The Dick Tracy Show

TV Series
1961–
23m

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Cartoon series produced by UPA, in which Dick Tracy (voiced by the distinguished film and stage actor Everett Sloane) played more or less of an incidental role. Most of the crime fighting wa... Read allCartoon series produced by UPA, in which Dick Tracy (voiced by the distinguished film and stage actor Everett Sloane) played more or less of an incidental role. Most of the crime fighting was left to his assistants, all originals created for the series: Hemlock Holmes (an English... Read allCartoon series produced by UPA, in which Dick Tracy (voiced by the distinguished film and stage actor Everett Sloane) played more or less of an incidental role. Most of the crime fighting was left to his assistants, all originals created for the series: Hemlock Holmes (an English bulldog who talked like Cary Grant), the calorically challenged beat cop Heap O'Calorie (... Read all

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There are three known versions of the opening titles. Other than the music and visuals seen on most TV airings and home media releases, there is also a version on some episodes that use the same visuals but with the faster and more chaotic theme heard over the end credits. There is also a completely alternate visual opening, which begins with the squad car coming down the alley as the voice-over announces the title (cutting out the aerial view of the city traffic jam parting for the squad car completely). After the title flashes up, this then cuts to a shot of Tracy in the moving car's passenger window, who turns and points his gun at the viewer and fires three individual shots, with each shot revealing a different set of three regular villains in the zoomed-in hole of the gun barrel. Tracy then puts his gun away and the sequence ends as the car drives away (the usual shots of the startled pedestrians are not used in this version). This version is rarely seen on TV or on any of the episodes released on home media as it appeared to be used only on select episodes, and most home media releases omit multiple opening and closing sequences between episodes.

Quotes
[repeated line]
Headquarters: Six-two and even, over and out.

Alternate versions
Some airings delete all of the segments featuring Joe Jitsu and Go-Go Gomez due to protests over the ethnic stereotypes portrayed in them.

Connections
Featured in TV's Illest Minority Moments Presented by Ego Trip (2004)

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1/10

Calling all cars, calling all cars...HELP!!!

I remember watching this cartoon weekday afternoons just before supper. It was 1961 and I was about 7. I was in the First Grade and had just started to learn to read. So what captured my curiosity with my newly acquired reading skills? You got it,the Sunday Funnies! I asked my mother what comics she liked to read. She liked to read DICK TRACY.

So when DICK TRACY came on TV, I thought my mother would enjoy seeing her comic strip come alive on TV. Maybe she saw one episode. I don't remember. What I do remember is that she was always too busy to watch DICK TRACY on TV.

Thirty five years later, I saw this cartoon on TV and now I can understand why my mother was always too busy to watch this cartoon. It was bad, really bad! Joe Jitsu, complete with his slant-eyes and buck teeth was such an offensive Japanese stereo-type that you don't even have to be Japanese to be offended. Then there is Go-Go Gomez! Given the choice between watching this horrible cartoon or slaving over a hot stove, my mother wisely chose the hot stove. I rest my case!