As per the December 2nd, 1959 edition of Variety, the original incarnation was considered for broadcast as part of Captain Kangaroo; perhaps as a replacement for Tom Terrific. Consequently, African American children had to suffer Jim Crows humiliation in order to see Deputy Dawg in person. Silly Hillbilly was written by I. Klein, and both cartoons with Virgy/Possum Pearl were written by Jack Mercer.). This also gives me an opportunity to say how much I enjoyed the book The Colored Cartoon that is on my library shelf. The Deputy Dawg Show Episode 7 - Cotton Pickin Picnic. Now, here comes Ryan . John Myers, a visiting professor of law at U.C. 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. Not Hollywood, not L.A., not the country, At 19, he won a local school board seat. Larz Bourne came up with the series concept and drew the first storyboards. featuring Deputy Dawg, Vincent Van Gopher, Ty Coon, Pig Newton, Muskie the Muskrat. He turns it into a fishing vessel, and He and Muskie go fishing for catfish! Deputy Dawg Comic Book Values. Its more of a regional appeal issue, so whats the harm in that? Comment * document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id", "aaa09de6c8b982f6b9093143864eb19d" );document.getElementById("i81fec714c").setAttribute( "id", "comment" ); Christopher P. Lehman is a professor of ethnic studies at St. But an ongoing series like the planned Possible Possum arguably moved beyond parody. Cloud State University in St. Originally from Miami, she holds a masters degree in journalism from USC. As an added measure, the team switched to making Deputy Dawg the main star instead, with the show now named after him. 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. Its also quite evident, after Deputy became the star, that the character designs/layouts needed more to become cuter in order to hold the show. How/why some modern day observers are so positively determined to find racism in charming kids cartoons is the real question. On the other hand, a lot of the TV shorts sent to theaters do have unique end credits attached. And woodland animals are often brown, and most will raid chicken coops if given the opportunity. Lil Whooper (Deputy Dawg) Throughout the second season (1961-62), LNBL and Lays coordinated a publicity tour for The Deputy Dawg Show. Cannot find any others like it, and have been researching Deputy Dawg. because he was part rabbit. Story man Larz Bourne, billed as chief writer in publicity, created the concept and, by most accounts, drew the first boards. Even without Captain Kangaroo, Weiss and Bourne made good on revising the series. Butboards for what? Its possible! Bakshi explains that this was why Terrytoons original plans for a Captain Kangaroo premiere fell apart. As far as I thought, it was a direct take on Pogo, Bakshi recollects. Watch. That month the live-action Deputy Dawg visited the Midtown Shopping Center in the downtown area of Albany, Georgia. Both characters starred in three cartoons, all made in 1964: Short-term Sheriff, Oil Thru the Day and The Red Tractor. Unbelievable! If the blustering Colonels full name, Montgomery J. Klaxon, seemed too uncomfortably Klannish to be funny, that might be one reason why the show seemed out of its time and did not succeed. Hayley Smith covers breaking news in California with a focus on wildfires, drought and climate change. Many local stations ran Deputy Dawg from 6 to 7 p.m., directly competing with Hanna-Barbera cartoons. MH. The matador from the bullfighting arena comes to take the bull back to Mexico. Something I found is the credits for Terrytoons in the 1960s was all over the place. "The itis". But he denied the Met was a "racist organisation". Video Treasures issued five "Deputy Dawg" VHS tapes in 1989. I think BBC1 first aired the show . Huckleberry Hound has an almost beatnik edge to his persona, and Quick Draw was hilarious. Although it is illegal to have your phone in your hand while driving in California, some experts said the womans defense that she was using the device to film the deputy is a legal gray area. Friend Fox (Deputy Dawg) Even non-African-American characters were occasionally shown in blackface. Hey, this was the way I saw the character. The exact story of how Deputy Dawg was developed is incomplete, but early press coverage and related research bring new revelations to light. Were the earlier designs for the first ones done by Dave Tendlar? I grew up in Decatur Alabama in the 60s. While one could read a civil-rights theme into Deputy Dawg, thees another likely inspiration: the syndicated Pogo comic strip, drawn by Walt Kelly. 2 1. No one but the creators of the cartoon can know exactly what was their intent. There is some history in this article. 5 that year..very popular!! Jim Crow Museum. I found a handful with gang credits in the end, but also a few with individual directors listed. Seize You Later, Alligator (1962) Terrytoons - Deputy Dawg. Who came up with the misguided Pogo parody concept, a Terrytoons person or a CBS exec? I am always fascinated by cartoons being put into the context of the time when they were released. LNBL and Lays had nothing to do with this progress, but they could now claim that their character appeared at an integrated event. No political formation in Britain is more ostentatiously loyal to Nato's US leadership. Discussion with 1960s Terry mainstay Ralph Bakshi, and close inspection of the earliest shorts, reveals that this was no accident: Muskie Muskrat was indeed originally going to be Possible Possum, and the series was to have focused on him before Bourne made Deputy Dawg the star. It assumes that you know what the motivations of this particular [deputy] are, Armour said of her actions. 