Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales
American cartoon TV series / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales is an animated television series that originally aired Saturday mornings on CBS from 1963 to 1966 as one of the earliest Saturday morning cartoons.[1] It was produced by Total Television, the same company that produced the earlier King Leonardo and the later Underdog, and primarily sponsored by General Mills.[2] A co-sponsor was Pillsbury's Funny Face Drinks. (Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales debuted on CBS on the same day that King Leonardo last ran on NBC.[3]) The title is a play on the “tuxedo” dinner jacket worn as formal wear.
Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales | |
---|---|
Genre | |
Written by |
|
Voices of |
|
Narrated by |
|
Theme music composer |
|
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 75 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Peter M. Piech |
Producers |
|
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production companies |
|
Original release | |
Network | CBS |
Release | September 28, 1963 (1963-09-28) – January 29, 1966 (1966-01-29) |
New short episodes[4][5] were created for YouTube in 2014 by Chuck Gammage Animation in Toronto, and Cartoon Lagoon Studios in New York. Sponsored by Trix cereal, they resided on[6] sillychannel.com. They feature the voice talent of Chris Phillips, Robb Pruitt and Ashley Albert.