From Comics to Toons: Beetle Bailey in Labor Shortage (1960)

 We all know that Beetle Bailey was adapted for television, with the first shorts rolling out in 1963.

Ah, but what is this? A short from 1960? Yep.

Seems that King Features, which launched their animation division with Popeye in '60, had tried out Beetle with a pilot produced, and presumably written, by Joe Oriolo and Pat Sullivan, Jr., more closely associated with Felix The Cat and Casper.

The voice actors remain the same, Howard Morris & Allan Melvin, as this is a 2 man show. Here's "Labor Shortage".

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Rating: B.