Tom Terrific Robinsnest Crusoe Part 1

[doctor90250]

Did I dream it, or was there an old cartoon called "The Badlands", a western in about 1965, where instead of shooting each other....they threw ripe tomatoes? LOL.

[w5cdt]

I used to watch the Captain. Back in 1963. Showed it to my kids!

[RURIGHT]

I haven't seen Tom Terrific in 50 years!I It has always been one of my favorite cartoons,and old Wonder Dog will always be true to life! I love the fact that with the Internet, programs that were just memories are now abled to be viewed!

[racerjsf]

wow this mustve been the easiest cartoon to draw up...i cant believe Tom Bradys nickname is the same as whatever that thing is

[TooleMan87]

@racerjsf Who's Tom Brady?

[Fleshcucumber1]

i liked "Peter Perfect" from "The Whacky Races" better...

[Fleshcucumber1]

it seemed more interesting when I was little...go Mr greenjeans!!! :)

[handy335]

Tom Terrific was part of the early original Captain Kangaroo series. I can remember watching TT and Mighty Manfred in ....1955. I think there are ties between TT and Rocky and Bullwinkle if only the cartoonists/artists. Fun stuff!

[SchizoidMan100]

I guess you would call this "minimalist."

[nogalesmaestro]

Crabby Appleton...Rotten to the Core!

[pdogone1]

would watch this before going to school in am tks for the flashback!

[altfactor]

What puns!

[CraigsFilm]

Is this a documentary?

[bdunlevy22]

I lived in Rogers Park with daddy and mom.

[wrybreadspread]

Manfred! I had forgotten! This is surprizingly sophisticated and witty for its time. Anchovie Dick. Fantastic.

Who remembers Crabby Appleton?

[TooleMan87]

I do! I wonder where he was - maybe on vacation and plotting new misdeeds for Tom.

I had a beautiful English Setter I named Manfred after Mighty Manfred. My Manfred was truly a wonder dog - so smart and sensitive.

[flixcritic]

@wrybreadspread Crabby Appleton...rotten to the core, even the core is rotten !  : )

[Sue145]

@wrybreadspread

rotten to the core...lol

[au33987]

@wrybreadspread wasn't crabby Appleton a character in the Mickey Mouse club series, Spin and Marty?

[wrybreadspread]

@au33987 I googled for any video footage of Crabby. And came up zero.  The best I could find was from the Wikipedia entry for Tom Terrific. And I quote: ‘…an arch-foe named Crabby Appleton, whose motto was "Rotten to the core!" ‘

[Vincek88]

@au33987 You might be conflating it with the mysterious Applegate estate in 'The Hardy Boys.'

I was a little too young for Tom Terrific, but it seems to be smart and funny like 'Rocky and Bullwinkle' and 'Beany & Cecil.'

[au33987]

@Vincek88 yup, I believe you are correct sir.

[telebob59]

This one's new to me! Thank ya sooo much, TooleMan. I recall seeing TT on "Capn' 'Roo (as it was known in our house growing up)" in the mid 1960s. Of course now at age 50, I don't recall every detail & such. Since educating myself about all things cartoon-related and as a fan of Gene Deitch's work, it's dee-lightful to see these again! "Pittsburgh," eh? Interesting, as I would have viewed these initially over KDKA-TV back in the day.

[143AC]

Dear Mr.Pointer, I'm referring to the fact that the pirate character in this

"Tom Terrific" "Terrytune"tv cartoon is a spoof of Walt Disney's version of"Capt.Hook".

[RayPointer]

It was Season Two where Gene was able to use some tones in the backgrounds.

Also, this is the Season Two opening.

The reason the first season was all line was because they couldn't afford to paint the cels. Gene stated this in my interview with him in 2004.

[BadNews88]

Note to 143AC:

Tom Terrific, as all TERRYTOONS films, are owned by CBS/Viacom/Paramount

[magicbypete]

Thank you. Thank you....I have fond memories of watching Tom Terrific in the early 60's. It was wonderful to see it again. I was 6 to8 years old at the time.

