It's pretty awesome that I enjoyed this very cartoon as a small kid in the 80's, just like the children of the 60's did. Shows that great toons from the golden age still find audiences with future generations.
I was 7 and I enjoyed that cartoon. Since my mother was a fan of the DICK TRACY comic strip, I thought she would like to see her favorite comic come to life in cartoon form. But she preferred to work over a hot stove preparing supper.
I loved watching this as a kid in the 60's. You'd never get away with this today. But in my time was in wrong? Yeah...but it shows the young folks how much we've changed.
I love how Dick Tracy just calls his subordinates on the wrist radio to do all the dirty work then takes the credit at the end...seems like the way it’s done these days too.
Hemlock Holmes, a loud, bumbling, Cockney police bulldog (whose named in honor of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and a voice patterned after Cary Grant). He is also backed up by his own police squad, The Retouchables (named after The Untouchables, but looking and behaving more like the Keystone Kops).
Joe Jitsu is the parody of Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto (featuring many movie images of Chinese and Japanese culture). He is the intelligent detective who fights with martial arts (repeatedly slamming his victim to the ground while saying "So sorry!... Excuse me, please!... Begging your pardon!"). He is named after the Japanese martial art of jujitsu.
@@bradleyrenfroe2776Since it was stated in the credits that THE DICK TRACY SHOW was “based on the comic strip created by Chester Gould”, that gave the people who worked on the cartoon series creative liberties.
This show was good but pales in comparison to the Dick Tracy Segment of Archie's TV Funnies where Tracy actually solved his cases and did not pimps out walking stereotypes.
lol I forgot that Dick Tracy never really handled the case it was always his stooges that did. He just swoops in to take the credit lol. Prune face and flat top lol. I think I used to have a board game of this, wish I still did.
There was a TV station in Detroit that showed these cartoons in the 90's. But, Filmation made a series of cartoons where the gang from the "Archie" comic books ran a TV station and aired cartoons based on comic strips, including Dick Tracy.
The Dick Tracy Show was reran on local stations during the summer to fall months until the 1st Gult War (Operation Desert Shield) of 1990, in the light of the recently released Warren Beatty movie, without the Joe Jitsu and Go-Go Gomez segments.
Any more cartoon cop shows for kids made today? maybe Sponge Bob and Paw Patrol I guess. OMG, all I remember is the theme song (maybe) but that cartoon was pretty awesome, lol.
You're not going to believe just how many people really felt sorry for Batman's demise. Just think, when Batman died, I was contemplating on uttering this. It looks like Dick Tracy has finally won the victory. Did you notice that the men/women, people who run the wish app, really felt sorry for Batman, who's already dead? That's why they're creating & advertising Batman paraphernalia wearing apparel like hotcakes. They would all be smashing.
I kinda recall this, when I was real little, back in the early-to-mid, '70's. I've read, amongst the comments that some people, find this objectionably racist. The artists are using, a type of 'illustrative adjectives', to show what's, what. It may depict a similarity, but it's not racist☺️. It just as racist, as if you were to say something, so ridiculous as, "see how old they portray, that old man @01:00, and THAT'S, is age discrimination". Asinine, ain't it🙄??? Love the 'toon' Ann, and thanks for the upload👍!!! Didn't know these were EVER, in 3D.
So was The Brow. Actually all of the villains were extremely OOC in the cartoon (save for Cheater Gunsmoke because he was created specifically for the cartoon and therefore he never appeared in the comics).
It's just a generic kids show that has almost nothing to do with the actual comic. Also the reason why Dick Tracy doesn't do anything except sit on his radio is because there were originally live-action segments where a kids show host would dress up as a police officer and pretend to call Dick Tracy. Then the intro would play, and that is why Dick Tracy says "okay chief I'll get on it right away", because it's supposed to look like he is responding to the kids show host. Unfortunately, these live-action segments are lost media. But regarding everything else, I have no clue. I've seen some people speculate that this cartoon was originally supposed to be a generic cop cartoon but then they slapped Dick Tracy in it last second so it could sell better. And I've even seen one blog post where the author claims he once asked the people who were involved with this cartoon's production, and even they admitted they had no clue what they were thinking.
Even as a kid in the 1960s, I knew this cartoon was racist as hell, but still weirdly entertaining. It still is. I never noticed then that this was done by the same people who made "Mr. Magoo".
