I'm 40 (41 in the New Year),and as a 4 year old in spring/summer 1975,this is the first TV programme I can consciously remember watching as a little boy!
This tune and Richard Bakers voice.....just makes me want to curl up on the sofa, with Mr Bear and a cup of hot milk, Mum's voice drifting through from the kitchen....rain pattering on the window, warm and safe, not a care in the world, about five years old. Why do we have to grow up.
When I was a little boy back in the seventies, this was my favorite programme. I was in heaven when it came on. I loved it when Midge sat on Mungos nose and pressed the lift button. I'm nearly 43 now and when I heard the theme tune, it took me back to around 1974. Happy times.
41 years young and this stuff still has the same effect. Us kids had it so good in those days. No PS3s or Xboxes, just a couple of hours of tv a day, and the rest of the long, slow days were ours to have adventures, like a nation of Huckleberry Finns. Good times.
Innocence captured in a cartoon. We all felt it in them days and believed what we saw. It took us away from our dads that were down the pub boozing all day until close time then coming home and beating up our mums...
I was glued to this as a 4 year old! It was the only thing that kept me quiet all day while my mother got on with her housework. I'm now 43 and still enchanted by it.
wen i was 6 in the 1973, my brothers and i used to sit glued to the tv watchin this on a sunday morning why mum quickly hoovered upstairs y she got some peace ...oh the memories lol
I was able to relive my own childhood a few years ago through my daughter, bought the whole series on vhs and we sat and watched them together week in week out for months, so wonderful.
Where's the drug dealers/users,hoodies, thugs,asylum seekers illegal immigrants,glue sniffers,dog poo,pit bulls,road raged drivers,speed cameras,street wardens,traffic wardens,single mums with hundreds of kids in tow,obese teens,gangs,blokes pissing up walls,drunks,vandals,chewing gum on pavements,rubbish on every street,prostitutes,pervs,etc,etc,...nah that video doesn't look like England at all!!!!(Must be another country or am i dreaming)?
yeah,this was my favourite.But it does feel quite sad and emotional looking at it now.Those late 60 s early 70 s kids shows were wonderfully wide eyed and idylic and innocent,they even made living in a tower block seem lovely! The music is charming.But the best pop music was made back then too i think.It was bound to rub off.
would you judge me if i said i had a tear in my eye watching this?.iam a 47 year old man!i want to be a kid again.life was so easy back then.thanks for posting this.
@1912carson I feel the same. But remember, the adults in the 1960's/70's would have shed a tear remembering their childhoods nostagically. It is about getting older, unfortunately. Hey, its good that our memories are nice ones!
i can agree with each and every single statement posted here! What has gone wrong with our world? This is so sweet and gentle and lovely s0 very different from all the horid stuff for kids today. life truely was kinder then.........
Very emotional...i loved this back then and all the other kids programmes. So glad we didnt have all the gadgets of today, the days were endless and uncomplicated and innocent - very special :o)
I loved this show and remember watching it with my brother when we were both kids. Happy memories. And yes, I'm sure life was safer back then - at least it seemed to be. No mobile phones, no video/dvd recorder, only 3 channels - and NO remote for the telly! Families would watch programmes together. And great entertainment was playing outside with friends on our bikes. It does bring back happy memories and sad thoughts as to how the world has changed.
I am 44, i was 4 years old when this started in 1969 and i actually remember watching it. Those were the days when we had one black and white television in the house and only three channels to choose from. This was a good program. I know i can't, but i would give anything to have those days back again. I loved those days as a child.
It reminds me of decent folk and good educational childrens content. Simple and innocent and at a time when we knew not what a slave was or a moneylender. Nowadays you can go to Amsterdam and buy a film of the same description. Use your imagination.
Yes a good series but even as a child I was disappointed by the lack of social realism...mary did not have a burgeoning crack habit and where the **** do you get a bow tie for a mouse.
I loved this programme when I was 4 in 1971. It was on at lunchtimes and after if finished I used to run out to the back garden to play. That was before I started School, happy days, sigh..
ahhhhh... richard bakers soothing tones...the good old days. the days when tv taught "us" kids the respect that has gone now....big up for bungle...mr.benn..and for you oldies.... the sour grapes (banana boys) screen test was an education to me why dont you just turn off tour televi........less boring instead, hartley hare for P.M...and while i ride so far away (white horses)....you are welcome to COME ABOARD x3 the double decker book a ticket for a journey on a double decker london bus.
I remember this when it first came out, but of course we only had a big "Pye" black and white telly then. Later when i first saw it in colour, it was magical. Kids these days will never experience that sort of feeling.
