Favorite Total TV cartoons

[cbrubaker]

Which cartoons from Total TV are your favorites?

I always liked "Underdog", but I was also fond of "Go Go Gophers", "Tennessee Tuxedo", "King Leonardo", and "Tooter Turtle". I never really liked "Klondike Kat" much, though.

[Geezil]

King Leonardo (before he became a supporting player and got saddled with horror-type story lines, jumping the shark in the process), Underdog, and The Hunter (pre-inevitable nephew), in that order.

A good friend of the Geezils, also living Out Here, in fact still watches Underdog faithfully on cable whenever it shows up.

And yes, I meant "horror-type" both ways. :p

[Chow Hound]

"Underdog", "Go Go Gophers", and "Tennessee Tuxedo" (in that order). I have never seen "King Leonardo" or "Tooter Turtle", and I too never really cared for "Klondike Kat".

[Timber Wolf]

What's Total TV?

[BloodyChamp]

Cartoons that never appeared in theaters? If so, I always like TMNT, Muppet Babies, Garfield, He-Man and more.

[Geezil]

What's Total TV?

Total TV was the New York-based producer of King Leonardo, Tennessee Tuxedo, Underdog, etc., for Saturday morning network TV from roughly 1960 to 1968. And, as thoroughly documented elsewhere on these boards (and beyond), many of the animators on those series (based in Mexico) also worked on Rocky and Bullwinkle for the entirely separate Jay Ward Productions in California.

So, although there are numerous TV syndication packages floating around to this day that contain mixed-and-mismatched characters from both companies (thanks no doubt to the screaming similarities in artwork), by their voices shall you tell the Total TV cartoon stars apart. Think Jackson Beck, Wally Cox, Sandy Becker, Don Adams (all together now: "Tennessee Tuxedo will not fail!") :D and various other bonded-to-Noo-Yawk-for-good! voice artists.

Izzat a short enough answer for ya?

George W. as the "I ain't Jim Carrey, but somebody stop me!" Geezil

[frizfrelengfan]

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