Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales

Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales
Stanley, Tennessee Tuxedo, Chumley
Genre	Animation Comedy
Written by	Buck Biggers Chet Stover
Voices of	Don Adams Jackson Beck Bradley Bolke Kenny Delmar Mort Marshall Norman Rose Delo States Ben Stone Larry Storch Allen Swift
Narrated by	Kenny Delmar ("Tennessee Tuxedo" and "The Hunter" segments) Norman Rose/Allen Swift ("The King and Odie" segments)
Theme music composer	Treadwell D. Covington Joe Harris Buck Biggers Chet Stover
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Executive producer(s)	Peter M. Piech
Producer(s)	Treadwell D. Covington Joe Harris Buck Biggers Chet Stover
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Total Television, in cooperation with Leonardo Television
Release
Original network	CBS (1963–1964)
Picture format	Color (initially telecast in Black-and-white)
Original release	September 28, 1963 – September 3, 1966

Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales is a semi-educational animated cartoon TV series that originally aired on CBS from 1963 to 1966. It was produced by Total Television, the same company that produced the earlier King Leonardo and the later Underdog, and primarily sponsored by General Mills. (Tennessee Tuxedo debuted on CBS on the same day that King Leonardo last ran on NBC.) The title is a play on the “tuxedo” dinner jacket worn as formal wear.

New short episodes were created for YouTube in 2014 by Chuck Gammage Animation in Toronto, and Cartoon Lagoon Studios in New York. Sponsored by Trix cereal, they reside on sillychannel.com. They feature the voice talent of Chris Phillips, Robb Pruitt and Ashley Albert.

The cartoon series revolved around Tennessee Tuxedo the penguin (voiced by Don Adams) and his best friend Chumley the Walrus (voiced by Bradley Bolke). The pair lived (not always willingly) at the Megapolis Zoo under the control of the ill-tempered zoo director Stanley Livingstone (voiced by Mort Marshall), a play on explorers Stanley and Livingstone, and his zookeeper assistant Flunky (voiced by Kenny Delmar). It was on one of Stanley’s journeys that Tennessee met Stanley. It was Chumley that Stanley had wanted, as Chumley was at the South Pole and was thus one of a kind: a South Pole walrus. Tennessee agreed to accompany Chumley and Stanley back to the zoo.

At the zoo, Tennessee and Chumley had many friends to help them out, such as Yakkety Yak and Baldy the eagle (both also voiced by Kenny Delmar) amongst other inhabitants of the zoo. Three episodes also featured Howler, a dog that Tennessee got from his Uncle Admiration. Stanley was against Tennessee's having Howler on zoo grounds until Howler saved Stanley when he fell into a lake upon spying on Tennessee and Chumley's housing project for Howler.