I remember watching this years ago and I must have been around 3 years old, and the theme tune is different on here it went dodooooo dodoooooo the kid from outta space dodo.
It used to come on a Saturday around 9 or 10am. I have asked loads of people whom are even in there 50's if they remember it and they all say no :(
If you lived in Los Angeles in the 60's , this would've been on KHJ Channel 9 with other Japanese cartoons like Speed Racer, Kimba The White Lion and Gigantor to name a few.
I thought I used to watch Dodo. I guess I was too young at the time to remember any of what happened in the shows. I don't recall them all rhyming everything like in this clip. It seemed like the theme song sounded a little different too in my memory. In the one I remember, he used to use a word like discombobulated or discombooberated or something like that. He even looked and sounded different in my memory. Was there another Dodo show? Oh well, the memory does get fuzzy sometimes with age : )
@drbotanus Whew! Sorry about the multiple posts. YouTube never gave confirmation that anything was posted, even after refreshing. Anyway, it had to be Dodo because I remember the metal bird. I think a show called Doctari used to follow it. I never saw Marvin Martian or Colonel Bleep. I know and remember Prince Planet well. Also Marine Boy, and Gigantor. Those were the days.
THANK YOU!!! I LOVE DODO. I remember it from when I was a kid. I asked others if they remembered it - this cartoon about a kid, with 'propellers on his heels,' and I usually got blank stares in return. This, Hashimoto Mouse (?), Kimba,Speed Racer, Tintin and Thunderbirds were my favourites. So cool! Again, thanks!
@uszoninyc House of Hashimoto is posted on Facebook. Look around. I never actually saw Dodo, or else I dont remember. I am told that this print is recorded at a slower speed than normal. There were plenty of weird sixties cartoons I saw in the 70s that I saw and dont know the titles of. I did not even know that Tintin had an English translation. All I ever saw were those French books. For me it was Kimba, Speed, Marine Boy, King Kong, Felix (Transworld) .
Hello. I am happy to say that I have finally looked up this cartoon on the net. When conversing with others, I have always mentioned "Dodo the Kid from Outer Space" and everyone in my era would look at me as if I was from outer space. But I knew my cartoon. I used to watch this cartoon in the 60's, it was one of my favorites. Well I was real happy to look it up this morning and find it on the net. Anyway thanks for having it for me to recollect my childhood.
Hello. I am happy to say that I have finally looked up this cartoon on the net. When conversing with others, I have always mentioned "Dodo the Kid from Outer Space" and everyone in my era would look at me as if I was from other space. But I knew my cartoon. I used to watch this cartoon in the 60's, it was one of my favorites. Well I was real happy to look it up this morning and find it on the net. Anyway thanks for having it for me to recollect my childhood.
For the record. I grew up with, in this order: Johnny Sokko, SpeedRacer, Marine Boy, Kimba, King Kong and Ultraman. I never saw Space Giants, Specreman, Tobor, AstroBoy or Gigantor. I saw Gigantor, Spectreman and (an awful Bootleg of) Space Giants.When I was in my late teens. To this day I have never seen AstroBoy or 8th Man.
Answer: I didn't make this freakin cartoon! I never even saw it as a kid. I wasn't born until 1971.
I only discovered it recently on a public domain DVD and loaded it on here
and then suddenly there were ten more Dodo posts. It doesn't particularly DO anything for me, but I appreciate its existence and am happy if old fans enjoy it.
I remember this one and Hercules every day at lunch - on a black and white TV with tubes glowing in the back. That was before the internet -when the only one who had his own computer was Batman. I'd forgotten about the - very wierd - rhyming bit . Thanks for posting.
And, one more observation: I'm no linguist expert by any stretch, but I detect a pattern in this cartoon: it seems to rhyme. Did anyone else notice? Doesn't it seem sublime?
You date yourself referencing Mash for harry Morgan rather that Dragnet! Of course i date myself as well, because I know that Morgan must of had a big screen career before his little screen career.
You know, I met a young man (a friend of a friend) who's father did many voices for Hanna Barbera and other voice overs outside the company. He said although his father passed away, he still here's his voice here and their coming out a speaker of some sort.
He also said his dad would take him and his brother to work at the HB studios. Their dad let them roam the lot and one day when they were playing behind the building and found a dumpster of cels that they took armloads out of every week!
You know, I could find out , but it would take some work as he was a friend of a friend (who works in the creative
world like his dad).
What started him talking about his dad is that I had created some abstract (ala UPA) background for a video and he was helping put it together. It's been a long time.
