Dick Tracy - Red Hot Riding Hood - Ep 01

[altfactor]

I believe these shorts were produced and syndicated to TV stations in such a way that they could use one at a time as part of a local children's show (with the opening and closing credits appearing before each one), or five in a row as a separate half-hour program, with the opening and closing credits appearing only at the start and end of the half-hour.

[Funkenomics]

Does anyone know where I can download this show?

[fromthesidelines]

Tracy's standard opening line, "Okay, Chief- I'll get on it right away", was designed to be a link between the live-action host of the local show Tracy's cartoon was featured on- "Officer Joe" (or whoever was hosting) would "call" Dick, telling him he was needed on a very important case, et. al....cue the opening title.

[cammy85]

@fromthesidelines Oh, I see!! I'm watching this series on Netflix right now. It's pretty neat!! :)

[LordRobotnik]

1:38 All Engines in this episode are powered by Rocky the Flying Squirrel.

[BillFugate]

Most of these villains were long dead in the comic strip. Stooge Viller was shot to death by his own daughter. Itchy Oliver was shot to death by Tracy himself. The Brow was impaled on a flagpole. Tracy's enemies tended to end up dead. One of the reasons he was so beloved by generations of red-blooded young Americans.

[RRaquello]

In the real Dick Tracy strips, BB Eyes & Flattop had something in common—they both drowned. Only BB Eyes was dead before Flattop ever appeared in the strips, so they never could have worked together.

[fubukifangirl]

@RRaquello Not to say they couldn't have met in the past before they met Dick Tracy?

[ftsjr]

What a great childhood memory!

[HaggisMcCrablice]

Anybody got one of my favorite eps, "Cheater Gunsmoke"?

[n64by44]

lolz. at 4:14. NYang Nyang Nyang Nyang Nyang...

[RJRanke]

In these Dick Tracy cartoons,Dick himself had little to do with the action.They were a disappointment to me,who was also reading the comic strip.I hear Chester Gould wasn't too thrilled by this series either.

[fubukifangirl]

@RJRanke You have to wonder how the cartoon came to be known as "Dick Tracy" since all he ever does is give orders.

[TheRadicalOneNG]

Such wasted potential. You could just have Tracy going around clobbering crooks and cracking one-liners. El Kabong got that right, why not Tracy?

[9TheMajor]

Does Cary Grant do Hemlock Holmes' voice?

[dedanw]

oh my god dick tracy used tp be so lame.

[cha5]

@dedanw

Yeah he just sat on his ass behind a desk and gave crimebusting assignments to unfunny animals and other characters,

I'll take the original Gould strip anyday over this cartoon.

[whatthehecksores]

The movie Dick Tracy is better than the show

[HHamburgDigg0]

this cartoon is just alot of shit

[bud9133]

2:47 Where can I get that sound effect!?

[tjhoenecke]

@bud9133 @ 2:47 apparently

[acholl980]

I agree even though it was around the time Gould was focusing on his outer space stories ( he had a daughter-in-law named Moon Maid) at least we see more of Tracy.

[bigg3469]

That was the Voice of Benny Rubins as the original Flattop.( Later Benny Rubins did the voice of Joe Jitsu & Both Paul Frees & Mel Blanc shared the Voice over duties of Flattop.)

[acholl980]

Blanc also did Go-Go Gomez. (a take on his Speedy Gonzalez)

[bigg3469]

Paul Frees did the voice of Manuel Tijuana Guadalajara Tampico "Go-go" Gomez Jr not Mel Blanc even though both Mel Blanc & Paul Frees share the voice over duties of Flattop.

[FluffyCerberus]

This cartoon basically followed the same formula: Tracy calls in "guest cop." Cop chases bad guys. When it looks like he's in trouble, he updates Tracy. Bad guys get caught and Tracy shows up at the end. The series was done by the same studio that produced Mr. Magoo.

[Lehnerd57]

yea i notice  edit out that someone should had left that in dvd.....set to

[MondoBeno]

I don't remember this cartoon.

[Dragonrider1227]

Dude, Dick Tracy doesn't even DO anything in this show. He just sits behind a desk. The Warren Betty Tracy could kick this Tracy's ass without even thinking about it

[radeakins]

i think the opening credits is the best part!

[DRAGONBALL74]

lol "We got the dough, now lets blow!" Can somebody say HOMO?

[chasxyz1234]

This is an edited opening. I remember where Dick points his gun straight at the viewer, the open gun barrel (ala James Bond) fills the screen, Dick fires three times and you see three villians each time( I think they leave out Cheater Gunsmoke and Oodles). I guess that was the P.C.police at it for the "scary image".

