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Tom Terrific

Tom Terrific
Genre Animated television series
Created by Gene Deitch
Developed by Gene Deitch
Written by William Bernal, Phil Eastman, Bud Evsalin, Bob Kuwahara, Ralph Newman
Directed by Gene Deitch
Starring Lionel G. Wilson
Theme music composer Thomas Lee Morrison, Philip A. Scheib
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 26
Production
Executive producer(s) William M. Weiss
Producer(s) Gene Deitch
Editor(s) Jack MacConnell
Release
First shown in 1957-1958
Original release 1957 – 1959 (pre-reruns)

Tom Terrific was an early animated series on American television, presented as part of the Captain Kangaroo children's television show.

Created by Gene Deitch under the Terrytoons studio (which by that time was a subsidiary of CBS, the network that broadcast Captain Kangaroo), Tom Terrific ran in a series of five-minute cartoons created specifically for the Captain Kangaroo show from 1957-1959, and was rerun on Kangaroo for years thereafter. For several years after 1962, Tom Terrific would be broadcast every other week, alternating with Lariat Sam, another Terrytoons creation.

Gene Deitch adapted the feature from his earlier newspaper comic strip, "Terr'ble Thompson!" distributed during the 1950s by United Features Syndicate. Terr'ble Thompson was a six-year-old boy who imagined himself to be the "Hero of Hist'ry" and freely travelled back in time to assist historical figures. An illustrated book reprinting the adventures of this precursor to Tom Terrific was published by Fantagraphics Books.

All the voices were performed by Lionel Wilson (who later voiced Eustace Bagge from the Cartoon Network series Courage the Cowardly Dog).

Drawn in a simple 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-shaped "thinking cap," which also enhanced his intelligence. He had a comic lazybones of a sidekick, Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog, and an arch-foe named Crabby Appleton, whose motto was, "I'm rotten to the core!" Other foes included Mr. Instant, the Instant Thing King; Captain Kidney Bean; Sweet Tooth Sam, the Candy Bandit; and Isotope Feeney, The Meany.

Tom Terrific appeared in the 1999 pilot Curbside in where he was voiced by Haley Joel Osment.


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