Rub-a-Dub-Dub (TV series)

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Rub-a-Dub-Dub
Also known asNursery Rhymes Video, Musical Mother Goose
GenreAnimation
Music
Directed byAlan Rogers
Voices of Madeline Bell
John Telfer
Theme music composerBenni Lees
Opening theme"Rub-a-Dub-Dub"
Ending theme"Rub-a-Dub-Dub"
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes25
Production
ProducersDavid Yates, Joe Wolf
Running time5 minutes
Production companyDavid Yates Production
Release
Original network ITV (CITV)
Original release17 October (1984-10-17) 
20 November 1984 (1984-11-20)

Rub-A-Dub-Dub was a British television series animated by Peter Lang and Alan Rogers of the Cut-Out Animation Co. They were previously famous for Pigeon Street . The series was produced by David Yates and Joe Wolf. The title is a reference to the nursery rhyme Rub-a-dub-dub. Rub-A-Dub-Dub was animated in a similar way, yet all the characters were anthropomorphic animals. It ran in 1984, completing 25 episodes.

Contents

Episode structure

The episodes usually started off with the character Mother Goose and (most often) another character stood by a polka-dot patterned bathtub, with Mother Goose saying "Rub-a-dub-dub..." announcing that there was an item in the tub, an item that will then be relevant to the episode, e.g. "Rub-a-dub-dub, there's a kettle in the tub..." The line would then usually be followed up by another. In this case, the character King Crow appears at the window and says "...And King Crow wants his tea!" The nursery rhymes themselves would be dotted in amongst the humorous dialogue between the animal characters.

Characters

Principal characters

Episodes

01. Mary Mary
02. Jack and Jill
03. A Wise Old Owl
04. Tom Tom the Piper's Son
05. Baa Baa Black Sheep
06. Incy Wincey Spider
07. The House That Jack Built
08. Old King Cole
09. Hey Diddle Diddle
10. Star Light, Star Bright
11. Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
12. Yankee Doodle
13. The Grand Old Duke of York
14. I Had a Cat
15. To Market, To Market
16. Three Men in a Tub
17. There Was an Old Woman
18. Christmas Comes
19. Little Bo Peep
20. Little Poll Parrot
21. It's Raining, It's Pouring
22. The Lion and the Unicorn
23. Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat
24. Poor Old Robinson Crusoe
25. One for the Money

Release

It was directed by Lee Bernhardi. It ran on Children's ITV from 17 October 1984 until 20 November 1984 and it also ran on The Disney Channel in the 80s in the United States, Saudi 2 in Saudi Arabia and Knowledge Network in Canada. The series was later distributed on VHS in two separate volumes in North America twice, both by Hi-Tops Video under its original titles 'Rub-a-Dub-Dub' Volume 1 & 2 in 1986–87, and re-released in 1989 under the titles 'Musical Mother Goose' and 'More Musical Mother Goose' respectively. The series was also released on VHS in the UK market by Thames Video under the title 'The Ultimate Nursery Rhymes Video' on 10 February 1992, which has since not been distributed.

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