Children provided commentary similar to silent film rather than a single narrator who spoke out the dialogue in a third-person story form.

Each episode begins and ends in the same way, with Brum leaving the other cars in the motor museum when the owner's back is turned and heading out to explore the Big Town, before eventually returning to his place.

Brum can express himself in various mechanical ways, including opening and closing his doors and bonnet, bobbing his suspension, and flashing and swivelling.

Although later series make no direct mention of Birmingham, referring to it as Big Town, many of the city's streets and landmarks can be seen in each episode.

Anne Wood primarily wrote all the first series, while the second was written by Tom Poole, Dirk Campbell, Andrew Davenport and Morgan Hall.

It is now housed at the Cotswold Motoring Museum in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, which is also where the opening and closing sequences of the programme were filmed.

The Bag of Gags are short episodes included on the UK DVD releases as well as being featured on half-hour versions of Series 3.

[5] 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.

[6] By MIPTV 2002 on 15 April, Ragdoll pre-sold the series to KRO in the Netherlands to air on their Z@ppelin channel's Kindertijd strand.

They also announced that after MIPCOM 2001, NRK in Norway, SVT in Sweden and Kids Central in Singapore had also acquired the rights to the series in their respective countries.

Deirdre Sheppard of Common Sense Media, gave the series three stars out of five, saying, "When watching Brum, expect loud costumes, catchy music, silly dancing, and comedic choreographed coincidences.