Airing as part of ABC-TV's "THE KING KONG SHOW" from Fall 1966, "Tom of T.H.U.M.B." was a funny spoof of the spy genre-likely "GET SMART!", and well performed by Canadian actor Bernard Cowan, who, in addition as a recording supervisor for this Videocraft International Ltd-produced series, as the voice of "Professor Bond" and "Tom of THUMB", along with the voices of Carl Banas, Alfie Scop, Susan Conway, Billie Mae Richards, and Paul Soles, this enjoyable and funny addition of KING KONG made this show worth watching, and Arthur Rankin Jr & Jules Bass, known for their famous stop motion animation TV specials, used Japan based Toei Studios to produce the cartoon animation for this Saturday Morning TV series, which ran for 50 half-hour episodes until 1969. great animated series!
I loved this show, even now. Love that Swingin' Jack. This reminds me quite a bit of Get Smart, especially when the title says "when it comes to small thinking, it's a job for ...." This show made the King Kong show a lot better. That Kool Nerves episode is funny from start to finish (and completely without a laughtrack).
It's funny...Swingin' Jack (and I would LOVE to know how he got that name) wasn't portrayed as being any less important, or any less inferior than Tom himself. Don't see any overt racism. Merely casual racism, as described in a previous comment.
The two best lines of this Cartoon...
"They gave their height for their Country!"
And "When the plan calls for, SMALL thinking..."
It was classy!
Airing as part of ABC-TV's "THE KING KONG SHOW" from Fall 1966, "Tom of T.H.U.M.B." was a funny spoof of the spy genre-likely "GET SMART!", and well performed by Canadian actor Bernard Cowan, who, in addition as a recording supervisor for this Videocraft International Ltd-produced series, as the voice of "Professor Bond" and "Tom of THUMB", along with the voices of Carl Banas, Alfie Scop, Susan Conway, Billie Mae Richards, and Paul Soles, this enjoyable and funny addition of KING KONG made this show worth watching, and Arthur Rankin Jr & Jules Bass, known for their famous stop motion animation TV specials, used Japan based Toei Studios to produce the cartoon animation for this Saturday Morning TV series, which ran for 50 half-hour episodes until 1969. great animated series!
Love this cartoon
Swinging jack is so cool...groovy...hip
Swinging jack...my hip bro
Muy Buena en Chile se Transmitio desde mitad de los 80 hasta Inicios de los 90
I loved this show, even now. Love that Swingin' Jack. This reminds me quite a bit of Get Smart, especially when the title says "when it comes to small thinking, it's a job for ...." This show made the King Kong show a lot better. That Kool Nerves episode is funny from start to finish (and completely without a laughtrack).
During the 60's sometimes the side cartoons were better then the main one or at least just as good.
What year
The Rankin Bass cartoons, like the classic Warner Brothers and Jay Ward Productions were the all time best.
It's funny...Swingin' Jack (and I would LOVE to know how he got that name) wasn't portrayed as being any less important, or any less inferior than Tom himself. Don't see any overt racism. Merely casual racism, as described in a previous comment.
Tom Thumb 👍
What it lacks in lip sync it has in character design and witty writing
Funny theres a racist asian character in this when this show was from japan (there corrected)
Ah, casual racism...
The cartoon was animated in Japan. The animators over there got paid well enough not to complain.
you people are the church ladies of the 21st century