Mary, Mungo and Midge (1969)

Genre

children's television series, adventure television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 13 episodes

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A girl named Mary and her pets Mungo the dog and Midge the mouse explore their busy town from their home in a tower block. They have simple adventures and meet other town dwellers. The show was one of the first children's series set in an urban environment.

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What happens

Mary, Mungo and Midge is a British animated children's television series, created by John Ryan and produced by the BBC in 1969. The show featured the adventures of a girl called Mary, her dog Mungo, and her pet mouse Midge, who lived with Mary's parents in a tower block in a busy town. BBC newsreader Richard Baker was the narrator and the voices of both Mungo and Midge. John Ryan's daughter Isabel provided the voice of Mary. The theme tune and other music for the series were provided by Johnny Pearson, drawn from the KPM Music Library, specifically the LP 'Children and Animation' (KPM1045, 1969) This show was one of the first children's shows in the UK to reflect urban living. The programme showed Mary and her animal friends having adventures in a busy town, as opposed to in a wood, forest or other rural setting, apart from the episode “The Garage,” in which the family had a picnic in the countryside. The two featured animals were likely to be familiar to town dwellers, as opposed to the array of talking wildlife usually seen in children's television. In each episode, the three of them would descend in the lift from their flat in the tower block. After their adventures, they would return home. Midge would press the button for the lift back to the correct floor by standing on Mungo's nose. Mary, Mungo and Midge was a production of John Ryan Studios, who also produced the earlier Captain Pugwash and the later The Adventures of Sir Prancelot series, both with a similar drawing style. However, despite never being renewed for a second season—with the Watch with Mother title being dropped in 1975—it continued to air as repeats on BBC1 up until 1978, with the last annual book (for 1975) being released in 1974. The Complete Mary, Mungo and Midge was released on DVD on 5 April 2004. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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