@bluebus270 hi this is off the subject but we got a color pye tv back in 1980 and it lasted 29 years !. I watched a film on it last sept then it wouldnt go on. Im going to try and fix it. Just thought id tell you that
This fabulous little gem used to be narrated by Richard Baker a very famous NEWS reporter during the 70's and he also presented on Last Night of the Proms... another BBC classic... :0)x
I used to think that this town was Blackburn when I was about four. Possibly could have been similar in the early 70's. Now full of Muslim fundamentalists and chav scum.
Karlmarx?1 - This reminds me of the time that I lived in Greater London (Greenford)- I, also loved this as a kid! If I could go back to the times when I did not give a f**k about anything, it would be so much easier!!! Respect!
My brother, who's too young to remember this, pointed out all the safety messages on the shops and buses in the opening titles. No wonder I was always in casualty every year from 1970 - 1975.. I should have paid more attention - but the narration obviously distracted me. And that mouse.
The creator of this programme, John Ryan, was Scottish and that doesn't surprise me. Mary is a very common girls' name in Scotland, Mungo is the name of Glasgow's patron saint and a midge is a very small pestilential insect that is well known in Scotland.
@Markofsatan growing old does not mean you have to grow up. My 14yo daughter said to me "what do you want to be when you grow up dad?". the Kawasaki ZZ-R1100 and the Skyline GT-R V-Spec are 2 classic examples of not growing up
The opening titles were the only bit I liked. A eulogy to sixties town planning, with its boulevards and designer living. Midge of course on the other hand was disease ridden vermin and should have been expunged.
Wow I loved this as a kid.....makes me feel emotional watching it again. Its a shame we spend our childhoods impatiently wanting to grow up, only to wish we were back in that place of innocence....life seemed so much safer back then........
@karlmarx71 Not kidding mate, I had a tear in my eye just now when I stumbled across this. I'm 44 now and I identify exactly with your comment! Oh that we could return...
does anyone remember when itv started at 12 noon (70's) after they showed a two scottie ( black and white) dog trade card transmisisson/ intermission (12 noon). it may have been a scottish, or N irish thing. Cheers
I loved this at the time. Ive watched some of it now from the DVD thats just come out (sad i know) BUT..a bit of a cock up. They lived on the 8th floor. YET THE LIFT ONLY GOES UP TO THE 7TH FLOOR..!!!!!!!!
Well Mungo was prob put down by about 1978 ish... and as for Mary. Now 48, Shes been un-able to settle into an r-ship with anyone cos she didnt mix with other children. Only child, shut in a naff flat with only a dog and a mouse to play with..!!
I loved this and remember every note and line - it held me captivated all the way through as a child - especially going up in the lift, and i also loved the crane episode. Thankyou!
You can tell the age of the cartoon. That block of flats wouldn't be 8 now, it would have been developed into about 120 studio flats for young professionals.
As a 1 and a half year old maybe 2 year old watching this i now realize where i got my posh voice from... subliminally i absorbed Richard Bakers harmonious tones for later use... What a great introduction to the world for a new person this program was... wonderful... i always thought Mary was kinda cute... I loved the lift scenes... it's slow rhythmic pace soothed a young mind with wonder, we kinda knew how they did it, sliding paper eyes, but we were hypnotized entirely by it's beauty.
As a child, I could never understand why the block of flats in Mary Mungo & Midge was so clean and inviting but the local estates where my schoolfriends lived all smell of wee, were 12" deep in rubbish and had mean boys roaming around in them.
I remember watching this on telly in the 70s...must have been when I was truanting school...! narrated by Richard Baker who also read the BBC news at that time.
When the title came up it made me feel like I was about 2 again. Funny how those things can lie buried in there. That oval patch on the ground that has the words on it, looked like stars to me and I always wondered what it was. Amazing-YouTube is a time machine!
I'm right back there! The music as they rode up in the lift was brilliant. But who looked after them huh? And I don't think I've ever seen a British block of flats look quite so utopian....
everything in early urba 70s was perfect heaven wasn't it .... er, no...
but as a kid at the time in provincial england - i BOUGHT IT!!
i loved the idea of living in a coucil flat...we lived in a four-bedroomed victorian house in cheshire....and i remember saying to my mum...'why can't WE live in a highrised flat, mum...' sulk, sulk...you live and learn....
how wonderful that you tube brings back these incredible memories...
Mary Mungo & Midge recently appeared on sky tv "Banged up abroad"
After there successive tv series Mary developed a drug problem and tricked Mungo & Midge into carrying her luggage form a Thai airport which was sadly loaded with heroine.