[VarunMehtasWorld]

yeah ur right

[MysteryManfrom79]

I know the opening you mean. My memory thought this was edited too, but it was actually a different version altogether (and was on YouTube till about a year ago too!). The version you mean used to start with the car coming round the corner (like at 11 secs) rather than the ariel view of the city streets. Then Tracy would fire his gun revealing a villain with each shot, and the car would pull up outside the station. I believe this version also used the music heard at the end rather than the norm.

[Juliaflo]

@chasxyz1234 I saw the edited openings and to my knowledge Cheater Gunsmoke is NEVER in any of them.

[chasxyz1234]

@Juliaflo I saw a DVD release that didn't have him firing the gun at the viewer, but as I remember, he fires three times and each time three villains appear, but I remember that Cheater and Oodles were left out. Even more strangely, the DVD I saw had Joe Jitsu episodes but no Go Go Gomez. If they were going to get all PC on us, I find Joe Jitsu more offensive and racist than Go Go, who to me is just Speedy Gonzalez in "human" form and Speedy is on the Warner cartoon collections, so what gives?

[Juliaflo]

@chasxyz1234 The DVD I have has all 130 episodes, featuring all of the 'good guys', i.e., Hemlock Holmes, Joe Jitsu, Heap O'Calorie, and Manuel 'Go-Go' Gomez.

[Juliaflo]

@chasxyz1234 I don't know, but the DVD set I have has all 130 episodes. Six-two and even, over and out.

[chasxyz1234]

@Juliaflo I borrowed mine from the library. It wasn't complete. I think it was an older DVD from Good Time Videos or one of those other fly-by-night companies. I loved the show as a kid (Ch. 9 WOR, NYC) but now, you seen one, you seen 'em all. Same with the Mighty Heroes et .al. The only one I can still stand is Spider-Man but mostly because of the music and Geo. Pal's Puppetoons because of the incredible amount of work put into those. Okay chief, I'll get right on it.

[Juliaflo]

@chasxyz1234 Actually, it's 'Okay, Chief, I'll get on it right away'. Six-two and even, over and out.

Incidentally, I do a good Mumbles imitation, even at my age (uh-uh, don't ask, LOLOLOL).

Have a good day.

[chasxyz1234]

@Juliaflo I'm 50 myself so don't sweat it kiddo. I did a Mumbles imitation while my dad and I were visiting old friends of his.They thought I was choking and were angry with me afterwards. Incidentally, when I finally read the original Mumbles strips (one of my favorite Dick Tracy storylines), I realized what a poor substitute both this show and the Archie's TV Funnies versions were in trying to recreate his speaking "voice".

[ericinwisconsin]

This had so little to do with what the Dick Tracy strip was, that I'm surprised that Chester Gould allowed it. Must have been a case of "take the money and run".

[XenoAlex2222]

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[cha5]

Probably so Ericinwisconsin,

I used to read Gould's strip back in the 1970s and I've been getting into the IDW Dick Tracy strip reprints from the

1930s-1940s, great stuff unlike this mediocre cartoon IMHO.

(sorry all you cartoon fans)

[GeraldWatercrest]

Oh wow...I used to watch these all the time as a kid; I had a sweet VHS collection.

[lazyel]

the sound effects at 2:47 i think is called "mad clockworks"...Superchicken, Bulwinkle and Rocky, etc.

[ClawMachine44]

It's again at 3:27 and 4:25.

[rh117]

i'd fuck dick tracy up if he ever came to my town

west side for life ese

[DRAGONBALL74]

WOW you have to be fucking kidding!

[rh117]

i am lol

[webhead37]

Dick Tracy didn't do anything

[CarolinaNIM]

Very seldom did he do anything but show up at the end and say, "Good work." He didn't even do that in this first one. The most I remember him dong was doing a trick shot to shut off a saw that was about to carve up Hemlock.

[acholl980]

All Tracy did on the show was give everyone their assignments at the beginning, say good work at the end and give 'Crimestopper' sermons inbetween episodes. Not what you expect from Dick Tracy. Dick had better luck when he appeared in a Mr. Magoo special made the same year. That was when Dick ask Magoo help to catch a doppelganger.

[RJRanke]

@acholl980

I liked the Dick Tracy/Mr.Magoo show a lot better than these cartoons.I liked the fact that Chief Patton was in it also-and that Hemlock Holmes & the rest weren't.

[vynilistic]

Dick Tracy looks nothing like himself in this debut cartoon. He was greatly improved from the second one onward.

[Jinks1447]

I used to watch these cartoons on a regular basis. They are a hoot! I agree completely with the earliker post about the "idiot media."

