Dick Tracy takes on Flattop in an episode from Archie's T.V. Funnies (1970s). Featuring appearances by Sam Catchem, Junior, Pat Patton, Tess, and Moon Maid.
This has it's issues but it's worlds better than the other Dick Tracy cartoon from the 60s. For starters, Tracy actually gets off his ass and DOES things in this one
Dragonrider1227 the 60’s one is much better . That shoot guns the gangsters are more raw and deep in character . This one is soft . The only thing is Tracey does get it in . But yea he’s the coppers !!!
I haven't seen this in years...This was MUCH better in my opinion, than the 60's version of Dick Tracy. This is more like the comic strip. I wish they had this DVD or video somewhere. Thanks for posting this cartoon!!!
@@Delmo5 The Early 1960s Dick Tracy cartoons was very much Slapstick comedy instead of a Crime drama 🎭. This Dick Tracy cartoon is Truer to the Original Comic Strip. 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
This may have to do with the moon stories. Fans were tired of it and Newspapers were dropping the strips in droves. After it ended the strip slowly resurfaced.
Yes, after being eliminated from the strip in 1978, Moon Maid has made quite a comeback this year. They're making it look like she's been brought back via cloning or a process similar to it, but no one knows for sure yet. Great story, check it out on gocomics dot com.
Between UPA's 1961 "DICK TRACY" series and Filmation Associate's "ARCHIE'S TV FUNNIES" for CBS in Fall 1971, their version of "Dick Tracy" was actually way better, and played closely to the comic strip that Chester Gould created, but Archie voice regulars John Erwin, Dallas Mckinnon, Howard Morris, and Jane Webb all did such a beautiful job voicing Tracy and his "rouge's gallery", as compared to what UPA"s 1961 series with Everett Sloane and Paul Frees did, which was more for jokes if anything else! before he later went on to voice "HE-MAN" in 1983 after Filmation withdrew from Saturday Morning TV in 1982 for first run syndication, John Erwin's "Dick Tracy" voice was unquestionably the natural and superior version, and in the hands of Filmation, they stayed true to the material- even after William Dozier and Twentieth Century Fox Television attempted to make a live action TV pilot in 1967, which was never aired, so the "ARCHIE'S TV FUNNIES" segments on "Dick Tracy" was unquestionably the best of any of the previous attempts to do "Dick Tracy"-and no, we won't talk about Disney's ham-handed disaster from 1990 with Warren Beatty-that was awful!
Moon Maid was a princess from a colony of moon dwellers. She was killed off in the early 1970's, and her father, the king, cut all ties to Earth afterwards. I, too, watched these cartoons as a kid, VERY happy to see those funny characters retired. ;)
She was killed off in '78 just after Gould retired. Max Collins wanted to focus on Tracy as a crime fighter and thought the moon escapades were inappropriate. Honeymoon was the last existence of that period. After widower Jr. hooked up with Sparkle Plenty got married and had a daughter.
At least this version featured Tracy as the main character instead of that previous show that handed the reigns to made-up characters like Joe Jitsu and Heap O'Calories.
I guess Tracy got caught loafing off in the office. He actually chased the crook this time instead of handing the case over to his band of "Detectives" Then taking all the credit for himself. I haven't seen this one since it was new in the 70's.
@@BrotherDerrick3X John Erwin, is very, extremely reclusive, he has literally kept himself out of the public light, he won't even do interviews either, conventions are completely out of the question for him
@James Bunch Jr I wonder if he was also the voice of Prince Adam or was that a different person? I recognized the voice of Prince Adam's voice as the voice of a sports caster on an episode of Seinfeld.
