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,
Dog–cat relationship "ate each other up." In Fam Ekman's children's book "Kattens Skrekk" ("The Cat's Terror"), a cat visits a museum to find that all of the artworks, like "Mona Lisa" and Venus de Milo, have been replaced by parodies featuring dogs. The only piece not converted is "The Scream" which "symbolizes the cat's terror in the face of so many dogs." The American animated television series "CatDog" featured the adventures of the protagonist, CatDog, a genetically altered creature that had the head of a dog on one side of its body and the head of a cat on the other. The