I was searching for years for these, but at another forum I go to someone who has some of the episodes posted clips of them.

Enjoy, I know I have

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/

Aw, Dick was so adorable! I guess he always has been.

It is so fun to see these examples of lost or forgotten footage. Thanks for this little secret. It was fun to watch!!

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...and now I know a few more things about "CBS CARTOON THEATER" I didn't know before....

1) It was produced on film, in New York, with a very cheap production crew.

2) Dick Van Dyke hosted this series because he was under contract to CBS at the time; he had hosted "THE MORNING SHOW" in the fall of 1955, before Will Rogers, Jr. replaced him in the 'new' "GOOD MORNING!" format in January 1956.

3) Obviously the network couldn't sell "CBS CARTOON THEATER" to ANY advertisers (how would YOU like to be on opposite "DISNEYLAND"?), so Dick "sold" a lot of network promos and PSA's {including "GOOD MORNING!", which, before the advent of videotape, had TWO hosts: Will Rogers Jr. in the East, and Red Rowe on the West Coast. Rogers couldn't [or wouldn't] do a 7am/10am(et) "repeat" show for the Pacific and Mountain time zones, so Rowe did. Bob Keeshan,who followed as "CAPTAIN KANGAROO" at 8am(et), DID have to appear TWICE and perform the same show for both coasts until videotape eased his live production schedule by 1959!}.

4) The titles for the show were animated by a very talented animator named Jim Tyer, who was famous for his "rubbery" and "contracting/expanding" form of cartoon movement.

5)The episode highlights I saw were NOT telecast on "July 27, 1956". It would appear to have been originally shown on JUNE 27, 1956, as the show began on Wednesday, June 13th of that year. The closest date quoted would had to have been July 25th.

6) The "Terrytoons" shown were edited for time constraint- at seven minutes apiece, the show would have run 35 minutes to accomodate four uncut cartoons a week!

7) If CBS has all 13 episodes of "CARTOON THEATER" in their archives, they must have forgotten about it by now.

8) Dick Van Dyke was not "Walt Disney", yet he worked for him almost a decade later!

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I have a question concerning the cartoon theater website. I clicked on the link, I could not find anything about Dick Van Dyke on there. Do you I need to click on something when I get to the website? Please let me know, what I have to do.

They just moved it off the main page.

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/archives/2006_06.html

Thank you so much for the information. I checked out the link, it was good and it was cute.