The expert voice casting by the Filmation Associates production people were both creative and certainly perfect! the "Dick Tracy" segment of "ARCHIE'S TV FUNNIES" (1971) was actually a way better version from UPA's 1962 cartoon series with Everett Sloan voicing the character back then. John Erwin and Dallas McKennon, along with Jane Webb and Howard Morris all did fine jobs voicing these, and many of the other Sunday comic strip characters. and by an ironic twist in Fall 1972 "The ABC SATURDAY SUPERSTAR MOVIE" segment called "POPEYE MEETS THE MAN WHO HATED LAUGHTER" also brought back most of the Sunday funnies' characters in this Hal Seeger (BATFINK) produced cartoon movie from King Features Syndicate (now Hearst Corporation) and in 1978 Filmation and NBC aired "THE FABULOUS FUNNIES" which brought back some of the Sunday superstars used from "ARCHIE'S TV FUNNIES" .
You bet! I only watched Archie's TV Funnies for the Dick Tracy segment and hoped one day they would turn it into a regular series like they did with Penelope Pitstop from Wacky Races. Unfortunately they never did.
Steve Burstein That's true. In the comic strip, Flattop died in 1943 when Tracy was pursuing him around a replica of Christopher Columbus' ship, the Santa Maria. Flattop jumped into a hole on the deck of the ship, landing in the water underneath it. Unfortunately, his coat got caught on a nail, making it impossible for him to rise to the surface. By the time anyone found him, it was too late; he had drowned to death. A footnote: in a storyline from 1977, Flattop's daughter Angelica, or "Angeltop" as she was known, tried to get revenge on Tracy by taking him to the very same ship where her father met his doom and throwing Tracy into the same hole and the same water, hoping he would drown like her father. Luckily, Tracy managed to escape by cutting the rope that bound his hands on the same nail that snagged Flattop's coat. By the way, "Angeltop" was assisted in this crime by the son of the "Brow," another villain from the various "Dick Tracy" television adventures who was killed in the comic strip (in the Brow's case, he was a Nazi agent who, while making his escape, was accidentally impaled on a flagpole that just happened to be bearing the American flag, "the flag of the country he tried to harm").
16 total Archie TV's Funnies with Dick Tracy segments were made. The 16 villains used in the series were Flattop, Big Boy, Mumbles, Shaky, BB Eyes, The Brow, Pruneface, The Mole, Breathless Mahoney, Roger Trohs the midget (and Mama), Shoulders, Purdy Feller, Pearshape, 88 Keyes, Stooge Viller, and Sketch Paree.
I;m 64. If you ask my generation about Dick Tracy they will talk about the 60s series with Jo Jitzu and Go Go Gomez, and will also remember the comic strip. But we were still young enough to see this particular series, and I don't remember it. It must have left very little impression on me.
Son muy bueno estos dibujo animado de. Archi. Me gustaría que nos pasarán en español me hacen recordar cuando yo era niña me gusta mucho las caricaturas
I remember this when I was a kid (back then I didn't know this was made 4 years before I was even born) I actually thought Dick Tracy was part of The Archie Universe.
Whats the story behind Moon Maid? I don't remember her from the comic strips. But anyway far better then the terrible 60s version where Dick Tracy didn't do anything but give orders to some very annoying sidekicks to do the fighting for him.
7DARKHELLS She was the daughter of the Moon Governor and Moon First Lady. Her family ruled over Earth's moon. She fell in love with Dick Tracy's adopted son, Junior and they married and had a daughter, Honeymoon Maid. Then a villain named, Big Boy offered an open contract to kill Dick Tracy which was accepted by Little Littel, an explosives expert. Littel put a bomb in Dick Tracy's car, and unfortunately Moon Maid borrowed the car to run an errand, and the minute she turned the key, the car blew up and she died. The whole family was grief-stricken, and they even received condolences from then president, Jimmy Carter.
Man I forgot all about those old alien accents that were a mix between Chinese and something else. Those were so popular when depicting aliens back in those years.
If there had been a sequel to the Dick Tracy starring Warren Beatty, how many years would it take place after he defeated a bunch of rogues? The 2-Way Wrist TV was invented in 1964.
They couldn't use the really grotesque villians like Littleface or Rodent because they didn't want to scare kids too much. Pruneface was disturbing enough for me to watch as a kid..
This is 100 times better than the Lame UPA Cartoon from the 60's. I really like John Erwin's voice over work, but please don't hate me, but I'm not 100% sold on him as Dick Tracy. Just my opinion.