[143AC]

Oh My God! The Terry Tunes are spoofing "Captain Hook"

from Walt Disney's version of Jim Barrie's"Peter Pan".

[RayPointer]

@143AC Is it that or commenting on Disneyland with all the admission prices?

[RJRanke]

My early childhood television cartoon memories include seeing Tom Terrific on Capt.Kangaroo.

[RoyFive]

I wonder if Mr. Haney of Green Acres was inspired by Robinsnest Crusoe.

[tech2rescue]

This is so funny. The gay pirate was totally lost on me when I was a kid. The people who wrote this must have laughed their asses off over what they were passing off on old conservative TV.

[RayPointer]

@tech2rescue The concept of "gay" was not understood as a preschooler, but the "sissy" personality was. I got that aspect of it.

[sp4armyguy]

I don't but considering the fact that I'm

55 years old and Capt.kangaroo was

broadcast on CBS which has their

headquarters and their main studio in

NYC and I lived there for 50 years, you'd think that I'd know.!!!

[wuzzlesAgogo]

So you do admit you don't know if they showed re-runs of this n thesptrock's town on a local station even though you are 55 years old.

Because you are right, you don't know.

[sp4armyguy]

Hey there spotrocks, Tom Terrifis was NOT on the air in 1972.

This show was part of Capt.Kangaroo

which was on CBS-TV in the early 60's

to 1966.

[wuzzlesAgogo]

How do you know they didn't do re-runs in thesptrocks''s town on a local station?

[thespotrocks]

They brought this cartoon back in the early-1970s. I remember watching it on Captain Kangaroo in 1972 while getting ready for Kindergarten. Nice memories.

[talkingman]

As I recall, the transparent sheet was for "Winky Dink" not Tom Terrific.

[Goethefemme]

Different lyrics. What I remember is: I'm Tom Terrific, greatest hero ever. Terrific is the name for me, 'cause I'm so clever. I can be what I wanna be, and if you want to see, follow, come follow me. If you see a plane on high, a diesel train come roaring by, a bumble bee, or a tree, it's me. Where there is trouble, I'm there on the double. From Atlantic to Pacific, they know Tom Terrific. It's been over 50 years since I've heard that.

[yobonab]

Those are the lyrics I remember, too.

[TIPTON340]

This was before my time, I was born the year it debuted but didn't this cartoon appear on Capt. Kangaroo?

[4120Wade]

You could buy a transparent sheet of plastic to stick on the screen and then draw in whatever Tom needed to save himself! I know, I did it. It was the first interactive video.

[EASullivan]

It bothered me a bit that one could count one's teeth in the shadow cast by the x-rays from the unshielded 50's boob tubes -), but hey, I was up there with my apple-green sheet of clear vinyl and my yellow crayon anyway. Of course, I did find at age 45 that my thyroid glands were shot...

[4120Wade]

the tumors I got from being right next to the boob tube go well with the tumors I got from the flouriscope foot-sizer X-ray machines (I kid you not) that used to be in shoe stores and the other tumors I got from strontium 90 fallout from all the nuke testing.....

[EASullivan]

Are you a Denverite as well? I remember those Red Goose Shoes fluoroscopes and the "no milk this week kids, the AEC went a little test-happy over in St. George again"...

[4120Wade]

Have visited my brother's houses (he lived by City Park, then moved to Englewood) countless times in past 40 years, but grew up on Army bases in the '50's. Now live in LA. I miss the old used bookstores on Colfax! You're correct: it's spelled fluoroscope.

[143AC]

Whoever owns the rights to these "Tom Terrific"tv cartoons?

That person or company should rerelease all of the complete

episodes of these forgotten Terrytunes tv cartoons to the dvd

fans and if there are complete "CK" shows..too!

[Casey5693]

They can sure hold their breath for a long time.

[chaspagano]

brilliant floozie!

[Natureboy1]

I think I remember this but I cannot possibly be that old.

[HickysBoy]

These were ahhh... terrific! I thought they were quite entertaining and a bit profound. I wonder how the minimalist approach would work with today's generation? Thanks for posting.