Underdog
Underdog, also known as The Underdog Show, is an American Saturday morning animated television series that ran from October 3, 1964, to March 4, 1967, starting on the NBC network until 1966, with the rest of the run on CBS, under the primary sponsorship of General Mills, for a run of 62 episodes. It is one of the early Saturday morning cartoons. The show continued in syndication until 1973. Underdog, Shoeshine Boy's heroic alter ego, appears whenever love interest Sweet Polly Purebred is being victimized by such villains as Simon Bar Sinister or Riff Raff. Underdog nearly always speaks in rhyming couplets, as in "There's no need to fear, Underdog is here!"
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Ep 1Safe Waif
Underdog breaks out of the phone booth, and hears the cries for help again. Underdog flies to the lady, who tells him that her little boy has been accidentally locked in a bank vault. With only this information, Underdog flies off toward the bank. He reaches a bank, crashes in, much to the shock of the occupants, and then proceeds to rip open the giant door to the vault. The bank president blows up at Underdog, saying that he's got the wrong bank! So, Underdog flies to the correct bank, and attempts to rescue the boy. But at first, nothing he tries works. He crashes through the vault door, only to crash through the whole building and the one next door as well. He tries using his X-ray vision to locate the boy, but instead, starts a fire! All the people in the bank are in a panic now! Underdog uses his atomic breath to blow out the fire, and in the process, blows virtually the whole building away! But at least the mother's little boy is found all safe and sound.
Ep 2March of the Monsters
An army of giant robots take over the city and capture Polly. Underdog foils the monsters by using his high-pitched voice to destroy the robots' electronic brains. The robots aren't the only thing destroyed, but so is all of the city's glassware.
Ep 3Simon Says
Simon, a mad scientist, creates a camera. This is not some ordinary camera however. When he takes someone's picture, the freezes them in the photograph!
Ep 4Go Snow Part 1
Simon Bar Sinister creates a new super weapon: the Go-Snow Gun. The gun freezes people, turning them into snow people. Simon and his Henchman Cad take over the First National Bank, holding the bank President, his staff and customers prisoner.
Ep 5Go Snow Part 2
After Simon and Cad turn the bank president, his staff and customers into snow people, they rob the bank of all its assets. Then they crash a party at a mansion, turn the band into snowmen and rob the guests there. Later, after sneaking into Simon's lab, Sweet Polly Purebred is captured by the two villains. Simon prepares to make Polly his loveliest snow woman.
Ep 6Go Snow Part 3
Capturing Polly in their lab, Simon and Cad are about ready to turn her into a snow woman. But then, Cad comes up with an even more insidious plot: he suggests Polly broadcast an ultimatum to the city: either turn total control of the city over to Simon Bar Sinister and Cad within 24 hours or be frozen to death. Intrigued by his henchman's plan, the two villains take the TV reporter to the center of the city and force her to broadcast his ultimatum. Underdog arrives at the scene to stop Simon, but is frozen solid by the Go Snow Gun.
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