Rubbish, King of the Jumble

Rubbish King of the Jumble is a children's animated television series on CITV created by Mark Taylor and featured the voice of Alexei Sayle. It was also produced by A Productions for HTV.

Rubbish, King of the Jumble
Genre	Animation
Created by	Mark Taylor
Written by	Pamela Hickey, Dennys McCoy
Directed by	Mark Taylor
Voices of	Alexi Sayle[1]
Composer(s)	Andre Jacquemin, Dave Howman
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
Production
Running time	10 minutes
Production company(s)	A Productions, HTV
Release
Original network	ITV Network (CITV)
Original release	1993 – 1994

Series

In this name being a play of "King of the Jungle", the series focused on an overfed cat named Rubbish who lives in the junk-filled attic of an old house. He tries and gets a quest to take food by using different disguises and schemes. But they get backfired by many of his enemies like the birds, the mice and a ferocious guard dog named Dinsdale who does nothing but chasing Rubbish and biting him on the tail.

Trivia

• The episodes were written by American writers Pamela Hickey and Dennys McCoy who also wrote episodes for other cartoon series like Butt-Ugly Martians, Tiny Toon Adventures, The Real Ghostbusters, Growing Up Creepie, ToddWorld, Beetlejuice and DuckTales.
• The background music and the theme tune was composed by Andre Jacquemin and Dave Howman who composed the music for Boo! and BB3B and the song from The Meaning of Life Every Sperm is Sacred.
• The show also aired on ABC in Australia.
• The show later reran on British digital television on the former digital television channel for children Carlton Kids.
• The English version of the show was also broadcast in Germany and West Germany on BFBS on their children's block as part of Children's SSVC.

References

1. "Alexei Sayle dot ME". The Official Alexi Sayle website. Retrieved 13 March 2010.

External links

• A Productions website