Copy. Perhaps it was during that final season of the show when he finally got to direct the episodes. Vote Now! Add to Favorites Vintage Whitman Deputy Dawg Jigsaw Puzzle 1972 5 out of 5 stars (1.4k) Sale Price $19.80 . The Dawg Deputy Show was held from 8th September 1962 until 25th May 1963 every week (with a brief hiatus in December 1962). In the end, its just a cartoon show about a buffoonish dog and some rodent type creatures trying to steal food, and his hilariously bad attempts to stop them. Walt Kellys Pogo character started out looking more or less like an opossum in Animal Comics, but he evolved in to a design which looks a lot like a furry Mickey Mouse head without the little black nose on the end of the snout and minus the mouse ears, of course. Jan 2016 - Oct 20171 year 10 months. Deputy Dawg didnt include the political satire that Kelly wold put into his strip. Schrader said the rollout is an extensive process that takes time. CBS got what they wanted from the studio by the time they called it quits and kept those cartoons in circulation as long as possible. [Luno, anyone? The first few cartoons have that audio splice; some more egregious than others, such as the case in Shotgun Shambles (Prod. Hope to see more Terrytoons lilke Heckle and Jeckle, Mighty Mouse, etc, with restored ful theatrical credits as opposed to the TV titles that are more commonly seen. Syndication was certainly an established option by this time in television animation, what is perplexing to me is how far into production Possible Possum (version 1) got before somebody put the brakes on it. Deputy Dawg also appeared in the 1999 pilot Curbside.[8]. Consequently, only European Americans greeted the star at Midtown. The Deputy Dawg Show Episode 4 - Lil Whooper. My Foot Bones! The Deputy Dawg Show was the first made-for-TV all-cartoon effort from the Terrytoons studio. This show aired on stations all over the united states, including in Los Angeles! This was pretty much the only real antagonism between them and Deputy Dawg the rest of the time theyre depicted as good buddies. Tyrion annoys Jorah Mormont. Alligator, reminiscent of Pogos pal Albert. Deputy Dawg White T-Shirt Unisex Cotton Tee Funny Gift All Size S-234XL NN201. The Disney/Pixar film Toy Story and its sequels contain Slinky Dog as a fictitious pet cartoon character. Deputy Dawg's Nephew There have not yet been any votes for "Deputy Dawg's Nephew". CBSs syndication business (CBS Films) was growing (particularly with I Love Lucy and the Desilu library) and since they owned Terrytoons, whatever they produced would add value to the catalog. Physical Fatiness has Dawg trying to lose weight, and the boys help him out. The show was produced by CBS and was the professional animation debut of Ralph Bakshi (as inbetweener) of Fritz the Cat fame. Terrytoons did rally a bit near the end with Bakshis The Mighty Heroes, though it failed to catch on. As with their marketing to television stations, the agency and company restricted the stars travels to the South. . CBS immediately went to work on a second batch episodes after the reports of high ratings, and it completed another 104 films in the spring of 1961. LNBL and Lays had nothing to do with this progress, but they could now claim that their character appeared at an integrated event. The woman has not been publicly identified. muskie shares the same skin color as african americans When the tour began in September 1961, it barely missed becoming engulfed in a prolonged civil rights demonstration. Many similar attributes. The reason I linked that Possum cartoon is because it was one of the few I found with original end credits. The fact that they were mistreated there is not a reflection on the show as much as it is a reflection on the poor actions of some of the European-Americans at that event. I will following this site for now on. Hastings, said the woman committed a racist verbal attack and that it could constitute a hate incident an act of hostility that is motivated by characteristics such as race, religion or sexual orientation but does not rise to the level of a crime. I watched Deputy as a kid when it was new. When a portly prison deputy named G. M. Tyson told them in a thick drawl to stop singing or he would take their mattresses, they sang anyway. After two weeks of sales in May 1960, CBS made $600,000 in sales to fifteen major television stations. Randy, sadly or not, the Terrytoons are owned and controlled by CBS, complete and outright, so if they decided to do anything, it could be via them or olive, May 10, 2015. Its amazing that so many readers took the above highly opinionated, biased article as fact. The author even points out that African-American children showed up at events to see the live-action Deputy Dawg. It premiered in syndication in 1959. 