Never liked this version of Dick Tracy myself. Dick Tracy never did anything in this version but give orders to some annoying sidekick. Filmation's version was way better.
+7DARKHELLS I remember there was one episode where he got kidnapped by one of the crooks and one of the sidekicks had to rescue him. That was as much involvement from him during an episode that I remember!
Dick Tracy is from the 1930s Beady Eyes Flat top Joe Jitsu Oodles and Brown Prune Face and Itchy ... the wrist radio was considered to be science fiction... but now Apple and Android sell them as smart phones
I remember watching the unedited Dick Tracy cartoons in the early 70s. They re-released alot of the cartoons in 1990 to coincide with the live action movie but unfortunately for you the butthurt Asians and Hispanics had already pressured the TV stations to edit or redub the characters.
If you look long enough, you can find a white guy who'll swear that even a KKK rally "isn't racist". Thank you for not being that guy. These clueless bigots usually go on from there to claim that those who are the targets of racism are "oversensitive" when they object. Once again, thanks for not being that guy.
terry1919 : The Dick Tracy cartoons are from 1961-1962. The company that created these cartoons, UPA, also created the Mr. Magoo cartoons with Jim Backus (Gilligans Island) as the voice of Mr. Magoo.
+Andrew Blythe Anybody who thinks this cartoon came out in the 1930's isn't going to know who Jim Backus is. My stepdaughter and her friend watched a "Gilligan's Island" marathon and she still didn't know Jim Backus from the old man down the street.
It's pretty awesome that I enjoyed this very cartoon as a small kid in the 80's, just like the children of the 60's did. Shows that great toons from the golden age still find audiences with future generations.
That cartoon from the 1960’s was my moms favorite childhood moment.
I was 7 and I enjoyed that cartoon. Since my mother was a fan of the DICK TRACY comic strip, I thought she would like to see her favorite comic come to life in cartoon form. But she preferred to work over a hot stove preparing supper.
Flat Top is my favorite Dick Tracy villian.
When i was 3 yrs ago and i am asian, idk what they were saying but i love this show and thank you for all these uploads.
I loved watching this as a kid in the 60's. You'd never get away with this today. But in my time was in wrong? Yeah...but it shows the young folks how much we've changed.
This show is super inappropriate by today's standards and I'm not only talking about the extremely blatant ethnic stereotypes 😂
I love how Dick Tracy just calls his subordinates on the wrist radio to do all the dirty work then takes the credit at the end...seems like the way it’s done these days too.
It's always been done this way!
Nothing changes. It's human nature😔…………
Tracy was a true gangsta to have others risk their lives for Tracy lol.
You sure? I never saw it that way. I mean, surely the public knows Tracy's the one sending those guys and that dog.
Come on it’s Dick Tracy 😂😂
The accents of BB eyes and Flat top are takes on Edward G Robinson and Peter Lorre
This is my new favorite.
I didn't know this show existed!
Best opening music along with the old Spiderman series
I thought, the same thing.
That is why I came, I watched another intro clip and they edited it short, lol.
Edward G. Robinson, Peter Lorre, Jimmy Cagney and Cary Grant all have a pretty good case here.
Hemlock Holmes, a loud, bumbling, Cockney police bulldog (whose named in honor of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and a voice patterned after Cary Grant). He is also backed up by his own police squad, The Retouchables (named after The Untouchables, but looking and behaving more like the Keystone Kops).
"I got my dandruff up!"
Brow, you said it good!!! I gotta remember that one!!!!
I think he meant dander.
Joe Jitsu is the parody of Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto (featuring many movie images of Chinese and Japanese culture). He is the intelligent detective who fights with martial arts (repeatedly slamming his victim to the ground while saying "So sorry!... Excuse me, please!... Begging your pardon!"). He is named after the Japanese martial art of jujitsu.
better than anything out today
Hahahahaha no. Nostalgia is one hell of a drug isn't it? This wasn't even up to par in that time period.
@@r.jclark4641 The Comic Strip is better.
@@r.jclark4641 One great thing about that period is that we did not have smug gits telling what was good and bad about the past.
@@bradleyrenfroe2776Since it was stated in the credits that THE DICK TRACY SHOW was “based on the comic strip created by Chester Gould”, that gave the people who worked on the cartoon series creative liberties.
This show was good but pales in comparison to the Dick Tracy Segment of Archie's TV Funnies where Tracy actually solved his cases and did not pimps out walking stereotypes.
lol I forgot that Dick Tracy never really handled the case it was always his stooges that did. He just swoops in to take the credit lol.
