Tom Terrific
Drawn in a simple style, it features a gee-whiz boy hero, Tom Terrific, who lives in a treehouse and can transform himself into anything he wants thanks to his magic, funnel-shaped "thinking cap," which also enhances his intelligence. He has a comic lazybones of a sidekick, Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog, and an arch-foe named Crabby Appleton, whose motto is, "I'm rotten to the core!" Other foes include Mr. Instant, the Instant Thing King, Captain Kidney Bean, Sweet Tooth Sam, the Candy Bandit and Isotope Feaney, The Meany.
- Created By
Gene Deitch
- First Aired on
Jun 10, 1957
- Popularity: 5.4716
- 1 votes
- Networks
- (US)
- Production
Terrytoons (US)
- Status: Ended
Show Ended
2 seaons till Dec 15, 1958
Last episode: The Everlasting Birthday Party
Seasons & episodes
Total 2 seasons, 26 episodes
Season 1
Aired
Episode 1The Nasty Knight5 min
Tom and Manfred go back to medieval days to help a frail, timid knight--Sir Feeble Fred--win the hand of a princess by defeating a hulking bully of a knight in a jousting match.
Episode 2The Pill of Smartness5 min
Tom and Manfred must race Crabby Appleton (the show's primary villain--he's "Rotten To The Core") to retrieve the Pill of Smartness, an artifact sitting on the hand of Cleopatra that makes whoever swallows it the smartest person in the world.
Episode 3Sweet Tooth Sam5 min
Sweet Tooth Sam the candy bandit has stolen all the candy in town, making the children miserable. Tom and Manfred are on the hunt to retrieve the candy.
Episode 4Snowy Picture5 min
Tom gets mail from viewers of his cartoon show at the North Pole, who can get their local stations but not the network telecast from New York. Tom and Manfred go to the Empire State Building and rectify the transmitter's position.
Episode 5Crabby Appleton's Dragon5 min
Tom and Manfred find a pearl while fishing and plan to donate it to a shelter for homeless dogs. Crabby Appleton creates a dragon in order to retrieve a pearl from Tom's possession.