[atwater8991]

Hemlock was the worst - Go Go Gomez was the best!

[Catstalker666]

wtf?

[blattman13]

Everybodys voice is a celebrity parody. Even down to the keystone kops. Loved their chatter. "break the law, eh?" lol

[cd637299]

Is there a name for that sound effect at 2:47? I hear it on other cartoons.....

[BettyBoop4ever25]

LOOOOOOOOOOL this is sooo funny XD why cant todays crappy cartoons be more like this classic?

[Posthumanism]

Hemlocks accent is awful.

[TMC1982Part2]

Hemlock's voice was apparently, patterned after Cary Grant's.

[RoyFive]

"Ju-dy! Ju-dy! Ju-dy!" Pleeeease!

[JerkwaterJones]

What the hell? He's masturbating in the phone booth!

[crapfarmer33]

2:31

xD

[IZZChampionship9511]

I like the way Flattop has the stereotypical mad cartoon scientist voice.

[VensikyBlack]

Even though this was made waaaaay before my time, I used to love this show. Heh, my mother bought loads on video. Go Go Gomez was by far my favourite.

[Juliaflo]

Manuel Tijuana Guadalajara Tampico Gomez, Jr.

I have the DVDs

[doktorkloride]

I love old shows like this, they depict a stronger and more reliant use of animation and a more innocent time in our nation's history.

[hailbrainiac]

Who was the retard who came up with the idea of making Hemlock a dog? Pretty lame & makes little sense.

[jago483]

i like flattops voice in this episode why did it have to change in the other episodes.

[fromthesidelines]

I believe WOR-TV [Channel 9] in New York "bought" the "TRACY" package in 1961, 'julia'- "Officer" Joe Bolton was host of WPIX-TV's {Channel 11} "Three Stooges" daily half-hour at the time.

[Juliaflo]

This is the episode that started it all.

Six-two and even, over and out.

[chuggachuggawoowoo]

The so-called "stereotypes" are what made it funny. America was not ruled by the idiot media then, and we are able to laugh at each other and ourselves without being monitored.

[fromthesidelines]

This series of "Dick Tracy" cartoons (which featured VERY LITTLE of "Our Hero" in favor of his operatives [Hemlock Holmes and "The Retouchables", Go-Go Gomez, Joe Jitsu]), produced by UPA, premiered in syndication in January 1961, usually with a local host [as a policeman, natch] inbetween the cartoons.

[Juliaflo]

Is it possible that you may be speaking of the wonderful Joe Bolton (who played Chief)?

[EarlSnohomish]

I agree. The Filmation version was closer to Chester Gould's conception (DC was my favorite comic strip as a kid, BTW).

With that said, I enjoyed these earlier cartoons when they aired on WOR during the Seventies. The stereotypes make me a cringe a little bit more than they did back then, though. :-)

[vividwatch47]

Same here.  I thought the U.P.A. cartoons were the worst representation of the strip.

[EarlSnohomish]

"I agree. The Filmation version was closer to Chester Gould's conception (DC was my favorite comic strip as a kid, BTW)."

I meant to type that DT (Dick Tracy) was my favorite comic strip as a kid. Since DC Comics were my favorite comic books back then, that probably explains my typo.

[Mullahgrrl]

Glat to see Dick Tracy doing anything at all!

[Sesquipedaliantique]

Now THAT'S how ya make a cartoon!

[rainbowphoenix42]

Got to love the ridiculous faux-english accent and the bad cockney. The 60s was rife with great stereotypes, I miss them.

[Sesquipedaliantique]

All the accents in this are ludicrous, I love it.

[EarlSnohomish]

Hemlock Holmes is supposed to sound like Cary Grant.

[joewalshman]

The villains were great how they had a certain appearance based upon their name. BB Eyes, Flattop, The Brow, etc... genius

[Gernot]

I grew up watchin' Dick Tracy, Popeye, & Bugs Bunny in the '60's! Thanks!

Oh, what year did these cartoons come out? Do you know? :)

[RetroHeroes]

This series came out in 1961.

[Gernot]

So, it was the same year Popeye came out! BOTH were done very much on the cheap, but were fun as heck! :)

Thanks!

[Gernot]

I loved these cartoons, as well as all the Popeye & Bugs Bunny when I was a boy in the 1960's!

Does anyone know what year these Dick Tracy cartoons were made? :)

[EFan1982]

I love how the voices are bad impressions of Film stars from the era.

[EarlSnohomish]

Besides Cary Grant, I hear Edward G. Robinson and Peter Lorre in this episode.

[vividwatch47]

Everett Sloane was the voice of Dick Tracy.

[Zeddtar]

Nice video