Colonel Bleep

As a child, this was one of my favorite shows. It would start my Saturday morning lineup. Colonel Bleep and his friends would battle evil and go to far off worlds all in a half hour. I've only met one other person who remembers this show.

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Yes. I'll admit that these Colonel Bleep cartoons from 1956 are far from being great, but, all the same, their sometimes-educational stories of interplanetary adventure did have a cute charm all of their own.

These decidedly low-budget, limited-animation cartoons contained almost no dialogue at all between its characters. With the aid of sound effects, most of the stories were told through voice-over narration from actor Noah Tyler.

Colonel Bleep is a futuristic E.T. life-form from the planet Futura. Bleep has set up headquarters here on Earth on Zero-Zero Island, which is positioned on this planet's equator.

Bleep's 2 sidekicks in the show are his loyal space deputies, Squeek, the mute puppet-boy, and Scratch, a caveman recently awakened after several thousand years of deep sleep.

Together this brave trio battle intergalactic villains who pose a serious and immediate threat to the peace & safety of the universe.

It's quite clear that these full-colour cartoons are definitely geared to children, but I still liked them enough to give them a 6-star rating for their nostalgic value.

This was probably the first sci-fi show I ever saw at age 6. I remember the characters were strange looking, and the animation somewhat limited compared to what the major studios were producing. Glad to see other people remember the Colonel, and there are a few websites devoted to him too. Thanks to Colonel Bleep for giving me a life-long interest in science fiction.

I was another person thinking I was the only one to remember this program. I dutifully and eagerly awoke every Saturday morning to watch Colonel Bleep battle the forces of evil. I was beginning to think I was losing my mind whenever I attempted to discuss the early Saturday morning cartoon lineups of the mid 1960's with anyone of my generation as not a soul, save myself seemed to remember this show, including my brother with whom I watched every week, LOL. My feeling is that the show actually was somewhat ahead of its time and perhaps too cerebral compared to its contemporaries, Johnny Quest, Bugs Bunny Rocky and Bullwinkle. I have not seen or heard of its release to DVD but would love to see them again.

I remember Colonel Bleep and have mentioned it to many other baby-boomers for many years, but nobody else seems to remember it. My most vivid memory is when he was trapped in some sort of tube or cylinder and continued to change or shrink in order to escape. He had some sort of ray gun, if I remember it correctly. Sound familiar to anybody? I grew up in the New York City area and remember it on television somewhere in the late 1950's. Back then I did not pay attention to which channel any of my favorite TV shows were on...I just watched them. I think that most of us were like that. We just whined to our parents to watch something that was our favorite. I would like to see the Colonel Bleep that I remember once again