Mungo & Midge are said by insiders to be at the lowest point they have ever been in there lives, whilst Mary has adapted to prison life she is highly feared and has been the mastermind behind three murders all organised by her on the inside.
what a wonderful picture of high rise living they sold us all eh. now days the lift would be broken the stairwell would be poorly lit and covered in graffitti but still .never saw this in colour untill i saw it on you tube
this always makes me cry. im 41, and came from a broken home- was adopted. just split recently from my wife. my son is 5 years old. we used to live in a nice bungalow but now they live in a flat, so watching this just crack me up.
Does anyone have any idea WHY we were supposed to wait for the lift doors to shut? Aside from a device to allow Midge to run off, was there any socially responsible thought behind it???
I Think That Mary Is Captain Pugwash's Daughter,Can You See The Resemblemence,This Would Explain Mary's Father's Absence.She Would Say 'OH' He's At Sea.
I think this was the first program I remember, born in 71, I kept remembering the flower bed so did a search on youtube and there it was! I also remember the flat, the tune while going up the flat and characters but nothing else, strange! Wow the good old days! Thanks mate.
Sad to think that today, Mary's block of flats would be covered in graffiti, the lift would be busted and reeking of pee, each flat would have a second wrought iron door in front of the original door, and the entranceway would be knee deep in syringes and scorched bits of tin foil.
Great stuff. Like many others, I too am in my forties and definitely remember the cosy feeling of watching this, safe in the knowledge that all was right in the world at the age of 5 or 6.
I'm at war with Google over YT and this is sooooooo refreshing. Born in '68, Love to all xxxx
Kelly14UK 4 weeks ago
42 here ,, great warm memories,, glad not alone!!!
sussexpenguin 2 months ago
This used to be my sisters fave lool u gotta love this decade! With love sis,
yoshifriend100 2 months ago
WOW i can remember this. May use the theme tune as my ring tone lol
dowdeswelln 3 months ago
u are a prick
MrAmercer 3 months ago
I'm 40 (41 in the New Year),and as a 4 year old in spring/summer 1975,this is the first TV programme I can consciously remember watching as a little boy!
patrick180271 3 months ago
This tune and Richard Bakers voice.....just makes me want to curl up on the sofa, with Mr Bear and a cup of hot milk, Mum's voice drifting through from the kitchen....rain pattering on the window, warm and safe, not a care in the world, about five years old. Why do we have to grow up.
steve998 3 months ago 11
@steve998 i know what you mean
GAREMPOTS 3 months ago
@steve998 totally
gnowave 2 weeks ago
That's socialist engineering for you..
Mary is doomed to never play on a proper street. That's why she consorts with rodents..
Lytton333 4 months ago 3
When I was a little boy back in the seventies, this was my favorite programme. I was in heaven when it came on. I loved it when Midge sat on Mungos nose and pressed the lift button. I'm nearly 43 now and when I heard the theme tune, it took me back to around 1974. Happy times.
1892ynwakop 4 months ago 2
41 years young and this stuff still has the same effect. Us kids had it so good in those days. No PS3s or Xboxes, just a couple of hours of tv a day, and the rest of the long, slow days were ours to have adventures, like a nation of Huckleberry Finns. Good times.
Lagrangeify 4 months ago
loved the music for the end credits.awesome music for a kids tv show.love it
ravbav73 5 months ago
Innocence captured in a cartoon. We all felt it in them days and believed what we saw. It took us away from our dads that were down the pub boozing all day until close time then coming home and beating up our mums...
AMikeOnLine 5 months ago
Awe it was just ace!
bebolillyflea 6 months ago
I use to watch this with my son who now is 34 (i think). im 52 and still a child. i think my two other kids may laugh at wot i liked. Lol.
pagan1959 7 months ago
Midge...Little shit.Always causin trouble as I remember! LOL
stevobath 7 months ago
133 people like living with mary's mother and father!
chain0fflowers 7 months ago
Pardon the pedantry but this is actually from 1969 (though often repeated in the early 70s). And that's newsreader Richard Baker narrating!
RickDougall 8 months ago
Why do I keep coming back to this? Must've seen it in 71 or 72. Those flats are only 8 high yet they seemed massive as a child.
