The Dick Tracy Show

The Dick Tracy Show is an American animated television series based on Chester Gould's comic strip crime fighter. The series was produced from 1961 to 1962 by UPA. Tracy employed a series of cartoony subordinate flatfoots to fight crime each week, contacting them on his two-way wristwatch radio. Everett Sloane voiced Tracy, while Mel Blanc and Paul Frees voiced many of the other characters, including: A running gag had a gangster's bullet fired point-blank at one of the detectives, who would yell, "Hold everything!" The bullet would obediently screech to a halt and wait, while the detective... called headquarters for further instructions. Action would resume only after the sign-off catchphrase, "Six-two and even, over and out" was spoken at the end of the call. Villains included Pruneface, Itchy, Mumbles, Flattop, Cheater Gunsmoke, B-B Eyes, Stooge Viller, The Brow, Oodles, The Mole, and Sketch Paree. Usually, two villains teamed together, such as Flattop and B-B Eyes, or Pruneface and Itchy. Each pair of villains had at least one member who smoked either a cigar or a cigarette on an extender. For reasons unknown , most of the villains were given voices that parody famous actors.
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