Touché Turtle and Dum Dum

Touché Turtle and Dum Dum (pronounced too-shay turtle) is one of the segments from The New Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Series, produced by Hanna-Barbera in 1962.

This show was originally on the The New Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Series along with Wally Gator and Lippy the Lion & Hardy Har Har.

History

Touché Turtle (voiced by Bill Thompson) and Dum Dum (voiced by Alan Reed) were a pair of heroic fencers who battle villains and heroically saves kings, queens, maidens and others in distress. Touché was the brave and dashing leader, whereas Dum Dum was more of a simple minded follower. Brandishing his trusty sword and exclaiming his catchphrase "Touché away!"

During the run of the show Touché Turtle used a standard fencing foil as a weapon. But in the opening title sequence, Touché Turtle used a firehose against a firebreathing dragon, a thing to tie up an octopus, and a fencing foil made of a nonconductive material against a sentient lightning bolt.

Episode list

Main article: List of The Hanna–Barbera New Cartoon Series episodes

Touché Turtle and Dum Dum in other languages

• Portuguese language: Tartaruga Touché
• Brazilian Portuguese: Tartaruga Touché
• Croatian language: Korni Kornjača
• Spanish: La Tortuga D'Artagnan
• Italian: Luca Tortuga
• Japanese: 突貫カメ君 (Tokkan Kame-kun)
• Serbian: Vitez Koja (Витез Која)
• Polish: Tuptusiu w drogę (fon. - Tooptooshyu fdrokeae)
• French language: Touché la Tortue
• Finnish: Kalpakonna
• Hebrew: טושה הצב (Touche Ha'Tzav)
• Thai language: ตูเช่ประจัญบาน (touché bpra-jan-baan)

Other appearances

• Touché Turtle and Dum Dum appeared in Yogi's Ark Lark and its spin-off series Yogi's Gang. In those appearances, Touché Turtle was voiced by Don Messick while Dum Dum had no dialogue.
• Don Messick also voiced Touché Turtle in Yogi's Treasure Hunt.

References

• Browne, Dan. "Touche Turtle According to Wingnut." WingutToons. 30 March 2006 [1]
• "Touche Turtle." Cartoon Legends. Pure Imagination. 30 March 2006 [2]

External links

• Touche Turtle @ Toonarific.com
• Toonopedia entry