2. Sixteen theatrical subjects have been released so far this year, and a new TV half-hour series titled Deputy DWG [sic] is in production, according to William M. Weiss, v-p and general manager. A bull flees from Mexico because he doesn't want to participate in bullfighting. Bakshi began his career in the 1950s as a cel painter on shows like "Deputy Dawg" before going out on . "The itis". To this day, I still mimic Muskie Muskrat saying Its possi-byool its possi-byool. While Muskie Muskrat was the antagonist, along with Vincent Van Gopher, there were episodes in which Deputy Dawg and Muskie joined forces and, when it seemed like Deputy Dawg was going to get himself in trouble with the Sheriff (the only human in the whole series), Muskie, Vince and that alligator (whose name I dont recall right now) helped absolve him of all blame. (And no, Larz Bourne didnt write any of those 3 cartoons. John Myers, a visiting professor of law at U.C. Jerry: That month the live-action Deputy Dawg visited the Midtown Shopping Center in the downtown area of Albany, Georgia. In fact, the premiere episode, Shotgun Shambles, Deputy Dawg is posting Muskrat Hunting Season signs, but apparently only out of duty because the rest of the episode has him protecting Muskie from the hunter and even going out of his way to torment the hunter. Thanks for replying, Paul. I own Goyetche Institute Inc and Witch Dr Supplements Inc here in New Brunswick, Canada. How/why some modern day observers are so positively determined to find racism in charming kids cartoons is the real question. At least one of the Dawg cartoons had a beatnik duck; eventually saw him again as sidekick to a W.C. Fields donkey (one shot of series?). However, some civil rights activists in the South saw Deputy Dawg as a symbol of police enforcement of segregation laws against African Americans. Werent some Deputy Dawg cartoons released theatrically? I think Jerry is right about this. Quite right, I watched it here in the UK in 60s and it was just a funny kids cartoon. But, he added, she lost credibility when she got personal. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deputy_Dawg&oldid=1146445755, This page was last edited on 24 March 2023, at 22:52. After serving in World War II, he moved to New York to work as a writer at Famous Studios, and while there he set many cartoons in the South. cox45douglas. There tends to be too much effort to read personal issues into things that simply are not there. Originally from Miami, she holds a masters degree in journalism from USC. Comment * document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id", "af61380403d8e97e1be5c3991d148de1" );document.getElementById("i81fec714c").setAttribute( "id", "comment" ); Charles Brubaker is a cartoonist originally from Japan. Vocally speaking, early Muskies catchphrase remains Its possible, its possible, still suggestive of his original name. It was a kids show after all, with broad slapstick humor, and any topicality was soft-pedaled if it existed at all. The character of Deputy Dawg originated in 1959 as part of a projected series entitled Possible Possum, intended as a component of the Captain Kangaroo Show. Deputy Dawg you see is actually grey: http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=34673.120, I found this site because I have an old copper Deputy Dawg head mold. These included, at various times, Huckleberry Hound' (after is first season on KNXT), Quick Draw McGraw, The Yogi Bear Show,The Woody Woodpecker Show (after its network run ended), and the Dick Tracy and Mr. These stereotype references were always obvious because it was part of the (sometimes cruel) humor. The later Possible Possum series made its proper debut the following year, with Larz Bourne again handling the stories; but the team took great pains to remove any direct Pogo influence, including changing the main setting from the swamp to a country village, as well as featuring no alligator lead in the cast, instead highlighting Billy Bear as the larger, bulkier friend of Poss. The Deputy Dawg Showa cartoon series from the studio Terrytoonsaired on television during the last years of legal segregation in the early 1960s, and Jim Crow in the South significantly shaped the program. By the early 60s, animated TV series prime time and afternoon were booming. L'il Whooper (1962) Terrytoons - Deputy Dawg. You can say that of