Underdog (TV series)

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Television series
German title Underdog
Original title Underdog
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 1964-1973
length 10 mins
Episodes 124
genre Comedy , action , adventure
production W. Watts Biggers
music W. Watts Biggers
First broadcast October 3rd, 1964 on NBC , CBS
German-language
first broadcast		 August 1, 2002 - October 15, 2002 on K-Toon
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Underdog , also Underdog - The Super Dog , is an American animated series from 1964 to 1973. The series is about a dog with superpowers and was adapted as a live action film in 2007.

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Underdog is a superhero parody. The cartoon dog Shoeshine Boy is actually the superhero underdog. When bad guys appear, Shoeshine Boy retreats to a phone booth to transform into the superhero and fight evil. Underdog, in contrast to his alter ego Shoeshine Boy, always speaks in rhymes.

Almost always involved in the evil's plans is Sweet Polly Purebred, a television reporter. Most of the time she calls underdog. Bad guys include Simon Bar Sinister, a mad scientist, his assistant Cad and Riff Raff, a gangster wolf.

Underdog must take the Underdog Super Energy Vitamin Pill to maintain his strength. He keeps these pills in a ring that he always carries with him. Many episodes show that once he loses the ring, he is powerless.

Production and publication

The series was produced by Leonardo Television and Total Television . The writer, producer and composer of the music was W. Watts Biggers. The character design comes from Joe Harris . A total of 124 episodes were produced.

It first aired on NBC October 3, 1964 , and later episodes were shown on CBS . From August 1 to October 15, 2002, the series was shown for the first time in German on K-Toon . It has been translated into Spanish, Italian and Japanese, among others. Some episodes of the English version were released on DVD by Classic Media.

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character English speaker
Underdog Wally Cox
Sweet Polly Purebred Norma MacMillan
Cad Ben Stone
Baldy Eagle Kenny Delmar
Ruffled Feathers Sandy Becker
teller George S. Irving

Adaptations

comics

Underdog has been implemented as a comic several times:

  • A 10-part series of Charlton Comics that ran from July 1970 to January 1972.
  • Gold Key Comics published 23 issues of another series from March 1975 to February 1979.
  • In 1987, Spotlight Comics published three comic books on Underdog .
  • Harvey Comics published a single issue in 1993 and five issues from November 1993 to July 1994.

radio

In 1999 a half hour radio play with Underdog was produced, which was voiced by Tom Ellis .

Real film

In 2007 Disney and Spyglass Entertainment released a live action adaptation of the series. In 2008 it was shown under the title Underdog - Undefeated because it flies in Germany. In the film, the dog Shoeshine gains superpowers from a laboratory accident. When he's taken in by a 12-year-old boy, the only two people who know that Shoeshine is really an underdog.

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