Prune face and flat top lol. I think I used to have a board game of this, wish I still did.
This is fantastic 💥
Awesome 👏 cartoon!!!!
Dick Tracy had the first Apple Watch!
Amazing job guys!!
I knew Dick Tracy had a cartoon !!! The Art style looks like the Underdog show
Does Dick Tracy ever do anything
@@jeromethompson5848 in the late 70's cartoon yes
There was a TV station in Detroit that showed these cartoons in the 90's. But, Filmation made a series of cartoons where the gang from the "Archie" comic books ran a TV station and aired cartoons based on comic strips, including Dick Tracy.
I love hemlock holmes
The Dick Tracy Show was reran on local stations during the summer to fall months until the 1st Gult War (Operation Desert Shield) of 1990, in the light of the recently released Warren Beatty movie, without the Joe Jitsu and Go-Go Gomez segments.
Love you Ann your so awesome
Any more cartoon cop shows for kids made today? maybe Sponge Bob and Paw Patrol I guess. OMG, all I remember is the theme song (maybe) but that cartoon was pretty awesome, lol.
I thought Pruneface was supposed to be German. Here he sounds British
Figures. what with Flattop sonding like Peter Lorre, The Brow like James Cagney, and B.B. Eyes like EGR.
Also Hemlock Holmes sounded like Carey Grant
This version of Pruneface is supposed to sound like Boris Karloff, who indeed WAS British
Dick Tracy - The delegator. His only job.
Never knew thus wad a thing
You're not going to believe just how many people really felt sorry for Batman's demise. Just think, when Batman died, I was contemplating on uttering this. It looks like Dick Tracy has finally won the victory. Did you notice that the men/women, people who run the wish app, really felt sorry for Batman, who's already dead? That's why they're creating & advertising Batman paraphernalia wearing apparel like hotcakes. They would all be smashing.
Is there an episode where Tracy actually gets off his butt and does something?
Nope! 😆😆😆
Most of the time Dick Tracy sits on His Fat Ass & Tracy's partners do all the work.
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He just shows up for the arrest and takes all the credit.
The only time he was active in this era was the Magoo crossover.
No, he takes up too much of the animation budget to do anything else.
Flattop looks a bit like the Joker’s weird cousin.
I theorized that itchy had psoriasis.
Check the smart watches this cartoon was head of its time they always had smart watches they lied to us
Heap’O Calorie did NOT appear in any episodes with B-B Eyes and Flattop.
wish i could find the modified 1990 version that came on the wpsg channel 57
Can you elaborate?
Are you talking about the alternate opening (I personally call it "the cool one") with Dick Tracy shooting the gun at the screen?
I can’t find the old mumbles....😩 I think it was from the very early 60’s or late 50’s ? I recognize flat top and others from that era of DT cartoons.
Electrocution. Ha Ha.
Who's the name of the announcer who says "The Dick Tracy Show "? I await your answer.
I kinda recall this, when I was real little, back in the early-to-mid, '70's. I've read, amongst the comments that some people, find this objectionably racist. The artists are using, a type of 'illustrative adjectives', to show what's, what. It may depict a similarity, but it's not racist☺️. It just as racist, as if you were to say something, so ridiculous as, "see how old they portray, that old man @01:00, and THAT'S, is age discrimination". Asinine, ain't it🙄??? Love the 'toon' Ann, and thanks for the upload👍!!! Didn't know these were EVER, in 3D.
This show was entertaining, but did not age well at all. 😬
No it has not aged well but being one who grew up watching it it still fascinates me. Love the old Hollywood accents...Cary Grant, EGR, Cagney, Lorre.
Pruneface was a Nazi in the original Dick Tracy story.
So was The Brow.
Actually all of the villains were extremely OOC in the cartoon (save for Cheater Gunsmoke because he was created specifically for the cartoon and therefore he never appeared in the comics).
Could never understand why none of the cartoons actually dealt with Tracy and gave the stories to bad stereotype characters.
It's just a generic kids show that has almost nothing to do with the actual comic.
Also the reason why Dick Tracy doesn't do anything except sit on his radio is because there were originally live-action segments where a kids show host would dress up as a police officer and pretend to call Dick Tracy. Then the intro would play, and that is why Dick Tracy says "okay chief I'll get on it right away", because it's supposed to look like he is responding to the kids show host. Unfortunately, these live-action segments are lost media.
