Crusader Rabbit (1950)
Crusader Rabbit is the first animated series produced specifically for television. The concept was test marketed in 1948, while the initial episode - Crusader vs. the State of Texas - aired on KNBH in Los Angeles, California on August 1, 1950.
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Crusader Rabbit
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Crusader and Raggs return home to find it taken over by E. Z. Mooney, who gets Raggs into a crooked poker game. E.Z. says he'll return the town when he gets his money. Crusader and Raggs run into their friend Garth who is prospecting for uranium, which sounds like a solution. Buying supplies they run into their old nemesis Dudley Nightshade.
Raggs has a toothache. When all home remedies fail Crusader takes him to the dentist, Doc Cavity. Unfortunately Doc has gone to a dentist's convention in Yankimout, Washington. Our heroes follow only to find none of the dentists can work; the gold they use comes from the Yukon - and there hasn't been any for a while. Crusader and Raggs set off to find out why. 53 minutes.
Robin Hoodlum has escaped from Sing Sing Sing prison during an archery tournament. Robin steals a bank deposit book so he can rob from the rich.
In Loudmouth, Wyoming the deadliest gunslinger Manny Oakley is demanding everybody carry a gun. Dr Frank N. Stein's mansion (Withering Heights) sits above the town and he objects to the noise. It interferes with his writing. Rags gets mixed up in the doctor's wooden Indian army.
The story of why the inhabitants of Galahad Glen gather annually to celebrate the villainous Dudley Nightshade. It all began with a magic trick in which Rags destroys a timepiece - an hourglass filled with mystical sands. If the sand is not replaced, Galahad Glen will be eternally cursed.
Crusader arrives in Washington DC and is dispatched to save Professor Ed Foo Young. The professor is being held in China by Fooey Man Chu and his henchman King Kong Wong.
All of Galahad Glen has gone down to the Lu Cu Pu river for the first day of fishing, but the river is dry. Crusader and Raggs volunteer to find out why and head upriver. At the falls they discover that someone is adding African Sponge fish to the river, but then the fish are being transported to Belly Acres, Mississippi. They set off to find out who is behind the water theft. 52 minutes.
In ancient Rome Crusader and Rags take a wrong turn at the coliseum. Instead of spectators, they are gladiators. They wind up as bodyguards to Caesar and foil multiple assassination attempts by Brutus.
It's time for the annual baseball series at Wiggly Field where the Galahad Glen Losers are playing the New York Crankees. Just as Galahad Glen's pitcher Carl Bearskin takes the mound, he disappears. Crusader and Raggs set out to solve the mystery and Raggs ends up pitching the game.
Crusader Rabbit is the first animated series produced specifically for television. The concept was test marketed in 1948, while the initial episode - Crusader vs. the State of Texas - aired on KNBH in Los Angeles, California on August 1, 1950.
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