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词条 Tom Terrific
释义

  1. Episodes

  2. Production

  3. In popular culture

  4. References

  5. Further reading

  6. External links

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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.[1] 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.[2]

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 black-and white style reminiscent of children's drawings, 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.[3]

Tom Terrific was ranked # 32 by TV Guide magazine among its "50 Greatest TV Cartoon Characters."[4] There has never been an authorized VHS, DVD or Blu-ray release of the series.

Episodes

  • Each episode was shown in five installments, one per day, Monday through Friday.
EpisodeTitle
1 The Nasty Knight
2 The Pill of Smartness
3 Sweet Tooth Sam
4 Snowy Picture
5 Crabby Appleton's Dragon
6 Captain Kidney Bean
7 The Gravity Maker
8 Scrambled Dinosaur Eggs
9 Who Stole the North Pole
10 Instant Tantrums
11 Track Meet, Well Done
12 The Great Calendar Mystery
13 Elephants Stew
14 The Missing Mail Mystery
15 The Prince Frog
16 Isotope Feeney's Foolish Fog
17 Moon Over Manfred
18 Go West, Young Manfred
19 The Silly Sandman
20 Crabby Park
21 The Million Manfred Mystery
22 The Flying Sorcerer
23 The Big Dog Show-Off
24 The End of Rainbows
25 Robinsnest Crusoe
26 The Everlasting Birthday Party

Production

There were 26 stories produced, the first thirteen filmed in 1957, the remaining thirteen filmed in 1958. Each story was split into five parts for broadcast each weekday morning. During the years that Captain Kangaroo was also broadcast on Saturday mornings, the episodes would be re-edited into two parts (with cliffhangers and recaps from the daily versions eliminated), the first part broadcast during the first half-hour, the conclusion during the second half-hour.

In popular culture

  • The character also appeared in a comic book for six issues in 1957 from Pines Comics, with some stories drawn by Ralph Bakshi.
  • Tom Terrific appeared in a few Wonder Books, an imitation of Little Golden Books.
  • Crabby Appleton was the name of a rock group, which used the character's image on a 1971 album, ROTTEN TO THE CORE.
  • In the introduction to his book, The Great Big Book of Tomorrow, Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins) says that he chose his pseudonym through misremembering the name of Tom Terrific.

References

1. ^Terrible Thompson strip
2. ^[https://www.amazon.com/Terrble-Thompson-Gene-Deitch/dp/1560977728 Amazon.com: Terrible Thompson]
3. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/101602-Curbside|title=Curbside|work=The Big Cartoon Database|accessdate=January 2, 2017}}
4. ^TV Guide's 50 greatest cartoon characters of all time

Further reading

Kevin Scott Collier. The Amazing Transformations of Tom Terrific. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017. {{ISBN|1974583899}}

External links

  • {{IMDb title|0283224}}
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PgniqcgdFo Theme Song]

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