Here Comes Mumfie (partially found puppet TV series; 1975)

Mumfie's appearance in the series.

Status: Partially Found

In 1975, Mary Turner and John Read adapted Katherine Tozer's Mumfie books into a television series entitled Here Comes Mumfie, using puppets to tell the stories.

Only half of an episode has been uploaded to YouTube in its original English, along one episode dubbed in Persian. The theme song to the show appears on a few children's CDs. Nobody knows why the show has never been re-released, possibly due to the Britt Allcroft animated series adaptation, Magic Adventures of Mumfie, becoming more popular and making this older series "dated".

Interestingly, some plots of the 70s episodes, such as "Things That Go Bang!" and "Scarecrow's Instant Birthday", were recycled into episodes of the Britt Allcroft series, and Nero's personality was also used for The Black Cat character.

Episodes

1. Mice can be Useful
2. Uncle Samuel Disappears
3. Playing Chess Presents Problems
4. The 'L' Driver
5. The Witch of Up-In-The-Sky
6. Follow that Note
7. The Petrol Station
8. The Lurkings
9. A Twig from a Broomstick
10. Mumfie and the Haunted House
11. An Unusual Christmas Cake
12. Natty Socks' Socks
13. A Bottle Full of Trouble
14. Coughs and Colds
15. The Guilt Edged Invitation
16. The Enormous Safe
17. Mumfie Buys a Sea Chest
18. Nero the Cat
19. Mumfie Makes a Strange Catch
20. Mumfie at the Carnival
21. An Unexpected Journey
22. Under the Rainbow
23. Uncle Samuel has a Cold
24. The Runaway Dishcloth
25. Mumfie does some Spring-Cleaning
26. Snowscene Paperweight
27. The Trouble with Noise
28. Tom Tum - or Posts and Pans!
29. An Hour to Spare
30. Things that go Bang!
31. The Missing Clock
32. The Beanstalk
33. Through the Yellow Door
34. Lurkings, Lurkings Everywhere
35. The Gingerbread Man
36. The Wrong Spell
37. The Tale of Fairy Gold
38. Frogs and Cauldrons
39. Scarecrow's Instant Birthday
40. The Talking Pillow
41. The Time Patterns
42. Brooms are for Sweeping
43. A Parrot Moves Home
44. The Weeping Willow
45. Naughty and Mischief
46. Tit for Tat
47. The Late Breakfast
48. The Witch's Prisoner
49. The Paper Dragon
50. An Unusual Birthday Cake
51. There and Back
52. A Tangle of Voices

VHS release

The rare VHS

A very rare VHS exists: 2 Hours of Fun with... The Munch Bunch and Mumfie that was originally released in April of 1983. It contains 6 episodes of Here Comes Mumfie (ep. 31, 35, 27, 28, 29 and 30) along 6 episodes of another rare puppet-string series, The Munch Bunch.

A copy of the VHS used to be sold on eBay for 75 British pounds back in 2015, but its listing ended and it has not resurfaced since.

In 2023, YouTube channel ADC TV Collection uploaded all the episodes from the 2 Hours of Fun with... The Munch Bunch and Mumfie VHS. They said in a YouTube comment they got it on Ebay in the early 2000s in a job lot of kids tapes, they also saw another copy around the same time for a higher price.

Available Videos

Half an episode of the original English dub.

Ending of a Persian-dubbed episode.

Persian-dubbed episode

Full English Theme Song

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Episodes Sourced from the 2 Hours of Fun with... The Munch Bunch and Mumfie VHS

Series 2 Episode 1 The Trouble with Noise

Series 2 Episode 2 Tom Tum

Series 2 Episode 3 An Hour to Spare

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Series 2 Episode 4 Things that go Bang!

Series 2 Episode 5 The Missing Clock

Series 2 Episode 9 The Gingerbread Man

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External Links

• Toonhound page on the show. Retrieved 15 Jan '17
• IMDb page on the show. Retrieved 15 Jan '17
• Description of the VHS tape. Retrieved 15 Jan '17
• Original listing of the VHS tape on eBay. Retrieved 15 Jan '17