Courageous Cat & Minute Mouse: Why This Cartoon Deserved More Respect
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I loved the theme song. Batman had his utility belt; Courageous Cat had his guns. Always just the right weapon at the right time.
It's great that a cat and a mouse working together. 😀👍🐱🐭
lesson for the day.
Even Tom and Jerry worked together briefly as police officers…… itchy, and scratchy were friends for at least five seconds
Born in 1960, watching all these classic cartoons back then was always a must on a Saturday morning with a big bowlful of cereal.
I barely remember Courageous Cat, but my favorites was Beany and Cecil, Mr. Magoo, The Mighty Heroes, and Speed Racer.
To me, the limited animation and detailed backgrounds is what appealed to me with this type of cartoons. Oh, to be a kid again...
The Mighty Heroes was one of my favorites too.
@@phatchick96 The intro music to The Mighty Heroes is still one of the best in a cartoon. Still love it to this day.
U said it ! What a glorious time to be young and my father too would sit along and watch with us boys.
Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse were typical of cartoons produced for the local TV syndication market of the 1960's. Low budgets and limited animation allowed for a large number of episodes.I have fond memories of this series.
Boy I remember that cartoon from WPIX 11 Alive reruns back in the 1978 I was 10 years old back then Mondays through Fridays right after The Magical Garden (1969 - 1981) Mondays through Thursdays and Fridays is Joya's Fun School (1972 - 1983) right after school.
Grew up in Queens. I can relate to what you said.
Actually, It was called The Magic Garden which did air on WPIX 11 from 1972 to 1984. Despite its only 52 episode run, it had a huge cult following in NYC and its neighboring states. Paula Janis and Carole Demas were the ladies and Sherlock the pink squirrel and Flapper the bird were the puppets.
I watched this show every week. It was okay. When you had only three stations to watch okay was better than nothing.
..you had 3?!?....we had one...and Ronnie on the hill had one and 2 snowy...:D...
@@gregmiller9710 In NYC we had 6 channels. 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, and 11. I loved this show. Saturday mornings were loaded with kids shows. Ahh the sweet memories.
@@willyoeikeland3116 Didn't you also have 13 and 55?
Seriously when you were a kid and needed a cartoon fix you would watch anything even Captain Kangaroo for Tom Terrific.
I had 7 but PBS & NBC were identical with their broadcasting. Think I had FOX but didn't find out till late when cable was coming into my city. But it was on 61 which I just didn't bother cause in my opinion it wasn't worth going up that high since the shows stunk most of the time. And of course ABC & CBS. FOX, NBC & PBS where we're coming from CT so from time to time the antenna couldn't pick them up. The rest was no problem since they were practically in my backyard.
I remembered the name, Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse and then as soon as I saw the opening scene with the panning of the city and then the Catmobile, it all looked very familiar to me, remembering it from my childhood., along with the theme music. I'm pretty sure I haven't seen it since, or even thought about it for decades. It was like your subconscious mind remembering something from long ago in a dream. I'm sure I liked the cartoon as a kid. Thanks for showing it.
Thank goodness there seems to not be any Mandela effects on this series of Courageous Cat ?
Or at least it's exactly how I remembered it .
@@william67883 what's a Mandela effect ?
Ahh the cartoons of the 60s!! Unforgettable to us baby boomers! And courageous cat and minute mouse were one of my favorite. Only adults would find fault in its animation. I certainly never saw any as a kid! I'd catch an episode every weekday morning at 8 before going out to catch the school bus. That theme song sure brings back those memories!! Thanks for doing it.
Loved the Catmobile/Catplane, and the All-Purpose Cat Gun.
The Frog was Edward G. Robinson!
i'd forgotten what he sounded like, but before the narrator mentioned it, i thought to myself, "Edward G. Robinson."
N'YAAH!
My first memory of any cartoon as a kid: Courageous Cat & Minute Mouse. I'm pretty certain they're all on TH-cam for free watching.
Wow I had totally forgotten this cartoon. Thank you for this.
