Actual episodes, commercials and rare clips of
cartoons and kids shows from television's early days,
posted by Toon Tracker on YouTube.
From Hanna-Barbera's first made-for-TV show, "Ruff and Reddy", which originally
aired beginning in 1957 on NBC-TV, here are several Post cereal commercials featuring
the Ruff and Reddy characters. These were produced brfore Kellogg's cereal began
sponsoring Hanna-Barbera's "Huckleberry Hound", "Quick Draw
McGraw" and "Yogi Bear" and started using the Hanna-Barbera
characters on their cereal boxes and in their commercials.
Length: 04:36
The opening of The Linus the Lionhearted Show, as seen during it's first season on CBS-TV. I combined black and white segments from the longer version of the opening with the color segments from the shorter version of the opening to create this video. Linus the Lionhearted premiered on CBS-TV September 26, 1964, and moved to ABC-TV in September, 1966. It was based on the characters that appeared at the time on the boxes of Post breakfast cereals.
Length: 01:52
Sam Singer's The Adventures of Pow Wow first appeared in 1949 on a local show in New York. New episodes appeared in 1956 on CBS-TV's Captain Kangaroo and in syndication. Sam Singer went on to produce Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse, Bucky and Pepito, and the first episodes of Sinbad Jr.
Length: 05:20
Another request, a clip from "Robin Hoodnik", produced by Hanna-Barbera for the "ABC Saturday Superstar Movie". This retelling of Robin Hood with animals originally aired November 4, 1972. Scrounger, the dog, was similar to Snuffles, the dog on Hanna-Barbera's Quick Draw McGraw series.
Length: 01:49
By request, the song "Love the World" by the Clown Family, from the 1972 cartoon "Tabitha and Adam and the Clown Family", produced by Hanna-Barbera for the "ABC Saturday Superstar Movie". The cartoon was an animated spin-off of the live-action "Bewitched" series.
Length: 02:08
Boris Badenov throws Bullwinkle in jail for picking daffodils. This "Bullwinkle's Corner" take on William Wordsworth's poem, "Daffodils", aired in 1962 during NBC's primetime version of Rocky and Bullwinkle, "The Bullwinkle Show".
Length: 01:01
Featuring an animated version of the late George Carlin, here is the opening to the animated Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures. A Hanna-Barbera cartoon, it appeared in 1990 on CBS-TV and based on the 1989 film, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. The second season appeared on FOX in 1992 and was produced by DIC.
Length: 01:06
The opening and closing from Matty's Funday Funnies. Sponsored by Mattel Toys, This series originally featured Casper cartoons and was seen on ABC-TV from 1959-1962.
Length: 03:06
The
opening and closing
to The Amazing 3, created and produced by Osamu Tezuka (creator of Astroboy)
for Mushi Productions in 1965, and syndicated in the U.S.beginning in 1967.
Length: 01:56
Professor Kitzel and his time machine take you on a trip back in history. Produced and directed by Shamus Culhane in 1972 for M.G. Films.
Length: 04:28
One of the first major films from UPA Studios (then called Industrial Films), 1944's Hell-Bent For Election was a campaign film sponsored by UAW-CIO in support of Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Due to the length of this film it has been split into two parts. Executive Producer - Stephen Bosustow. Production Design - Zack Schwartz. Directed by Charles M. Jones.
Length: 06:16
One of the first major films from UPA Studios (then called Industrial Films), 1944's Hell-Bent For Election was a campaign film sponsored by UAW-CIO in support of Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Due to the length of this film it has been split into two parts. Executive Producer - Stephen Bosustow. Production Design - Zack Schwartz. Directed by Charles M. Jones.
Length: 06:44
The opening to the Saturday Superstar Movie, originally seen on ABC-TV from 1972 through 1974.
Length: 0:42
Filmation's first series for television, Rod Rocket, which originally appeared in
syndication in 1963.
Length: 04:04
One of ten biblical
cartoons produced in 1963 by Filmation for Family Films.
