Rod Rocket

Rod Rocket
Genre Animation, Adventure
Written by Dick Robbins
Directed by Lou Scheimer
Hal Sutherland
Starring Sam Edwards
Hal Smith
Pat Blake
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of episodes 130
Production
Executive producer(s) Mark Lipsky
Walter N. Bien
Running time 5 min.
Production company(s) Filmation Associates
Release
Picture format Color (initially telecast in black-and-white)
Original release 1963

Rod Rocket is the first animated cartoon with production credited to Filmation, debuting in syndication in 1963.

History

Rod Rocket was originally produced by True Line, a small Los Angeles animation studio that subcontracted the newly formed Filmation Associates created by Lou Scheimer and Hal Sutherland in the early 1960s.[1] Scheimer and Sutherland had met while working at Larry Harmon Productions on the made-for-TV Bozo the Clown and Popeye cartoons. SIB Productions, a Japan-based company with an American office in Chicago, co-produced the series in conjunction with the CBS Television Network.

Plot

The television series focuses on the adventures of a boy named Rod Rocket and his best friend, Joey. The wise codger, Professor Argus, sends Rod and Joey on an exploratory mission in a spaceship called the Little Argo and he waits for them to come home with his teenage granddaughter, Cassie. While in space, Rod and Joey constantly battle two bumbling cosmonauts.

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Episodes

References

  1. Scheimer, Lou and Mangels, Andy, Lou Scheimer: Creating the Filmation Generation, Raleigh, NC Two Morrows Publications, 2012, p.38, 39


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