course, a real muskrat might really steal eggs, but then thats exactly why they put an anthropomorphic muskrat in the mix it allows them to use old minstrel show routines about no-good egg-stealing Negroes, ostensibly without offending anyone, but in reality the point could not be missed by a black audience well used to being the target of such conventions. Ive had this recollection of seeing one at a record shop that sold paraphenalia. Friend Fox (Deputy Dawg) For The Deputy Dawg Show, LNBL secured sponsorship from fellow Atlantan Herman W. Lay of Lays Potato Chips. Wiki User. Finally, I have a theatrical print of Nobodys Ghoul, and it has a modified version of the Deputy Dawg end credits that was shown in the TV package, but with a Color by Deluxe and Distributed by 20th Century Fox notice edited in. Even if it wasnt original, It still was a fun little show that I used to enjoy as a kid, watching old episodes on VHS. On May 17th, 1959, The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution published the earliest-known public statements about the show as part of an interview with its voice actor, Dayton Allen. for a mouse, and the garden patch for a house), and made it the entire premise of the series! [The] Kangaroo people were very concerned, and changes [were] made there was trouble afoot, Im sure. But the changes werent enough: Captain Kangaroo backed out. This lead to CBS and Terrytoons head Bill Weiss switching plans, as they were still committed to getting the new cartoon produced. The copy of The Yolks On You that I have, has a end title spliced in from a much older theatrical Terrytoon. As a black child growing up in the south during that error of segregation it never crossed my mind that the cartoon was somewhat affiliated with that type of history and I really enjoyed watching every episode. Mr. Alligator appeared less often after the first few cartoons. I grew up watching Deputy Dawg along with other cartoons that aired on Saturday mornings and during The Bozo Show, which included not only the standard Looney Toon and Popeye fare, but also cartoons like Beany and Cecil and Little Audrey. Your email address will not be published. Deputy Dawg is a Terrytoons cartoon character, featured on the animated television series of the same name that aired from 1960 to 1964.The character of Depu. But singling out the marketing of Deputy Dawg in this way is probably also unrealistic. The trio of Deputy Dawg, Muskie, and Vincent try to hide the bull from the cruel matador. With the relationship between Deputy Dawg and The Sheriff, I saw funny swipes at workplace hierarchy. Looking back over some of the shorts, what strikes this observer as notable is the musical score. I found that some of the theatricals actually used gang credits thats common in TV animation, like the final 12 James Hound cartoons (the first 5, however, had unique credits for individual shorts). In retrospect, Im surprised we didnt see a lot of editorial cartoonists or others latch onto Deputy Dawg as shorthand. Later that fall the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee brought its year-old sit-in campaign to town, and the activists continued desegregation efforts there through 1963. Also: Musky nearly becoming roadkill is disturbing on so many levels. Its interesting that The Yokes On You print embedded in this post has theatrical titles on it. Also, we were all watching them on monochrome TV sets, and so had no idea of the color of any of the characters other than shades of gray. Thanks for this interesting account of how Deputy Dawg evolved from a rather obvious Pogo knock-off. Neither Muskie nor Possible look very much like opossums though that may be attributed to the Terrytoons character design department at the time but I daresay that the existence of a syndicated cartoon starring a possum who lives around a swamp (and has an alligator pal given to wearing hats) would likely have raised the hackles of Walt Kelly. Ray Pointer, thank you. Lays $400,000 gamble yielded a lucrative payoff. Christopher , when I watched Deputy Dawg as a child I saw it as funny, rural slapstick humor. As for Captain Kangaroo, Terrytoons would finally produce a new cartoon series for them with The Adventures of Lariat Sam in 1962. As a professor of ethnic studies, the author of this article apparently needs to learn the difference between learning from actual history and rewriting history to suit a particular narrative. Norfolk, VA. Real Name. The other two would be one-shots out of the vast library of Terrytoons shorts. 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