Rub-a-Dub-Dub (TV Series)
| Rub-a-Dub-Dub | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Nursery Rhymes Video, Musical Mother Goose |
| Genre | Animation Music |
| Directed by | Alan Rogers |
| Voices of | Madeline Bell John Telfer |
| Theme music composer | Benni Lees |
| Opening theme | Rub-a-Dub-Dub |
| Ending theme | Rub-a-Dub-Dub |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 25 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | David Yates, Joe Wolf |
| Running time | 5 minutes |
| Production company(s) | David Yates Production |
| Distributor | FremantleMedia 2 Entertain |
| Release | |
| Original network | ITV |
| Picture format | Colour |
| Original release | 1984 |
Rub-A-Dub-Dub was an English 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.
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.
It was directed by Lee Bernhardi. It ran on the British breakfast TV station TV-am from 4 April 1988 until 1989 and it also ran on The Disney Channel in the 80s. 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', but has since not been distributed.
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