Adventures of Pow Wow
Adventures of Pow Wow is an animated cartoon that was broadcast locally in New York City in 1949 and later on the Captain Kangaroo show during the 1950s.[1] The series is in the public domain due to failure to renew copyright.
| Adventures of Pow Wow | |
|---|---|
 Adventures of Pow Wow - opening screen | |
| Genre | Western |
| Written by | Ben Hardaway |
| Directed by | Sam Singer |
| Presented by | Leo Minskoff Walter Minskoff |
| Theme music composer | Monty Kelly |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 43 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Leon Marcus |
| Running time | 5 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Tempe-Toons |
| Distributor | Screen Gems |
| Release | |
| Original release | January 30, 1949 – May 8, 1955 |
Plot
The cartoon featured the pre-adolescent Native-American boy Pow Wow, as well as the tribe's medicine man, and a Native-American girl who was a friend of Pow Wow's.[2] The cartoons often centered on Pow Wow's discovery of an animal, hurt or otherwise, and his attempts to protect the forest and wildlife from various threats. When Pow Wow needed help in these missions, he would seek counsel from the wise medicine man.
Broadcast history
The Adventures of Pow Wow first aired on January 30, 1949, on WNBT-TV in New York. With episodes of 15 minutes, the cartoon was broadcast Sunday mornings until March 13, 1949.[3]
The cartoon reappeared on the children's show Captain Kangaroo in 1956[3] and was syndicated by Screen Gems. It continued on Captain Kangaroo as a series of five-minute episodes until 1958. The cartoons were then once again syndicated and appeared locally in New York and Chicago.[4]
Episodes
| No. | Title | Original air date [5] |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Pow Wow and the Hungry Frog" | January 30, 1949 |
| 2 | "Pow Wow and the Grasshopper" | February 6, 1949 |
| 3 | "All's Well That Ends Well" | February 13, 1949 |
| 4 | "Ruffy Rabbit and His Lucky Foot" | February 20, 1949 |
| 5 | "The Snowshoe Rabbit" | February 27, 1949 |
| 6 | "Sleepy Head" | March 6, 1949 |
| 7 | "Pow Wow and His Lucky Duck" | March 13, 1949 |
| 8 | "Pow Wow Builds a Canoe" | March 20, 1949 |
| 9 | "The Beaver Boys" | March 27, 1949 |
| 10 | "The Little Builders" | April 3, 1949 |
| 11 | "Playin' Possum" | April 10, 1949 |
| 12 | "The Bad Egg" | April 17, 1949 |
| 13 | "The Magic Spigot" | April 24, 1949 |
| 14 | "Why Burly Bear Likes Honey" | May 1, 1949 |
| 15 | "The Magic Powder" | May 8, 1949 |
| 16 | "Pow Wow Gets Even" | May 15, 1949 |
| 17 | "The Giant Crow" | May 22, 1949 |
| 18 | "Pow Wow in Bear Trouble" | May 29, 1949 |
| 19 | "Kangaroo Mouse" | June 5, 1949 |
| 20 | "Pow Wow's Picnic" | June 12, 1949 |
| 21 | "The Beginning of the Fire" | June 19, 1949 |
| 22 | "How the Bear Got a Short Tail" | June 26, 1949 |
| 23 | "How the Fox Got His White-Tipped Tail" | July 3, 1949 |
| 24 | "Pow Wow and the Shooting Star" | July 10, 1949 |
| 25 | "Pow Wow and the Stork" | July 17, 1949 |
| 26 | "Percy Pelican's Fish Dinner" | July 24, 1949 |
| 27 | "Pow Wow and the Lil' Medicine Man" | July 31, 1949 |
| 28 | "The Baby Sitter" | August 7, 1949 |
| 29 | "How Ruffy Rabbit Got His Hop" | August 14, 1949 |
| 30 | "The Tail of a Tornado" | August 21, 1949 |
| 31 | "Pow Wow and the Junior Medicine Man" | August 28, 1949 |
| 32 | "Turtle Trouble" | September 4, 1949 |
| 33 | "Pow Wow and the Magic Moccasins" | September 11, 1949 |
| 34 | "Pow Wow and the Duck Hunter" | September 18, 1949 |
| 35 | "The Flying Saucer" | September 25, 1949 |
| 36 | "The Pogo Stick" | October 2, 1949 |
| 37 | "Pow Wow in Frog Jumping" | October 9, 1949 |
| 38 | "The Treasure Hunt" | October 16, 1949 |
| 39 | "The Eagle Feathers" | October 23, 1949 |
| 40 | "Don't Fence Me In" | October 30, 1949 |
| 41 | "The Vagabond Mouse" | November 6, 1949 |
| 42 | "Burro'ing Trouble" | November 13, 1949 |
| 43 | "Pow Wow's Day of Labor" | November 20, 1949 |
References
- Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 12. ISBN 978-1538103739.
- Markstein, Don. "Pow Wow the Indian Boy". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
- Terrace, Vincent (10 January 2014). "Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010, 2d ed". Google Books. McFarland. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
- Woolery, George W. (1983). Children's television, the first thirty-five years, 1946-1981. The Scarecrow Press. p. 13. ISBN 0-8108-1557-5. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
- DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Adventures of Pow Wow Episode Guide -Tempe-Toons @ BCDB". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB). Retrieved 25 July 2019.
External links
- Pow Wow the Indian Boy at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on September 4, 2015.
- Adventures of Pow Wow at Toon Tracker. Archived from the original on July 11, 2001.
- Adventures of Pow Wow on IMDb (title sic)
- Adventures of Pow Wow at the Big Cartoon DataBase
- Pow Wow in The Magic Spigot