# If you're over 40, and watched cartoons, I need your help. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 14, 2001, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-40-and-watched-cartoons-i-need-your-help/68798 "2001-06-14T14:02:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kid\_Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kid\_Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2001, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-40-and-watched-cartoons-i-need-your-help/68798/1 "2001-06-14T14:02:23Z")
I have a rather cloudy and vestigial memory of an old cartoon from my childhood in the mid to early 1960’s. In fact, all I remember is the title, and not even all of that. For some reason I think this cartoon may have appeared on the Captain Kangaroo show. But don’t let this throw you off, because I’m not sure about that either. In fact, I’m not sure about much of anything except the fact that not being able to identify this cartoon has been driving me crazy for years. In fact, everyone I’ve ever asked has told me I imagined it, and I’m not sure I didn’t. So here it is. I seem to recall a cartoon starring \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ and his faithful dog, Faithful Dog. That’s all I remember. Nothing else. I don’t remember the name of the protagonist, only that he had a faithful dog named Faithful Dog. Needless to say it is one of my oldest memories, and it’s so foggy, I’m not even sure it is a real memory. Can anyone help with a memory of their own. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2001, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-40-and-watched-cartoons-i-need-your-help/68798/2 "2001-06-14T15:06:06Z")
You **might** be thinking of “Tom Terrific” which featured Mighty Manfred, the Wonder Dog. It was indeed shown on Captain Kangaroo, possibly for many years. It was animated in a really cheap black-and-white outline style, where Tom Terrific was a stick figure wearing a funnel on his head who could change his physical shape at will. His nemesis was Crabby Appleton (“He’s rotten to the core!”). ---
**Author:** ![JTR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee59a6/32.png) [@JTR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JTR)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2001, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-40-and-watched-cartoons-i-need-your-help/68798/3 "2001-06-14T15:29:25Z")
You beat me to it, **tracer**. I had just typed up the following: You might be recalling the “Tom Terrific” cartoon series on the Captain Kangaroo show. Tom Terrific was a little boy superhero with an upsidedown funnel on his head. His sidekick was “his ever **faithful dog** Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog,” and the two of them worked together to foil criminals. According to what I read, Tom Terrific was one of two Terrytoons comic series. The other one was “Lariat Sam,” who policed the Wild West with his horse Tippy Toes. I very vaguely remember both cartoons, having been an avid watcher of the Captain Kangaroo show in my early childhood. Do a web search on these various names, and you’ll find plenty about them posted and hosted by the pop-culture-nostalgia crowd. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2001, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-40-and-watched-cartoons-i-need-your-help/68798/4 "2001-06-14T15:33:21Z")
Archenemy Crabby Appleton. ---
**Author:** ![JTR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee59a6/32.png) [@JTR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JTR)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2001, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-40-and-watched-cartoons-i-need-your-help/68798/5 "2001-06-14T15:34:25Z")
Correction. My last post should read: Tom Terrific was one of the two Terrytoons **cartoon series which appeared regularly on the Captain Kangaroo show**. Many other Terrytoons cartoon series also appeared in other shows and in syndicated release. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2001, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-40-and-watched-cartoons-i-need-your-help/68798/6 "2001-06-14T16:05:05Z")
[Tom Terrific](http://www.yesterdayland.com./popopedia/shows/saturday/sa1421.php) ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2001, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-40-and-watched-cartoons-i-need-your-help/68798/7 "2001-06-14T18:04:45Z")
And you might be conflating your memories of Tom Terrific with your memories of Dudley Do-Right and his faithful horse…“Horse.” ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2001, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-40-and-watched-cartoons-i-need-your-help/68798/8 "2001-06-14T18:16:36Z")
[Dudley Do-right’s trusty horse, “Horse.”](http://www.geocities.com/somebullwinkle/char-horse.html) ---
**Author:** ![JTR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee59a6/32.png) [@JTR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JTR)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2001, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-40-and-watched-cartoons-i-need-your-help/68798/9 "2001-06-14T18:46:37Z")
FWIW, here’s a link to someone’s “Index of Famous Dogs” (first page = letters A-D): [http://www.citizenlunchbox.com/famous/dogs-A-D.html](http://www.citizenlunchbox.com/famous/dogs-A-D.html) It doesn’t claim to be comprehensive, but it does have lots of obscure references, including old cartoon dogs. “Faithful Dog” isn’t on it. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2001, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-40-and-watched-cartoons-i-need-your-help/68798/10 "2001-06-14T20:54:59Z")
The only thing I’ve come up with is that in the Dudley Do-right episode lists on the net, there is one called “Faithful Dog”. I think this is the episode in which he makes a pet of a wolf, mistaking it for a dog. I don’t recall if he actually calls it “Faithful Dog”, but it would make sense because, as already mentioned, he calls his horse “Horse”. I watch DD regularly on the Cartoon Channel because it’s a hoot, so if I see it, I’ll report back. (I just saw a caption that read “Dudley Do-right played by Fenton Fagg”! Talk about politically incorrect!) ---
**Author:** ![Oldmaid85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oldmaid85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oldmaid85)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2001, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-40-and-watched-cartoons-i-need-your-help/68798/11 "2001-06-14T22:01:34Z")
Check out [http://www.yesterdayland.com](http://www.yesterdayland.com) It has seemingly every obscure and popular cartoon in America from the 1940s to the present–hundreds of 'em. It looks hep, too! Here’s a passage: “In addition to the live-action and puppet segments, Captain Kangaroo broadcast several Terrytoons animated shorts, including Tom Terrific, the adventures of a boy who could turn himself into anything, and his partner Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog.” ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-40-and-watched-cartoons-i-need-your-help/68798/12 "2001-06-15T04:49:48Z")
What was the name of _Crusader Rabbit_’s companion? ---
**Author:** ![don\_Jaime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@don\_Jaime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_Jaime)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-40-and-watched-cartoons-i-need-your-help/68798/13 "2001-06-15T13:18:20Z")
Yes, Dudley Do-Right’s wolf was named “Faithful Dog,” usually shortened to “Dog.” He was a nasty beast and not used very often, so I think you’re remembering somebody else’s Faithful Dog. ---
**Author:** ![don\_Jaime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@don\_Jaime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_Jaime)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-40-and-watched-cartoons-i-need-your-help/68798/14 "2001-06-15T13:19:32Z")
Oh, and Crusader Rabbit ran with Ragland T. “Rags” Tiger. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kid\_Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2001, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-youre-over-40-and-watched-cartoons-i-need-your-help/68798/15 "2001-06-18T09:51:20Z")
The memory is SO vague, that if at any time Dudley could have used the phrase, “my faithful dog, Faithful Dog” it would fit the bill. In fact, now my focus will be on trying to find a video of old Bullwinkle episodes, to verify. Thanks. P.S. Thanks, but no I wasn’t thinking of Manfred.