Kelly14UK 8 months ago
wow i used to watch this when i was a baby haha awww wish i could go back to them days ! sweet and simple ey !
leesteuk1 8 months ago 2
@leesteuk1 i know how ya feel im he same! :/
phillips29 7 months ago
bobbj77 - you and me both! This brought a tear to the eyes
michaelvankampen 8 months ago
Oh happy memories of a more innocent age, both for me and the nation.
freethoughtmusic 8 months ago
Tut tut, Mary's mom has broken her lease agreement with the Council, by keeping a dog!
feltum 8 months ago
6 people eat poo
Robnick99 8 months ago
watch this in the 1970s, midge was up to mischief all times.
TheDAVIDASHAW 9 months ago
rubbish you would have to be brain dead to enjoy this. it was slow and dull sorry
73neil73 9 months ago
Quite progressive for it's time. featuring a girl who lived in a high-rise block of flats.
Imagine if they talked-down to kids like this, nowadays?
JFredUK 9 months ago
love it.
brimbo100 10 months ago
Love it. Im 4 years old again watching tv with my brother. Is it Richard Baker who is doing the voice over????
dalekboy1 10 months ago
I was glued to this as a 4 year old! It was the only thing that kept me quiet all day while my mother got on with her housework. I'm now 43 and still enchanted by it.
Feisty1967 11 months ago
I can smell jam and butter sandwiches ,and the dust from my school playground
tiedupsmurf 11 months ago
One of my first memories .. 41 year old bloke and still can watch these old programmes for ever
Jkirton69 1 year ago
my earliest tv memory,along with rupert the bear and barnaby the bear!!
leewiz72 1 year ago
Oh wow - what a great memory. Used to love being off sick from school and laying on the sofa watching this:)
yeovil50 1 year ago
Man, this was the first thing i saw on t.v in the 70's..good time's...happyness.
tintin20001967 1 year ago
I still have my stuffed toy Mungo, I loved this show
badgerspadger 1 year ago
wen i was 6 in the 1973, my brothers and i used to sit glued to the tv watchin this on a sunday morning why mum quickly hoovered upstairs y she got some peace ...oh the memories lol
k3llz67 1 year ago
Love this! My kids also think it is good even now! Proof of a good childrens programme-educational too
MrPhilrooster 1 year ago
i too watched this 39 years ago at nursery school fantastic why do we have to grow up where do the years go
dibeydoo 1 year ago
I was able to relive my own childhood a few years ago through my daughter, bought the whole series on vhs and we sat and watched them together week in week out for months, so wonderful.
moodyblue1964 1 year ago
i agree with comments on here, kind of makes u feel nostalgic, and a bit sad!!!!!!
westha1233 1 year ago
Where's the drug dealers/users,hoodies, thugs,asylum seekers illegal immigrants,glue sniffers,dog poo,pit bulls,road raged drivers,speed cameras,street wardens,traffic wardens,single mums with hundreds of kids in tow,obese teens,gangs,blokes pissing up walls,drunks,vandals,chewing gum on pavements,rubbish on every street,prostitutes,pervs,etc,etc,...nah that video doesn't look like England at all!!!!(Must be another country or am i dreaming)?
clashpie 1 year ago 3
yeah,this was my favourite.But it does feel quite sad and emotional looking at it now.Those late 60 s early 70 s kids shows were wonderfully wide eyed and idylic and innocent,they even made living in a tower block seem lovely! The music is charming.But the best pop music was made back then too i think.It was bound to rub off.
turquoisetandemcycle 1 year ago
This is how TV started for me when i was 3. And this is how YouTube started for me when i was 40....
Noodles37UK 1 year ago
there was a lot of road safety issues with a dog being lead over the roads by a mouse......fantastic memories
FLYINGFAIRY1988 1 year ago
Aww, brought a tear to my eye too. Such happy memories of my childhood, I wish I could go back to those days of happiness.x
maddy1966kitten 1 year ago
Many happy memories of being a kid and growing up in the 70s.
duttydave 1 year ago
Oh, I remember watching this when I was little. Adorable!
WABBITS8 1 year ago
would you judge me if i said i had a tear in my eye watching this?.iam a 47 year old man!i want to be a kid again.life was so easy back then.thanks for posting this.
1912carson 1 year ago 3
@1912carson I feel the same. But remember, the adults in the 1960's/70's would have shed a tear remembering their childhoods nostagically. It is about getting older, unfortunately. Hey, its good that our memories are nice ones!
pix042 1 year ago
It was a different world way back then...
sirtinycreep 1 year ago
i can agree with each and every single statement posted here! What has gone wrong with our world? This is so sweet and gentle and lovely s0 very different from all the horid stuff for kids today. life truely was kinder then.........
hippyshirl 1 year ago
I love this. You usually got to watch this when you when you were sick and off school..
