Rubbish, King of the Jumble

Rubbish, King of the Jumble
Genre	Animation
Created by	Mark Taylor
Written by	Pamela Hickey, Dennys McCoy
Directed by	Mark Taylor
Voices of	Alexei Sayle
Composers	Andre Jacquemin, Dave Howman
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	26
Production
Running time	10 minutes
Production companies	A Productions, HTV
Original release
Network	ITV (CITV)
Release	29 June 1993 (1993-06-29) – 2 September 1994 (1994-09-02)

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 from 29 June 1993 to 2 September 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.

External links

• A Productions website
• Rubbish, King of the Jumble at IMDb