Courageous Cat & Minute Mouse: Why This Cartoon Deserved More Respect

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Let’s dive into how this cartoon came to be and why the low production values kept it from becoming a true classic!
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@tbobtrasman4875 Год назад

I loved the theme song. Batman had his utility belt; Courageous Cat had his guns. Always just the right weapon at the right time.

@jamesmoss3424 Год назад

It's great that a cat and a mouse working together. 😀👍🐱🐭

@uncaboat2399 Год назад

lesson for the day.

@yell0wberry Год назад

Even Tom and Jerry worked together briefly as police officers…… itchy, and scratchy were friends for at least five seconds

@Dinobolt1 3 дня назад

My favorite cat and mouse duo was always Snooper and Blabber, a Hanna Barbera duo of detectives.

@LyleFrancisDelp Год назад

Theme song....a cheap rip-off of Henry Mancini's theme to "Peter Gunn".

@stevebird9510 Год назад

Good way to keep costs down 😁👍

@georgecarter838 Год назад

Born in 1960, watching all these classic cartoons back then was always a must on a Saturday morning with a big bowlful of cereal. I barely remember Courageous Cat, but my favorites was Beany and Cecil, Mr. Magoo, The Mighty Heroes, and Speed Racer. To me, the limited animation and detailed backgrounds is what appealed to me with this type of cartoons. Oh, to be a kid again...

@phatchick96 Год назад

The Mighty Heroes was one of my favorites too.

@georgecarter838 Год назад

@@phatchick96 The intro music to The Mighty Heroes is still one of the best in a cartoon. Still love it to this day.

@william67883 4 месяца назад

U said it ! What a glorious time to be young and my father too would sit along and watch with us boys.

@herbertturner8808 Год назад

Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse were typical of cartoons produced for the local TV syndication market of the 1960's. Low budgets and limited animation allowed for a large number of episodes.I have fond memories of this series.

@clarencewalker3925 Год назад

I watched this show every week. It was okay. When you had only three stations to watch okay was better than nothing.

@gregmiller9710 Год назад

..you had 3?!?....we had one...and Ronnie on the hill had one and 2 snowy...:D...

@willyoeikeland3116 Год назад

@@gregmiller9710 In NYC we had 6 channels. 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, and 11. I loved this show. Saturday mornings were loaded with kids shows. Ahh the sweet memories.

@meyerj75 Год назад

@@willyoeikeland3116 Didn't you also have 13 and 55?

@jessmccart3937 Год назад

Seriously when you were a kid and needed a cartoon fix you would watch anything even Captain Kangaroo for Tom Terrific.

@walterkoziol3822 Год назад

I had 7 but PBS & NBC were identical with their broadcasting. Think I had FOX but didn't find out till late when cable was coming into my city. But it was on 61 which I just didn't bother cause in my opinion it wasn't worth going up that high since the shows stunk most of the time. And of course ABC & CBS. FOX, NBC & PBS where we're coming from CT so from time to time the antenna couldn't pick them up. The rest was no problem since they were practically in my backyard.

@edwinvalenzuela3446 Год назад

Boy I remember that cartoon from WPIX 11 Alive reruns back in the 1978 I was 10 years old back then Mondays through Fridays right after The Magical Garden (1969 - 1981) Mondays through Thursdays and Fridays is Joya's Fun School (1972 - 1983) right after school.

@sgnmath1234 Год назад

Grew up in Queens. I can relate to what you said.

@meyerj75 Год назад

Actually, It was called The Magic Garden which did air on WPIX 11 from 1972 to 1984. Despite its only 52 episode run, it had a huge cult following in NYC and its neighboring states. Paula Janis and Carole Demas were the ladies and Sherlock the pink squirrel and Flapper the bird were the puppets.

@biancagerade4229 Год назад

I love this cartoon because I love all things Batman even though it was a cat & mouse it was still pretty Cool ❤

@5argetech56 Год назад

The Frog was Edward G. Robinson!