John Erwin's he-man voice back in 1971...
"The Shah of Flattopia"...such a clever disguise!
NOT!!!
This has it's issues but it's worlds better than the other Dick Tracy cartoon from the 60s. For starters, Tracy actually gets off his ass and DOES things in this one
Dragonrider1227 the 60’s one is much better . That shoot guns the gangsters are more raw and deep in character . This one is soft . The only thing is Tracey does get it in . But yea he’s the coppers !!!
It retains the post WW2 look and feel of the strip. However, there's none of the strip's rough violence due to the tv restrictions of the 70s.
@@emeralddivinenow when you have Joe Jutistu and GoGo Gomez doing all the work.
What the hell was UPA thinking??
@@SuperWolsey Gotta admit I have a soft spot for the UPA show, goofy and un-Tracy as it was. I still imagine Flat Top with a Peter Lorre voice.
I haven't seen this in years...This was MUCH better in my opinion, than the 60's version of Dick Tracy. This is more like the comic strip. I wish they had this DVD or video somewhere. Thanks for posting this cartoon!!!
what 60's version? William Dozier's production was cancelled
@@a.shyperz9033 A '60s cartoon tv series by UPA.
@@Delmo5 The Early 1960s Dick Tracy cartoons was very much Slapstick comedy instead of a Crime drama 🎭.
This Dick Tracy cartoon is Truer to the Original Comic Strip.
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Dick Tracy's telewatch was WAY!!! ahead of its time.
Watched these as a kid; loved 'em! Our paper didn't carry the strip, so this was all I knew of Dick Tracy, until later.
This may have to do with the moon stories. Fans were tired of it and Newspapers were dropping the strips in droves. After it ended the strip slowly resurfaced.
Yes, after being eliminated from the strip in 1978, Moon Maid has made quite a comeback this year. They're making it look like she's been brought back via cloning or a process similar to it, but no one knows for sure yet. Great story, check it out on gocomics dot com.
Between UPA's 1961 "DICK TRACY" series and Filmation Associate's "ARCHIE'S TV FUNNIES" for CBS in Fall 1971, their version of "Dick Tracy" was actually way better, and played closely to the comic strip that Chester Gould created, but Archie voice regulars John Erwin, Dallas Mckinnon, Howard Morris, and Jane Webb all did such a beautiful job voicing Tracy and his "rouge's gallery", as compared to what UPA"s 1961 series with Everett Sloane and Paul Frees did, which was more for jokes if anything else! before he later went on to voice "HE-MAN" in 1983 after Filmation withdrew from Saturday Morning TV in 1982 for first run syndication, John Erwin's "Dick Tracy" voice was unquestionably the natural and superior version, and in the hands of Filmation, they stayed true to the material- even after William Dozier and Twentieth Century Fox Television attempted to make a live action TV pilot in 1967, which was never aired, so the "ARCHIE'S TV FUNNIES" segments on "Dick Tracy" was unquestionably the best of any of the previous attempts to do "Dick Tracy"-and no, we won't talk about Disney's ham-handed disaster from 1990 with Warren Beatty-that was awful!
Moon Maid was a princess from a colony of moon dwellers. She was killed off in the early 1970's, and her father, the king, cut all ties to Earth afterwards. I, too, watched these cartoons as a kid, VERY happy to see those funny characters retired. ;)
She was killed off in '78 just after Gould retired. Max Collins wanted to focus on Tracy as a crime fighter and thought the moon escapades were inappropriate. Honeymoon was the last existence of that period. After widower Jr. hooked up with Sparkle Plenty got married and had a daughter.
At least this version featured Tracy as the main character instead of that previous show that handed the reigns to made-up characters like Joe Jitsu and Heap O'Calories.
I guess Tracy got caught loafing off in the office. He actually chased the crook this time instead of handing the case over to his band of "Detectives"
Then taking all the credit for himself.
I haven't seen this one since it was new in the 70's.
That's He-Man's voice!
James Bunch Jr also the voice of Morris the cat on the 9 Lives commercials.
