Rod Rocket

Rod Rocket is an American animated television series, the first produced by Filmation, and debuted in syndication in 1963. The show was produced in five-minute cliffhanger segments, with five segments making a full story. Television stations could broadcast the single-segment version daily on their local children's afternoon show, or package them together to make 26 weekly half-hour shows.^[1]

Rod Rocket was originally produced by True Line, a small Los Angeles animation studio which subcontracted it to the newly formed Filmation Associates created by Lou Scheimer and Hal Sutherland in 1963.^[2][3] Scheimer and Sutherland had met while working at Larry Harmon Productions on the made-for-TV Bozo the Clown and Popeye cartoons. They produced the series for SIB Productions, a Japanese company.^[3]

A boy named Rod Rocket and his best friend, Joey, are sent by wise codger Professor Argus on an exploratory mission in a spaceship called the Little Argo. He waits for them at home with his teenage granddaughter, Cassie. While in space, Rod and Joey constantly battle two bumbling cosmonauts.^[4]

The voice cast included:^[5]

• Sam Edwards - Rod Rocket and Joey
• Hal Smith - Professor Angus
• Pat Blake - Cassie

• "Slave Labor in Space"
• "The Lava Trap"
• "Lost in a Lunar Mist"
• "Lights On"
• "The Acid Test"

• Rod Rocket at IMDb
• Rod Rocket at Toon Tracker

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