THE ADVENTURES OF POW WOW,
The Indian Boy
"Pow Wow, the Indian boy, loved all the
animals and the woods;
Pow Wow, the Indian boy, loved all the animals and the woods;
Pow Wow was a friend of all the animals in the woods,
If there was any trouble he would help them if he could;
If Pow Wow couldn't help them he would go to the Medicine Man,
And he would tell them stories just how it all began, all began, all
began."
THE ADVENTURES OF POW WOW
Produced by Tempe-Toons 1956
Presented by Leo and Walter Minskoff
Executive Producer Leon Marcus
Directed by Sam Singer
Animation - Tom Baron
Story - Ben Hardaway
Music - Monty Kelly
Based on Indian folklore, The Adventures of Pow Wow first appeared from January 30, 1949 through March 13, 1949 as a very limited-animation local 15 minute Sunday morning program on New York's WNBT-TV. It reappeared in 1956 as a series of 52 five minute black and white films on CBS-TV's Captain Kangaroo show. Pow Wow was syndicated by Screen Gems to the eleven western U.S. states which did not air Captain Kangaroo at the time.
The series left Captain Kangaroo's show in early 1958 and was syndicated beginning in May, 1958 as filler for local kid shows. In New York the later shorts were aired Saturday mornings on WRCA-TV (later WNBC-TV) as part of Ray Forrest's Children's Theater (which also aired the original Jay Ward-Alex Anderson Crusader Rabbit cartoons). In Chicago they appeared on WGN-TV's Garfield Goose and Friends. Tele-Features, the company which distributed Sam Singer's Courageous Cat™ and Minute Mouse cartoons, took over syndication of The Adventures of Pow Wow in 1960. Sam Singer passed away on January 25, 2001, at the age of 88.
EPISODE LIST
(Incomplete)
| Pow Wow and the Hungry Frog | Pow Wow and the Grasshopper |
| All's Well That Ends Well | Ruffy Rabbit and His Lucky Foot |
| The Snowshoe Rabbit | Sleepy Head |
| Pow Wow and His Lucky Duck | Pow Wow Builds a Canoe |
| One Rainy Afternoon | How the Turtle Got His Shell |
| Pow Wow's Day of Labor | Burro'ing Trouble |
| The Vagabond Mouse | Don't Fence Me In |
| The Eagle Feathers | The Treasure Hunt |
| Pow Wow in Frog Jumping | The Pogo Stick |
| The Flying Saucer | Pow Wow and the Duck Hunter |
| Pow Wow and His Magic Moccasins | Turtle Trouble |
| Pow Wow The Junior Medicine Man | The Tail of a Tornado |
| How Ruffy Rabbit Got His Hop | The Beaver Boys |
| The Baby Sitter | Pow Wow and the Lil' Medicine Man |
| Percy Pelican's Fish Dinner | Pow Wow and the Shooting Star |
| How the Fox Got His White Tipped Tail | The Little Builders |
| Pow Wow and the Stork | Playin' Possum |
| The Beginning of Fire | Pow Wow's Picnic |
| How the Bear Got a Short Tail | Why Burly Bear Likes Honey |
| Kangaroo Mouse | The Bad Egg |
| Pow Wow in Bear Trouble | The Giant Crow |
| Pow Wow Gets Even | The Magic Powder |
| The Magic Spigot | Pow Wow And the Uranium Hunt |
| Pow Wow And the Phantom Pony | The Buffalo Hunt |
Click on this link to hear the Adventures of Pow Wow theme, in RealAudio.
Click below to see a complete Pow Wow cartoon, in RealVideo.
The Adventures of Pow Wow "Pow Wow's Day of Labor"
Full 5½ minute cartoon!
Tempe-Toons/Sam Singer (CBS-TV/syndicated) 1957
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