Rod Rocket | |
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Genre | Animation, Adventure |
Written by | Dick Robbins |
Directed by | Lou Scheimer Hal Sutherland |
Starring | Sam Edwards Hal Smith Pat Blake |
Country of origin | United States |
Language(s) | English |
No. of episodes | 130 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Mark Lipsky Walter N. Bien |
Running time | 5 min. |
Production company(s) | Filmation Associates |
Broadcast | |
Original airing | 1963 |
Rod Rocket is the first animated cartoon to be produced by Filmation, debuting in syndication in 1963.
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Rod Rocket was originally produced by True Line, a small Los Angeles animation studio formed by Lou Scheimer and Hal Sutherland in the early 1960s. Scheimer and Sutherland had met while working at Larry Harmon Productions on the made-for-TV Bozo the Clown and Popeye cartoons. SIB Productions, a Japan-based company with an American office in Chicago, co-produced the series in conjunction with the CBS Television Network.
The television series focuses on the adventures of a boy named Rod Rocket and his best friend, Joey. The wise codger, Professor Argus, sends Rod and Joey on an exploratory mission in a spaceship called the Little Argo and he waits for them to come home with his teenage granddaughter, Cassie. While in space, Rod and Joey constantly battle two bumbling cosmonauts.