@@BrotherDerrick3X John Erwin, is very, extremely reclusive, he has literally kept himself out of the public light, he won't even do interviews either, conventions are completely out of the question for him
Thank you, I kept thinking why Dick Tracey's voice sounded familiar.
@James Bunch Jr I wonder if he was also the voice of Prince Adam or was that a different person? I recognized the voice of Prince Adam's voice as the voice of a sports caster on an episode of Seinfeld.
@@nobodysperfect06 I thought that maybe another actor maybe voiced Morris the cat whom was on various tv shows . He had short dark hair and glasses.
This was a good show.The Dick Tracy segments were the best ones.
I loved this!
RUclips please put back all the episodes of Archie's Tv Funnies online!
Ted Mack is a voice of Tracy. He was also Superman too.
This is the one I remember.
The other Dick Tracy cartoon doesn't even have him
Amazing job guys!!
I keep expecting Tracy to yell "I HAVE THE POWER!"
THANK you! I was goin' CRAZY tryin' to remember where I'd hoid dat verse before! :)
At least Tess was asked to get involved. She didn't try to do it on her own like she did when dealing with Pruneface.
It used a laugh track but at least it was kept to a minimum.
The expert voice casting by the Filmation Associates production people were both creative and certainly perfect! the "Dick Tracy" segment of "ARCHIE'S TV FUNNIES" (1971)
was actually a way better version from UPA's 1962 cartoon series with Everett Sloan voicing the character back then. John Erwin and Dallas McKennon, along with Jane Webb and Howard Morris all did fine jobs voicing these, and many of the other Sunday comic strip characters. and by an ironic twist in Fall 1972 "The ABC SATURDAY SUPERSTAR MOVIE" segment called "POPEYE MEETS THE MAN WHO HATED LAUGHTER" also brought back most of the Sunday funnies' characters in this Hal Seeger (BATFINK) produced cartoon movie from King Features Syndicate (now Hearst Corporation) and in 1978 Filmation and NBC aired "THE FABULOUS FUNNIES" which brought back some of the Sunday superstars used from "ARCHIE'S TV FUNNIES" .
Lou Scheimer Cartooning!
One thing Filmation did right was the animated version of Duck Tracy. Wished they turned it to a regular series.
You bet! I only watched Archie's TV Funnies for the Dick Tracy segment and hoped one day they would turn it into a regular series like they did with Penelope Pitstop from Wacky Races. Unfortunately they never did.
Typo but I'm glad you knew whom I meant.
It definitely should have been a series
Note that TRACY cartoons like this often used villains who had died in the strip!
Steve Burstein That's true. In the comic strip, Flattop died in 1943 when Tracy was pursuing him around a replica of Christopher Columbus' ship, the Santa Maria. Flattop jumped into a hole on the deck of the ship, landing in the water underneath it. Unfortunately, his coat got caught on a nail, making it impossible for him to rise to the surface. By the time anyone found him, it was too late; he had drowned to death.
A footnote: in a storyline from 1977, Flattop's daughter Angelica, or "Angeltop" as she was known, tried to get revenge on Tracy by taking him to the very same ship where her father met his doom and throwing Tracy into the same hole and the same water, hoping he would drown like her father. Luckily, Tracy managed to escape by cutting the rope that bound his hands on the same nail that snagged Flattop's coat. By the way, "Angeltop" was assisted in this crime by the son of the "Brow," another villain from the various "Dick Tracy" television adventures who was killed in the comic strip (in the Brow's case, he was a Nazi agent who, while making his escape, was accidentally impaled on a flagpole that just happened to be bearing the American flag, "the flag of the country he tried to harm").
At least on TV Funnies they had "Roger Trohs and Big Mama", instead of dead-in-strip Jerome Trohs, and probably dead Mama.
16 total Archie TV's Funnies with Dick Tracy segments were made. The 16 villains used in the series were Flattop, Big Boy, Mumbles, Shaky, BB Eyes, The Brow, Pruneface, The Mole, Breathless Mahoney, Roger Trohs the midget (and Mama), Shoulders, Purdy Feller, Pearshape, 88 Keyes, Stooge Viller, and Sketch Paree.
