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Roobarb (also known as Roobarb and Custard) is a British animated children's television series, created by Grange Calveley and originally shown on BBC1 just before the evening news. [1] Each cartoon of the original series, written by Calveley and directed by Bob Godfrey, was about five minutes long. Thirty episodes were made, and it was first ...
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Grange Calveley (6 May 1943 – 22 August 2021) [1] was a British writer and artist who was best known as the creator of the BBC's animated television series Roobarb (1974) and Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk (1977). Calveley also wrote and made character drawings for the 2005 revival series, Roobarb and Custard Too.
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, also called Roobarb, and called Roobarb & Custard Too. in its revival series, is a British cartoon television series created by Grange Calveley. It had two series, an original series in 1974 on BBC 1, and a revival series in 2005 on Channel 5.
The series stars the titular characters of Roobarb and Custard, a green dog and a pink cat, with Roobarb taking on a more adventurous and enthusiastic role, while Custard takes on a more cynical role. It also featured various bird characters. The series had narration from Richard Briers, who passed away in 2013, four days prior to the animator, Godfrey.
The series briefly crossed over with the Doctor Who universe in the 1998 BBC promotional video Future Generations, which featured a young boy travelling through the settings of several series, including Doctor Who.
Partway through the promo, as the boy walks through Festive Road (from Mr Benn), the characters of Roobarb and Custard appear outside no. 60, with Roobarb up a tree in a similar fashion to the original series' intro, as well as having two birds land on Custard's head.
Cast and crew connections
Richard Briers was the narrator for Roobarb, while in Doctor Who, he portrayed the Chief Caretaker in Paradise Towers, as well as Henry Parker in the Torchwood episode A Day in the Death.
Publications
As with Doctor Who, Roobarb and Custard had a series of comic strips published in TV Comic in the 1970s, such as in the TV Comic Annual 1977.
Roobarb was based on Calveley’s Welsh Border Collie also named Roobarb. It was the first fully animated series to be made in the UK. Where it went next. Each episode was only 5 minutes long and the series aired just 30 episodes on BBC2 in 1974-5, written by Calverley and voiced by Richard Briers. The series aired in the UK, USA and Australia ...
The show had a more obscure run in the US, with dubbed episodes appearing as segments of Eureeka's Castle. The show would be revived in 2005 as Roobarb and Custard Too, a 39 episode series (also penned by Calveley) which was thoroughly loyal to the original, outside a few extra characters and modernized plots. A series of books have also been ...
May 9, 2016 · Roobarb and Custard are the principal characters in Roobarb, a series of short animations for children originally shown on BBC One in 1974. Roobarb was a dog based on creator George Calveley’s own pet pooch of the same name (so-called because the first thing he did when Calveley took possession was to piss on his rhubarb) whose enthusiastic ...
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Roobarb: Created by Grange Calveley. With Richard Briers. Roobarb the green dog's enthusiasm for inventions and harebrained schemes to liven up life in the garden know no bounds.