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. cox45douglas. Consequently, only European Americans greeted the star at Midtown. I dont recall when I first saw Deputy Dawg (perhaps from home video), but I do remember Possible Possum often showing up on CBS affiliate WTOLs Patches & Pockets program during the 1980s here in Toledo, sometimes those cartoons also showed up as filler after certain movies as well. I was to young to know the true orgin of its creation, like other cartoons during that period as kids we just loved watching them and as an adult now often remminsesce about our favorite cartoons. For all their relatively low profile, ya gotta give Terrytoons credit for hanging in there all those years. And as for instances of the cartoon being shown in theaters with colored-only sections, nearly ALL theaters at the time had colored-only sections, even those that were NOT showing Deputy Dawg. The station where the deputy works is slotted to receive the cameras this summer, she said. In Kingsport, Tennessee, the Taylor Drive-In Theater played the cartoons Where Theres Smoke and Nobodys Ghoul. A canine sheriff's deputy in a backwoods Southern town always manages to catch the bad guy, despite his own ineptitude. Now I cant un-see it! Reruns of The Deputy Dawg Show aired in syndicated television for the next two decades, but the days of costumed characters visiting whites only venues were over. In Stokely Carmichaels autobiography Ready for Revolution, he recalled that he and his fellow student inmates derisively nicknamed Tyson Deputy Dawg.. Earlier Dawg directors such as Bill Tytla, Tom Golden and Marty Taras are missing as well. I think a lot of this article, although sounding authoritative, is a result of someone being overly-sensitive and trying to find racism where there is none to be found. 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. 1963. Some type of political statement perhaps? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8e-LCHyDjo. My Foot Bones! - Mama, please. Required fields are marked *. That station loved to run cartoons in that slot on weekday nights. They lost safety Keanu Neal to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Plus, African-Americans enjoyed the cartoon as much as European-Americans (interesting name). This was one of the most informative and, to my eye, one of the most well researched blog posts Ive read in quite some time. In the summer of 1961, college students integrated some chartered buses and drove through the Deep South to test recent federal desegregation of interstate buses. IIRC, it was one of those posters with outlines in black velvet and printed in flourescent colors. Terry was the first major animation studio to effectively put together a big package of cartoons for syndication and network TV, with several compilation shows of their vintage theatrical shorts, including Barker Bill, Farmer Al Falfa and His Terrytoon Pals, and Mighty Mouse Playhouse. Deputy Dawg, the character, was too much of a buffoon to be very threatening as an authority figure, and even if he did put Muskie in the lockup from time to time, it was only so that Muskie could talk his way out. Does this sound right from around the late 70s? Today. Deputy Dawg White T-Shirt Unisex Cotton Tee Funny Gift All Size S-234XL NN201. Could that cartoon have been a jibe at the Captain Kangaroo people for their erstwhile skittishness at Terrytoons ripping off copyrighted characters? The notion that Deputy Dawg and Muskie are enemies because theyre of different races is absurd. Veiling your stereotypes as animal characters gives you plausible deniability, but at the same time these stories dont exist in a cultural vacuum. Deputy Dawg was the none-too-bright lawman in a backwoods Tennessee precinct, Creekmud Junction (the show's creator, Larz Bourne, hailed from Tennessee). The copy of The Yolks On You that I have, has a end title spliced in from a much older theatrical Terrytoon. Deputy Dawg is a Terrytoons cartoon character, featured on the animated television series of the same name that aired from 1960 to 1964. This article is an example of the latter. Deputy Dawg tries to rig his re-election, while Vincent Van Gopher, Muskie Muskrat and Roger Raccoon have other plans!.Love the voices.#deputydawg #cartoon. In the mid-50s he relocated to Terrytoons, and in 1959 the studio began production on his Deputy Dawg series. So now another one of the cartoon shows I found delightful as a kid is being denigrated as racist? So right from the start, theyre shown to be friends, something that would be unusual in the segregated South. This is ANIMAL behavior. The April 23 exchange in San Dimas was recorded on the deputys personal body camera, which captured the woman calling him a murderer and a Mexican racist, after he pulled her over for using her cellphone while driving. However, the reality is that 20th Century Fox continued to release a slate TV Terrytoons to theaters at least through 1975. Find the exact moment in a TV show, movie, or music video you want to share. CBS also used southerners to reach out to broadcasters in their region. Pinterest. I found a lot of Astronut shorts with credits, aired in TV in the 1960s, but theatrically released in the 1970s. The cartoons are between four and six minutes long, and were packaged three at a time and shown as a half-hour program in syndication. Perhaps it was during that final season of the show when he finally got to direct the episodes. Deputy Dawg is a Terrytoons cartoon character, featured on the animated television series of the same name that aired from 1960 to 1964. This was pretty much the only real antagonism between them and Deputy Dawg the rest of the time theyre depicted as good buddies. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the African-American community was not a significant source of revenue for most advertisers, so they were not going to receive the same amount of targeted marketing as the white community. Following the pattern of Mighty Mouse Playhouse and The Heckle and Jeckle Cartoon Show, only the first and fourth cartoons would feature the title character. FBI officials had earlier narrowed the pool of possible suspects in the leak that . The Deputy Dawg Show-a cartoon series from the studio Terrytoons-aired on television during the last years of legal segregation in the early 1960s, and Jim Crow in the South significantly shaped the program.The show's official advertising agency developed promotional events for the cartoon in segregated venues. 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