I've had the theme song melody in my head since the Sixties but had his name wrong. I was searching under "Zorbo". I finally seached under "the kid from outer space and bingo!I see it now as extremely-limited animation (more limited and low cost as the UPA Studios who did Gerald McBoing Boing).
Oh, this is way more stilted than anything UPA did, but for sixties kid shows, its pretty good. Its mostly "full" animation; unlike Hanna Barbera who would animate the mouth or head
of a character on a separate cell from the rest of the body.
Remember the Marvel Heros Show from the late sixties with Thor, Ironman, Submariner, Captain America and Hulk ? They just lifted Jack Kirby's artwork from the comic books
and wiggled it around. Or how about Clutch Cargo and Space Angel?
Like I said, as a kid I had a love/hate relationship with limited animation, but I did love it when the artists worked
creatively within the limitations, as with Clutch Cargo--that's so weirdly/creatively limited as to be a masterpiece of it's form! Same for the Marvel stuff--I wonder if the great Kirby approved(or did he pass by the time of the desecration of his work?).
It's always fun discussing these things with a fellow
They were trying to be true to Kirby's work, not desecrate it.
I went trough a period of loving and then hating Japanese animation in the mid eighties, because my mom pointed out
that the animation is very stilted. Then I realized that a lot of US animation, like the cookie cutter format of Hanna Barbera at the time, was much much worse.
Hmmm, interesting. There's good Anime and bad Anime,
and I feel that most of it is poor. On the other hand, I feel Miyazaki is some of the best animation of any kind!
Hanna Barbera made-up for their limitations with their strong characters, distinct, unforgetable voice overs, sound effects, theme songs, and most importantly: their schtick!
Oh, I got back into anime when my buddies showed me Robotech and Transformers.
Hanna Barbera had the great Hoyt Curtin music. He did Jetsons, Godzilla, Superfriends and Sandy Franks' Battle of the Planets.
But, consider Funky Phantom, Laugh Olympics, Goober and the Ghost Chasers and all the Scooby Doo immitations. Individually okay, but in the broad scheme a degeneration of the company that created the great Flintstones and Yogi Bear.
Yeah. The bird sounds like Harry Morgan. Colonel Potter from M*A*S*H. Now that I listen more closely, Its just someone who sounds a little like him from time to time. Im sure its not him.
I remember watching this years ago and I must have been around 3 years old, and the theme tune is different on here it went dodooooo dodoooooo the kid from outta space dodo.
It used to come on a Saturday around 9 or 10am. I have asked loads of people whom are even in there 50's if they remember it and they all say no :(
glazese 2 days ago
If you lived in Los Angeles in the 60's , this would've been on KHJ Channel 9 with other Japanese cartoons like Speed Racer, Kimba The White Lion and Gigantor to name a few.
Maustrum 4 months ago
it's actually says it's from 1965 and not 1960. @ 0:24
boozygrogy 4 months ago
I would get up each Saturday at 5:30am and this would be the first show on.
Firelogger 4 months ago
This sounds kindof slow. I watched this as a kid.
IAmALoserForLife 5 months ago
I thought I used to watch Dodo. I guess I was too young at the time to remember any of what happened in the shows. I don't recall them all rhyming everything like in this clip. It seemed like the theme song sounded a little different too in my memory. In the one I remember, he used to use a word like discombobulated or discombooberated or something like that. He even looked and sounded different in my memory. Was there another Dodo show? Oh well, the memory does get fuzzy sometimes with age : )
MusicLovingLady2006 9 months ago
@MusicLovingLady2006 Sounds more like Marvin Martian or Colonel Bleep or possibly Prince Planet!
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@drbotanus Whew! Sorry about the multiple posts. YouTube never gave confirmation that anything was posted, even after refreshing. Anyway, it had to be Dodo because I remember the metal bird. I think a show called Doctari used to follow it. I never saw Marvin Martian or Colonel Bleep. I know and remember Prince Planet well. Also Marine Boy, and Gigantor. Those were the days.
MusicLovingLady2006 9 months ago
Dont forget the original outer space cartoon, Colonel Bleep , and who remember's watching Spunky and Tadpole.?