I remember this episode as a kid
I;m 64. If you ask my generation about Dick Tracy they will talk about the 60s series with Jo Jitzu and Go Go Gomez, and will also remember the comic strip. But we were still young enough to see this particular series, and I don't remember it. It must have left very little impression on me.
Son muy bueno estos dibujo animado de. Archi. Me gustaría que nos pasarán en español me hacen recordar cuando yo era niña me gusta mucho las caricaturas
I'm surprised that Filmation left out Go Go Gomez and Joe Jitzu!
+Urvy1A I'm not.
***** And no ethnic stereotype sidekicks from the UPA cartoons. It's odd to have Archie and the gang host these cartoons though.
It was good that the 2-Way Wrist TV was seen in the Dick Tracy adventures on Archie's T.V. Funnies.
I....
Hmm.
Didn't think this would be an episode to feature a bare-chested Flattop. XD
I remember this when I was a kid (back then I didn't know this was made 4 years before I was even born) I actually thought Dick Tracy was part of The Archie Universe.
You're absolutely right !!!
Flattopia. Shouldn't that be a dead giveaway?
+AllRequired Yup.
0:51 - Cape Fear!!!
Moon Maid's appearance is so jarring compared to the other characters.
Moon Maid is one Freaky Looking chick.
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What happened to the four Archie's TV Funnies full episodes that were on RUclips?
enjoying myself !
He mans voice
Whats the story behind Moon Maid?
I don't remember her from the comic strips.
But anyway far better then the terrible 60s version where Dick Tracy didn't do anything but give orders to some very annoying sidekicks to do the fighting for him.
7DARKHELLS She was the daughter of the Moon Governor and Moon First Lady. Her family ruled over Earth's moon. She fell in love with Dick Tracy's adopted son, Junior and they married and had a daughter, Honeymoon Maid. Then a villain named, Big Boy offered an open contract to kill Dick Tracy which was accepted by Little Littel, an explosives expert. Littel put a bomb in Dick Tracy's car, and unfortunately Moon Maid borrowed the car to run an errand, and the minute she turned the key, the car blew up and she died. The whole family was grief-stricken, and they even received condolences from then president, Jimmy Carter.
My son is amazing
Man I forgot all about those old alien accents that were a mix between Chinese and something else. Those were so popular when depicting aliens back in those years.
it's got a 71 Ford LTD in thsi cartoon
Cool
If there had been a sequel to the Dick Tracy starring Warren Beatty, how many years would it take place after he defeated a bunch of rogues? The 2-Way Wrist TV was invented in 1964.
When was the last time the Moon Maid was seen in the Dick Tracy comic strip in the newspapers?
Alessandro de Souza AXÉ Dick Tracy
These were much better! Video Watch!
Got anymore episodes?
Me gusta mucho tiras cómicas me gustaría que me las pasaron por RUclips en español me gusta más el detective Dick Tracy
Sería muy bueno qué me las pasaron por RUclips en español los cómics deArchi me gusta más ver Dicktracy
Me gustaría recibir una respuesta sobre el cómic que me gusta
Why wasn't Dick Tracy's daughter Bonnie seen in The Adventures of Dick Tracy on Archie's T.V. Funnies?
Probably budget reasons. You can only use so much on a limited scale. That would explain why Lizz the policewoman was also left out.
Wait....moon princess was on this show lol
Her name is MOON MAID , & I thought she was a weird looking Babe . She's got horns & eyes like a gray alien.
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Whut are those climbing things
I’m surprised this series of Dick
Tracy cartoons didn’t bring out crooks like Littleface, Rodent, Influence, and Itchy.
They couldn't use the really grotesque villians like Littleface or Rodent because they didn't want to scare kids too much. Pruneface was disturbing enough for me to watch as a kid..
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This is 100 times better than the Lame UPA Cartoon from the 60's. I really like John Erwin's voice over work, but please don't hate me, but I'm not 100% sold on him as Dick Tracy. Just my opinion.
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