There’s no need to fear, Underdog is here!

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I’ll never forget when my mom pointed out during an episode of Hollywood Squares that Wally Cox was the voice of Underdog. Oh, the world was so complicated back then, so many thanks to our moms who had the patience and love to guide us through the important stuff, like cartoon trivia.

Underdog debuted in 1964 and gave us Shoeshine Boy, the mild-mannered little dog who became a rhyming superhero whenever trouble showed up. With Sweet Polly Purebred usually in danger and villains like Simon Bar Sinister causing trouble, Underdog would come flying in with that famous line that still sticks in our heads all these years later.

There’s no need to fear, Underdog is here!

Dodo The Kid From Outer Space

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This is another viewer request, but I don’t have any memory of this cartoon so I hope our viewers can help in that department!

We’re talking about Dodo, the Kid from Outer Space, and from what I’ve been digging into, this one’s a real deep cut from the early 1960s.

Dodo is a kid—well, kind of a kid—who comes from another planet and ends up on Earth. He’s got these strange abilities and gadgets, and the whole show revolves around him getting into odd situations while trying to blend in with humans… which, as you can imagine, doesn’t go smoothly.

The episodes were short, almost like little quick-hit adventures, and the animation style? Very simple… very “of its time.” This wasn’t Disney-level stuff. More like something you’d catch early in the morning before school while eating cereal.

The show actually started in Belgium, not the U.S., which might explain why a lot of us here don’t remember it.

It first aired around 1965, right in that era when space-themed everything was taking off.

Dodo didn’t really talk much—he communicated more through sounds and reactions, almost like a cartoon version of a silent comedian.

Are you humming the theme now?

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