The Deputy Dawg Show

When i was about 8 years old my father bought me and my brothers a video of Deputy Dawg. I remember he had some sidekick who i think was some kind of blind beaver and he used to say "its possible, its possible, its possible..." in this funny way and that has stuck with me to this day.

The only episode that sticks out in my mind is when they had a "do-it-yourself" speedboat delivered and just remember laughing so hard watching it.

Im sure if it was played on T.V. today it would win a whole new generation of young (and old) fans.

I used to watch Deputy Dawg cartoons on the Hobo Kelly Show in the early 60's in Los Angeles and it remains one of my favorite cartoons of all time. I'll try to answer some of the questions posed by the other reviewers and clear up a few misconceptions. First of all, the cartoon was not from the 50's. It ran from 1962 to 1963. The character who said "It's possible. It's possible" was Muskie Muskrat. The "blind" character was Vincent Van Gopher, who could see much better in the dark underground. The raccoon was not named Roger. His name was Ty Coon. Oh, and the cartoon character who would always say "Oh me, oh my" was the hyena named Hardy Har Har from Lippy the Lion & Hardy Har Har. Also, Snuffles was the floating dog from the cartoon Quick Draw McGraw. Lastly, I was able to purchase 53 Deputy Dawg episodes, which is about half of the total made, from a seller on EBay. They were bootleg copies but the quality was quite good, especially considering the series was made fifty years ago. A complete remastered box set would be awesome!

I'm the second person to comment on this classic cartoon from the 50's. However,it has not been seen in ages since the last time it was shown near my area was back in the early 1980's on a local TV station that I picked up out of Columbia,South Carolina(which was a NBC-TV affillate). However,Dayton Allen(who was the voice of Deputy Dawg and numerous other characters)made a huge ton of money off of this,but it was one of Paul Terry's classic creations that was along with his famous stars.... "Here I come to save the day!!!"-MIGHTY MOUSE!!! and those wisecracking magpie birds of mischief HECKLE AND JECKLE. However,its a crying shame that you don't see these classic Terrytoons cartoons anymore,and I wonder why,especially DEPUTY DAWG and his always mischief friends like the 'always on his case' sheriff and his sidekicks Vincent Van Gopher and Roger Raccoon in some sticky situation or another as he tries to maintain law and order in the South. My dad when he was a kid used to see this in theatres,but nowadays I don't know if is out on video cause it needs to be shown.

I haven't seen my oil' canine hero since 1971! Back in the early 1960s (around 1964) we used to watch it every afternoon on our Zenith portable black & white set around supper time. Sometimes we used to wheel the set in the kitchen and watch it as we ate supper. Ah, those were the days! Then, in 1971, I rediscovered the pure joy of watching our canine hero battle them nasty lil' varmints. At the ripe mature age of 17, I found that even though I had grown up a bit, I still enjoyed Deputy Dawg every bit as much as I did when I was growing up! It was such a wonderfully ridiculous cartoon that was so wonderfully "rural" with the drawl and the background hillbilly music! They sure don't make 'em like that anymore. Such a shame! I'll bet my retirement check that if I ever got my hands on a DVD or video of DEPUTY DAWG, I would discover that at the age of 51, I would have a riot watching the antics of Deputy Dawg and all them varmints giving him a run for the money!

SOME HAVE REFERRED to TV animation as being "Illustrated Radio" and that label would surely be a fitting and true description of the state of the art, video division. Short cut "limited" animation, stock background music and briefly set running times are all elements of the sub-genre.

IN THE CASE of DEPUTY DAWG, those elements are all present; making the series a veritable a highly rated candidate for "Limited Animation's Poster Boy".

WHENEVER WE VIEWED a typically scripted episode, we were rudely reminded that this indeed was no FANTASIA., not even a HUCKLEBERRY HOUND. The "Limited Animation" process, that had been popularized by United Productions of America or UPA for short, was now being developed to the Nth Degree.

SO JUST HOW did the series attain its multi-year run in syndication? SIMPLY BY USE of short, happy little story lines added to the upbeat and peppy harmonica music; which rendered the audience to be relaxed and giggly.

TO OUR WAY of thinking, there was one final puzzle part to come into play in a major way. That last element is the voice characterizations. In this case we have to tip our fedora to Actor/Comedian/Voice-Over man supreme, Dayton Allen. Whenever DD was on the trail of some desperado, he would be accompanied by his deputy, a Possum (I think).

BUT IT WAS his voice that set him apart. It was a good impersonation of Comedian, Frank Fontaine's long running "Crazy" Guggenheim" from THE JACKIE GLEASON Show.