Friday, April 6, 2018

Celebrity Toons: Blast Off (Emergency +4, 1974)

From season 2 of Emergency +4:

Roy DeSoto (Kevin Tighe) has to teach an important lesson in fire safety when one of the kids is testing model rocket for a science fair. "Blast Off", it happens, was the series finale.



If the voice of Stanley's father sounds familiar, that's because it belongs to Richard Paul, later of Carter Country, who joined the cast in the 2nd season. Bobby Diamond (ex-Fury), who'd carved out a second career as a voice actor beginning in the 60's, is also heard.

Fred Calvert, as we've documented, would give it one more shot with boxing icon Muhammad Ali three years later, but that effort didn't survive Christmas.

Rating: C.

2 comments:

Chris Sobieniak said...

Seems like Fred Calvert didn't really have the chops for animation of any kind, but help on doing what he could anyway, despite what we see anyway (of course finishing Richard Williams' magnum opus didn't do him any favors).

hobbyfan said...

Calvert was using some of the same animators who were working for other studios at the time, but the quality was lacking.