@deboralee1623 Год назад

i'd forgotten what he sounded like, but before the narrator mentioned it, i thought to myself, "Edward G. Robinson."

@guyfaux3978 2 месяца назад

N'YAAH!

@geralderdek282 Год назад

Ahh the cartoons of the 60s!! Unforgettable to us baby boomers! And courageous cat and minute mouse were one of my favorite. Only adults would find fault in its animation. I certainly never saw any as a kid! I'd catch an episode every weekday morning at 8 before going out to catch the school bus. That theme song sure brings back those memories!! Thanks for doing it.

@stevenedwards4470 Год назад

Bob Kane ripped off Batman...twice. The Frog is the best villain ever...see? 🐸

@stevebird9510 Год назад

I do not remember this one.

@brianjonesg8aso403 Год назад

Trans Artists? was this man way ahead of his time?

@jimdep6542 Год назад

I remembered the name, Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse and then as soon as I saw the opening scene with the panning of the city and then the Catmobile, it all looked very familiar to me, remembering it from my childhood., along with the theme music. I'm pretty sure I haven't seen it since, or even thought about it for decades. It was like your subconscious mind remembering something from long ago in a dream. I'm sure I liked the cartoon as a kid. Thanks for showing it.

@william67883 4 месяца назад

Thank goodness there seems to not be any Mandela effects on this series of Courageous Cat ? Or at least it's exactly how I remembered it .

@jimdep6542 4 месяца назад

@@william67883 what's a Mandela effect ?

@stebaer Год назад

I watched Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse During The Summer of 1983 and even thought it was fun to understand how it was a takeoff of Batman and Robin and by The Batman Creator Bob Kane himself.

@jamesinman1198 Год назад

Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse was a real cool cartoon show!😎 That cartoon show Rocked! It still gets alot of credit.

@johncoxmastercartoonist9390 Год назад

I must be the Sam Singer of web cartoons :/. At least reimagining Batman and Robin as a cat and mouse was successful enough to make it to TV, whereas reimagining RU-vidrs' pets as humans, The Three Stooges as gorgeous millennial girls, etc. rarely gets any recognition.

@richardtracy8242 Год назад

Loved the Catmobile/Catplane, and the All-Purpose Cat Gun.

@blueberrypitbull87 Год назад

Can you guys please do a video on the classic Anime franchise Jungle Emperor, a.k.a. Kimba, the White Lion? The anime series installments from 1965, 1966, and 1989.

@deboralee1623 Год назад

🎶...Who lives down in deepest, darkest Africa (Africa)? Who's the one who brought the jungle faaame?...🎶

@BritInvLvr Год назад

Oh man. I loved Kimba!

@richardtracy8242 Год назад

The Lion King Completely Ripped Off Kimba.

@tonycanabal1659 Год назад

I remember this cartoon in reruns in the late 60's. I liked it better than Batfink.

@Richard-od7yd Год назад

BATFINK was such a favorite cartoon of my fellow shipmates on my Destroyer that we did a kinda ROCKY HORROR thing with it!! Fucking hysterical and life saving

@Dinobolt1 3 дня назад

@@Richard-od7yd I second the motion. Batfink was an awesome cartoon that I have loved since I was a kid. When the show that played it replaced Batfink with Courageous Cat I was devastated. Looking back I should have seen it coming as Batfink replaced the likes of Mr. Magoo as well as the original Alvin and the Chipmunks cartoon but because it was so much better it quickly seemed like it had only ever aired Batfink. I still came to enjoy his replacement even if it was never the same and looking back kid me was right. Batfink is every bit as great as I remember, and with 1 exception the Courageous Cat and Minute mouse episodes I've seen are pretty weak. Maybe I need to see more but I'm sorry, they feel more primitive than Huckleberry Hound despite being made 3 years later. Snooper and Blabber will always be my favorite crime-fighting cat and mouse duo.

@tigermask3831 Год назад

Courageous Cat needs a Comeback.