I also remember "Pow Wow The Indian Boy" who "loved all the animals in the woods" according to the theme song.
Pow Wow made it to TV in the fifties. Horrible ethnic stereotyping, but fun as a kids' show.
The jazzy music… incredible..it’s what I remember most..
The bass ostinato at the top and the big minor nine chord at the end have stuck with me for these many decades.
@@brianfergus839Wow, that's way too technical for me.. I just remembered loving it.. Especially the slower, moody pieces used during the episode..
I discovered this show on Prime a few years ago with my then 5 year old. I put it on cause it looked really old just to mess with him. Crazily, he loved it, and so did I. Needless to say, it became something we would watch a couple of episodes every night before bedtime. Very cool show.
Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse was a real cool cartoon show!😎 That cartoon show Rocked! It still gets alot of credit.
God I loved that cartoon,especially that opening. I didn’t realize how old it was
I love this cartoon because I love all things Batman even though it was a cat & mouse it was still pretty Cool ❤
I liked this show in the 60's. Each episode was what- 5 minutes long? Great theme song. I also like the multiple New York city skylines scrolling in the background.
Hearing that opening theme after all this time reminded me of something else I haven't heard in forever that often preceded it: "KHJ tv channel nine Los Angeles. Your RKO General station." Thank you so much for the memory.
I remember watching this as a child in Australia.
Loved this cartoon when I was a kid (I was born in 1962). 'Til this day, I remember the opening tune when I think of the cartoon.
Oh man I LOVED this as a kid
Thanks for the retrospective
I would love to get a copy of that Johnny Holiday music. Not just the opening theme. He did some equally cool background music for the cartoons too.
Wow ! There was nothing like Saturday morning cartoons ! Great video !
How could I have totally missed this show? At ten, I would have loved it.
When I was 5 kindergarten was still a half day. So in the mornings I went to another kid's house whose mother didn't work outside the home and we'd watch this, presumably on WOR.
Dogs and cats living together, Mass Hysteria!!!
I'm 72 years old, and remember this cartoon!
I grew up in Baghdad Iraq and loved watching all the episodes in the mid 1960's - even though I never understood a word.
Just came across this channel Rick and I will honestly tell you I'll be 60 years old this year in this cartoon was possibly my favorite cartoon watching as a little kid in Brooklyn New York at the time
One of my favorites!💖!
I remember this cartoon in reruns in the late 60's. I liked it better than Batfink.
BATFINK was such a favorite cartoon of my fellow shipmates on my Destroyer that we did a kinda ROCKY HORROR thing with it!!
Fucking hysterical and life saving
I’m 52, your description of this cartoon is spot on!!!!
Thank you brother.
Loved this as a small boy !
I watched vthis show when I was a kid and I now have the Courageous Cat & Minute Mouse complete series 4 DVD box set and I absolutely love it. The wonderful childhood memories it brings back and the joy it brings me are a testament to the genius of the late Bob Kane and the late Sam Singer. A true and very underrated animated series.
I can't say whether I've seen this cartoon. But I wonder if it paved the way for Danger Mouse?
U asked my opinion about what I felt about this cartoon?
Well I was 6 years old when it came out. And wow ! Myself and my 2 older brothers and younger sister became instant fans.
Thanks for this stroll down memory lane.
The Cat Mobile coming out of the Cat Cave was so cool I tried to replicate it when I was a kid. I got a miniature race car and taped a cat face on it and I had a shoe box that I molded into the Cat Cave. It was so much fun.
1 OF MANY WOUNDERFUL CARTOONS FROM THAT TIME!!!! THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES!!!😆!!!!
In New York City circa 1966-69 it played weekdays 7:30 A.M. "ish and in the afternoon 4:00P.M. 'ish. Never missed it along with 1966 Marvel Super Heroes.
Love this! I remember this cartoon very well! Thanks, Bob Kane and Rerun Zone!
I wish you did a backgorund on that fantastic and catchy beatnik-like intro tune.
