This article is about the 1960s cartoon series. For the comic strip on which it is based, see Dick Tracy.
The Dick Tracy Show
Also known as
The Adventures of Dick Tracy
Genre
Crime, adventure, comedy
Created by
Chester Gould
Written by
Homer Brightman
Bob Ogle
Al Bertino
Dick Kinney
Ed Nofziger
Chester Gould
Directed by
Grant Simmons
Clyde Geronimi
Ray Patterson
Brad Case
Steve Clark
John Walker
David Detiege
Paul Fennell
Abe Levitow
Presented by
UPA
Voices of
Paul Frees
Everett Sloane
Mel Blanc
Johnny Coons
Jerry Hausner
Benny Rubin
Theme music composer
Carl Brandt
Composers
Carl Brandt
George Steiner
Country of origin
United States
Original language
English
No. of seasons
1
No. of episodes
130
Production
Executive producers
Peter DeMet
Henry G. Saperstein
Editor
Ted Baker
Running time
5 minutes
Original release
Network
First-run syndication
Release
January 1, 1961 (1961-01-01) – January 1, 1962 (1962-01-01)
Related
The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo
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The Dick Tracy Show is an American animated television series based on Chester Gould's comic strip crime fighter. The series was produced from 1961 to 1962 by UPA.[1]
In the show, policeman Dick Tracy employed a series of cartoony subordinate flatfoots to fight crime each week, contacting them on his two-way wristwatch radio.[2] Tracy himself hardly appeared on the show at all.[3] The opening was designed so that local TV hosts dressed as policemen could introduce the cartoon by barking orders into a prop intercom, with Tracy answering "Okay, chief, I'll get on it right away."[3]
A live action show, Dick Tracy, aired on ABC from 1950 to 1951.[4]
^Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 154–155. ISBN 978-1538103739.
^Woolery, George W. (1983). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981. Scarecrow Press. pp. 81–82. ISBN 0-8108-1557-5. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
^ abErickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 245–247. ISBN 978-1476665993.
^Woolery, George W. (1985). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part II: Live, Film, and Tape Series. The Scarecrow Press. pp. 148–149. ISBN 0-8108-1651-2.
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