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

Mice can be Useful
Uncle Samuel Disappears
Playing Chess Presents Problems
The 'L' Driver
The Witch of Up-In-The-Sky
Follow that Note
The Petrol Station
The Lurkings
A Twig from a Broomstick
Mumfie and the Haunted House
An Unusual Christmas Cake
Natty Socks' Socks
A Bottle Full of Trouble
Coughs and Colds
The Guilt Edged Invitation
The Enormous Safe
Mumfie Buys a Sea Chest
Nero the Cat
Mumfie Makes a Strange Catch
Mumfie at the Carnival
An Unexpected Journey
Under the Rainbow
Uncle Samuel has a Cold
The Runaway Dishcloth
Mumfie does some Spring-Cleaning
Snowscene Paperweight
The Trouble with Noise
Tom Tum - or Posts and Pans!
An Hour to Spare
Things that go Bang!
The Missing Clock
The Beanstalk
Through the Yellow Door
Lurkings, Lurkings Everywhere
The Gingerbread Man
The Wrong Spell
The Tale of Fairy Gold
Frogs and Cauldrons
Scarecrow's Instant Birthday
The Talking Pillow
The Time Patterns
Brooms are for Sweeping
A Parrot Moves Home
The Weeping Willow
Naughty and Mischief
Tit for Tat
The Late Breakfast
The Witch's Prisoner
The Paper Dragon
An Unusual Birthday Cake
There and Back
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.