Gene Deitch
Director
Tom Terrific (1957)
Season 2
Drawn in a simple style, it features a gee-whiz boy hero, Tom Terrific, who lives in a treehouse and can transform himself into anything he wants thanks to his magic, funnel-shaped "thinking cap," which also enhances his intelligence. He has a comic lazybones of a sidekick, Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog, and an arch-foe named Crabby Appleton, whose motto is, "I'm rotten to the core!" Other foes include Mr. Instant, the Instant Thing King, Captain Kidney Bean, Sweet Tooth Sam, the Candy Bandit and Isotope Feaney, The Meany.
Released June 10, 1957
Episode 5 min
None+
Genres: Animation, Children, Comedy, Family, Kids
Keywords: imdb.character-name-as-series-title, imdb.two-word-series-title, imdb.tom-terrific-chsracter, imdb.shapeshifter, imdb.dog, imdb.1950s, imdb.supernatural-power, imdb.cartoon-dog
Production Companies: Terrytoons
Network: CBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S2E1 - The Missing Mail Mystery
When Tom finds that mail from his pen pals haven't been arriving, he discovers that Crabby Appleton has been confiscating it.
Sept. 22, 1958, midnight
S2E2 - The Prince Frog
Tom and Manfred visit Fairyland where they meet a handsome prince who was changed from being a frog and wants to be a frog again. The witch that made the spell sends Tom and Manfred on a quest for three... more objects in exchange for turning the prince back into a frog.
Sept. 29, 1958, midnight
S2E3 - Isotope Feeny's Foolish Fog
Isotope Feeny creates a cloud that turns whoever it engulfs into an idiot.
Oct. 6, 1958, midnight
S2E4 - Moon Over Manfred
The moon's light has suddenly gone out. Tom and Manfred go to the moon where they find the Man In The Moon, who controls the moon phases, is quitting because he is always being buzzed by Earth's satellites.
Oct. 13, 1958, midnight
S2E5 - Go West, Young Manfred
Tom and Manfred go back in time where they help the last surviving pioneer to California.
Oct. 20, 1958, midnight
S2E6 - The Silly Sandman
The Sandman, the entity that puts children to sleep, has taken a vacation from his duties and it makes all the children in the world cranky for lack of sleep.
Oct. 27, 1958, midnight
S2E7 - Crabby Park
Crabby Appleton steals all the trees and creates his own private park with them.
Nov. 4, 1958, midnight
S2E8 - The Million Manfred Mystery
While visiting Earth, Martians mistake Manfred for Tom Terrific, take him back to Mars and create a million clones of him.
Nov. 11, 1958, midnight
S2E9 - The Flying Sorceror
Tom and Manfred must use the riddle posed by the Flying Sorceror in helping a genie return to his magic lamp.
Nov. 18, 1958, midnight
S2E10 - The Big Dog Show-Off
Tom enters Manfred in a dog show, while Crabby Appleton seeks to sabotage Manfred's chances of winning by disguising himself as a dog.
Nov. 25, 1958, midnight
S2E11 - The End Of Rainbows
Rainbow painter Rembrandt Van Rainbow has run out of color, so Tom and Manfred travel cross-country in search of more color for him.
Dec. 1, 1958, midnight
S2E12 - RobinsNest Crusoe
Tom and Manfred travel to the bottom of the sea where they help Robins Nest Crusoe get his baseball uniforms so he can field his baseball team.
Dec. 8, 1958, midnight
S2E13 - The Everlasting Birthday Party
Crabby Appleton makes time repeat itself so his birthday party will go on forever.
Dec. 15, 1958, midnight
CBS
5 min/ep
5 min
June 10, 1957
Dec. 15, 1958, midnight
Ended
NR
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