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Thanksgiving Dinner

Calvin and the Colonel was an animated series from 1961 about Montgomery J. Klaxon, a shrewd fox and Calvin T. Burnside, a dumb bear. Their lawyer was Oliver Wendell Clutch, who was a weasel. The colonel lived with his wife Maggie Belle and her sister Sue, who did not trust the colonel at all. Colonel Klaxon was in the real estate business, but always tried get-rich-quick-schemes with Calvin's unwitting help.

This show was an animated remake of Amos 'n' Andy [or, more or less, "Andy and The Kingfish"] and featured the voices of Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll from the radio series (in fact, several of the original radio scripts by Joe Connelly & Bob Mosher were adapted for this series).



Using animals avoided the touchy racial issues which had led to the downfall of Amos 'n' Andy.

Because of low ratings, the show was canceled after two months, but returned two months later to complete the first season contract. For a year afterward reruns were seen on Saturday mornings, and eventually syndicated through the 1960s. It was also adapted as a comic book by Dell Comics, and as such the first of two issues was the final installment in the company's extremely prolific (more than 1,300 issues published) Four Color anthology series.

A brief sequence from the show was seen on a television set in a 1966 episode of The Munsters ("A Visit From Johann"), which was also produced by Connelly & Mosher.  This episode is presented here in glorious black & white just as it originally aired on ABC.  The show finds Calvin and Family having to come up with Thanksgiving Dinner after inviting friends a year earlier, Calvin having been caught up in the spirit of the holiday and thinking that they would forget in a year's time.

Watch this classic cartoon and enjoy!

Source: Wikipedia

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