Adventures of Pow Wow is an American animated cartoon that was broadcast on the Captain Kangaroo show during the 1950s.[1] The series is in the public domain due to failure to renew copyright.
| Adventures of Pow Wow | |
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| Genre | Western |
| Created by | Sam Singer |
| Written by |
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| Directed by | Sam Singer |
| Presented by |
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| Theme music composer | Monty Kelly |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 45 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Leon Marcus |
| Animator | Tom Baron |
| Running time | 5 minutes |
| Production company | Tempe-Toons |
| Original release | |
| Release | 1949 |
Plot edit
The cartoon features the pre-adolescent Native American boy Pow Wow, as well as the tribe's medicine man, and a Native American girl who is a friend of Pow Wow's.[2] The cartoons often center on Pow Wow's discovery of an animal, hurt or otherwise, and his attempts to protect the forest and wildlife from various threats. When Pow Wow needs help in these missions, he seeks counsel from the wise medicine man.
Broadcast history edit
The cartoon first aired during the children's show Captain Kangaroo in 1956[3] and was syndicated by Screen Gems. It continued on Captain Kangaroo as a series of five-minute episodes until 1958. The cartoons were then once again syndicated and appeared locally in New York and Chicago.[4]
Episodes edit
| No. | Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Pow Wow and the Hungry Frog" | 1956 |
| 2 | "Pow Wow and the Grasshopper" | 1956 |
| 3 | "All's Well That Ends Well" | 1956 |
| 4 | "Ruffy Rabbit and His Lucky Foot" | 1956 |
| 5 | "The Snowshoe Rabbit" | 1956 |
| 6 | "Sleepy Head" | 1956 |
| 7 | "Pow Wow and His Lucky Duck" | 1956 |
| 8 | "Pow Wow Builds a Canoe" | 1956 |
| 9 | "The Beaver Boys" | 1956 |
| 10 | "The Little Builders" | 1956 |
| 11 | "Playin' Possum" | 1956 |
| 12 | "The Bad Egg" | 1956 |
| 13 | "The Magic Spigot" | 1956 |
| 14 | "Why Burly Bear Likes Honey" | 1956 |
| 15 | "The Magic Powder" | 1956 |
| 16 | "Pow Wow Gets Even" | 1956 |
| 17 | "The Giant Crow" | 1956 |
| 18 | "Pow Wow in Bear Trouble" | 1956 |
| 19 | "Kangaroo Mouse" | 1956 |
| 20 | "Pow Wow's Picnic" | 1956 |
| 21 | "The Beginning of the Fire" | 1956 |
| 22 | "How the Bear Got a Short Tail" | 1956 |
| 23 | "How the Fox Got His White-Tipped Tail" | 1956 |
| 24 | "Pow Wow and the Shooting Star" | 1956 |
| 25 | "Pow Wow and the Stork" | 1956 |
| 26 | "Percy Pelican's Fish Dinner" | 1956 |
| 27 | "Pow Wow and the Lil' Medicine Man" | 1956 |
| 28 | "The Baby Sitter" | 1956 |
| 29 | "How Ruffy Rabbit Got His Hop" | 1956 |
| 30 | "The Tail of a Tornado" | 1956 |
| 31 | "Pow Wow and the Junior Medicine Man" | 1956 |
| 32 | "Turtle Trouble" | 1956 |
| 33 | "Pow Wow and the Magic Moccasins" | 1956 |
| 34 | "Pow Wow the Duck Hunter" | 1956 |
| 35 | "The Flying Saucer" | 1956 |
| 36 | "The Pogo Stick" | 1956 |
| 37 | "Pow Wow in Frog Jumping" | 1956 |
| 38 | "The Treasure Hunt" | 1956 |
| 39 | "The Eagle Feathers" | 1956 |
| 40 | "Don't Fence Me In" | 1956 |
| 41 | "The Vagabond Mouse" | 1956 |
| 42 | "Burro'ing Trouble" | 1956 |
| 43 | "Pow Wow's Day of Labor" | 1956 |
| 44 | "Pow Wow Wins by a Head" | 1957 |
| 45 | "The Uranium Hunt" | 1957 |
References edit
- ^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 12. ISBN 978-1538103739.
- ^ Markstein, Don. "Pow Wow the Indian Boy". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
- ^ Terrace, Vincent (10 January 2014). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010, 2d ed. McFarland. ISBN 9780786486410. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
- ^ Woolery, George W. (1983). Children's television, the first thirty-five years, 1946-1981. The Scarecrow Press. p. 13. ISBN 0-8108-1557-5. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
External links edit
- Pow Wow the Indian Boy at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on September 4, 2015.
- Adventures of Pow Wow at Toon Tracker. Archived from the original on July 11, 2001.
- Adventures of Pow Wow at IMDb (title sic)
- Pow Wow in The Magic Spigot
