The Hunter

***The Hunter*** is an American animated *Total Television Productions* series that aired as part of the NBC Saturday morning cartoon King Leonardo and His Short Subjects from 1960 to 1961. Likewise with the namesake The King and Odie segments, The Hunter returned in all new cartoons for *Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales* in 1963.

The animation was done by TV Spots in the early episodes, with the later ones being animated by Gamma Productions.

## Summary

In each cartoon, the titular Hunter is a sleuth dog whose line is "Have nose, will hunt", is often called (mostly by trusty Officer Flim Flanagan) whenever a crime breaks out in New York, where the setting is. These crimes can go from stolen spoons to even stolen monuments, and are done by no one other than the clever Fox. It's always up to The Hunter to solve the case and bust The Fox, most times, The Fox is caught only by The Hunter's sheer dumb luck. Most of the cartoons end with Flim Flanagan asking The Hunter what reward he'd like for his duties, and someone asks Flanagan something along the lines of "Who is that hero?", to which he replies "Ah that, me boy, is The Hunter!". Hunter would blow his horn in response, and causing comic relief on himself. Some cartoons also have Horace, The Hunter's nephew.

## Episodes

1. Brookloined Bridge
2. Counterfeit Wants
3. Haunted Hunter
4. Fort Knox Fox
5. Stealing a March
6. Horn-a-Plenty
7. Concrete Crook
8. Subtracted Submarine
9. Risky Ransom
10. Unfaithful Old Faithful
11. The Armored Car Coup
12. Telephone Poltergeist
13. Sheepish Shamus
14. Rustler Hustler
15. The Case of the Missing Muenster
16. The Great Train Robbery
17. Florida Fraud
18. The Great Plane Robbery
19. Girl Friday
20. Stamp Stickup
21. Statue of Liberty Play
22. Frankfurter Fix
23. The Case of the Missing Mower
24. Fancy Fencing
25. Racquet Racket
26. Seeing Stars
27. The Elevator Escapade
28. Hula Hoop Havoc
29. The Counterfeit Newspaper Caper
30. Diamond Dither
31. Grand Canyon Caper
32. Borrowed Beachland
33. Peek A Boo Pyramids
34. Lincoln Tunnel Caper
35. TV Terror
36. Bye Bye Bell
37. Time Marches Out
38. Fox's Foul Play
39. Bow Wow Blues *- Note: Episodes after this one were made for Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales.*
40. Breaking in Big
41. The Bank Dicks
42. Eye on the Ball
43. Breakout at Breakrock
44. Getting the Business
45. An Uncommon Cold
46. The Pickpocket Pickle
47. Goofy Guarding
48. Big Birthday Blast
49. Under the Spreading Treasure Tree
50. School Days, Fool Days
51. Fall of the House of Hunter
52. Oyster Stew
53. The Stolen Spoon Saga
54. Under Par
55. Chew Gum Charlie
56. Using the Old Bean
57. The Case of the Hunted Hunter
58. The Purloined Piano Puzzle
59. The Record Racket
60. The Hunter's Magic Lamp
61. Hunter Goes Hollywood
62. Two for the Turkey Trot
63. Captain Horatio Hunter
64. The Horn of the Lone Hunter
65. Little Boy Blues

## Lyrics

These are the lyrics/dialogue to the opening introduction.

(The Fox, disguised as a police officer, knocks on The Hunter's door)

The Fox: Are you-

The Hunter: (Clears throat) My card, son.

(Card is shown)

The Fox: Like I said, are you?-

The Hunter: Alright, I say, I am... The Hunter! (Blows horn)

The Fox: Okay Hunter, here's a blow for your cartoon show!

(The Fox's given dynamite stick to The Hunter explodes. The Fox pounds an introductory sign beside the gone door)

The Fox: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

## Cast

* Kenny Delmar – The Hunter, narrator
* Ben Stone – The Fox, Officer Film Flanagan

## Trivia

* The cartoon had lead-in bumpers with the lyric *"We're calling, we're calling, The Hunter, a mighty sleuth is he, we're calling, we're calling, The Hunter, where can The Hunter be?"* that were taken straight from The Stolen Spoon Saga.
* Some episodes, particularly later ones, are noticeably more based around fairy tales.
* Early cartoons noticeably had used onomatopoeia.