Max, the 2000 Year-Old Mouse "Daniel Boone"

This educational cartoon, hosted by an animated mouse-historian, used still pictures and limited animation to tell stories about people and events from the last 2000 years. Syndicated in 1969. A Krantz Animation/Quality Entertainment/ARP Production. Produced by Steve Krantz. Directed by Shamus Culhane. Narrated by Bernard Cowan. Voice of Max: Paul Soles. The public domain theme music was later used by Siskel and Ebert's movie review series for PBS, "Sneak Previews".

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Film & Animation

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• Max
• 2000YearOldMouse
• Krantz
• ShamusCulhane

[videoplusdvd]

Krantz Productions was also resposible for SPider-Man, The Hulk, The Mighty Thor, etc. Bernard Cowan's Vidcraft also produced The Rankin-Bass 'New Adventures of Pinocchio' and 'Tales Of The Wizarcd Of Oz' series. 'Cowan was also the voiceover for the 'Wayne & Shuster' specials for CBC.

[nardpuncher]

I used to watch this on CKND in winnipeg. I makes me think of a winter's Saturday before the sun even came up, watching cartoons, with this in between.

 Great memories!

[jgbennie]

@sittlerfan70 You must be in Ontario. Here in BC, we got the Bellingham and Seattle stations, so we got to see all the old Warners and Fleischer cartoons and the Woody and Lantz half-hour shows.

Bernard Cowan is a great narrator.

The theme music is by Phil Green, Emil Cadkin and Bill Loose. It probably came from the Capitol library like their other stuff.

[sittlerfan70]

Yep brings me back as well as a child of the 70's. Rocket Robin Hood, The Uncle Bobby Show with Bimbo the Birthday Clown, Max the 2000 year old Mouse.

My kids don't know how good they have it for kids shows. Saturday mornings, we'd get the original Spiderman, Rocket Robin Hood with Max the 2000 year old mouse and that was about it. Then it was Abbott and Costello or Henry Aldridge or the Three Stooges movie starting around 9 or 10 am on Saturday morning.

[AtomicMutant]

yeesh, you don't sound very postitive on it. Never thought I'd see the words "Crappy" and "thanks" in the same sentence ;) ... I remember watching it as a kid too and just sorta getting through it. It was a cartooon, so you watched it, more out of habit I think ... Odd to think it had so much American history and yet it was a Canadian production. pretty obvious whom their market was.

[AtomicMutant]

I didn't realize intil just now that it's teh same voice that did the voice-over for Rocket Robin Hood. Was just watching some rocket robin hood on youtube a few minutes ago ... I haven't watched either in probably 25 years ...

[Groome007]

Oh wow ... another hideous Canadian TV creation lives on in YouTube! I've searched for this over the years ... i hated it as a child (but still saw it 10,000 times) ... and i can safely say after watching 45 seconds of it, it is still just as crappy now as it was back then..

Thanks for uploading! :D

[higuero773]

I love Max! Esas caricaturas me ayudaron a conocer mucho sobre la historia de USA siendo apenas un niño de 8 años. Buena falta que le hace a los niños de hoy.

[legioncoleke]

Brings me back . . .thanks.

[kungfujiapple]

From 1967.