TOM of T.H.U.M.B. Cartoons

[e7eb7]

Hit The Dirt !! Lol 4:14

[BishopTJH]

You just watch, some production head will probably see this cartoon and get an idea to make a live action big budget movie out of this.

[trotp3]

@BishopTJH You're right. Hollywood has no imagination, they get their creativity from comic books, cartoons and old tv shows.

[SongsJerome]

Tom is adorable :)

[vox1003]

I thought this stuff was gone forever,nice to see it again

[acla9000]

Very cool!! It was broadcast on Brazilian TV during the 70s. Thanks for posting!!

[tvtimetravel]

Wasn't that the same narrarator of Batman, William Dozier?

[memoh]

What do you say なつかしい in English? For Japanese T.H.U.M.B. was too long may be. M.A.D. was translated 「Matamata Akuji Doumei」 means Often again Crime Assosiation ? Japanese Song was made by Asei Kobayashi a famous composer I liked it in my early times.

[RetroToledo]

@memoh It's interesting they attempted to adapt it at all along with King Kong (a later Rankin-Bass production that Toei animated was "The Smokey Bear Show" which seemed pretty neat but I've noticed it wasn't localized in Japan anyway).

[RetroToledo]

@memoh The use of the word "thumb" in the title of this show of course is meant to spoof "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." which the word is an acronym for a longer name of the organization itself (for "T.H.U.M.B.", it's "The Human Underground Military Bureau"). I'm sure it was rather ridiculously impossible to adapt it into Japanese without losing the meaning or pun the title had in English.

The title also spoofs the familiar "Tom Thumb" story most Westerners know well.

[buzzlewie]

Cheerleaders: T-H-U-M-B, yaaaaaaaay Tom.

Anouncer: Tom, an average member of U.S. intelligents maintenance department wounded in the line of duty. Tom, and his faithful assistant Swinging Jack, ran upon of a shrinking lazer beam ray gun. They gave their height for their country, thus creating The Tiny Human Underground Military Bureau, when the plan calls for small became it's a job for Tom of.....

Cheerleaders: T-H-U-M-B, yaaaaaaay Tom.

[jay55also]

Limited animation of the 60's was the norm,what's funny,some how limited animation got worse in the late 70's and 80's.

[gtrDan1963]

@jay55also Hey, Jay ! I agree with you on the animation of the 60's vs. the 70's...

Loved Wee Willie Webber...met him once; very tall...

Loved Astro Boy and the Dr. Who's with Jon Pertwee as the Doctor !

(Jon's favorite line: "Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow!")

Other faves: Prince Planet, Rocket Robin Hood, Marine Boy...sucks to get old!

I miss my childhood innocence !

[SuperCartiel]

Ah, the memories...

Mal-Adjusted, Anti-Social, and Darn Mean: an organization of scientists bent on destroying the world for their own gains.

It was one of the better moments of an otherwise abysmal childhood.

Thanks for posting this, man.

[HiroAkemi82]

Oh my god this shit is OLD. D: I'm only 20 and I remember watching this. xD

[zapkvr]

Yes it is a Rankin Bass production. Their animtaion was pretty crappy but some of their caharcetrs were good.

[Scorpionccs]

Que recuerdos...

[viniciuszx6]

Aqui no Brasil tambem marcou a infancia de muita gente,pena nao ter a dublagem em Portugues!Valeu por ter postado.

[acla9000]

@viniciuszx6 Foi exibido aqui por bem pouco tempo, em 77.

[MelodyThePussycat]

I love this cartoon, it was seen as part of "The King Kong Show", produced by Rankin Bass/Videocraft International in 1966.

[Zortlyio]

Una caricatura inolvidable!

[fel77]

jaja este era notable aca en Chile lo emitieron a mediados de los 80 era un personaje

[marineguy4eva]

I watched this in the late 80's while in Chile and in spanish! So its been 20 years since I have seen or heard of this. Nice memories!

[Shawnster65]

I used to watch it on WPHL 17 in Philadelphia, an old UHF channel now gone from the airwaves.

They also had Japanese live action in the way of Ultraman, Johnny Sokko, and The Space Giants. These shows usually followed after the cartoon shows. Great days!

[gtrDan1963]

@Shawnster65 Wee Willie Webber was the bomb!

[Shawnster65]

@gtrDan1963 Yes he was, my brother! BTW..since you seem familiar with WPHL 17 programming, do you remember a mid 70's show called "Nightmare Theatre" that was on either Friday or Saturday night after 11? I seem to be unable to find anyone who does. It was a short lived show anyhow.

[gtrDan1963]

@Shawnster65 I recall Dr. Shock's "Mad Theater" and "Horror Theater" for certain..."Nightmare Theater" stirs a memory somewhere, but I don't remember if that was Dr. Shock's first late night movie program or if there was another host...

Do you remember WKBS ch. 48's "The Ghoul Movie" from the 70's ?

