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BareeW · 10-10-2006, 07:51 PM

What was the cartoon, aired in the 1960's where the characters had human mouths? Anybody know? It's driving me nuts!

EmpressDR · 12-01-2006, 05:02 PM

Clutch Cargo, filmed in "Syncro-Vox."

There was a dog named Paddlefoot, and Spinner --a little boy, and some Sydney Greenstreet-like villain in a Panama hat.

It was shown on the 1960s Sheriff John show --I saw it again in 1990, on the HBO Comedy Channel ( which later morphed into Comedy Central when it merged with Viacom's Ha! ). The Higgins Boys and Gruber hosted that public-access-like show. But Clutch Cargo must have also gotten onto home video, because the characters' names were used as an in-joke in the film Spaced Invaders!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100666/ Invaders from Mars come to Earth, because they heard a rebroadcast of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds, and thought they needed to add to the Mars invasion. They land on Halloween, and a little girl befriends them, and introduces a trio of them as "kids" in "trick-or-treat" "costumes" with the names Clutch, Spinner and Paddlefoot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutch_Cargo

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10-10-2006, 07:51 PM	#1
BareeW Member First Time Poster Join Date: Oct 10, 2006 Location: in my house Posts: 1	Cartoon characters, with human mouths What was the cartoon, aired in the 1960's where the characters had human mouths? Anybody know? It's driving me nuts!

12-01-2006, 05:02 PM	#2
EmpressDR Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Mar 22, 2004 Location: California Posts: 279	Human Mouth cartoon --Clutch Cargo Clutch Cargo, filmed in "Syncro-Vox." There was a dog named Paddlefoot, and Spinner --a little boy, and some Sydney Greenstreet-like villain in a Panama hat. It was shown on the 1960s Sheriff John show --I saw it again in 1990, on the HBO Comedy Channel ( which later morphed into Comedy Central when it merged with Viacom's Ha! ). The Higgins Boys and Gruber hosted that public-access-like show. But Clutch Cargo must have also gotten onto home video, because the characters' names were used as an in-joke in the film Spaced Invaders! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100666/ Invaders from Mars come to Earth, because they heard a rebroadcast of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds, and thought they needed to add to the Mars invasion. They land on Halloween, and a little girl befriends them, and introduces a trio of them as "kids" in "trick-or-treat" "costumes" with the names Clutch, Spinner and Paddlefoot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutch_Cargo http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124937/usercomments