Friday, September 5, 2025

Daytime Heroes: Courageous Cat (1960)

 I had done a piece before on our next subject, but it was deleted at a time when YouTube had removed every last video available on Courageous Cat.

Courageous was, along his sidekick, Minute Mouse, a parody of Bob Kane's most famous creation, Batman, and produced by independent producer Sam Singer for Tele-Features. 130 shorts were produced over 2 seasons (1960-2). The music was credited to Johnny Holliday, and, per Wikipedia (take it with a grain of salt), Roy Halee (Heckle & Jeckle) & Dayton Allen (ex-Howdy Doody) worked on the series along with primary voice actor Dallas McKennon.

Have to guess it might be either McKennon or Allen impersonating Edward G. Robinson as Chauncey Frog, Courageous' arch-nemesis, in "The Case of The Prison Break":


Reruns played on WPIX during the 70's & early 80's, before 1st run syndication took hold. That's how I was introduced to Courageous.

Rating: A.

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