Brum (TV series)

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Television series
German title	Brum
Original title	Brum
Country of production	United States United Kingdom
original language	English
Production company	Ragdoll Productions HiT Entertainment BBC Television Discovery Kids
length	2003-2006 minutes
Episodes	66 in 5 seasons
genre	Television series
production	Tom Poole Peter Curtis
First broadcast	February 15, 2003 on The Learning Channel
German-language first broadcast	June 7, 2004 on KiKA

Brum is an American - British television series by Ragdoll Productions , HiT Entertainment , BBC Television and Discovery Kids that premiered between 2003 and 2006 . The series was conceived by Peter Curtis , who was also responsible for Moonacre , Fifi and the Flower Children and Bob the Builder .

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Brum is the story of a small replica car that goes to the big city as soon as its owner is not looking and faces all kinds of adventures. Each episode begins and ends the same way, with Brum leaving the other cars in the Motor Museum to explore Big Town before finally returning to his seat. Each series has its own background music. From Series 1-2 the theme music was the same, but in Series 2 they used different instruments. From series 3–5 the music got jazzy and a new title sequence was staged by Nigel P. Harris.

The car can express itself in a number of mechanical ways, including opening and closing its doors and hood, rocking its suspension, and blinking and rotating. The actors in Brum don't speak - facial expressions and an off-screen narrator drive the story forward. It was therefore easy to adapt episodes to be broadcast in other countries, and the series aired in many parts of the world and in many languages.

The stories take place in the English city of Birmingham . Brum is not only onomatopoeic for the engine noise, but is also the abbreviation for Brummagem , the old name of the city that is still used as a nickname. Although later series don't directly mention Birmingham, simply referring to it as Big Town, many of the city's streets and landmarks feature in each episode.

The show was written by a number of authors. Anne Wood wrote primarily the entire first season, while the second was written by Tom Poole, Dirk Campbell, Andrew Davenport, and Morgan Hall. The last two seasons were written by Nigel P. Harris (5 episodes) and the existing Ragdoll team.

The car itself - a replica of a late 1920s Austin 7 Chummy Convertible - was designed and built by Rex Garrod. It is now in the Cotswold Motoring Museum in Bourton-on-the-Water , Gloucestershire, where the series' opening and closing sequences were filmed.