Underdog
Underdog
TV ShowEnded

Underdog

6.3 / 10
1964
3 seasons
129 episodes
AnimationComedy

Underdog, also known as The Underdog Show, is an American Saturday morning animated television series that ran from October 3, 1964, to March 4, 1967, starting on the NBC network until 1966, with the rest of the run on CBS, under the primary sponsorship of General Mills, for a run of 62 episodes. It is one of the early Saturday morning cartoons. The show continued in syndication until 1973. Underdog, Shoeshine Boy's heroic alter ego, appears whenever love interest Sweet Polly Purebred is being victimized by such villains as Simon Bar Sinister or Riff Raff. Underdog nearly always speaks in rhyming couplets, as in "There's no need to fear, Underdog is here!"

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Underdog Theme

Cast

Seasons

  • Safe Waif

    1.Safe Waif

    03-10-19645m

    Underdog breaks out of the phone booth, and hears the cries for help again. Underdog flies to the lady, who tells him that her little boy has been accidentally locked in a bank vau...

  • March of the Monsters

    2.March of the Monsters

    03-10-19645m

    An army of giant robots take over the city and capture Polly. Underdog foils the monsters by using his high-pitched voice to destroy the robots' electronic brains. The robots aren'...

  • Simon Says

    3.Simon Says

    10.0
    10-10-19645m

    Simon, a mad scientist, creates a camera. This is not some ordinary camera however. When he takes someone's picture, the freezes them in the photograph!

  • Go Snow Part 1

    4.Go Snow Part 1

    10.0
    10-10-19645m

    Simon Bar Sinister creates a new super weapon: the Go-Snow Gun. The gun freezes people, turning them into snow people. Simon and his Henchman Cad take over the First National Bank,...

  • Go Snow Part 2

    5.Go Snow Part 2

    17-10-19645m

    After Simon and Cad turn the bank president, his staff and customers into snow people, they rob the bank of all its assets. Then they crash a party at a mansion, turn the band into...

  • Go Snow Part 3

    6.Go Snow Part 3

    17-10-19645m

    Capturing Polly in their lab, Simon and Cad are about ready to turn her into a snow woman. But then, Cad comes up with an even more insidious plot: he suggests Polly broadcast an u...

  • Go Snow Part 4

    7.Go Snow Part 4

    24-10-19645m

    Simon has frozen poor Underdog solid. All efforts to defrost Underdog fail. Somehow, Underdog defrosts himself and immediately flies around Simon and Cad so fast the two villains g...

  • Zot: Part 1

    8.Zot: Part 1

    24-10-19645m

    Underdog is having an average day. He foils a bank robbery, rescued Sweet Polly and made himself useful across the world. Meanwhile, a million, million miles away on the planet Zot...

  • Zot, Part 2

    9.Zot, Part 2

    31-10-19645m

    The story of Zot continues with King Klobber searching the galaxy and then the universe for the strongest warrior. They discover Underdog on an insignificant planet named Earth. Ki...

  • Zot, Part 3

    10.Zot, Part 3

    31-10-19645m

    As the story of Zot continues King Klobber of Zot sends a spaceship to capture Sweet Polly Purebred. He holds Polly under "The Great Zot", a 10 ton weight. When Underdog arrives to...

  • Zot, Part 4

    11.Zot, Part 4

    07-11-19645m

    The story of Zot concludes, as Underdog and the princess are about to be married. Just at that moment the evil two-headed dragon attacks the city. Underdog defeats the dragon and s...

  • The Great Gold Robbery, Part 1

    12.The Great Gold Robbery, Part 1

    07-11-19645m

    Riff-Raff is no longer Public Enemy No. 1, so he comes up with the ultimate plan: robbing a trainload of gold by distracting Underdog from his duties of protecting the gold on the...

  • The Great Gold Robbery, Part 2

    13.The Great Gold Robbery, Part 2

    14-11-19645m

    Riff-Raff's plan goes into action: they kidnap Sweet Polly Purebred, tie her up and put her in a balloon, and set up a bunch of other balloons with record players inside them playi...

  • The Great Gold Robbery, Part 3

    14.The Great Gold Robbery, Part 3

    14-11-19645m

    Underdog is still confused and frustrated trying to find Sweet Polly among all the balloons, so far only coming across the record players Riff Raff's gang implanted in the balloons...

  • The Great Gold Robbery, Part 4

    15.The Great Gold Robbery, Part 4

    21-11-19645m

    The train full of gold is about to crash into another train, with Riff-Raff's plan going just as he expected. However, Underdog has just rescued Sweet Polly and manages to make it...