But regarding everything else, I have no clue. I've seen some people speculate that this cartoon was originally supposed to be a generic cop cartoon but then they slapped Dick Tracy in it last second so it could sell better. And I've even seen one blog post where the author claims he once asked the people who were involved with this cartoon's production, and even they admitted they had no clue what they were thinking.
Even as a kid in the 1960s, I knew this cartoon was racist as hell, but still weirdly entertaining. It still is. I never noticed then that this was done by the same people who made "Mr. Magoo".
No it wasn't ... what's wrong with you !?
Not racist. Just illustrative. You have to visually depict, what's, what.
Racist only to brainwashed idiots.
I understand why DISLIKES DIABLED.
This is site-wide actually
I love this so much. Who cares if it’s racist?
Kind of a dumb question
Never liked this version of Dick Tracy myself.
Dick Tracy never did anything in this version but give orders to some annoying sidekick.
Filmation's version was way better.
+7DARKHELLS Agreed I never understood why they did it this way.
+7DARKHELLS I remember there was one episode where he got kidnapped by one of the crooks and one of the sidekicks had to rescue him. That was as much involvement from him during an episode that I remember!
I always thought that this meant to be a totally different show at first and just slapped Dick Tracy characters into the show so people would watch it
stomper1232 I agree.
any episode he was involved in he was taken a hostage.
This is so hilariously racist XD
Yes, especially Hemlock Holmes. "It's not nice to pop a copper's topper!"
I Love Politically Incorrect cartoons , political correctness SUCKS.
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I notice that the hotel-clerk, who first appears at 0.57-min. looks a lot like Jacob Marley (at least, his ghost), from Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol.
mikeDcarnut Both shows were part of the same syndicate.
How about that? Joe Jitsu not use Jitsu on crooks today. Then again, pretty hard to flatten Flattop.
For some reaon I heard this in Joe Jitsu's voice when I read it in my head
Dick Tracy is
from the 1930s Beady Eyes Flat top Joe Jitsu Oodles and Brown Prune Face and Itchy ... the wrist radio was considered to be science fiction... but now Apple and Android sell them as smart phones
This cartoon is from the 1960s though
@@bunnybird9342Dick Tracy is a comic strip from 1931 and onwards.
@@gallicia4613 yes but Joe Jitsu never appeared in the comic (and neither did the other sidekick characters) and all of the villains are extremely OOC
I miss this Show Damn Man!
The best
I remember watching these in 1990 on TV-am. Even Channel 5 wouldn't be racist enough to show these today.
I remember watching the unedited Dick Tracy cartoons in the early 70s. They re-released alot of the cartoons in 1990 to coincide with the live action movie but unfortunately for you the butthurt Asians and Hispanics had already pressured the TV stations to edit or redub the characters.
Those were the days when tvam showed programmes for kids. They sure had a big audience.
You mean the British person as a bulldog?
If you look long enough, you can find a white guy who'll swear that even a KKK rally "isn't racist". Thank you for not being that guy. These clueless bigots usually go on from there to claim that those who are the targets of racism are "oversensitive" when they object. Once again, thanks for not being that guy.
Around 6:48-min, you see Oodles entire face, with his fair pulled away from his eyes and nose. I don't ever remember seeing his face revealed.
The hotel clerk in the first story "Elevator Lift" looks very similar to the Marley's Ghost in Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, only not so grim looking.
How in the world did they get Cary Grant to play Hemlock Holmes?
The same way they got Edward G Robinson to play BB Eyes, and Peter Lorre to play Flattop.
The celebrity voices are all imitations done by Paul Frees (B.B. Eyes, Flattop) and Jerry Hausner (Hemlock Holmes).
@@edwardwood9031 Celebrity voices impersonated .
hi! what year did this come out?
1930s
terry1919 : The Dick Tracy cartoons are from 1961-1962. The company that created these cartoons, UPA, also created the Mr. Magoo cartoons with Jim Backus (Gilligans Island) as the voice of Mr. Magoo.
+Andrew Blythe Anybody who thinks this cartoon came out in the 1930's isn't going to know who Jim Backus is. My stepdaughter and her friend watched a "Gilligan's Island" marathon and she still didn't know Jim Backus from the old man down the street.
this animated version was about 1965
Speaking of Magoo, Tracy and Magoo did a crossover in The Famous Adventures of Mr Magoo, Tracy also was more active in that episode.