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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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Roobarb is a green dog, and Custard is a pink cat. This is an inversion of the pudding (dessert) rhubarb crumble (pink) and egg custard (yellow). Roobarb is always involved in some kind of misadventure which he approaches with unbounded enthusiasm. Custard is cynical and sets out to sabotage Roobarb's fun. Which one comes out on top varies from epi...
A new series titled Roobarb and Custard Toodebuted on Channel 5 on 8 August 2005. Like the original series, it was written by Grange Calveley and narrated by Richard Briers. The series introduced a large number of other animal characters who also got involved in Roobarb's schemes. It was produced by Adam Sharp and Bernadette O'Riordan for A&B TV, a...
Roobarb
1. "When Roobarb Made a Spike" 2. "When Roobarb Didn't See the Sun Come Up" 3. "When Roobarb Was Being Bored Then Not Being Bored" 4. "When the Tree Fell to Pieces" 5. "When Roobarb Found Sauce" - Roobarb sets out to find the source of the pond. 6. "When It Was Night" - Roobarb dreams that he and Custard are cowboys fighting a band of nasty crows. 7. "When It Was Christmas" - Roobarb plans a delicious Christmas feast and everyone is invited, but when the dog takes it too far and eats the whol...
Roobarb and Custard Too
1. "When There Was A Surprise" - Roobarb builds a new computer to help him with his inventions. 2. "When Custard Was Grounded" - Roobarb organises a model plane air show for the garden and Custard nearly wins the prize trophy. 3. "When Custard Wrote A Book" - Custard and Poodle Princess try to get Roobarb to relax on a nothing day. 4. "When There Was An Elephant" - A travelling elephant, with a case of the sneezes, arrives in the garden on a very hot day. 5. "When Custard Was Very, Very Naugh...
The Streets' song "Turn the Page" mentions "Roobarb and Custard verses". A sampling of Roobarbepisodes and theme song made up the basis for the 1992 single of the same name by the UK group Shaft. The end bit of the theme tune could be heard at the end of each of 3 adverts for Ambrosia flavored custard. Roobarb and Custard were featured in the 'Offi...
Roobarb is a yellowy dog that lives in a garden with trees, flowers and lots of things that bounced. For most of his life Roobarb has been eating chairs and shoes and holes in carpets but he just couldn't eat rubber bands and the birds he sees eat them won't tell him how they do it. Custard is a pink cat and really has little time for Roobarb ...
May 9, 2016 · As for the main character, Roobarb is terribly appealing. He’s an eternal optimist, always ready with an invention or a plan to make everyone’s life a little better. Things don’t always work out quite the way he intends though, and when disaster strikes he finds Custard the cat and the birds forming up to mock his efforts.
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.
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- 1974-10-21
- Animation, Comedy, Family
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Feb 18, 2024 · Disc 2 features the 2005 revival series ROOBARB… AND CUSTARD TOO, (which I have to admit I didn’t even know existed) which whilst retaining the shaky kind of feel, isn’t quite as energetically visual, as it was a created on computers and the vibrating of the colours and outlines is a little bit too consistent.
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Roobarb is a green dog (sounds strange until you see the colours employed in the rest of the programme) who has an endless enthusiasm for adventure, and spends his time joyfully trying to make all kinds of inspired plans work. These are always hampered by the dastardly machinations of next door’s pet, Custard – a cat with a big smirk and an ...
