I absolutely used to Love this programme more than i can even describe, i think my favourite one was about posting a letter. I even had a Mary Mungo & Midge 'pop-up' book given to me as a gift, those were the days, my friend.
I miss the days as a child watching this simple children’s programme. They should reintroduce this to children nowadays. It may calm them down. I feel sad when i look at kids programmes today. Innocence is gone
I liked the little educational details in these old British children's programmes about everyday life. Like that cars use petrol, and the oil and water have to be checked.
thankyou! there's a certain magic one feels when watching classic kids telly programmes like this! I've made sure my kiddies are familiar with the old 'proper 'stuff ! they love it too! they don't make them like this anymore so cherish these !
I remember when my dad told me about this show back in the early 2010s, as he grew up with the show back in England. Such a peaceful cartoon, in my opinion (not to mention the wonderful music).
good plan. Or you could be cremated, and have a dog saying, “Let’s make sure the doors shut” as you enter the furnace. Seriously, the Johnny Pearson music is a big part of why we all watch this with a lump in our throat.
It's a lovely programme in lots of ways but a bit too innocent about real life dangers. I'm all for children exploring the world about them but tools aren't toys to be played with. The engine was made to look very exciting and inviting to children it could burn, cut or cause serious hand damage to. In other episodes Midge runs around and plays with machinery that could also injure children. As for The Crane where the usually sensible Mungo joins Midge on a building site I'm amazed it ever got allowed!
@@MaryMungoAndMidge1 I do believe Charly himself was voiced by Kenny Everett, and later sampled by The Prodigy, But the safety films i mostly remember as a very young one were the Tufty road safety series, narrated by Bernard Cribbins. With Tufty's friend, Willy Weasel been involved in various mishaps with cars.
@@michaelturner4457 I can still see that weasel squashed flat by an ice cream van after he swung around a lamppost and into the road. Scared the proverbial out of me!
@michaelturner4457 Speaking of Bernard Cribbins, I heartily recommend YouTubing something else he narrated - Simon In The Land Of Chalk Drawings. Like Mary, Mungo and Midge it's delightfully simple but also makes some great observations about human behaviour without ever preaching!
I absolutely used to Love this programme more than i can even describe, i think my favourite one was about posting a letter. I even had a Mary Mungo & Midge 'pop-up' book given to me as a gift, those were the days, my friend.
I miss the days as a child watching this simple children’s programme. They should reintroduce this to children nowadays. It may calm them down. I feel sad when i look at kids programmes today. Innocence is gone
I liked the little educational details in these old British children's programmes about everyday life. Like that cars use petrol, and the oil and water have to be checked.
thankyou! there's a certain magic one feels when watching classic kids telly programmes like this! I've made sure my kiddies are familiar with the old 'proper 'stuff ! they love it too! they don't make them like this anymore so cherish these !
So many colours! Which is probably what I might have said back in the seventies, had I not been watching on a black and white set. Good times.
I remember when my dad told me about this show back in the early 2010s, as he grew up with the show back in England. Such a peaceful cartoon, in my opinion (not to mention the wonderful music).
Childhood memories of watch with mother. Love the groovy drumming too!
I love it and my Mummy watched it when she was younger.
I love this, and my Mum brought this up from her childhood!!!!!
I'd quite like the end theme as they lower my coffin into the ground, with a little Midge mouse running passed holding up a sign saying 'The End'
good plan. Or you could be cremated, and have a dog saying, “Let’s make sure the doors shut” as you enter the furnace.
Seriously, the Johnny Pearson music is a big part of why we all watch this with a lump in our throat.
Oohh, what a thought , lovely but very sad at the same time.
Midge could have got burned walking around that engine, love the groovy music when midge is looking around the garage.
RIP Richard Baker
It is indeed hard work being a garage man.
so very good!
Notice Mary's mum having no nose & eyes at 4:08! Bit creepy!
I watched with mother
A British Leyland Training Film :)
Remember, kids, you can't check the water safely (or the oil correctly) after the car has been running for some time!
we will!
Of course, "B. Skitt and Son" Baker.
It's a lovely programme in lots of ways but a bit too innocent about real life dangers. I'm all for children exploring the world about them but tools aren't toys to be played with. The engine was made to look very exciting and inviting to children it could burn, cut or cause serious hand damage to. In other episodes Midge runs around and plays with machinery that could also injure children. As for The Crane where the usually sensible Mungo joins Midge on a building site I'm amazed it ever got allowed!
It was a different era and there were plenty of safety films show regularly, ie the Charly says films. x
@@MaryMungoAndMidge1 I do believe Charly himself was voiced by Kenny Everett, and later sampled by The Prodigy, But the safety films i mostly remember as a very young one were the Tufty road safety series, narrated by Bernard Cribbins. With Tufty's friend, Willy Weasel been involved in various mishaps with cars.
Love Tufty
@@michaelturner4457 I can still see that weasel squashed flat by an ice cream van after he swung around a lamppost and into the road. Scared the proverbial out of me!
@michaelturner4457 Speaking of Bernard Cribbins, I heartily recommend YouTubing something else he narrated - Simon In The Land Of Chalk Drawings. Like Mary, Mungo and Midge it's delightfully simple but also makes some great observations about human behaviour without ever preaching!
Is S Mary a sunderland supporter by any chance? Looks like it.