@jonb3189 Год назад

My first memory of any cartoon as a kid: Courageous Cat & Minute Mouse. I'm pretty certain they're all on RU-vid for free watching.

@l.salisbury1253 Год назад

Believe-it-or-else but the New York Dolls actually covered the opening theme...!

@ChrisMentzer Год назад

I can't say whether I've seen this cartoon. But I wonder if it paved the way for Danger Mouse?

@coolaunt516 Год назад

I also remember "Pow Wow The Indian Boy" who "loved all the animals in the woods" according to the theme song.

@garydmcgath Год назад

Pow Wow made it to TV in the fifties. Horrible ethnic stereotyping, but fun as a kids' show.

@dan6m Год назад

I liked this show in the 60's. Each episode was what- 5 minutes long? Great theme song. I also like the multiple New York city skylines scrolling in the background.

@pixiendixie4211 Год назад

Wow I had totally forgotten this cartoon. Thank you for this.

@SMSimas-yz4yo Год назад

If it wasn't for Kane's friend Fingers, we wouldn't have the Batman

@uncaboat2399 Год назад

You didn't talk much about his go-to weapon! The pistol that could shoot anything, from ropes with a lasso or a grappling hook, to bombs, to nets ... anything except bullets!

@The1belal Год назад

I grew up in Baghdad Iraq and loved watching all the episodes in the mid 1960's - even though I never understood a word.

@DocDoccus Год назад

At least you had mentioned Bob Kane as the co-creator of Batman, but didn't give any credit to the other creator, Bill Finger.

@deborahfrisch4338 7 месяцев назад

i thought i was the only one who cared so much about this show. i never made the edward g. robinson film noir extraordinaire connection to frog yeah right or the penguin -

@RodneytheOperaRat 7 месяцев назад

*Tbh I think they’re way better than Mighty Mouse*

@BruceGarrett Год назад

I would love to get a copy of that Johnny Holiday music. Not just the opening theme. He did some equally cool background music for the cartoons too.

@sethkaicer319 Год назад

Dogs and cats living together, Mass Hysteria!!!

@edreid7872 Год назад

The jazzy music… incredible..it’s what I remember most..

@brianfergus839 5 месяцев назад

The bass ostinato at the top and the big minor nine chord at the end have stuck with me for these many decades.

@edreid7872 5 месяцев назад

@@brianfergus839Wow, that's way too technical for me.. I just remembered loving it.. Especially the slower, moody pieces used during the episode..

@Jim-ok9zi Год назад

I remember watching this as a child in Australia.

@frankwafer6919 Год назад

One of my favorites!💖!

@Merylstreep1949 Год назад

Oh man I LOVED this as a kid Thanks for the retrospective

@thebranchise Год назад

I discovered this show on Prime a few years ago with my then 5 year old. I put it on cause it looked really old just to mess with him. Crazily, he loved it, and so did I. Needless to say, it became something we would watch a couple of episodes every night before bedtime. Very cool show.

@michaelblaine6494 Год назад

God I loved that cartoon,especially that opening. I didn’t realize how old it was

@waltglow6396 Год назад

I'm 72 years old, and remember this cartoon!

@meyerj75 Год назад

If you were lucky to have WPIX TV 11 (New York City) back in the 1970s and 1980s, you may have captured this program following The Three Stooges on weekend mornings.

@donnellcooper1011 Год назад

Lol! I was going to say this! If I remember correctly CC & MM came on WPIX channel 11 on Sunday mornings before and sometimes after the 11am Abbott & Costello movie as filler. Before A & C was either The Little Rascals or The Three Stooges! After A & C we switched over to WNYW channel 5 and watched monster movies, kung-fu movies and then WWF Superstars! As Archie & Edith Bunker sang, 🎵"Those were the daaayyys!"🎵😅

@meyerj75 Год назад

@@donnellcooper1011 And Then, I look back at all the shows that used to be on Sunday mornings on WPIX 11 like Tom and Jerry, Josie and the Pussycats, Wacky Races, & H.R. Pufnstuf before F Troop and the afternoon movie which, as you mentioned, might feature an Abbott & Costello movie put an end to cartoon enjoyment and back to my room playing with toys and records until the Wonderful World of Disney came on later.