I liked it when the mouse got on the Dogs nose to press the button for the lift.
mercian7 1 year ago
Very emotional...i loved this back then and all the other kids programmes. So glad we didnt have all the gadgets of today, the days were endless and uncomplicated and innocent - very special :o)
darkgypsy1967 1 year ago
its really freaky...i remember this, im 41. all the seventies stuff is freaky!
deesmam 1 year ago
I loved this show and remember watching it with my brother when we were both kids. Happy memories. And yes, I'm sure life was safer back then - at least it seemed to be. No mobile phones, no video/dvd recorder, only 3 channels - and NO remote for the telly! Families would watch programmes together. And great entertainment was playing outside with friends on our bikes. It does bring back happy memories and sad thoughts as to how the world has changed.
paulreno1 1 year ago 2
I am 44, i was 4 years old when this started in 1969 and i actually remember watching it. Those were the days when we had one black and white television in the house and only three channels to choose from. This was a good program. I know i can't, but i would give anything to have those days back again. I loved those days as a child.
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MaryMungoAndMidge1 1 year ago
Loved this! It was nearly as good as Playschool! Thanks for bringing back lovely memories for me :-)
mrsspanner14 1 year ago
I used to think these programmes were about life in parallel universes.
ppauly 1 year ago
It reminds me of decent folk and good educational childrens content. Simple and innocent and at a time when we knew not what a slave was or a moneylender. Nowadays you can go to Amsterdam and buy a film of the same description. Use your imagination.
Truimphful 1 year ago
I loved this as a kid it made me so calm. I will never forget.
MancBluesman 1 year ago
Yes a good series but even as a child I was disappointed by the lack of social realism...mary did not have a burgeoning crack habit and where the **** do you get a bow tie for a mouse.
Hoogliette 1 year ago
@Hoogliette
LOL
our kids are so blessed by the realism of mutlidiversesexuallyaware bull and shallowrealitystarhalflifecelebs of today.
How did we ever get by with a football?
cripes.
Fizzypop1211 1 year ago
Takes me back to the good old days of the 70s when I used to watch it....
FILABJBOY 1 year ago
This show completely mesmerized me as a 4yr old.
courtney359 1 year ago
Oh I was 4 in 1967 too, used to watch this with my gran, where has the time gone ;(
milomoon 1 year ago
I loved this programme when I was 4 in 1971. It was on at lunchtimes and after if finished I used to run out to the back garden to play. That was before I started School, happy days, sigh..
Feisty1967 1 year ago
ahhhhh... richard bakers soothing tones...the good old days. the days when tv taught "us" kids the respect that has gone now....big up for bungle...mr.benn..and for you oldies.... the sour grapes (banana boys) screen test was an education to me why dont you just turn off tour televi........less boring instead, hartley hare for P.M...and while i ride so far away (white horses)....you are welcome to COME ABOARD x3 the double decker book a ticket for a journey on a double decker london bus.
jobbieface 1 year ago 11
I remember this when it first came out, but of course we only had a big "Pye" black and white telly then. Later when i first saw it in colour, it was magical. Kids these days will never experience that sort of feeling.
bluebus270 1 year ago
@bluebus270 hi this is off the subject but we got a color pye tv back in 1980 and it lasted 29 years !. I watched a film on it last sept then it wouldnt go on. Im going to try and fix it. Just thought id tell you that
MartinMirror1 1 year ago
What a great period it was to be a kid, certainly compared with now......
GriefTourist 1 year ago
love this i can recall my childhood memories from this brilliant
8492grob 1 year ago
I remember watching this when I was shown originally in the 1970's.
I was born in 1969 so I think I might have seen this when it was first on childrens TV back in the 1970's.
I am 40 but I still remember my childhood like it was yesterday. So it was good to watch this clip.
JasonB1969 1 year ago 2
This fabulous little gem used to be narrated by Richard Baker a very famous NEWS reporter during the 70's and he also presented on Last Night of the Proms... another BBC classic... :0)x
wenglishsal 1 year ago 2
I used to think that this town was Blackburn when I was about four. Possibly could have been similar in the early 70's. Now full of Muslim fundamentalists and chav scum.
ossyrefugee 1 year ago
Karlmarx?1 - This reminds me of the time that I lived in Greater London (Greenford)- I, also loved this as a kid! If I could go back to the times when I did not give a f**k about anything, it would be so much easier!!! Respect!
martynpank 1 year ago
Wish my town was like this :)
hellsbells056 1 year ago
A town without grafitti.....wow
LOCOMOTIONNUMBER1 1 year ago
karlmarx71-I agree with you! i was a lot happier when i was a child than i am now
.i think i was better off when i was a child as i knew very little.
