Roobarb Roobarb Roobarb (commonly known as "Roobarb and Custard") is a British animated children's television programme, created by Grange Calveley originally shown on BBC1 just before the evening news. Each cartoon, written by Calveley and directed by Bob Godfrey, was about five minutes long. Thirty episodes were made, and the show was first shown on 21 October 1974. The theme is that of the friendly rivalry between Roobarb, a green dog with an overactive imagination, and Custard, the mischievous laconic pink cat from next door. The narration of the series was provided by the actor Richard Briers. On 17 February 2013,
Once Upon a Dog choir from Kryachkovka village of Pyryatin District, Poltava Region. The Dog was voiced by Georgi Burkov and the Wolf by Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. Animators – Anatoly Abarenov, Natalia Bogomolova, Sergey Dezhkin, operator – Mikhail Druyan, sound producer – Andrey Filchikov. A steel monument to the Wolf was placed in 2005 in Tomsk and a copy was made in 2007 in Angarsk. The monument is unofficially called "Monument to Happiness". Once Upon a Dog Once Upon a Dog ("Once Upon a Time There Lived a Dog", ("Zhil-byl pyos")) is an acclaimed Soviet animated cartoon, adapted from a Ukrainian folk tale. The cartoon