Tom Terrific- Go West young Manfred (1958)
1958 · Animation · 10 min
- Animation
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Tom Terrific was an early animated series on American television, presented as part of the Captain Kangaroo children's television show. Created by Gene Deitch under the Terrytoons studio (which was a subsidiary of CBS), Tom Terrific ran in a series of five-minute cartoons created specifically for the Captain Kangaroo show from 1957-1959, and was rerun on Kangaroo for years thereafter. He had a comic lazybones of a sidekick, Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog, and an arch-foe named Crabby Appleton,…
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★★★★★ · Mesmerized · SaraBellePalsy · 2017-02-20
When I watched this as a kid (I was only 4 years old) I was fascinated by Terriffic Tom, and could imagine I'd travel right along with him on his adventures! How the simplest of cartoons could still drive your imagination. The same thing should be tried today. (I bet it would work out just fine, too)