K9MARK1 1 year ago
My brother, who's too young to remember this, pointed out all the safety messages on the shops and buses in the opening titles. No wonder I was always in casualty every year from 1970 - 1975.. I should have paid more attention - but the narration obviously distracted me. And that mouse.
stingfan1000 1 year ago
When I started my first job, the company's three computer servers were named Mungo, Mary and Midge......now I know why!!
nevabcki3 1 year ago
The creator of this programme, John Ryan, was Scottish and that doesn't surprise me. Mary is a very common girls' name in Scotland, Mungo is the name of Glasgow's patron saint and a midge is a very small pestilential insect that is well known in Scotland.
Cool2BCeltic 1 year ago
this is as strange as a mushroom milking tourist face
TheDundonianGamer 1 year ago
wow didnt mary ever work ? , and a dont think your aloud animals in a tower block . . shame on you mrs thatcher for brain washing us
MrRowney1 1 year ago
oh the halcyon days of childhood
brimbo100 1 year ago
i loved this programe when i was a kid.especially when midge pressed the lift butten.
stilln68la 1 year ago 2
oh to be a child again,thank you.
1912carson 1 year ago 3
im 46 and still a child!!!
bobbj77 1 year ago 18
@bobbj77 You are not alone lol.
Markofsatan 1 year ago
@Markofsatan growing old does not mean you have to grow up. My 14yo daughter said to me "what do you want to be when you grow up dad?". the Kawasaki ZZ-R1100 and the Skyline GT-R V-Spec are 2 classic examples of not growing up
bobbj77 1 year ago
@bobbj77 I'M 56 AND JUST AS MUCH A CHILD AS YOU
curtess74 6 months ago
@curtess74 im 36, nice to know ive got at least 20 years more of not having to grow up to do lol
xneverwalkalonex 4 months ago
oh my goodness i have many happy memories of watching this with my mother as a young child thank u for posting this
searleflesher 2 years ago
Fantastic!
mariafitch 2 years ago
The opening titles were the only bit I liked. A eulogy to sixties town planning, with its boulevards and designer living. Midge of course on the other hand was disease ridden vermin and should have been expunged.
pogopatterson42 2 years ago
LMAO!
poisonrage 1 year ago
god this takes me back
ukarsey 2 years ago
Mary lives in the flat with the weed growing in the window.
sportsedits 2 years ago
anyone know the music,its like Ive heard it be fore but can't remember were
ARrrrrrr
HELLO2YOU3 2 years ago
This was done in the style of a government education video on what to do in case of a nuclear attack... Poor old Midge eh!
mrpommeduterretete 2 years ago 3
face it Mary- you live in a council flat,with piss in the lifts and you are probably on the game now.and started smoking at 12
acidsunrise 2 years ago
Agreed karlmarx71. If only I was back there now...
Knightyknight72 2 years ago
Wow I loved this as a kid.....makes me feel emotional watching it again. Its a shame we spend our childhoods impatiently wanting to grow up, only to wish we were back in that place of innocence....life seemed so much safer back then........
karlmarx71 2 years ago 57
How true...........no matter where you are, you'd rather be somewhere else.........
CymraegUn 2 years ago
@karlmarx71
Amen!
Spicedforlife 2 years ago
@karlmarx71 Not kidding mate, I had a tear in my eye just now when I stumbled across this. I'm 44 now and I identify exactly with your comment! Oh that we could return...
tony67xyz 1 year ago
@karlmarx71 Just knew you were British the minute I saw your posting. Just knew... I'd give you 43 thumbs up for that comment alone...
Kelly14UK 1 year ago
This is one of the very first things I saw on TV way back in 1971, and one of the first things I seeked out when I started on YT 2008.
Kelly14UK 1 year ago
I loved this.
Wish i was that agae again...sniff
pawnsacrifice1 2 years ago 2
Ha, my Dad used to watch this as a kid and he showed me this a while back! I'm 16 now and I love it!
cnoosh 2 years ago
does anyone remember when itv started at 12 noon (70's) after they showed a two scottie ( black and white) dog trade card transmisisson/ intermission (12 noon). it may have been a scottish, or N irish thing. Cheers
ajp55a 2 years ago
I'm a 70's kid and it used to be 'schools and colleges' before 12 noon in Wales.
melmau1 2 years ago 2
mary is the crackhead I think
maybeilike 2 years ago
you made my day , the crane episode was my fav too
quadroman68 2 years ago
I loved this at the time. Ive watched some of it now from the DVD thats just come out (sad i know) BUT..a bit of a cock up. They lived on the 8th floor. YET THE LIFT ONLY GOES UP TO THE 7TH FLOOR..!!!!!!!!
crawleygat37 2 years ago
I'm 43 now, I used to watch this, brilliant then Pebble mill would come on ,Oh no.
