Rod Rocket

Rod Rocket
Genre	Animation, Adventure
Written by	Dick Robbins
Directed by	Lou Scheimer Hal Sutherland
Starring	Sam Edwards Hal Smith Pat Blake
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of episodes	130
Production
Executive producer(s)	Mark Lipsky Walter N. Bien
Running time	5 min.
Production company(s)	Filmation Associates
Release
Picture format	Color (initially telecast in black-and-white)
Original release	1963

Rod Rocket is the first animated cartoon with production credited to Filmation, debuting in syndication in 1963.

Rod Rocket was originally produced by True Line, a small Los Angeles animation studio that subcontracted it the newly formed Filmation Associates created by Lou Scheimer and Hal Sutherland in 1963. Scheimer and Sutherland had met while working at Larry Harmon Productions on the made-for-TV Bozo the Clown and Popeye cartoons. They produced the series for SIB Productions, a Japanese company.

A boy named Rod Rocket and his best friend, Joey, are sent by wise codger Professor Argus on an exploratory mission in a spaceship called the Little Argo. He waits for them at home with his teenage granddaughter, Cassie. While in space, Rod and Joey constantly battle two bumbling cosmonauts.

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