Squeek, Scratch and Colonel Bleep

Colonel Bleep was the first color cartoon ever made for television. It was created by Robert D. Buchanan, and was filmed by Soundac of Miami. The show was originally syndicated in 1957 as a segment on Uncle Bill's TV Club. 104 five-minute episodes were produced. Of these episodes, only a handful are known to survive today. Image File history File links This is a video tape cover. ... Image File history File links This is a video tape cover. ... A cartoon is any of several forms of art, with varied meanings that evolved from one to another. ... City nickname: The Magic City, The American Riviera, The Sixth Borough Location Location of Miami in the State of Florida Government County Miami-Dade Mayor Manuel “Manny” Diaz (R) Physical characteristics Area      Land      Water 54 km²      35. ... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The show took place on the fictitious Zero Zero Island, where the Equator meets the Greenwich Meridian. There, Colonel Bleep, an extraterrestrial lifeform from the planet Futura, protected Earth with the help of his deputies, Squeek (a mute cowboy puppet boy) and Scratch (a caveman of great physical strength who was awoken from a sleep of several thousand years by an atomic explosion). Colonel Bleep, like all of his fellow Futurans, could manipulate futomic energy in a variety of ways; for instance, to propel himself through space, or as an offensive weapon. The amount of futomic energy Colonel Bleep could absorb at any given time was finite, and in several episodes he runs out of energy and becomes vulnerable. The equator is an imaginary circle drawn around a planet at a distance halfway between the poles. ... The Prime Meridian, Greenwich The Prime Meridian is the meridian (line of longitude) passing through the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Greenwich, England; it is the meridian at which longitude is 0 degrees. ... The existence of extraterrestrial life remains hypothetical though human beings continue to search Extraterrestrial life is life that may exist and originate outside our planet Earth. ... Earth, also known as the Earth, Terra, and (mostly in the 19th century) Tellus, is the third-closest planet to the Sun. ... A cowboy (Spanish vaquero) tends cattle and horses on cattle ranches in North and South America. ... A puppet is any controlled character, whether formed by a shadow, strings, by the use of a glove, by direct mechanical contrivance (for example a cable-controlled figure for film or TV) or electronic guidance (such as a radio or infrared remote controller). ... Caveman in a Minute Maid Bibo ad A caveman is a popular stylized characterization of what early humans or hominids may have looked and behaved like. ...

Their usual nemesis was a dark and mysterious hooded figure called Dr. Destructo, who could typically be found in his flying saucer and seemed to have no lower half. Other than that oddity, he was kind of a very-limited-animation, early version of Darth Vader. Other regular villains included The Black Knight, and Black Patch (a space pirate). For the cocktail, see Darth Vader (cocktail) Darth Vader (41 BBY–4 ABY) is a fictional character from Star Wars. ...

The animation in the show was extraordinarily limited, as was typical of TV animation during that era. Noah Tyler was the narrator for the show. Jack Schleh directed all of the episodes. The design of the series was greatly influenced by the futuristic googie designs of the '50s and early '60s: Cars had huge tailfins, boomerangs were frequently incorporated into signs and architecture, and atom symbols were used as frequently as possible. The Space Needle, built for Seattles Worlds Fair, 1962 Googie, also known as populuxe, is a form of architecture, originating from southern California in the late 1940s and continuing approximately into the mid-1960s. ... For other uses, see Boomerang (disambiguation). ...

Colonel Bleep has probably not been shown on TV in the United States since the early 1970s. Two videocassettes from the series were released in 1993, containing most of the episodes still known to exist today. A third videocassette containing the remainder of the existing episodes, plus some footage of the Uncle Bill's TV Club series had been planned, but was never released. A few episodes have also appeared on DVD. The videocassette recorder (or VCR, less popularly video tape recorder) is a type of video tape recorder that uses removable cassettes containing magnetic tape to record audio and video from a television broadcast so it can be played back later. ...

Ren and Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi has acknowledged the influence of Colonel Bleep on his own work. Ren and Stimpy are the eponymous characters of two cartoon television series created by Canadian animator John Kricfalusi. ... John Kricfalusi (born Michael John Kricfalusi on September 9, 1955, in Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada) is the animator better known as John K., creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show and The Ripping Friends cartoon series as well as the founder of animation studio Spümcø International. ...