It had been the critics’ choice only a few years earlier, but by the end of 1959, UPA was stumbling and faltering at a time it should have b...

There’s only so much you can do with characters before you start running out of ideas. And that’s what happened with Tom and Jerry at MGM. T...

In Chuck Jones’ hands, Daffy Duck morphed into an incompetent braggart, setting the stage for the incompetent and angry Daffy of the wretche...

Fred Allen made his debut as a star on radio on October 23, 1932. The Linit Bathtub Revue is pretty hokey by today’s standards, and perhaps...

"This modern little wonder," says narrator Frank Graham in the cartoon House of Tomorrow , "relieves mother and dad of the pr...

Silent cartoons are crammed with words or letters or punctuation marks that are used as props. In the Oswald short Oh Teacher , our hero tur...

How big of a television draw was Ben Blue in 1968? Not a huge one, I’d suspect. But that didn’t stop Jack Benny from featuring him on one of...

It was likely one of the most highly-anticipated TV shows of 1965—and it was not on the prime time schedule. It was on Saturday mornings. I...