1952kid 9 months ago
@1952kid There should be some Colonel Bleep toons on here. It is also in the public domain.
drbotanus 9 months ago
THANK YOU!!! I LOVE DODO. I remember it from when I was a kid. I asked others if they remembered it - this cartoon about a kid, with 'propellers on his heels,' and I usually got blank stares in return. This, Hashimoto Mouse (?), Kimba,Speed Racer, Tintin and Thunderbirds were my favourites. So cool! Again, thanks!
uszoninyc 9 months ago
@uszoninyc House of Hashimoto is posted on Facebook. Look around. I never actually saw Dodo, or else I dont remember. I am told that this print is recorded at a slower speed than normal. There were plenty of weird sixties cartoons I saw in the 70s that I saw and dont know the titles of. I did not even know that Tintin had an English translation. All I ever saw were those French books. For me it was Kimba, Speed, Marine Boy, King Kong, Felix (Transworld) .
drbotanus 9 months ago
Oh, awesome! I can hardly even find anyone my age who remembers this!
I could have sworn it was in black & white. Maybe it was just our TV at the time.
But the theme song is slower than I remember. Could they have played it back too slow when making the transfer to disc?
lytrigian 1 year ago
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Hello. I am happy to say that I have finally looked up this cartoon on the net. When conversing with others, I have always mentioned "Dodo the Kid from Outer Space" and everyone in my era would look at me as if I was from outer space. But I knew my cartoon. I used to watch this cartoon in the 60's, it was one of my favorites. Well I was real happy to look it up this morning and find it on the net. Anyway thanks for having it for me to recollect my childhood.
1959Kaki 1 year ago
Hello. I am happy to say that I have finally looked up this cartoon on the net. When conversing with others, I have always mentioned "Dodo the Kid from Outer Space" and everyone in my era would look at me as if I was from other space. But I knew my cartoon. I used to watch this cartoon in the 60's, it was one of my favorites. Well I was real happy to look it up this morning and find it on the net. Anyway thanks for having it for me to recollect my childhood.
1959Kaki 1 year ago
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the bird in -4:51- sounds like R2-D2 of STAR WARS... :-)
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proyectoparabola 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this 4 real. I tell friends about this but no one remembers. A blast from the past. Cheers mate.
vexxbro 1 year ago
This cartoon brought me memories when I was young.
harrow177 1 year ago
It waas the only Dodo on the disc. Th rest were all just a bunch of sci-fi related cartoons.
drbotanus 1 year ago
where can i find this public domain dvd? of dodo the kid from outer space?
Makell 1 year ago
@Makell
I noticed that too, and I noticed it well
With Rap that same practice has all gone to hell
FoxxeWilder 1 year ago
For the record. I grew up with, in this order: Johnny Sokko, SpeedRacer, Marine Boy, Kimba, King Kong and Ultraman. I never saw Space Giants, Specreman, Tobor, AstroBoy or Gigantor. I saw Gigantor, Spectreman and (an awful Bootleg of) Space Giants.When I was in my late teens. To this day I have never seen AstroBoy or 8th Man.
drbotanus 1 year ago
Why is the sound/video so slow?
Answer: I didn't make this freakin cartoon! I never even saw it as a kid. I wasn't born until 1971.
I only discovered it recently on a public domain DVD and loaded it on here
and then suddenly there were ten more Dodo posts. It doesn't particularly DO anything for me, but I appreciate its existence and am happy if old fans enjoy it.
drbotanus 1 year ago
@drbotanus You can fix this by getting Quicktime Pro for your computer and recopy it at the proper speed. Just FYI
comeon678 1 year ago
why is the audio so slow ?
hookuspookus529 1 year ago
OMG ...is Dodo 'rapping'? Is he the original Rap Master?!?
guruuDev 1 year ago 4
I remember this one and Hercules every day at lunch - on a black and white TV with tubes glowing in the back. That was before the internet -when the only one who had his own computer was Batman. I'd forgotten about the - very wierd - rhyming bit . Thanks for posting.
guruuDev 1 year ago
i used to wake up sunday mornings at 7am to watch this crap!
TheTzdope 1 year ago
Every thing rymes in this cartoon!
crypter27 1 year ago
nice rhymes from dodo and his bird pal...
terrormuda82 1 year ago
For some reason, this is one of those cartoons that I never saw as a kid. Like Rocket Robin Hood. It just didn't air in the Indianapolis area.
thesixtiesguy 1 year ago
this has got to be the most boring cartoon ever invented!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
beckaheck 2 years ago
@beckaheck
At 2,480 hits. It must have something you dont understand.
drbotanus 2 years ago
And, one more observation: I'm no linguist expert by any stretch, but I detect a pattern in this cartoon: it seems to rhyme. Did anyone else notice? Doesn't it seem sublime?
nostromo38 2 years ago 6
Hadn't noticed.
drbotanus 2 years ago
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@nostromo38
I noticed that too, and I noticed it well
With Rap that same practice has all gone to hell
FoxxeWilder 1 year ago
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@nostromo38
I noticed that too, and I noticed it well
With Rap that same practice has all gone to hell
FoxxeWilder 1 year ago
Could be Harry Morgan, but was also thinking Walter Matthau.
