Oggy and the Cockroaches (French: Oggy et les Cafards) is a French comedy animated television series produced by Gaumont Multimedia (first two seasons) and Xilam Animation (third season onwards), and created by Jean-Yves Raimbaud, co-creator of Space Goofs, who sadly died during production of Oggy’s first season. The show employs silent comedy: characters either do not speak, or use unintelligible vocalizations and gestures; the Indian version of the show has Hindi dialogue dubbed over the animation. The show premiered on September 1998 on France 3, and later expanded internationally, becoming a worldwide hit.In September 2020, the series was reported to be rebooted as The New Adventures of Oggy in where Oggy takes care of Piya, a seven-year-old female elephant from India.[3] Later in January 2021, the original series will be renewed with new episodes.Oggy, an anthropomorphic cat, would prefer to spend his days watching television and eating, but is continuously pestered by three roaches.Oggy and the Cockroaches Season 1-5 Download
Joey, Marky and Dee Dee. The cockroaches’ slapstick mischief ranges from plundering Oggy’s refrigerator to hijacking the train he just boarded. In many situations, Oggy is also helped by Jack( Oggy’s friend in the original series and his elder brother in the hindi-dub), who is more violent and short-tempered than him and is also annoyed by the cockroaches. Bob, a short-tempered bulldog, also appears in the show, and is Oggy’s neighbor.The characters of the series also made their appearance in many episodes of its related show Space Goofs, like in third episode “Venus Junior” Oggy, Joey, Marky and Dee Dee are seen on aliens television, in “Doodle”, the pictures of Oggy, Jack and cockroaches are shown and Monika with Oggy is seen in the episode “The Aliens Show”.Oggy and the Cockroaches originated from France, and the series originally aired on France 3 (seasons 1- and 2), Canal+ Family (seasons 3 and 4), Gulli (seasons 5-present, who also reran older episodes), with reruns airing on other French networks like Canal J, Canal+, Télétoon+, France 4, and Tiji. Later, it also aired in India from 2009. In 2015, Nickelodeon started rebroadcasting the show’s older episodes.[10] Later, the series was also picked up by Sonic Nickelodeon. In the Philippines, the show started on TV5 in 2010. Later, in 2021 it moved to Kapamilya Channel. Season 5 started airing on Cartoon Network from 14 August 2017.[11] In 2020, Sonic Nickelodeon again started airing season 4.