Rod Rocket

[143AC]

I first watched"The Rod Rocket"TV Cartoons on"Felix & The Wizard"/"The Hall Of Fun!"with Fred Hall on WNEW TV Ch.5 in NYC during the 1960's.

[MelodyThePussycat]

When Filmation Associates produced this toon in 1963, the name of the studio was "Jiro Entertainment". Only in 1966 the studio was called "Filmation Associates", when they produced "The New Adventures of Superman".

[1952kid]

1963 i remember everything was about space. School science projects ,it was allways a box with planets on strings in it. I do remember this cartoon.

[jimwalsh2001]

And of course the bad guys are Russians....

[EdTracey347]

That's right .... the Spaceniks!

[1952kid]

I see Harry Potter in this, the glasses,Ron and Hermione, and the professor is Dumbledore.

[thesixtiesguy]

Sounds like Hal Smith did almost every character.

[SteveCarras]

IN terms of the backgorubnd music and debatably the characters this first FIlmation effort is by all menas one of their only good ones...btw the sound's gotta be higher...the first cue in the story is on the Gumby short "In the Dough".

[fromthesidelines]

Walter Bien and "Sib" were also the initial partners in Chuck Jones' "Tower 12 Productions" unit when he began producing MGM's "Tom & Jerry" theatrical cartoons in late 1963 {Bien was listed in the credits of the first one, "Penthouse Mouse", as 'Executive Producer'}.

[143AC]

This was the first tv carton series that Norm

Prescott and Lou Schiemer before they created

Filmation Studios.

[Scarletspeedster68]

Hey, what about Hal Sutherland? He was one of Filamtion's co-founders too!

[ETBX1]

Lou and Hal were only still directing here. Norm was not even in the Associates (which still wasn't incorporated at this point) yet. He basically joined around the time they started doing Superman.

[SteveCarras]

Gfreat stuff..also had the famed Capitol Gumby music (specifically, the ones in "In the Dough".) This was sorely missed in all of the studio's later Archie cartoons, which with their Donna Reed backgrounds need those scores..:-)

[hebrecction]

the capitol stock music was cheesy... they were better off with the Gordon Zahler and later the Yvette Blaise music.

[brithgob]

So what does "SIB Productions" stand for? I notice elements of that logo were adapted into the Filmation logo.

[rnigma]

I heard it stood for "Something In Between."

[cn20790]

Absolutely fantastic cartoon, I am surprised more people havent commented. In 1970 we started the Rod Rocket Motorcycle Club of Victoria and we had over 45 motorbikes, all of them Honda stepthru's, ie club rules. Aussie Blaker fron Australia.

[alftoon]

There are no animators listed on the final credits. Since this series was co-produced with a Japanese company, Jiro Enterprises, could it have been one of the very first American productions being farmed out to Japan (pre-dating Rankin Bass´ KING KONG for a few years)?

[rodc2006]

galloping galaxies! I had no idea this

was so old. I am sure it appeared on Australian TV only in the early seventies. Great to see it again, Thanks for

exhuming!

[davidhazard71]

Ron, thanks for the best site ...EVER!!!