Watching this makes me want to get high.
nostromo38 2 years ago
I loved watching this as a kid x
paulinedavies1970 2 years ago
You date yourself referencing Mash for harry Morgan rather that Dragnet! Of course i date myself as well, because I know that Morgan must of had a big screen career before his little screen career.
toiseywoisey 2 years ago
You know, I met a young man (a friend of a friend) who's father did many voices for Hanna Barbera and other voice overs outside the company. He said although his father passed away, he still here's his voice here and their coming out a speaker of some sort.
He also said his dad would take him and his brother to work at the HB studios. Their dad let them roam the lot and one day when they were playing behind the building and found a dumpster of cels that they took armloads out of every week!
toiseywoisey 2 years ago
Cool. Who was his dad?
drbotanus 2 years ago
You know, I could find out , but it would take some work as he was a friend of a friend (who works in the creative
world like his dad).
What started him talking about his dad is that I had created some abstract (ala UPA) background for a video and he was helping put it together. It's been a long time.
toiseywoisey 2 years ago
A lot of people seem to have trouble with the name. They search for Jojo and Robo.
drbotanus 2 years ago
I've had the theme song melody in my head since the Sixties but had his name wrong. I was searching under "Zorbo". I finally seached under "the kid from outer space and bingo!I see it now as extremely-limited animation (more limited and low cost as the UPA Studios who did Gerald McBoing Boing).
toiseywoisey 2 years ago
Oh, this is way more stilted than anything UPA did, but for sixties kid shows, its pretty good. Its mostly "full" animation; unlike Hanna Barbera who would animate the mouth or head
of a character on a separate cell from the rest of the body.
Remember the Marvel Heros Show from the late sixties with Thor, Ironman, Submariner, Captain America and Hulk ? They just lifted Jack Kirby's artwork from the comic books
and wiggled it around. Or how about Clutch Cargo and Space Angel?
drbotanus 2 years ago
DR: You sound like an informed person!
Like I said, as a kid I had a love/hate relationship with limited animation, but I did love it when the artists worked
creatively within the limitations, as with Clutch Cargo--that's so weirdly/creatively limited as to be a masterpiece of it's form! Same for the Marvel stuff--I wonder if the great Kirby approved(or did he pass by the time of the desecration of his work?).
It's always fun discussing these things with a fellow
fan.
toiseywoisey 2 years ago
They were trying to be true to Kirby's work, not desecrate it.
I went trough a period of loving and then hating Japanese animation in the mid eighties, because my mom pointed out
that the animation is very stilted. Then I realized that a lot of US animation, like the cookie cutter format of Hanna Barbera at the time, was much much worse.
drbotanus 2 years ago
Hmmm, interesting. There's good Anime and bad Anime,
and I feel that most of it is poor. On the other hand, I feel Miyazaki is some of the best animation of any kind!
Hanna Barbera made-up for their limitations with their strong characters, distinct, unforgetable voice overs, sound effects, theme songs, and most importantly: their schtick!
toiseywoisey 2 years ago
Oh, I got back into anime when my buddies showed me Robotech and Transformers.
Hanna Barbera had the great Hoyt Curtin music. He did Jetsons, Godzilla, Superfriends and Sandy Franks' Battle of the Planets.
But, consider Funky Phantom, Laugh Olympics, Goober and the Ghost Chasers and all the Scooby Doo immitations. Individually okay, but in the broad scheme a degeneration of the company that created the great Flintstones and Yogi Bear.
drbotanus 2 years ago
Oh my! I thought I'd never find this again! I watched as a kid on Los Angeles television!
toiseywoisey 2 years ago
I had never even heard of this show until recently.
Random episodes show up on DVD and VHS from time to time. It must be in the public domain.
drbotanus 2 years ago
There are some other episodes on here. Check em out.
drbotanus 2 years ago
Is that Harry Morgan??
drbotanus 2 years ago
From the "Dragnet" television series? Are you speaking of the voice?
toiseywoisey 2 years ago
Yeah. The bird sounds like Harry Morgan. Colonel Potter from M*A*S*H. Now that I listen more closely, Its just someone who sounds a little like him from time to time. Im sure its not him.
drbotanus 2 years ago