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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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  2. Feb 15, 2024 · Both series were written by Calveley who based Roobarb on his own Welsh Border Collie, also named Roobarb as he had “watered the rhubarb” as soon as he moved in to Calveley’s home in Hertfordshire. Another fantastic nostalgia hit from Fabulous Films. Released 19th February. Review by Dave from discs kindly supplied by Fabulous Films.

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    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 nature ...

    Roobarb was narrated by Richard Briers, who was still a few months away from his breakthrough role as Tom in The Good Life. Giving Roobarb a high-pitched, energetic yelp (reduced to a sad, ears-turned-down groan when things went awry) and Custard the languorous, slightly-sneering tones of a well-fed Tory landowner, Briers created the perfect charac...

    Although the triptych of Caveley’s stories, Godfrey and Green’s animation and Briers’s voiceover was more than enough to give Roobarb a longevity far outstripping its modest roots, what really cemented the programme into television history was Johnny Hawksworth’s instantly recognisable theme music. A loping, distorted clatter interspersed with jaun...

    Having garnered great acclaim from successive generations of viewers across the world, the original series is now firmly entrenched as a cult classic and remains popular with audiences of all ages today. In 2005, more than thirty years after the first episode was shown, a second series was commissioned by Channel Five. Titled Roobarb & Custard Too(...

  3. May 9, 2016 · Roobarb and Custard – The Complete Collection contains, as its title implies, all thirty episodes of Roobarb (on the first DVD) and all thirty nine episodes of Roobarb and Custard Too (on DVDs two and three). Given that Roobarb and Custard Too was made in 2005, it’s slightly surprising that the picture format for all these episodes is 4:3.

  4. 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.

  5. www.doyouremember.co.uk › memory › roobarbRoobarb - Do You Remember?

    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 ...

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  7. What’s extra special about this set is that it really is the complete collection because it gathers together all 39 episodes of the 2005 remake, ‘Roobarb and Custard Too’ – a remarkably faithful adaptation which, despite being computer animated, retains much of what made the original so enjoyable. It still wobbles like crazy, it has Briers narrating, and all the original characters (as ...

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