| Genre: | Children's |
| Creator: | Peter Hynes |
| Director: | Adrian Mead (lead director) |
| Starring: | Mimi Robertson Joshua Haynes |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Num Series: | 5 |
| Num Episodes: | 100 + 1 special |
| Executive Producer: | Sara Harkins |
| Runtime: | 14 mins. |
| Company: | BBC Children's Productions |
| Channel: | CBeebies |
Molly and Mack is a British children's television series that began airing on CBeebies in 2018.[1] It ran for five seasons.
The show airs on ABC Kids in Australia.[2]
The show centres around an 11-year-old girl named Molly (played by Mimi Robertson) who spends the summer helping her 19-year-old brother Mack (played by Joshua Haynes) at a toy stall in The Big Hub, a community hall in the fictional Scottish town of Bridgetown.[3]
The Big Hub, managed by Moira (played by Maureen Carr), is where a variety of stallholders hold an array of permanent market stalls including a gift stall run by Alice (played by Katrina Bryan), a fruit and vegetable stall run by resident handyman Bob (played by Steven McNicoll) and a café stall run by Mrs Juniper (played by Alison Peebles).[4] [5]
The kids club at The Big Hub is managed by Molly and Mack's widower father James (played by James Mackenzie).[6] James is regularly seen supervising a number of children including Molly's friends, Suki (played by Miko Hanley), Magnus (played by Ethan Rowley) and Ruby (played by Freya Reid).[7]
Mack's girlfriend Daisy (played by Danielle Jam) works at a nearby veterinary surgery.
During each episode, there are always two songs performed as a regular problem-solving plot device. When identifying a problem, a character performs The Oops Song, before another character sings The Idea Song when they propose a solution as a way to solve the problem.
| Series | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 20 | 12 November 2018 | 3 December 2018 | |
| 2 | 20 | 4 November 2019 | 25 November 2019 | |
| Christmas special | 9 December 2019 | |||
| 3 | 20 | 28 June 2021 | 23 July 2021 | |
| 4 | 20 | 15 November 2021 | 6 December 2021 | |
| 5 | 20 | 31 October 2022 | 25 November 2022 | |
With a multicultural cast, Molly and Mack is filmed in Govan in Glasgow and North Queensferry in Fife, with the Forth Bridge being used as a centrepiece for the fictional Bridgetown.[8] The bridge is heavily featured in the opening sequence of the show, in various on-location shots and promotional material for the series. The building featured as "The Hub" is in Maxwell Park and is called Pollokshields Burgh Hall.