Courageous Cat needs a Comeback.
Believe-it-or-else but the New York Dolls actually covered the opening theme...!
Thanks for this. CC and MM were faves. First mention of “Tommy 7” host and show, and “Pow Wow, the Indian Boy.” Yeah, so eyes were glued to tv.
Growing up as a child in So Cal during the 1960's, I enjoyed watching this cartoon reruns on the local LA channels. Even as a little kid I knew this was kinda corny, but I still liked to watch it. Reminds me of so many of the others like King Leonardo, Tutor Turtle, The Hunter, Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo, Beanie and Cecil, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Wally Gator, and on and on. So many great cartoons that were on a shoestring budget yet superior to the poorly written and produced cartoons that followed in the 70's and beyond.
This was one of my most watched cartoons from my childhood in the 1960's! ❤❤ I loved the opening theme song. So cool sounding!!!
Can you guys please do a video on the classic Anime franchise Jungle Emperor, a.k.a. Kimba, the White Lion? The anime series installments from 1965, 1966, and 1989.
🎶...Who lives down in deepest, darkest Africa (Africa)?
Who's the one who brought the jungle faaame?...🎶
Oh man. I loved Kimba!
The Lion King Completely Ripped Off Kimba.
At least you had mentioned Bob Kane as the co-creator of Batman, but didn't give any credit to the other creator, Bill Finger.
I loved that cartoon as a kid! It was especially cool when I learned, as an adult, that Bob Kane was involved in its creation.
We watched Tommy 7 before going to school and I loved Courageous Cat. I now own the DVD collection.
My favorite lines from the show:
"Take a chair".
"Thank you".
The best cartoon theme song-EVER! Just soooo cool
I remember Bat Fink and Karate being run around the same time as this one on a local Minneapolis station.
I watched Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse on Nickelodeon when became a Nickelodeon Weinerville cartoon in 1996, during the 1990’s when Weinerville had been canceled and therefore continued to play only in repeats (except for at least 2 holiday adventures that didn’t have no cartoons).
I watched Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse During The Summer of 1983 and even thought it was fun to understand how it was a takeoff of Batman and Robin and by The Batman Creator Bob Kane himself.
I loved this show as a kid. Forgot about it.
Anyone remember the "Q.T. Hush" cartoon?
It ran on the same local TV station here as Courageous Cat did when I was a child.
Good time to be a kid.
QT Hush and Shamus!
I loved Courageous Cat as a kid. I had a black umbrella and I used to open it in the house and sit behind it pretending it was the front of the Catmobike lol.
You didn't talk much about his go-to weapon! The pistol that could shoot anything, from ropes with a lasso or a grappling hook, to bombs, to nets ... anything except bullets!
Hey my name is Ned and growing up in NY in the 60s my bro and I watched Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse every day but when it moved to ch. 11 WPIX. The theme, the heroes and villains, sense of humor, distinct sound effects, absurd WTF moments and stories that were on the ultra express lane and sometimes just sort of ended. Plus the odd moments when the art would "skip" in and out or their mouths were out of sync. A wonderful idea that could've been better if it had been given a bigger budget and longer episodes.
Woke up this morning with "I like bananas" stuck in my head. Took me a bit of Googling to remember it was Harry Gorilla from this series! Loved this growing up and yeah, the theme is still awesome! 🧡
Always loved this cartoon. The first time I remember watching it was when we moved to the northeast in the later 60's.
I love this cartoon. The theme song is so cool.
One of the coolest themes.
Yeah, that theme song was the best. As a kid, I enjoyed every time. Surprisingly I thought it was a very old cartoon but it was the quality....
not the BOXING GLOVE GUN😅!!
And shooting the ending credits with gunshot sounds was..... interesting.
the voice actor for the frog is by far the best part of the show
The theme song for courageous cat was so cool to me at a young age. Still Is.
I watched this show in grade school. I'm now 71 years old
lol
I was 11 years old in 1961 and don't remember ever seeing this. Was a big cartoon fan like most kids
I used to watch Courageous Cat all the time.