  • Fearo, Part 1

    16.Fearo, Part 1

    21-11-19645m

    Sweet Polly Purebread boards a ship to travel to a south sea island to investigate the world's biggest monster "Fearo the Ferocious". Go-Go Gophers: Colonel Coyote thinks a book e...

  • Ep 17

    17.Fearo, Part 2

    28-11-19645m

    After overcoming a mutiny at sea Polly and the gang continue on to the south sea Island to find "Fearo the Ferocious". Upon arriving at the Island Underdog saves the day as he over...

  • Ep 18

    18.Fearo, Part 3

    28-11-19645m

    Reminiscent of the movie King Kong the gang captures "Fearo" and return him to civilization to meet the public in a big television broadcast. But "Fearo" escapes in a rampage, kidn...

  • Ep 19

    19.Fearo, Part 4

    05-12-19645m

    "Fearo" runs amok and even the Army cannot stop him. Underdog arrives on the scene and battles "Fearo" by tantalizing him with a jungle delicacy.

  • Ep 20

    20.The Big Shrink, Part 1

    05-12-19645m

    Simon Bar Sinister is working an a chemical that will shrink the city's citizens to miniature size. Go-Go Gophers - Tapping the Telegraph: General Nuisance returns with a transmis...

  • Ep 21

    21.The Big Shrink, Part 2

    12-12-19645m

    Underdog is shrunk by Simon's new evil device and is placed alongside Polly in a birdcage. Luckily, our hero's powers are still useful and they break out of the cage. Seeing that h...

  • Ep 22

    22.The Big Shrink, Part 3

    12-12-19645m

    Underdog and Polly are trapped in a rat hole, surrounded by a army of rats. Weakened from their run from Simon and Cad, Underdog needs to regain his superpowers with his Energy pil...

  • Ep 23

    23.The Big Shrink, Part 4

    19-12-19645m

    The rainmaking machine has done its evil work; Simon has shrunk everyone to the size of his thumb, even his henchman Cad. Panic soon grips the city. Underdog and Polly arrive with...

  • Ep 24

    24.The Bubbleheads, Part 1

    19-12-19645m

    Far beneath the sea in the kingdom of Maldemare, the Empress scorns the Emperor for not taking over the surface dwellers. He informs her that he has 3 of his top scientist working...

  • Ep 25

    25.The Bubbleheads Part 2

    26-12-19645m

    The Emperor and Empress of Maldamere have a scientist who has created a tidal wave making machine, and plan to use it to destroy the surface world. Concerned about the giant waves...

  • Ep 26

    26.The Bubbleheads Part 3

    26-12-19645m

    After being captured by the evil monarchs of Maldemare, Polly and the Professor are taken in front of them and learn of their evil plan. Polly begins to cry for Underdog but is tol...

  • Ep 27

    27.The Bubbleheads Part 4

    02-01-19655m

    Trapped inside of the giant clam, it looks like the end of Underdog and his friends. Polly remembers to give Underdog his super energy pill, and he tickles the clam into helpless l...

  • Ep 28

    28.From Hopeless To Helpless, Part 1

    02-01-19655m

    O.J. Skweez comes to Sweet Polly Purebred with news about the Hopeless Diamond being worn at a party. Knowing that some crook is going to steal it, O.J. suggests that Polly will go...

  • Ep 29

    29.From Hopeless To Helpless, Part 2

    09-01-19655m

    Things looked bad for Polly, who's speeding down a car downward on a slope, and a wheel on the car even comes off. Fortunately, Underdog flies down and saves her just as the car fa...

  • Ep 30

    30.From Hopeless To Helpless, Part 3

    09-01-19655m

    Tap Tap, disguised as Underdog, has been going all over the place committing crimes. After stealing the mayor's cigars, he goes back to the hideout of Riff Raff and begins to cut t...

  • Ep 31

    31.From Hopeless To Helpless, Part 4

    16-01-19655m

    Underdog is so helpless in jail, that he began to believe that he really did do those crimes. Back at Riff Raff's hideout, Tap Tap has trouble cutting the diamond. Even with the bi...

  • Tricky Trap by Tap Tap

    32.Tricky Trap by Tap Tap

    16-01-19655m

    Underdog's double, an evil criminal, plots to steal a priceless diamond after he escapes from prison.

  • Ep 330

    330.The Witch of Pickyoon

    TBA

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