No, I’m not thinking of Captain Spaulding (Hooray, Hooray, Hooray). I’m trying to remember the name of the cartoon character who wore the pithe helmet and told all the amazing stories, usually starting with “That reminds me of the time…” It may have been done by Jay Ward, but I can’t remember the name for the life of me. HELP!
McBrag.
I’m pretty sure that it was Jay Ward.
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Whew! That was painful. Thanks.
Commander McBragg, with two “g’s”,
And, no, I don’t think it was Jay Ward. There was at least one other cartoon maker in the 1960s who did very Ward-like stuff. There may have been more than one. Whoever did Roger Ramjet, it wasn’t Ward. I don’t think Commander McBragg was, either.
Some network (Cartoon? Comedy Central?) has been running third-rate cartoons late on Saturday nights after Rocky & Bullwinkle. They lure us in with the brilliance of Dudley Doright, then whack us over the head with Commander McBragg, The Hunter, and King Leonardo and his Short Subjects (remember Odie Cologne, with the voice of Ronald Colman?). All awful, badly animated early 1960s crap with no wit or redeeming value (except for Dudley, of course).
According to the IMDb, at least one incarnation of McBragg was from Jay Ward (Hoppity Hooper series) and Roger Ramjet wasn’t.
Commander McBragg used to appear alongside of “Tennessee Tuxedo”. This is a good link to a lot of those Saturday AM shows.