Rawlinson18 2 years ago 6
I was disappointed to read Midge died in 1972 after eating poisoned bait
flemwad 2 years ago
Well Mungo was prob put down by about 1978 ish... and as for Mary. Now 48, Shes been un-able to settle into an r-ship with anyone cos she didnt mix with other children. Only child, shut in a naff flat with only a dog and a mouse to play with..!!
crawleygat37 2 years ago
I loved this and remember every note and line - it held me captivated all the way through as a child - especially going up in the lift, and i also loved the crane episode. Thankyou!
janie2811 2 years ago
Richard Baker voiceover.. is he still on BBC Radio?
darganx 2 years ago
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fuck me...wot a load of shit
PrinceDumbass 2 years ago
love this its so groovy! bring back the 1970s! NOW!
8492grob 2 years ago 2
I visited the Mary Mungo and Midge tower block recently - the lift doesn't work, and there's a crack head living in their flat now.
WilburyVision 2 years ago 2
Yes. RIP sir.
Gangly1 2 years ago
RIP John Ryan
thespermdonor 2 years ago
You can tell the age of the cartoon. That block of flats wouldn't be 8 now, it would have been developed into about 120 studio flats for young professionals.
ajdown 2 years ago 4
I bet they didn't have to worry about diminishing pension contributions. Well maybe Midge.
raahead 2 years ago
every face a white n
2bigbollocks 2 years ago 2
Oh God this used to freak my mum out when she was a kid, I can see why!
eeblihp 2 years ago
why the heck isnt life this easy these days??
19mark69 2 years ago 2
its like a time machine i watched this when i was 4 with my mam and nana 39 years ago it brings back happy thoughts and a touch of sadness
cattonlad 2 years ago 24
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Harmless entertainment or socialist propaganda? You decide.
AR2D76 2 years ago
Defo, harmless entertainment,. It was responding to the era.
benzathine 2 years ago
ditto to dougiewhite778, im with you :-)
andyycap 2 years ago
very atmospheric artwork
brilliant stuff
flappospammo 2 years ago
lol all the cars in the opening sequence were british leyland or ford!oh how times have changed!
neutronstar64 2 years ago 2
And the minis. The red family car I think it was a Ford.
Paulosoy 2 years ago
I'm almost 46 and this used to be one of my fav as a young kid. midge was my fav.
inagrump 2 years ago 5
omg i just had the biggest flashback ever. I'd forgotten all about this, the little tune and the window and everything! crikey
Caseus 2 years ago
I haven't seen this for about 36 years. I think it was on saturday mornings back in the early 70's. Saturday scene and then tarzan LOL!
sportsedits 2 years ago
loved this as a kid:-)
adds3566 2 years ago 2
As a 1 and a half year old maybe 2 year old watching this i now realize where i got my posh voice from... subliminally i absorbed Richard Bakers harmonious tones for later use... What a great introduction to the world for a new person this program was... wonderful... i always thought Mary was kinda cute... I loved the lift scenes... it's slow rhythmic pace soothed a young mind with wonder, we kinda knew how they did it, sliding paper eyes, but we were hypnotized entirely by it's beauty.
b6gm6n 2 years ago 3
As a child, I could never understand why the block of flats in Mary Mungo & Midge was so clean and inviting but the local estates where my schoolfriends lived all smell of wee, were 12" deep in rubbish and had mean boys roaming around in them.
mrxt500 2 years ago 4
Makes you laugh dont it. I rember this as a kid, running for at least a couple of years, but it came out in 69 and ran for only thirteen episodes!!!
Glat64 2 years ago
I remember watching this on telly in the 70s...must have been when I was truanting school...! narrated by Richard Baker who also read the BBC news at that time.
Thanks for posting this oldie!
englishman10000 2 years ago
When the title came up it made me feel like I was about 2 again. Funny how those things can lie buried in there. That oval patch on the ground that has the words on it, looked like stars to me and I always wondered what it was. Amazing-YouTube is a time machine!
