The Funny Company 1963
My trip down memory avenue continues as I remember The Funny Company. These 6 minute cartoon shorts featured the voice talents of Dick Beals, Robie Lester, Nancy Wible, Ken Snyder, Tom Thomas and Hal Smith.
In all, there were 260 episodes made possible by The Mattel Corporation and were produced by Ken Snyder and Charles Koren.
The show centered around a bunch of kids in a clubhouse and was intended as educational programing. The kids were always looking for good deeds to do. A villain, Belly Laguna, would attempt to stop them but the kids would always prevail.
The writing was poor and the animation was dismal. Each show featured a few minutes of educational live action footage. The clubhouse was run as a corporation and the tallest, whitest male was in charge.
The creators of this cartoon would go on the produce Roger Ramjet, a better, funnier cartoon.
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