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Line 40: ==Characters== ===1990s=== * Museum Owner ( * The Lollipop Lady ( * WPC Truncheon ([[Deborah Grant]]): the police officer in Big Town. * The Big Town Robber ([[Andrew Davenport]]): Always up to mischief, the robber's antics include stealing the trophy for the big race. Brum is usually the one that foils his plans as seen in "Brum and the Big Chase/Dancing in the Street", and "Brum and the Big Town Race/Brum and the Trophy". * Mr. and Mrs. La-Di-Dah (Brian Wilson and * Mr. and Mrs. Doolally ( * Vicky Spoon ( * Micky Mender ( * Big Town Bullies ( * The Scrap Dealers (Dave Evans and Mark Walter) * Two Masked Bank Robbers (Robert Goodman and Barry Robinson) Line 58: * Granny Slippers (Linda Kerr Scott): An old lady who wears slippers wherever she goes, especially when shopping. As her name implies, she loves slippers to the point she owns 1007 different pairs. She also has a kitten named Lucky. Despite her age, she would wish to beat a motorbike in a race someday. * Visiting Man (Jos Houben): One of Big Town's tourists. He loves taking pictures (especially of Brum) and discovering areas of Big Town he hasn't discovered yet. He also holds the Big Town record for standing on one leg. * Mr. Brillo (Rob Thirtle): A man who lives next door to Granny Slippers. He has a wide collection of [[garden gnomes]] and wishes to own over 100 of them. His * Gorgeous Gordon (Enoch White): A self-centred, full-of-himself hairdresser who wears a wig as hair. * Bob & Job (Kevin McGreevy & Adam Schumacher): Two comically clumsy men, who wear green dungarees and yellow T-shirts and help the town in a way of [[slapstick]] style from [[Laurel and Hardy]]. Line 66: * The Mayoress (Lesley Stanier): The mayor of Big Town * The Celebrity (Johnnie Fiori): A celebrity who appeared in the episode 'Brum and the Airport Adventure' when she had her jewels stolen by Bubble & Squeak at the Big Town Airport. * Sally: A woman in the Big Town who had her cake stolen by teenagers on her birthday in the episode, * Policewoman (Lisa Allen) ====Thieves==== * Rob & Nick (Dan Carey and Jason Segade): A bumbling pair of thieves who are best known for stealing Mr. Brillo's gnome, robbing the golf buggy at the Big Town Golf Course, a posh celebrity's dog, Money hat from the artist and a waiter's apron at the pizza restaurant. They appeared in Brum and the Pizzeria, Brum and the Posh Dog/Brum and the Diamond Dog, Brum and the Golf Buggy, Brum and the Kidnapped Garden Gnome/Brum and the Garden Gnome, and Brum and the Paint Pandemonium/Brum and the Artist. * Bubble & Squeak (Chalky Skywalker Chawner and Paul Jackson): A pair of thieves who love anything shiny, especially jewels. They wear clothes that never fit because they were stolen from washing lines. They appeared in Brum and the Airport Adventure, Brum and the * Big Bad (Paul Filipiak): Appeared in Chasing Balloons, Brum and the Pantomime Cow/Brum and the Theatrical Thieves, Brum and the Snow Thieves, and Brum and the Splash and Grab and Brum * Big Bad's 1st Girlfriend (Christine Nayrolles): Appeared in Brum and the Snow Thieves * Big Bad's 2nd Girlfriend (Kay Stanley): Appeared in Brum and the Splash and Grab. * Big Bad's Assistant's Girlfriend (Justine Marriott): Appeared in Bushes on the Run. * Big Bad's Assistant (Eric Mallett): Appeared in Brum and the Pantomime Cow/Brum and the Theatrical Thieves with Big Bad * The Shadow (Miles Anthony): A menacing thief who appeared in Brum and the King of Thieves and Brum and the Gorilla Caper. * Pickpocket Polly (Catherine Marimer): A thief who stole a wallet from a visiting man, and, of course, she took the items from people and put them in her swag bag. She appeared in Brum and the Bowling Alley and Brum and the Pickpocket. * Penny Pincher (Julia West): Appeared in Brum and the Music Box and Brum and the Stopwatch Botch. * Cake Gang: (Kerry Dean, Gavin Cooper, David Smith, Charmaine Samuels and Liam Mullan): A group of greedy teenagers who stole a birthday cake from Sally in * Magic Paul (Andy Dawson): A thief (disguised as a * The Beady-Eyed Robber (Heather Tyrrell): Appeared in Brum and the Stolen Necklace. Line 298: |EpisodeNumber=25 |Title=Brum and the Bowling Alley |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|05| |ShortSummary=Pickpocket Polly targets the Big Town bowling alley by stealing the wallets of customers, including the Visiting Man. |LineColor=FF5F5F Line 312: |EpisodeNumber=27 |Title= Brum and the Gorilla Caper |OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2002|06| |ShortSummary=The Shadow is back and has stolen the money from a trio of performers dressed up as Gorillas. |LineColor=FF5F5F Line 468: On 17 January 2002, Ragdoll announced that the series would be one of the launching programs on the then-upcoming [[CBeebies]] channel in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ragdoll.co.uk/html/pressrel_brum_digital.html |title=BRUM, THE UK'S FAVOURITE SUPER-HERO IS ZOOMING ONTO DIGITAL! |website=www.ragdoll.co.uk |access-date=20 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060923034239/http://www.ragdoll.co.uk/html/pressrel_brum_digital.html |archive-date=23 September 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref> By MIPTV 2002 on 15 April, Ragdoll pre-sold the series to [[KRO]] in the Netherlands to air on their [[NPO Zappelin|Z@ppelin]] channel's Kindertijd strand. They also announced that after MIPCOM 2001, [[NRK]] in Norway, [[Sveriges Television|SVT]] in Sweden and [[Central (TV channel)|Kids Central]] in Singapore had also acquired the rights to the series in their respective countries. On 6 September, [[Three (TV channel)|TV3]] in New Zealand and [[RTE]]'s [[RTE 2|Network 2]] in Ireland acquired the broadcast rights, and premiered the series on 7 September and 10 September, respectively. [[Discovery Communications]] later acquired the ==WildBrain Media revivals== | |||