October 3, 1964 – February 21, 1967
Underdog is an American Saturday morning animated television series that ran from October 3, 1964, to February 21, 1967 starting on the NBC network until 1966, with the rest of the run on CBS, under the primary sponsorship of General Mills, for a run of 62 episodes. It is one of the early Saturday morning cartoons. The show continued airing on both networks until it was put into syndication in 1973 (it had begun airing in syndication starting in 1969, the year Total TeleVision went defunct).
Storyline
Underdog, Shoeshine Boy's heroic alter ego, appears whenever love interest Sweet Polly Purebred is being victimized by such villains as Simon Bar Sinister or Riff Raff. Underdog nearly always speaks in rhyme, as in "There's no need to fear, Underdog is here!" His voice was supplied by Wally Cox.
TV Show Intro
Sound Effects Used
- Elektra Records, Car Skid And Crash/Sound Ideas, CRASH, AUTO - AUTO APPROACH, SKID AND CRASH, CARTOON
- Elektra Records, Mean Cat/Hollywoodedge, Angry Cat YowlingI CRT2031101 (Heard in "The Flying Sorcerers".)
- Elektra Records, Sawing Wood/Hollywoodedge, Handheld Saw Fast Rev PE196201
- Elektra Records, Steamship Blast/Hollywoodedge, Ship Huge Low Pitched TE048201 (Heard once in "The Big Dipper".)
- Elektra Records, Trumpet Fanfare 01
- Famous Studios Cartoon Fall Sound
- Famous Studios Cartoon Thunder Sound
- Famous Studios Tinkling Chimes (Used in most instances whenever Underdog is about to fly off.)
- Hollywoodedge, Twangy Boings 7 Type CRT015901 (3rd and 4th boings heard once in "Simon Says".)
- Impress, Various Percussion Effects No. 3 (Swanee Whistle)
- Paramount Bass and Cymbal Crash Sound
- Paramount Quick Zip In
- Paramount Weird Slide Whistle (Used as Underdog is about to fly in "Safe Waif", and also heard in "Zot".)
- Phil Kaye Ricochet (Slowed-down edit.)
- R-B EXPLOSION - CANNON FIRING
- RICOCHET - CARTOON RICCO 25
- RICOCHET - RICCO AND WHINE 06/Sound Ideas, GUN, RICOCHET - TWANGY RICOCHET, BULLET 02 (Heard once in "The Big Shrink".)
- Sound Ideas, AIRPLANE, JET - FAST JET FLY BY 01
- Sound Ideas, AIRPLANE, JET - FAST JET FLY BY 02
- Sound Ideas, AIRPLANE, JET - ROCKY THE SQUIRREL WHIZZES BY
- Sound Ideas, AIRPLANE, PROP - LONG DIVE 02
- Sound Ideas, AUTO, CRASH - LONG SKID AND CRASH (Heard once in the final part of "Pain Strikes Underdog.")
- Sound Ideas, BOING, CARTOON - METALLIC BOING 01 (Heard once in "Zot".)
- Sound Ideas, BOING, CARTOON - METALLIC BOING 02 (Heard once in "Zot".)
- Sound Ideas, BOING, CARTOON - SMALL BOING
- Sound Ideas, BOING, CARTOON - VIBRATING BOING 01 (Heard once in "Simon Says".)
- Sound Ideas, BOINK, CARTOON - BOINK 01 (Heard once in a low pitch in "Safe Waif".)
- Sound Ideas, BOUNCE, CARTOON - SINGLE TIMPANI BOUNCE 01
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON, SKID - SHORT, LOW SKID
- Sound Ideas, CHIME, CARTOON - QUICK CHIME GLISS
- Sound Ideas, COMEDY, ACCENT - SPROINGS
- Sound Ideas, CRASH, AUTO - AUTO APPROACH, SKID AND CRASH, CARTOON
- Sound Ideas, CRASH, AUTO - SKID AND LARGE AUTO CRASH, CARTOON
- Sound Ideas, CRASH, GLASS - LIGHT GLASS SMASH, CARTOON
- Sound Ideas, DRUMS, CARTOON - FAST BONGO ROLL
- Sound Ideas, EXPLOSION - BOMB WHISTLE AND EXPLOSION (Heard several times in the final part of "The Phoney Booths".)
- Sound Ideas, Explosions - Ricochets . . . interior . . . 6 shots (Heard several times throughout "Fearo".)
- Sound Ideas, GUN, MACHINE GUN - 30 CAL.: MEDIUM BURST
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - HEAVY CRASHY THUD
- Sound Ideas, MOTOR, CARTOON - FUNNY RHYTHMIC MOTOR RUNNING
- Sound Ideas, MUSIC, HARP - HARP GLISS UP, CARTOON (Heard once in "Simon Says".)
- Sound Ideas, RICOCHET - CARTOON RICCO 06
- Sound Ideas, RICOCHET - CARTOON RICCO 07
- Sound Ideas, SKID, CARTOON - BIG LONG SKID
- Sound Ideas, SKID, CARTOON - SCREECHY SKID
- Sound Ideas, SKID, CARTOON - SHORT SKID (H-B)
- Sound Ideas, SKID, CARTOON - SHORT SKID (R-B)
- Sound Ideas, SPIN, CARTOON - RAPID VOCAL SPINNING
- Sound Ideas, SPRONG, CARTOON - BIG SPRINGY SPRONG 01 (Heard in "The Great Gold Robbery.")
- Sound Ideas, SPURT, CARTOON - OIL SPURT 01
- Sound Ideas, SPURT, CARTOON - OIL SPURT 02
- Sound Ideas, SQUEAK, CARTOON - SQUEAKY CART WHEEL (Heard once in "Zot".)
- Sound Ideas, STRETCH, CARTOON - SHORT RUBBER STRETCHING SQUEAK 03
- Sound Ideas, SWISH, CARTOON - SHORT VOCAL SWISH 01
- Sound Ideas, THUNDER - BIG THUNDER CLAP AND RUMBLE, WEATHER 04 (Heard in "The Witch of Pickyoon.")
- Sound Ideas, THUNDER - SINGLE THUNDER ROLL, WEATHER 01
- Sound Ideas, THUNDER - THUNDER CLAP AND RUMBLE, WEATHER 01 (H-B) (Heard in "A New Villain.")
- Sound Ideas, TWANG, CARTOON - TWANG WITH BIG WARBLE
- Sound Ideas, WEATHER - THUNDER CRASH 02
- Sound Ideas, WHISTLE, SLIDE - QUICK SLIDE DOWN, CARTOON 02 (Heard once in "Go Snow" and "Zot".)
- Sound Ideas, WHISTLE, SLIDE - QUICK SLIDE UP, CARTOON (Heard once in "Zot" and "The Great Gold Robbery".)
- Sound Ideas, WIND - SIBERIAN WIND, WEATHER (Heard once in "Go Snow" and "Zot".)
- Sound Ideas, X RAY, CARTOON - X RAY MACHINE RUNNING (Heard once in "March of the Monsters".)
- Sound Ideas, ZIP, CARTOON - BIG WHISTLE ZING OUT (Heard once in "Egypt".)
- Sound Ideas, ZIP, CARTOON - RICCO ZIP IN 01 (R & B) (Heard once in "Moon Zoom".)
- Sound Ideas, ZIP, CARTOON - RICCO ZIP IN 02 (R & B) (Heard once in "Moon Zoom".)
- Tod Dockstader "Boi-oi-oi-oing" Sound
- Total Television Timpani Sound
- Valentino Bull Elephant Trumpeting (Used often for the monsters in "Fearo".)
- Valentino Wind Blowing