Length: 08:37
This educational cartoon, hosted by an animated mouse historian, used still pictures and limited animation to tell stories about people and events from the last 2000 years. Syndicated in 1969. A Krantz Animation/Quality Entertainment/ARP Production. Produced by Steve Krantz. Directed by Shamus Culhane. Narrated by Bernard Cowan. Voice of Max: Paul Soles.
The public domain theme music was later used by Siskel and Ebert's movie review series for PBS, "Sneak Previews".
Length: 04:36
The closing to DePatie-Freleng's Bailey's Comets, an animated Roller Derby race
around the globe which aired from September 9, 1973 through August 31, 1975 on
CBS-TV.
Length: 00:35
The
opening to DePatie-Freleng's Bailey's Comets, an animated Roller Derby race
around the globe which aired from September 9, 1973 through August 31, 1975 on
CBS-TV.
Length: 00:53
From 1967, the animated opening and closing to the ABC-TV movie anthology series, "Off to See the Wizard". Chuck Jones was executive producer, Abe Levitow was
producer and director, and the voices were done by Daws Butler, June Foray and Mel Blanc. Unfortunately, the closing in this clip ends early.
Length: 03:37
The opening and closing to Filmation's "Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?", which aired from September 12, 1970 through September 2, 1972 on ABC-TV. The series, which featured David L. Landers (later Squiggy on "Laverne & Shirley") as the voice of Jerry Lewis, was based on various characters that were originally created by Jerry Lewis for his films.
Length: 02:00
The opening and closing to The Astronut Show. The Astronut
was a friendly but nutty character from outer space produced by Terrytoons. The
character first appeared in an episode of Deputy Dawg. The Astronut Show was
syndicated beginning in August, 1965.
Length: 01:18
The
opening to Amazing 3, created and produced by Osamu Tezuka (creator of Astroboy)
for Mushi Productions in 1965, and syndicated in the U.S.beginning in 1967.
Length: 01:02
One of the ABC-TV nutrition spots featuring Timer, the character introduced by DePatie-Freleng in the 1973 Afterschool Special, "The Incredible, Indelible, Magical, Physical Mystery Trip".
Length: 00:32
The opening and closing from Jay Ward's 1963 special, The Nut House, which aired in prime-time on CBS-TV.
Length: 02:09
The Mischief Makers featured old, silent Our Gang comedies with a new sound track. The 1960 syndicated series
also featured animated openings and closings produced by Gene (Tom Terrific) Deitch.
Length: 01:00
The NBC-TV 1970-71 Rankin Bass series, Tomfoolery, was based upon the nonsensical verse and whimsical characters of authors such as Edward Lear, Ogden Nash, Frank Gelett Burgess, and Lewis Carroll. It was billed as a mixture of "Riddles, Jokes and Silly Things".
Length: 09:57
From 1960, an episode of the first series from Rankin-Bass (then known as Videocraft Productions). This was done using their "Animagic" stop-motion technique.
Length: 05:03
From 1966: Depatie-Freleng's the Brothers Matzoriley in "Heau Beau Jest", along with the Super 6 opening and closing (with the catchy tune by Gary Lewis) and two Super 6 interstitials.
Length: 09:22
The opening and closing from The Peter Potamus Show. Unfortunately, the opening ends short, just before the Ideal Toys tag.
Length: 01:46
Total TV's The Beagles first appeared on CBS-TV in 1966 and was later rerun on
ABC-TV. This is the first part of "Foreign Legion Flops".
Length: 06:04
The pilot
of Jay Ward's Hoppity Hooper series, produced in 1960 (four years before the
actual series aired) and featuring Alan Reed as the original voice of Fillmore
(recorded before he became Fred Flintstone's voice).
Length: 04:44
Affectionately
known as the worst cartoon series ever produced; from Sam Singer, called by
Animato magazine "the Ed Wood of animation"
Length: 05:10
The
original 1966 CBS-TV opening and closing from the Mighty Mouse and the Mighty
Heroes series.