Pulsar205 3 years ago 2
I'm right back there! The music as they rode up in the lift was brilliant. But who looked after them huh? And I don't think I've ever seen a British block of flats look quite so utopian....
sillytinx 3 years ago
this was the bbc at its most utopian, tinx!
everything in early urba 70s was perfect heaven wasn't it .... er, no...
but as a kid at the time in provincial england - i BOUGHT IT!!
i loved the idea of living in a coucil flat...we lived in a four-bedroomed victorian house in cheshire....and i remember saying to my mum...'why can't WE live in a highrised flat, mum...' sulk, sulk...you live and learn....
how wonderful that you tube brings back these incredible memories...
uclrichard 3 years ago 2
ha ha thats so funny.... I always wanted to as well because of the lift and i thought m,m & midge wud be my neighbours
dougiewhite778 2 years ago
***FACT***
Mary Mungo & Midge recently appeared on sky tv "Banged up abroad"
After there successive tv series Mary developed a drug problem and tricked Mungo & Midge into carrying her luggage form a Thai airport which was sadly loaded with heroine.
Mungo & Midge are said by insiders to be at the lowest point they have ever been in there lives, whilst Mary has adapted to prison life she is highly feared and has been the mastermind behind three murders all organised by her on the inside.
pickleboy23 3 years ago
Hahahahaha :o))
tinkerbellfairylove 3 years ago
Well, if it's a ***Fact*** then it must be true.
spongeything 3 years ago
how sad are you
FrezzleTheGinger 3 years ago
So what happened to Bagpuss then? I suppose Emily put him on the game.....
ogdroadsong 2 years ago
what a wonderful picture of high rise living they sold us all eh. now days the lift would be broken the stairwell would be poorly lit and covered in graffitti but still .never saw this in colour untill i saw it on you tube
xast345 3 years ago
this always makes me cry. im 41, and came from a broken home- was adopted. just split recently from my wife. my son is 5 years old. we used to live in a nice bungalow but now they live in a flat, so watching this just crack me up.
davepaterson 3 years ago 5
but your profile says your 28...
FrezzleTheGinger 3 years ago
Does anyone have any idea WHY we were supposed to wait for the lift doors to shut? Aside from a device to allow Midge to run off, was there any socially responsible thought behind it???
jfj07 3 years ago
I can so remember the little flute tune they always played for Midge.
It is like a Wagnerian Leitmotif.
ChessChat 3 years ago
I Think That Mary Is Captain Pugwash's Daughter,Can You See The Resemblemence,This Would Explain Mary's Father's Absence.She Would Say 'OH' He's At Sea.
inspectorsteff 3 years ago 3
watched this when i was little xxxx
andreacraig70 3 years ago
were the hell was her mum and dad what a strange time the 60.s was
kenbo6635 3 years ago
Whenever I'm in a lift, I often feel like saying to my fellow passengers: we must remember to make sure the lift door is shut.
Lets all try it next time we are in a crowded lift with complete strangers.
Rembember to say: we must remember to make sure the lift door is shut.
AngloAmalgamated 3 years ago 4
Mary Mungo and Minge - thats what we used to call it.
Zizourian 3 years ago
I used to love this programme when I was a kid what great memories this brought back :)
heiditorres9 3 years ago
Alison, Cecilia, Toni, Tonya and Dianna do you live in a town?
noddypocket 3 years ago
Do you live in a town? I live in a little town with a church, two pubs and a bus stop. But I work in an industrial estate.
noddypocket 3 years ago 2
the good ole days, who needs computers ps3 internet dvds money
grahamcoles1966 3 years ago
I think this was the first program I remember, born in 71, I kept remembering the flower bed so did a search on youtube and there it was! I also remember the flat, the tune while going up the flat and characters but nothing else, strange! Wow the good old days! Thanks mate.
petefowlerfsmailnet 3 years ago
Sad to think that today, Mary's block of flats would be covered in graffiti, the lift would be busted and reeking of pee, each flat would have a second wrought iron door in front of the original door, and the entranceway would be knee deep in syringes and scorched bits of tin foil.
See? The 70's WERE better!
fodsaks 3 years ago 7
This is so lovely, I want to be a little boy again :( I'm nearly 41, life is kak LOL!
allenmark 3 years ago 7
the theme tune is a classic!
sjlondonuk 3 years ago 2
Yes last this when I was very young. In my early 40s now. Lovely
pompeymatt66 3 years ago
Great stuff. Like many others, I too am in my forties and definitely remember the cosy feeling of watching this, safe in the knowledge that all was right in the world at the age of 5 or 6.
duffymoony 3 years ago
Didn't Midge used to press the button in the lift
bombsiteweed 4 years ago