Calvin and the Colonel

Calvin and the Colonel is an animated cartoon television series in 1961 about Colonel Montgomery J. Klaxon, a shrewd fox and Calvin T. Burnside, a dumb bear. Their lawyer was Oliver Wendell Clutch, who was a weasel (literally). The colonel lived with his wife Maggie Belle and her sister Sue, who did not trust the colonel at all. Colonel Klaxon was in the real estate business, but always tried get-rich-quick schemes with Calvin's unwitting help.

The series was an animated remake of Amos 'n' Andy [or, more or less, "Andy and The Kingfish"] and featured the voices of Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010. McFarland & Company, Inc. . P. 154. from the radio series (in fact, several of the original radio scripts by Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher were adapted for this series). Using animals avoided the touchy racial issues which had led to the downfall of Amos 'n' Andy.

Because of low ratings, the show was cancelled after two months, but returned two months later to complete the first season contract (and to fulfill Lever Brothers' agreement to sponsor the program; they originally sustained The Amos 'n' Andy Show on radio during the 1940s). For a year afterward reruns were seen on Saturday mornings, and eventually syndicated through the 1960s. It was also adapted as a comic book by Dell Comics, and as such the first of two issues was the final installment in the company's extremely prolific (more than 1,300 issues published) Four Color anthology series.

A brief sequence from the show was seen on a television set in a 1966 episode of The Munsters ("A Visit From Johann"), which was also produced by Connelly and Mosher.

Episodes

 * Main article: List of Calvin and the Colonel episodes

Credits

 * Production Company: Kayro Production
 * Voices: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll, Beatrice Kay, Virginia Gregg, Gloria Blondell and Paul Frees
 * Animation Company: Creston Studios
 * Created by Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll
 * Animation Producers: Bob Ganon, Sam Nicholson and Gerald Ray
 * Music: George Bruns
 * Art Director: Norm Gottfredson
 * Visual Adaption: Lee Mishkin, Ed Levitt and David Hill
 * Layout: Ellie Bogardus, Bob Gore, Bill Kohn and Al Hubbard
 * Animation Directors: Chuck McKimson and John Walker
 * Supervising Animators: Tom McDonald, Fred Madison, John Sparey, Bob Bemiller, Ben Washam, Volus Jones, Jim Davis, Harvey Toombs and C.L. Hartman
 * Animators: Buf Partch, Arch Lean, Bob Maxfield, Barbara Williams, Earl Combs, Casey Onaitus, Phil Roman, Barney Posner, Morey Golub, Tom McDonald Jr. and Frank Andrina
 * Production Coordinator: Dave Hoffman
 * Backgrounds: Dave Weldman and Bill Butler
 * Camera: Julia E. Raymond
 * Audio Engineer: Art Becker
 * Recording Director: Clif Howell
 * Sound Effects: Phil Kaye
 * Editing: Norman Vizents and Chuck McCann
 * Ink and Paint: Martha Buckley
 * Production Executive: Al Amatuzio
 * Teleplay by Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher, Bob Ross and T. Hee
 * Produced by Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher