Abbott & Costello TV cartoon intro (1966)

[poshwanders06]

Classic! I used to watch this when I was a kid!

[latishacarolina]

this must be classic

[johnalang]

This cartoon was so bad. Bud Abbott only did this to get some money to buy booze.

[cjjrtoronto]

Did Stan Irwin ever work in any other animated cartoon series after this?

[RedPortiaOne]

LOL HAYYY ABBOT!!! I havent seen this since the 1970's when I was growing up. This is classic stuff

[canonet17]

@RedPortiaOne

I have not seen this , either, since the early 1970s in New York. H-B made a lot of stuff for TV

[PatrioticPirate]

I ain't seen this since... "Cartoon Carnival" on WDCA-TV20 in Washington, DC, in 1982. And that scream...

THANKS FOR THIS POST!

[SwampDaddy7]

-ahem- HEY, ABBOTT!!

[Hammi4Real]

lmao im 23 and i remember watching this on tv when i was 7 or 8

it was dubbed in norwegian

[rmdds]

I'm 45 and just turned 3 again

[davebenn420]

Hey! ABBOTT!!!!

[The1964gabriela]

we born in a time when television still was television...we were really lucky... thx for posting

[panamaniak]

Damn, I used to watch this when I was little!

[TammiWayKewl]

Having seen these cartoons as well as the ones with Laurel And Hardy and the Stooges, I have to say A & C were the best of the batch. Some of them may have been inspired by the duo's horror spoofs of the 40's. Too bad there was never an animated version of "Who's On First."

[aldiakaroofus]

I watched this over 30 years ago! It was on early Saturday mornings, perhaps as early as 6AM, and I'd put the TV sound a bit too loud and wake up my parents with those loud "HEEEYY ABBOOOOTT!"

[billwenham]

Oh my god! I haven't seen this in about twenty years. I had a tape of a few episodes, one involving a polar bear and a fish....that's pretty much all I remember...maybe something with a magician too, but I might just be making up memories now. It's been soooo long. Awesome to see this again! Thanks for posting!!!

:)

[phizzstar]

just listen to that big band music. tell you alot about children's programing back then. They cared about the quality of what we were watching. I grew up at the right time for great music and television.

[ABOLLLLA]

man ur rite !

[WaleedAlmighty]

HEEEEY ABBOOOTT

LOL i loved this when i was a kid it used to be aired on Saudi TV2

[mohammeddavis]

i watched it in jeddah when i was a kid

[ABOLLLLA]

Channel 2 you mean !!! it was the best for me specially at 2 pm during weekends

[Lars2121]

One of my absolute favorite cartoons growing up....what a classic!! Thanks for posting!

[colibri1]

I haven't heard this song in ages! In the late 70s, friends and I in school band would jokingly play this song on our instruments to annoy our director.

[dwtsf]

LOL! In our 7th grade band we did the same to our teacher, with the Banana Splits theme.

[fromthesidelines]

Because the series was co-produced with RKO-General, their "flagship" station, WOR-TV in New York, had the exclusive rights to air it in the Tri-State area when it was first syndicated in 1967, through the early '70s.

[JerryM69]

I love this cartoon and the introduction. I just wish they had aired these Abbott and Costello cartoons on the Cartoon Network. I noticed that Mel Blanc also did some voices of the animals in "Jack and the Beanstalk" with A & C.

HEYYYYYY, AAABBBOOOOOTTTTTTTTT!!!!! (LOL)

[vividwatch47]

Mel Blanc also worked with Abbott & Costello on their radio show.

[Harthy1]

LooooooooooooooooooooL

[MrStereo10]

I am sooo trying to find the complete end credit theme to this cartoon. Always loved the theme. The music was longer and different. I remember the ainimation having to deal with a snake chasing Costello and somebody sweeping up afterwards. I haven't seen it since 1973. I really wish someone out there could find it in their archives.

[SteveCarras]

Well, look no more, it's been put on, Mr..Stereo!

[SteveCarras]

And, yes, I, too, recall that ending.

[mansor1986]

loool so funny cartoon (:

[Sooony7]

HAHAHA

[Johnnyboy792]

Terrific ! I'd forgotten how funny this show was !!! Thanks for the post !

[fabiooliveira73]

HAHAHAHA!!! When i was a little kid, i hated to see the intro! I was scared, hahahaha!!! =D

[zobajoe]

I'm surprise that Turner Movie Classic hardly show any of their movies anymore.

[erploco]

sounds like the electric company's intro.

[143AC]

Dear Tooto, The hand puppets that Mr.Kirchner manipulated

and voiced on the 1957 edition of"The Scrub Club"

on Ch.9 were different..they were"Scrubby The Pig"

and"Dr.Owl".

[143AC]

Dear horarwgt, According to one book about "The Three Stooges"?

Moe worked for Harry Rohm..who ran Columbia Pix'

from 1958 to..the 1960's as a goofer. Until the boys' popularity was renewed by the

tv reruns of their films. Moe & Larry Hired Curly Joe DeRita to be the

last third stooge and their career was revived.

[143AC]

Dear Tooto, "The Scrub Club!" was first seen on WOR TV Ch.9

in NYC weekday afternoons back in 1957. The show didn't work out and it was cancelled

..yet it returned to Ch.9 in the fall of 1968.

[143AC]

Dear Tooto,

This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the

debut o"Spunky & Tadpole"on WPIX TV Ch.11

in NYC.

 The films were seen as a prelude to "The Three

Stooges Funhouse!"on Ch.11 back in 1958.

P.S. Mr.Kirchner's last name is not spelt with an

s..it's spelt Kirchner.

[iamemjar]

Another differance between Laurel & Hardy and Abbott & Costello was when Hardy bossed Laurel around any stupid thing Laurel did often blew up in Hardy's face, serving him right. Wheras Abbott tended to get off scott-free.

[143AC]

The Abbott & Costello tv cartoons were first

seen on"The Scrub Club"With Mr.Claude Kirchner

and his puppets:"Super Flop" & "Super Flo"on WOR TV

Ch.9 in NYC during the fall and winter of 1968.

[fabster3333]

Thanks for the facts!

[1975tooto]

Hey 143 thanx!!I see someone does remmeber Claude Kirshner .When I was around 3 he used to have a Show where he showed Spunky and Tadpole.I remmeber him as Voice over also for Marx toys.I also remmeber his show sponsering Ovaltine and he Voiced over the commercials!!No one seems to know who I am talking about when I recall him!Also Costello was from my Hometown ,Paterson NJ. He always mention the city in his movies and skits!!

[EarlSnohomish]

I recall A&C on WOR around 1969-70, but by themselves and not part of any other program. I guess I was too young to remember "The Scrub Club" (I was 3 when it went off the air).

This cartoon may have been my first introduction to the great duo. Even up to this day, I'm still a huge fan of the team and own many DVDs and videos of their movies and television appearances.

[TheMoosegal]

Really would love to see some of the full length cartoons. I do remember watching them but yet, it's just faintly.

[RoulinBrooks]

God, for some stupid reason I was thinking about this cartoon this morning for the first time in about 20 years. I thought "I wonder if the intro is on YouTube?" And there it is! Thanks!

I never liked the cartoon (or the movies for that matter) much. I didn't like how Abbott bossed Costello around so much. I was always hoping that one day Costello would kick Abbott's ass. Never happened. Strangely, Moe's bossiness never bothered me.

[br1antim]

I agree. Maybe because Abbott came across as more of a manipulator than Moe

[RoulinBrooks]

Right! Abbott was always scheming and somehow shirking the blame off onto Costello in a really weaselly way. With Moe it was just a simple eye-gouge or hack-saw across the head and everything was fine again. Moe's bossiness was sort of a "what you see is what you get" type thing as opposed to Abbott's ongoing backstabbing and betrayal.

[br1antim]

Exactly. I think in a lot of ways the same can also be said of Ralph Kramden, but although at times he could be somewhat underhanded in using Ed's naivete to his own advantage there was also an underlying sweetness in him that was redemptive.

[br1antim]

What about Hardy's bossiness toward Laurel

[RoulinBrooks]

Good point.  But Hardy was more of a buffoon, fat and dithering. Hardy was mean and bossy, but he never strikes the viewer as being threatening. There's a sort of cold ruthlessness about Abbott. Costello always took the hit for Abbott's blunders--sort of an early "Withnail" to Costello's "I".

[horarwgt]

Bud Abbott was ill and nearly broke when he agreed to supply his voice for this syndicated cartoon series. Once understandly wealthy, the long-running failure of A&C's manager to file their income tax returns properly resulted in the IRS taking away nearly everything the boys had ever earned and owned. At the end, Abbott, in very poor health, died in his tiny one-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles -- ironically, in much the same economic straits as the duo appeared to be in in their TV series.

[greenwichlirr]

VEry true, and sadly ironic, considering all of the Volunteer Work that A&C did for the USO and the US in general during WWII. The IRS gave them a big backhanded slap when it was all over.

If it weren't for these cartoons, Bud would have died TOTALLY broke. At least they put some money into his pocket towards the end.

[br1antim]

Wasn't Moe Howard in a similar situation? I heard that at one point he was working as a porter in his later years. Really sad

[horarwgt]

That sounds unlikely, based on what I have read in various Stooge biographies. Other performers did have to work meniai jobs after fame passed them by. Both Marvin Hatley, key writer of Hal Roach musical scores (including the Laurel & Hardy theme) and Jimmy Elledge, who scored the original 1961 hit "Funny How Time Slips Away," wound up playing anonymously in piano bars.

[verbusen]

Moe Howard working as a porter as an old man? LOL thats a hoot, he made $10,000 per stooge short he did and did over 200 of them. Thats some cabbage even in todays dollars. Plus he did full length movies and the cartoons in his later years, he was no porter!

[EarlSnohomish]

Actually, Bud Abbott wasn't that bad off. According to his son, he had a nice home with his own swimming pool and lived a comfortable life up to his death. Yes, he wasn't wealthy, but he wasn't destitute either.

[mrstereo2]

any chance you might have the end credits as well. I remember longer theme music at the end and have been dying to hear it for over 30 years. Hope you can help

[estympy]

crash costello

[rodineisilveira]

Actually, the "Abbott & Costello" cartoon show was produced by Hanna-Barbera (in association with RKO Pictures and Jomar Productions) in 1967. It was shown here in Brazil, between 1973 and 1979-80.

Na verdade, a versão animada de "Abbott & Costello" foi produzida pela Hanna-Barbera (em conjunto com a RKO Pictures e a Jomar Productions) em 1967. Foi exibida aqui no Brasil, entre 73 e 79-80.

[omega5959]

tha was agood intro i get usully see it in afternoon thank you

[omega5959]

this was on the favourite cartoons in the world i get usually watch it ecery afternoon but its too bad that the channel i see it it stoped get over it thank tou for this memorable memory can you put some episodes;

[fabster3333]

I wish I could but I have none.

[trainchugger53]

HEEEEY ABBOTT!

[CaptainStacy]

"HEEEEY, ABBOOOT!!!"

Lol, that's great man! Great memories....

[SteveCarras]

BONGGG!!

[ratfink55]

Hoyt Curtin's Big band sound and Great animation by Irv Spence. Wish the show itself was as good as this opening. Thanks for the post.

[Cheessa]

I liked the theme song, but the show was just so-so

[speedbuggy]

This cartoon was shown in reruns early in the mornings & I watched it before I went to school.

[musicom67]

Where was Hoyt Curtin's credit for that kick-ass theme! Even snazzier than the Top Cat tune!

[LazerBlast]

How about some episodes like "Werewolf Whim Wham".

[ultramenace]

It was too bad Lou Costello died in 59.

[videomaxperu]

UN VIAJE POR MI INFANCIA, GRACIAS!

[fabster3333]

Lo ha sido para muchos. Buenos tiempos.