From The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo:
Dick Tracy made his final appearance for UPA in this crossover episode, produced three years after Dick's syndicated series had ended production.
The plot: Magoo (Jim Backus, Gilligan's Island) is recruited by Tracy to pose as a lookalike mobster, Squinty Eyes, in order to infiltrate the mob, led in this case by Pruneface (Marvin Miller). Now, I'm not sure if Oodles (Howard Morris) was an actual Chester Gould creation, or was made for TV. It'd have to be the latter to explain his appearance here.
Marvin Miller also voices Chief Pat Patton, who makes his TV debut.
Magoo needed to be humbled at the end, to keep his ego in check. It would be seven years before Tracy and some of his foes, like Flattop, Mumbles, The Brow, and The Mole, would return.
Rating: A-.
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