@hovermo74 Год назад

I’m pretty sure this was on like 1pm in the afternoon in the 80s. I remember it was something they played between shows on Channel 11 during the week

@Monkofmagnesia Год назад

Loved this cartoon when I was a kid (I was born in 1962). 'Til this day, I remember the opening tune when I think of the cartoon.

@hhvictor2462 Год назад

I wish you did a backgorund on that fantastic and catchy beatnik-like intro tune.

@CSLucasEpic Год назад

This reminded me... what ever happened to The Mighty Heroes? You know, Rope Man, Strong Man, Cuckoo Man, Tornado Man and Diaper Man. One season, 21 episodes, and that's it. It was a great cartoon. I liked it, at least. I actually liked them more than Mighty Mouse.

@ChrisBullington Год назад

Ralph Bakshi actually used the Mighty Heroes in an episode of The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse (he created them for Terrytoons in the 1960's). They had since become cpa's and worked for the firm Man, Man, Man, Man, and Man.

@Dinobolt1 3 дня назад

I saw this show as a kid when it was played on the 90s Nickelodeon live-action show Weinerville. I liked it but it had huge shoes because it replaced my favorite cartoon they ever aired, Batfink. I loved Batfink to the point where it was the thing I looked forward to most about seeing Weinerville. Looking back I should have seen it coming as Batfink replaced the likes of Mr. Magoo as well as the original Alvin and the Chipmunks cartoon but because it was so much better it quickly seemed like Weinerville had only ever aired Batfink. I still came to enjoy his replacement even if it was never the same and looking back kid me was right. Batfink is every bit as great as I remember, and with 1 exception the Courageous Cat and Minute mouse episodes I've seen are pretty weak. Maybe I need to see more but I'm sorry, they feel more primitive than Huckleberry Hound despite being made 3 years later. Snooper and Blabber will always be my favorite crime-fighting cat and mouse duo. I'm still glad to see it has a fanbase. Even if I can't enjoy it I'm glad other people can. I would honestly love to see a reboot of this with better animation and writing.

@jeffkatt Год назад

This was one of my most watched cartoons from my childhood in the 1960's! ❤❤ I loved the opening theme song. So cool sounding!!!

@HootOwl513 Год назад

How could I have totally missed this show? At ten, I would have loved it.

@steve-ec5wp Год назад

1 OF MANY WOUNDERFUL CARTOONS FROM THAT TIME!!!! THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES!!!😆!!!!

@oluhamilton2121 Год назад

not the BOXING GLOVE GUN😅!! And shooting the ending credits with gunshot sounds was..... interesting.

@SmokeyGoodness Год назад

..."I'm the Frog, see?"

@Edward-rv2bu 27 дней назад

These cartoon didn’t just come on Saturday Morning they came on 6 days a week Monday through Saturday every morning and around 3:30- 4:00 pm.

@kewrock 9 месяцев назад

This was on WPIX11 in NY early Sunday mornings in the 70's and 80s.

@theorca3275 Год назад

There were lots of Batman and Robin rip-offs. The Flash and Kid Flash, Green Arrow and Speedy, Capt. America and Bucky, Electra woman and Dynna girl.

@guyfaux3978 2 месяца назад

The best part of the show was The Frog-- even as a kid I knew it was a "bad" impression of Edward G. Robinson. I say "bad" because voice artists can't do like a perfect impression since the person being copied can say, "If you're going to use my voice, then pay me." Peter Falk once sued Colombo yogurt for a voice artist in their radio ads who he thought was doing TOO good of an impression of him.

@alexanderpappas2875 5 месяцев назад

I loved everything about Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse. So much, that I now have all of their episodes on DVD. Thank you, Bob Kane. And thanks to all networks, particularly WPIX New York (11 Alive!) for managing to keep this loveable pair on the air during my youth.

