The Munch Bunch

[XxEcKoxSoldierxX]

<3 Much Bunch <3

[Soma874]

arghh power flashback :S

[1111kylie]

wow flash back

[lizdylanboykie]

I could sing along to this song despite not having seen this for decades!

[sunygirl]

Veggie Tales early on??????

[sunygirl]

Veggie Tales early on??????

[Floobegusted]

I Love the fact Lizzie has a welsh accent.

[TheCharlie2929]

I used to love this..im in the processs of collecting all the books again!

[WoodRatGirl]

Ollie I loved him hehehe...

[JimmyCaravan]

I thought the theme went "Corny on the Cob is there...having fun without a care..." What's this Lizzie Leek and Pippa Pear nonsense?

[MeetTheMunchBunch]

@JimmyCaravan Corny on the Cob is mentioned in the outro - it's at the end of each of the episodes I've uploaded.

[JimmyCaravan]

@MeetTheMunchBunch Thanks for that :) Mystery solved!

[berigain]

Barazki sorta (in the basque version)

[GreenGiant2007]

Crikey I remember the theme tune 30 years on!

[MeetTheMunchBunch]

I've uploaded part of one of the episodes

[SHOGGWORTHY]

They don't make them like that anymore.

[tropicalcatdetective]

@SHOGGWORTHY Nah, they'd blimmin' make it with Computer Generated characters nowadays!!

I remember me and my friends back in high school had this long-running argument about whether The Munch Bunch was a cartoon or not. I think people were getting mixed up with the books which were perhaps drawn? I had a vivid memory of the opening titles being with puppets but other people reckoned it was a cartoon show. Youtube can finally put the matter to rest - THEY WERE PUPPETS after all!! Hahaha.

[WILLIAMOFORANGE2003]

Oh I mean the cryin' onion....

[WILLIAMOFORANGE2003]

Finally I found my it! I luv the cryin' watermelon!

[zebo169]

im trying to reed all the books

[achtung26]

trying ahaha!!!! spelling is next!!!

[augustbabe34]

this was my fav cartoon when i was a kid....brought tears to my eyes and good memories when i listened to the opening theme song!thanks for putting this up.

[flobbegusted]

What makes me laugh is that Olly the onion cries all the time.

[tvtimes]

loved this i used to run home from school at dinnertime to watch.

[mistofoles]

Wow! What a find! Not seen this for years!! Did they all have alliterative names except the orange? I'm sure he was called "PEDRO", wasn;t he??

[jimmyvibes]

Yes there were others... Emma Apple, Scruff the Gooseberry, Suzie Celery. Then you had Spud the potato, Button & Tiny the mushrooms etc.

[flobbegusted]

One quesation were the mushrooms boys or girls?

[zebo169]

girls

[flobbegusted]

Thank you.

[zeldagoblin]

how weird. I was telling my son about these today, and he asked my the same thing. I mentioned Pedro, there was also Emma Apple and Scruff Gooseberry. I had an LP voiced by John Noakes :D

[wannacookie30]

So did I. I was a member of the Munch Bunch club too, me and my sister had the full collection of books too but our Dad threw them away, which is a shame because they sell for loads now on e-bay.

[arabia1980]

oh my god!!! i remember watching this back in the early 80's! I was about 6 at the time! it was my favourite kids programme!! go the munch bunch!!! Thanks for posting this! bring sback alot of memoirs

[barttheanorak]

How about some episodes?

[jimmyvibes]

Why is this not on dvd! It was one the better retro UK kids shows.

[gallafey]

the books was called the garden gang, I recall having a few of those books when i was little, there were two stories in each book colin cubumber, wee willy watermelon, penelopi strawberry & Oliver onion, can anyone else remember any more the garden gang series

[dragonfitter]

no the garden gang was an altogether different thing i always prefered the garden gang as it was drawn by a young girl i had loads of the books as a kid

[edupedrito]

Thanks! This was nice!

This puppet TV series was directed by Mary Turner (who was associate of Gerry Anderson -Thunderbirds-) of Cinemation (of GB, not the USA one) for ATV/ITC and distributed by ITV. It featured the characters from books of Denis Bond with different stories written by the same author.

This series wall called "Barazki sorta" in the ETB (Basque Country) broadcasting and "El manat del mercat" in the TV3 (Catalonia) one.

[OneWayClass]

The Munch Bunch have managed to get a mortgage during these hard times to buy a home with a garden.

Well Done!!!

[Noodlebug]

I think these characters were the basis for the original Munch Bunch yoghurts, which have been reinvented several times since they first appeared.

Then again maybe I'm wrong, because I can't imagine anyone wanting to eat an Ollie Onion yoghurt!

[barttheanorak]

You're right. The TV series was preceded by books and the illustrations were by the teenage artist Angela Mitson who had devised the characters. The original books went out of print in the eighties but the franchise was bought up by Ladybird and subsequently Nestle.

NB Only the flavourable characters were used.