Not a bad show overall, pity they missed out my all-time favourite, Gideon, but then no one seems to remember it.
Also, they committed the cardinal sin - perpetuating the common myth that there was once a programme called 'Roobarb and Custard'. There wasn't - it was just called 'Roobarb'!!!!!
A few months back, Ceefax's TV Quiz had the question:
Complete the title of this children's series: Roobarb and...?
I wrote in, pointing out that Custard never featured in the title, and lo and behold, a couple of weeks later they did it again! I can't help thinking that they only repeated the error to annoy me personally.
Notice that this one one of the few programmes on 100 Greatest *not* to have its title screen shown, as if they were so determined to perpetuate the myth that they wouldn't tolerate any evidence to the contrary.
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When the BBC did a show looking back at old children's programmes in January 1999, they actually did show the title screen which clearly stated the title 'Roobarb' - yet on top of it still superimposed the caption 'Roobarb and Custard'!
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sittingovation posted:
I'm surprised that for long-running shows, they didn't make a better job of representing how the shows developed over the years. Example: For it's final couple of series, 'Rainbow' became 'Rainbow Days', with Geoffrey Hayes axed in favour of it being a human free zone. To make up the numbers, a new puppet was introduced - a blue female rabbit named Chloe. All of this of corse totally ruined Rainbow, so no wonder it was very quickly axed.
Huh, wasn't there also a Zippo, a younger Zippy, his cousin I think.