Length: 02:27
From the 1966 Hanna-Barbera
TV special, Alice in Wonderland, Sammy Davis, Jr. as the Cheshire Cat singing
"What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?" to Alice
(Janet Waldo).
Length: 03:14
The opening and closing of
the 1966 Hanna-Barbera TV special, Alice in Wonderland, featuring Rexall and
Coca Cola sponsorship tags.
Length: 03:18
An animated Rexall commercial from the 1966 Hanna-Barbera TV special, Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
Length: 01:01
Another animated Rexall commercial from the 1966 Hanna-Barbera TV special, Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
Length: 02:02
The live-action segment from Filmation's 1972 ABC Saturday Superstar Movie entry, "Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie
Goolies".
Length: 04:31
The opening to "The Great Baseball Mystery", an hour-long episode of Crusader Rabbit from 1957.
Length: 01:30
The opening and closing from an unaired, unsold 1967 Hanna-Barbera TV pilot. This series was supposed to be sort of like Hanna-Barbera's answer to Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color anthology series.
Length: 01:14
From September through December in 1965, Jay Ward's Hoppity Hooper episodes were re-aired as part of Cartoon Fun, a thirteen episode Sunday afternoon series on ABC-TV. Topper Toys, one of the big toy suppliers of the day, sponsored this installment from December 19, 1965 featuring Hoppity Hooper's Christmas episode.
Length: 05:21
The Funny Company, originally commissioned by Mattel Toys, featured mini educational films, cleverly sandwiched within each animated story, to help illustrate the theme of the cartoon. This innovative 1963 series was developed by producer Ken Snyder (Roger Ramjet, Skyhawks, Hot Wheels) in response to a 1961 speech by the FCC chairman urging more cultural and educational children's programming.
Length: 06:03
Twinkles, the magical elephant with the roto-tail, was created in 1960 by Total TV to sell General Mills cereals during the "King Leonardo and His Short Subjects" series on NBC-TV. The short, minute and a half stories featured Twinkles and his animal friends in stories that usually ended with a moral. Twinkles was also featured in commercials for and on boxes of General Mills Twinkles cereal, "the only cereal in the storybook package".
Length: 01:33
Q. T. Hush was a private eye who solved crimes and mysteries with the help of his cigar smoking shadow named Quincy and a bloodhound named Shamus. Q. T. Hush originally aired in 1960 and were produced by M. and A. Alexander for Animation Associates.
Length: 07:13
The opening and closing of the Rankin/Bass series, the Reluctant Dragon and Mr. Toad Show, originally seen in 1970 on ABC-TV.
Length: 02:08
"Tiger Trouble", from the 1960 syndicated cartoon series, The Nutty Squirrels Present. The series was based on the Nutty Squirrels, a musical novelty act (similar to Alvin and the Chipmunks) created in the late 1950's by Don Elliott and Sascha Burland.
Length: 05:58
The opening to Format Film's The Lone Ranger cartoon, originally seen in 1966 on CBS-TV.
Length: 02:05
Paddy the Pelican began in 1950 as a local TV puppet show on Chicago's WENR-TV. Paddy's adventures were presented in comic strip drawings done by Sam Singer.
Length: 05:03
From 1959, Terrytoons' Flamboyant Arms, featuring Clint Clobber and directed by Connie Rasinski.
Length: 04:41
An episode of the Adventures of Spunky and Tadpole, an animated series from 1958.
Length: 03:36
The closing to The Magilla Gorilla Show, with the original Ideal Toys sponsorship tag.
Length: 00:29
The second closing from Hanna-Barbera's Peter Potamus Show with Ricochet Rabbit. Ricochet Rabbit was originally part of the Magilla Gorilla Show but the segments were swapped with the Breezly and Sneezly segments originally seen on Peter Potamus.
Length: 00:56
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