero – 6 May 2002 * 23. Brum and the Rampant Robot – 13 May 2002 * 24. Brum and the Mannequin – 20 May 2002 * 25. Brum and the Bowling Alley – 27 May 2002 * 26. Brum and the Basketball – 3 June 2002 * 27. Brum and the Gorilla Caper – 10 June 2002 * 28. Brum and the Runaway Sofa – 17 June 2002 * 29. Brum and the Garden Gnome – 24 June 2002 * 30. Brum and the Runaway Ball – 1 July 2002 * 31. Brum and the Stunt Bike – 2 September 2002 * 32. Brum and the Stopwatch Botch – 9 September 2002 * 33. Brum and the Cream Balloon – 16 September 2002 * 34. Brum and the Pickpocket – 23 September 2002 * 35. Brum and the New Gnome – 30 September 2002 * 36. Brum and the Mouse – 7 October 2002 * 37. Brum and the Heavy Safe – 14 October 2002 * 38. Brum and the Runaway Rickshaw – 21 October 2002 * 39. Brum and the Artist – 28 October 2002 * 40. Brum and the Crazy Chair Chase – 4 November 2002

Development

During development of the third season, Ragdoll renewed

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's Home Video deal on June 12, 2001, for seven years, in addition to the

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acquiring the broadcast rights to the season. On August 31, Ragdoll announced that the new season would premiere on September 3, with the first VHS/DVD release of the new series to coincide on October 8. On October 7, Ragdoll launched the show internationally at

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, where the

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acquired the Australian broadcast rights for the series to air on

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in December, and on the ABC Kids channel in Spring 2002. The show would premiere on ABC TV on March 11, 2002. On January 17, 2002, Ragdoll announced that the series would be one of the launching programs on the then-upcoming

channel in the United Kingdom. By MIPTV 2002 on April 15, Ragdoll pre-sold the series to

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in the Netherlands to air on their

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channel's Kindertijd strand. They also announced that after MIPCOM 2001,

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in Norway, SVT in Sweden and

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in Singapore had also acquired the rights to the series in their respective countries. On September 6,

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in New Zealand and RTE's

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in Ireland acquired the broadcast rights, and premiered the series on September 7 and September 10, respectively.

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later acquired the US-broadcast rights to the series and launched it on the Ready Set Learn block on

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and

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in February 2003. In March, Ragdoll announced RTV Family Entertainment as the German partner for the series, with RTV confirming they would broadcast the show on their Ravensburger TV block on

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at the end of June.

Telecast

The show was first aired on

on the children's block, Children's BBC (

), as well as airing on satellite and pay television where it was screened on

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and

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, and also aired in the USA on

, in Canada On YTV in Australia on

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, Max,

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, ABC Kids and

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, in Brunei on RTB, in India on Pogo, in Bahrain on Channel 55, in Indonesia on ANTV, in Singapore on

, in South Africa on

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(with both an English dub and an Afrikaans dub) and

, in Kenya on KBC, in New Zealand on TV2 and

, in Namibia on

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, in Zimbabwe on ZTV, in Japan on

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, in Ireland on

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, in Germany on

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and SSVC Television, in the Netherlands on

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, in Bangladesh on BTV, in Malaysia on

and in the Emirates on

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DHX Media revivals

February 2016 saw the release of a rebooted ''Brum'', made by the current owners of the franchise DHX Media. The show is now takes place in a white-coloured setting instead of Big Town and features new friends for Brum. The first episode, "Brum's Car Wash Adventure", premiered on 4 March 2016 via the official Brum

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channel. A total of 25 CGI episodes were produced, with a second series currently airing. Another series, this time animated using Toon Boom Harmony Animation called "Brum & Friends" premiered on the channel in September 2017.

Kiddie ride

A coin operated

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of Brum was made by Amutec Ltd. The first version contains the original Brum theme song, and the second and third versions contain the rebooted closing credits song aka "Brum Gets Things Done."

UK VHS/DVD Releases

* Brum - Rescue and Other Stories (1991) (VHS) * Brum - Wheels and Other Stories (1992) (VHS) * Learn with Brum: Safari Park and other stories (1992) (VHS) * Brum: Stilts, Seaside & Rescue (1994) (Watch & Play VHS) * Children's Choice (Rosie & Jim, Playbox and Brum) (1992) (compilation VHS which contains the episode, "Brum and the Pram") * Brum - Bumper Special: Seaside and 9 Other Stories (1993) (VHS) * Brum: 2 on 1 - Rescue/Wheels and other stories (1995) (VHS) * Brum and the Helicopter and Other stories (1994) (VHS) * Brum - The Big Chase and other stories (1995) (VHS) * Brum - The Naughty Kitten and Other Stories (1995) (VHS) * Brum - The Little Drummer Boy and other stories (1995) (VHS) * My Little Brum - Brum and the Big Chase/Brum is an Ice Skating Star (1996) (VHS) * My Little Brum - Brum and the Helicopter/Brum and the Wedding (1996) (VHS) * Brum - Biggest Party Video (1998) (VHS) * Brum: Airport and Other Stories (2001) (VHS/DVD) * Brum: Airport and Other Stories (2002) (VHS) (Marks & Spencer Re-Release) (This includes "Brum and the Runaway Train" as a bonus episode. This version was only released on VHS) * Brum: Snow Thieves and Other Stories (2002) (VHS/DVD) * Brum: Runaway Statue (2002) (The VHS was released in 2002, the DVD was released in 2004) * Brum: Soccer Hero and Other Stories (The VHS was released in 2002, whilst the DVD was issued in 2004, it was only released in a carry case form) * Brum: Stunt Bike Rescue and Other Stories (2003) (VHS/DVD) * Brum: Crazy Chair Chase and other stories (2003) (VHS/DVD) * Brum - Kitten Rescue and other stories (2003) (VHS/DVD) * Brum - Stopwatch Botch and other stories (2004) (VHS/DVD) * The Very Best of Brum (2004) (VHS/DVD) (The DVD release is the only Brum home media release to feature the "Brum and the Pickpocket" episode as a bonus episode, making this the only episode unavailable on VHS).

References

External links

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