Saturday, September 22, 2018

Looney TV: Merlin The Magic Mouse in Fistic Mystic (1969)

Time to visit with Merlin The Magic Mouse (Larry Storch, ex-F-Troop) as he & Second Banana wind up a small Old West town in "Fistic Mystic". Storch retained the W. C. Fields-inspired vocals for Merlin, originally developed by Daws Butler two years earlier.



After F-Troop ended, Storch resumed his voice acting career, splitting time between WB & Filmation over a period of five years (1968-73), and even reprised his characterization of The Joker in a pair of New Scooby-Doo Movies episodes.

Rating: B.

2 comments:

jimakin said...

Thanks for this post. I just saw a pic of Merlin the Magic Mouse and had never heard of him.

FWIW, Larry Storch's voice acting career began before F-Troop (1965-67) and overlapped with it: He played Phineas J. Whoopee on Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales (1963-66). When the tough guy cowboy in this Merlin cartoon laughs, he sounds like Mr. Whoopee.

hobbyfan said...

I've corrected that oversight.