[Shawnster65]

@gtrDan1963 I don't remember WKBS 48's The Ghoul Movie, but I DO remember their Creature Double Feature on Saturday, as well as Dr. Shock on WPHL 17 back in the mid-late 70's.

I also remember WTAF 29 had The Three Stooges for a few hours on Saturday.

I also remember when WPHL ran the 2 hour special on Dr. Shock (Joe Zawislak )when he passed away around 1977. And as well, afterschool was spent on Ultraman, Johnny Sokko, and Space Giants. What great days!

[gtrDan1963]

@Shawnster65 WPHL 17 also had "Captain Scarlet" and the hilarious "House Of Frightenstein" ! Remember that one ?

[Shawnster65]

@gtrDan1963 I remember "HHOF" being on WNEW 5 in NY in the early 70's as well. It was originally from Canada and made a big hit here in The States. Captain Scarlet was one of the old British puppet shows, and I remember it well.

[gtrDan1963]

@Shawnster65 God...we're really showing our age here ! (LOL)

[Shawnster65]

@gtrDan1963 Haha, I guess so man!

But hey, WE remember when TV was actually GOOD. I'm 45 and have no regrets, only that the 80's are gone and my income isn't as disposable as it used to be.  That, and WNEW 5 no longer shows Creature Features or the martial arts films on "Drive In Movie." That and WPIX no longer shows Chiller Theatre.

[gtrDan1963]

@Shawnster65 Absolutely...I hardly (if at all) watch regular tv anymore...it's all B>S> these days.

I either have my old faves on DVD, and those I don't have, there's always YouTube !

I'm just a couple years shy of 50 myself, and I'll take the worst 60's or 70's show over today's "Best" !

[Shawnster65]

@gtrDan1963 I have a few fabes myself..I have the entire Lost In Space series on DVD, as well as The Time Tunnel, and The Outer Limits. I also have the entire 1966 Ultraman series as well.

I also have a nice collection of old Shaw Brothers martial art films, such as "Five Deadly Venoms" and "The Chinatown Kid." These were two of the films that played on WNEW 5's Drive In Movie.

[gtrDan1963]

@Shawnster65 Ditto on Lost in Space, Time Tunnel Outer Limits and Ultraman...Also Complete Star Trek, Captain Scarlet, UFO, Space:1999, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, and a whole slew of spy shows as well...

Keep reality tv away from me...I'll take fantasy, thank you..

[jay55also]

@gtrDan1963 remember Astro Boy and Dr.who and those old flash gordan and buck rogers serials on Wee Willie Webber?

[gtrDan1963]

@jay55also The funny thing is about the "Flash" and "Buck" serials was I had difficulty at first telling which was which, until Mom and Dad explained that Buster Crabbe played in both !

But Wee Willie had them all...he was the best.

[ezmace]

thank you.....great memories.

[DisneyVideos2000]

What?!? TOM of T.H.U.M.B. is a Rankin & Bass production?!? Ha-ha!

[labidala]

T.H.U.M.B. = The Hood Under My Butt ???

No im just kiding, great cartoon :)

[VancouverTVGuy]

I remember seeing this when The King Kong Show played on KVOS Bellingham in the late-1970s. Man, those were the days, when Saturday morning TV was more meaningful than it is now.

[Setebos]

Thanks for uploading this. Great memories!

[fromthesidelines]

John Drainie, a veteran Canadian actor and voice artist, was the voice of "Tom"; he was famous for portraying a thinly disguised "Senator McCarthy" in a CBC radio satire entitiled "The Investigator" in May 1954, which was "bootlegged" on LP in the United States later that year.

[Focusakker]

It wasn't the thumbnails. It was beauty killed the beast.

[bigg3469]

Tom of T.H.U.M.B was a filler (placed in the middle of a episode) for Rankin

-Bass' King Kong animated series.

[brandxsavior]

This was one of my favorite cartoons as a kid in the 70's (I hadn't even seen this since then). Awesome stuff.

[Kitsuneranger]

That was cool

Show us some more obscure goodies!

[britfrenir]

I saw this with the King Kong cartoon and it had the Rank N Bass logo at the end. I first saw it on WPWR when it was probably still in Auroa Illinois.

[Puawe]

Tom looks like a cartoon Jay Leno lol

[IRON5]

REAL OLD SHCOOL STUFF!!!!!

[mcr5084]

thumbs !!!!! i like thumbs!! Do you like thumbs?

[HazMatt100]

I had completely forgotten about this show! I'm 44 now. I never realized how badly dubbed this cartoon was when I was a kid. Thanks for posting it and bringing back some memories.

[CHEKO1111]

Y KING KONG??

[Shawnster65]

I don't believe this! No loss of childhood memories here at YouTube.

I haven't seen this show since the days of Wee Willie Webber's afterschool carton show on WPHL 17 (Philadelphia)when I was 10.

That's 32 years ago.

Thanks so much for this! \m/