Rod Rocket

Rod Rocket
Genre	Animation, Adventure
Written by	Dick Robbins
Directed by	Lou Scheimer Hal Sutherland
Starring	Sam Edwards Hal Smith Pat Blake
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of episodes	130
Production
Executive producers	Mark Lipsky Walter N. Bien
Running time	5 min.
Production company	Filmation Associates
Original release
Release	1963

Rod Rocket is the first animated cartoon with production credited to Filmation, debuting in syndication in 1963.

History

Rod Rocket was originally produced by True Line, a small Los Angeles animation studio that subcontracted the newly formed Filmation Associates created by Lou Scheimer and Hal Sutherland in the early 1960s. Scheimer and Sutherland had met while working at Larry Harmon Productions on the made-for-TV Bozo the Clown and Popeye cartoons. SIB Productions, a Japan-based company with an American office in Chicago, co-produced the series in conjunction with the CBS Television Network.

Plot

The television series focuses on the adventures of a boy named Rod Rocket and his best friend, Joey. The wise codger, Professor Argus, sends Rod and Joey on an exploratory mission in a spaceship called the Little Argo and he waits for them to come home with his teenage granddaughter, Cassie. While in space, Rod and Joey constantly battle two bumbling cosmonauts.

Voices

• Sam Edwards - Rod Rocket and Joey
• Hal Smith - Professor Angus
• Pat Blake - Cassie

Episodes

• Slave Labor in Space
• The Lava Trap
• Lost in a Lunar Mist
• Lights On

External links

• Rod Rocket at IMDb
• Toon Tracker