Re: CALVIN AND THE COLONEL

Mark Evanier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> On 29 Nov 2003 04:19:57 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (AKieswetter)
> posted:
> 
> >Does anybody remember this long-forgotten tv cartoon from the Amos n'
> >Andy team? Imo,it was the first 'adult' US tv cartoon.
> >
> >If so, I have a few questions regarding it.
> >
> >1.Was it based on a radio show? I remember reading somewhere it was.
> 
> ME: Sort of based on AMOS 'N' ANDY.  Charles Correll, who'd been the
> voice of Andy, was the voice of Calvin, a bear who was very much like
> Andy.  Freeman Gosden, who'd played Amos and the Kingfish, played
> Colonel Montgomery J. Klaxon, who was very similar to the Kingfish.
> The plots of the cartoon episodes were derived from scripts Gosden and
> Correll had done on radio and on the live-action AMOS 'N' ANDY TV
> show.

Klaxon,that was the Colonel's surname.Thanks for the correction.
> 
> >2.How many episodes were there?
> 
> ME: Twenty-two.  ABC ran them in 1961 in prime-tme, then a year or two
> later they ran them again on Saturday morning.
> 
> Thanks Mark, for the info.

   Andrew Kieswetter

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