@waleyefish9026 Год назад

It was like Rambler/American Motors comparing itself To GM . It was the 1960's no computers for animation.

@susanfit47 4 месяца назад

I watched Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse on Nickelodeon when became a Nickelodeon Weinerville cartoon in 1996, during the 1990’s when Weinerville had been canceled and therefore continued to play only in repeats (except for at least 2 holiday adventures that didn’t have no cartoons).

@saml760 3 месяца назад

I watched vthis show when I was a kid and I now have the Courageous Cat & Minute Mouse complete series 4 DVD box set and I absolutely love it. The wonderful childhood memories it brings back and the joy it brings me are a testament to the genius of the late Bob Kane and the late Sam Singer. A true and very underrated animated series.

@gregorypadilla5422 Год назад

In New York City circa 1966-69 it played weekdays 7:30 A.M. "ish and in the afternoon 4:00P.M. 'ish. Never missed it along with 1966 Marvel Super Heroes.

@pavelsarneki354 Год назад

🐸You like Courageous Cat don'cha Harry? 🦧Duh, I like BANANAS 🍌 Boss!🤓😎✌🏻🤦🏼‍♂️

@grandwazoo9112 2 месяца назад

Loved this cartoon as a kid. Other than the Intro, it didn't age well. Was the animation company the same that did the 1st season of the Spider-man cartoon in 1967?

@ronniet71 8 месяцев назад

I’m 52, your description of this cartoon is spot on!!!! Thank you brother.

@NomadicBrian Год назад

I remember this cartoon. The Frog mimic of Edward G Robinson. Myaaah see.

@william67883 4 месяца назад

Anyone remember Bat Fink cartoons ? It was on around the same time as Courageous Cat! Loved Bat Fink 🦇

@tomoose1b629 Месяц назад

Just came across this channel Rick and I will honestly tell you I'll be 60 years old this year in this cartoon was possibly my favorite cartoon watching as a little kid in Brooklyn New York at the time

@william67883 4 месяца назад

U asked my opinion about what I felt about this cartoon? Well I was 6 years old when it came out. And wow ! Myself and my 2 older brothers and younger sister became instant fans. Thanks for this stroll down memory lane.

@LikaLaruku Год назад

Looks familiar. Unless I'm mistaking their designs for Butch from Tom & Jerry, & Mighty Mouse, then I'm sure I've seen at least one episode.

@spearsg Год назад

Didn't there used to be a lyric in at least one version of the opening theme song? I seem to remember: "...courageous caaaaaat.... ...courageous caaaaaat.... " like that. I dreamed it only?

@captainfantastic9158 Год назад

Super Snooper and Blabber Mouse by Hanna-Barbera were the very first cat and mouse team to work together, beating CC & MM by exactly one year, in 1959. (The animation's just as poor, though!)

@raymondcote2913 8 месяцев назад

We watched Tommy 7 before going to school and I loved Courageous Cat. I now own the DVD collection.

@Rayburn58 11 месяцев назад

Growing up as a child in So Cal during the 1960's, I enjoyed watching this cartoon reruns on the local LA channels. Even as a little kid I knew this was kinda corny, but I still liked to watch it. Reminds me of so many of the others like King Leonardo, Tutor Turtle, The Hunter, Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo, Beanie and Cecil, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Wally Gator, and on and on. So many great cartoons that were on a shoestring budget yet superior to the poorly written and produced cartoons that followed in the 70's and beyond.

@donaldostrem4982 8 месяцев назад

I really enjoyed watching this. Cartoon was a little kid on WPIX in New York City. I didn't care what the critics? Ed, I thought the animation was good and full of action. It does need a reboot one day but how? The frog was probably my favorite villain.

@maureencora1 Год назад

I Liked Singer Production of Sinbad the Sailor More Than Hanna-Barbera Version.