I remember this cartoon ( even though I tried to forget it). Even as a kid I thought it was crap.
This was one of my favorites also tobor the 8th man. Didn’t realize till I was an adult that tobor spelled robot ,🤣
I really enjoyed watching this. Cartoon was a little kid on WPIX in New York City. I didn't care what the critics? Ed, I thought the animation was good and full of action. It does need a reboot one day but how? The frog was probably my favorite villain.
I loved this cartoon as a kid!
Anyone remember Bat Fink cartoons ?
It was on around the same time as Courageous Cat!
Loved Bat Fink 🦇
If you were lucky to have WPIX TV 11 (New York City) back in the 1970s and 1980s, you may have captured this program following The Three Stooges on weekend mornings.
Lol! I was going to say this! If I remember correctly CC & MM came on WPIX channel 11 on Sunday mornings before and sometimes after the 11am Abbott & Costello movie as filler. Before A & C was either The Little Rascals or The Three Stooges! After A & C we switched over to WNYW channel 5 and watched monster movies, kung-fu movies and then WWF Superstars! As Archie & Edith Bunker sang, 🎵"Those were the daaayyys!"🎵😅
@@donnellcooper1011 And Then, I look back at all the shows that used to be on Sunday mornings on WPIX 11 like Tom and Jerry, Josie and the Pussycats, Wacky Races, & H.R. Pufnstuf before F Troop and the afternoon movie which, as you mentioned, might feature an Abbott & Costello movie put an end to cartoon enjoyment and back to my room playing with toys and records until the Wonderful World of Disney came on later.
I’m pretty sure this was on like 1pm in the afternoon in the 80s. I remember it was something they played between shows on Channel 11 during the week
Great Theme Song and Soundtracks.
This was on WPIX11 in NY early Sunday mornings in the 70's and 80s.
Yup. I was a fan!
I must have watched this as a small child. The characters look familiar but I don't have any specific memories of the show.
wanna bet that sheldon moldoff came up with the entire concept
he did the storyboards
Just looking at the thumbnail had me humming the theme tune. I painted a picture of The Frog a few years ago. "You can't do this to me, see, waaah!".
I reckon it was cartoon and TV theme tunes that made me into such a swing enthusiast: Courageous Cat, Top Cat, The Flintstones, Pink Panther, Bewitched, Get Smart... Currently listening to a lot of Mel Torme, I love his version of Secret Agent Man.
Love this cartoon as a kid, my Dad's favorite cartoon too as a kid
THIS WAS MY SHOW B4 I STARTED READING COMICS! I AGREE THE OPENING THEME-JAZZY AS ALL GET OUT!THE EPS WERE FINE ESPECIALLY 4 THE TIMES THANK GOD THIS UNKNOWN TREASURE IS AVAIABLE ON DVD& THE NET
Cara tinha me esquecido desse desenho e olha que eu adorava esse desenho quando criança
LL cool J sampled the theme song for his hit "I'm bad".
Loved CC and MM.
I loved the Frog. He was a true bad guy.
Didn't there used to be a lyric in at least one version of the opening theme song? I seem to remember: "...courageous caaaaaat.... ...courageous caaaaaat.... " like that. I dreamed it only?
Theme song....a cheap rip-off of Henry Mancini's theme to "Peter Gunn".
Good way to keep costs down 😁👍
It was like Rambler/American Motors comparing itself To GM . It was the 1960's no computers for animation.
It definitely deserved better!
Looks familiar. Unless I'm mistaking their designs for Butch from Tom & Jerry, & Mighty Mouse, then I'm sure I've seen at least one episode.
I remember this cartoon. The Frog mimic of Edward G Robinson. Myaaah see.
LOVED this cartoon!!!
The cat auto was used in the Batman TV show, and it was for Catwoman, and the joker used it, during the time of Batgirl.
Sunday morning memories for me, they'd play an episode of this at the end of the Three Stooges time slot.