Roobarb And Custard Too - Vol. 1 - Here Comes Trouble DVD (1 Disc) (UK)

Starring: Roobarb
Dvd Release: 17th July, 2006
Number Of Discs: 1
Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Roobarb was an animated television show for children, shown on BBC ONE just before the evening news. Each cartoon, created by Grange Calveley & animated by Bob Godfrey, was about 5 minutes long. Thirty episodes were made & were first shown in 1974. Roobarb is a green dog, Custard is a pink cat. Roobarb is always up to some misadventure or other, which he approaches with unbounded enthusiasm. Custard is cynical & is always trying to stop him, but usually Custard comes off the worse in the end. Other characters in the series are The Birds, who watch the antics of the other two from the safety of a nearby tree, often making snide remarks. The series features a deliberately rough style, drawn using marker pens & a very sketchy drawing technique, so that the pictures are constantly jiggling around. This effect gives a great energetic character to the show & was a welcome contrast to the slick smooth colouring of the imported Hanna-Barbera shows that were being widely shown. The jiggly effect was new & any similar effect in animation is called the Roobarb & Custard effect to this day.