@JustJoe326 6 месяцев назад

I watched this everyday after school during the mid 70s .

@DRIVINGSTEIN Месяц назад

Critique if they will, but who cared back then. ❤❤

@deboralee1623 Год назад

a cat and a mouse join forces and fight crime in their city. sure. they do this using crime-fighting devices such as their human counterparts use. uh-huh. criminals in this series are also non-human animals. no argument from me. our heroes don't seem to have tails. [needle-dragged-across-a-record SFX] !nnnoope! !implausible! !stuff and nonsense!

@brewstergallery Год назад

Hey my name is Ned and growing up in NY in the 60s my bro and I watched Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse every day but when it moved to ch. 11 WPIX. The theme, the heroes and villains, sense of humor, distinct sound effects, absurd WTF moments and stories that were on the ultra express lane and sometimes just sort of ended. Plus the odd moments when the art would "skip" in and out or their mouths were out of sync. A wonderful idea that could've been better if it had been given a bigger budget and longer episodes.

@ChrisBullington Год назад

Hearing that opening theme after all this time reminded me of something else I haven't heard in forever that often preceded it: "KHJ tv channel nine Los Angeles. Your RKO General station." Thank you so much for the memory.

@deathsceane 7 месяцев назад

Don't know if you've pointed this out in your Gigantor video (I have yet to watch it as of this post) but the opening tune sounds an awful lot like one of the background themes to Gigantor.

@seed_drill7135 Год назад

When I was 5 kindergarten was still a half day. So in the mornings I went to another kid's house whose mother didn't work outside the home and we'd watch this, presumably on WOR.

@ScreamingScallop 9 месяцев назад

I guess calling the frog villain "The Croaker" would have been a little too on-the-nose.

@kevinbrown-ge6sz Год назад

I must have watched this as a small child. The characters look familiar but I don't have any specific memories of the show.

@epiphoney Год назад

Reminds me of the 60s spiderman cartoon (season one). Great music and voice acting, but terrible animation.

@arthurdrew4933 Год назад

THIS WAS MY SHOW B4 I STARTED READING COMICS! I AGREE THE OPENING THEME-JAZZY AS ALL GET OUT!THE EPS WERE FINE ESPECIALLY 4 THE TIMES THANK GOD THIS UNKNOWN TREASURE IS AVAIABLE ON DVD& THE NET

@josemoreno3334 Год назад

Yes, Cartoons then were great to watch👍. Todays cartoons suck👎.

@josephcooter5763 Год назад

I remember watching this in reruns in the seventies. Now that you mention it it does look like a Batman knockoff.

@BH-cy9tb Год назад

This was one of my favorites also tobor the 8th man. Didn’t realize till I was an adult that tobor spelled robot ,🤣

@thewkovacs316 Год назад

wanna bet that sheldon moldoff came up with the entire concept he did the storyboards

@davidgiardina5424 9 месяцев назад

Is the Courageous Cat theme tune copyrighted?

@andrewharris7517 Год назад

LL Cool J Sampled the Theme for his hit “ I’m BAD”

@worldsgreatestimpressionis6462 Год назад

I remember this cartoon ( even though I tried to forget it). Even as a kid I thought it was crap.

@keithroberts4952 11 месяцев назад

LL cool J sampled the theme song for his hit "I'm bad".

@jmad627 11 месяцев назад

Always loved this cartoon. The first time I remember watching it was when we moved to the northeast in the later 60's.

@yell0wberry Год назад

I always did like this show much better than mighty mouse

@tomripsin730 3 месяца назад

I remember Bat Fink and Karate being run around the same time as this one on a local Minneapolis station.

@davidhynd4435 Год назад

Watching the opening theme just now I noticed that the Catmobile appears to be sometimes right-hand drive (Minute Mouse is sitting on the left, but holding onto the windscreen) and sometimes left-hand drive. And sometimes, self-driving, apparently. Also, I suspect that in the 21st century "Trans-Artists" might not be first choice when naming an animation company.