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Tom Terrific and his wonder Dog, the mighty Manfred

Tom Terrific was an early animated series on American television, presented as part of the Captain Kangaroo children's television show. Image File history File links Tom_Terrific. ... Image File history File links Tom_Terrific. ... Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ... Captain Kangaroo was a childrens program which aired weekday mornings on the United States television network CBS from 1955 until 1984, then moved to PBS to air syndicated reruns of past episodes in 1992. ...

Created by Gene Deitch under the Terrytoons studio, Tom Terrific ran in a series of five-minute cartoons on Captain Kangaroo from 1957-1959, and has occasionally been rerun since. Gene Deitch (born August 8, 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is an American Academy-Award winning illustrator, animator and film director, based out of Prague. ... Mighty Mouse, the signature character of the studio. ... See also: 1956 in television, other events of 1957, 1958 in television and the list of years in television. // Events January 6 - Elvis Presley makes final appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. ... See also: 1958 in television, other events of 1959, 1960 in television and the list of years in television. For the American network television schedule, please see 1959-60 American network television schedule. ...

Amazingly, all the voices were done by one man: Lionel Wilson.

Drawn in a simple, even clumsy, style, it featured a gee-whiz boy hero, Tom Terrific, who lived in a treehouse and could transform himself into anything he wanted thanks to his magic funnel hat. He had a comic lazybones of a sidekick, Manfred the Wonder Dog, and an arch-foe named Crabby Appleton, whose motto was "Rotten to the core!"

The character also appeared in a comic book for six issues in 1957, with some stories drawn by Ralph Bakshi. Tom Terrific also appeared in a few Wonder Books, an imitation of Little Golden Books. Ralph Bakshi is a director of animated and occasionally live-action films. ... Little Red Hen cover Little Golden Books is a very popular series of childrens books begun in 1942. ...