Cartoon Resource entry #343 - The Beany and Cecil Show (1962)

THE BEANY AND CECIL SHOW

original airdates: Jan 6, 1962-June 30, 1962 in primetime on ABC, Sep 1962-Dec 1968 Saturdays on ABC
later airdates: 1968-1976 in syndication
episodes: 26 Half-Hours (78 Shorts)
animated by: Snowball Studios
distributed and owned by: Bob Clampett Productions 


SUMMARY:
Based on the puppet show beginning in 1949 ‘Time for Beany’, veteran animator Bob Clampett made animated shorts of Beany and Cecil.  Beany is a boy who has a magic sea-serpent Cecil.  Beany’s uncle Captain Huffenpuff lends a hand and face off against their nemesis Dishonest John. 78 short cartoons were produced.  The series originally started in 1959 as a segment of Matty's Funday Funnies before Beany and Cecil took over the timeslot in 1962.

 

EPISODE GUIDE

#01 (06.06.1962)
Spots Off a Leopard
Invasion of Earth by Robots
Singing Dinosaur 

#02 (01.13.1962)
Little Ace from Outer Space
Super Cecil
Wildman from Wildsville 

#03 (01.20.1962)
Davey Crickett
Strange Objects
Tearalong the Dotted Lion 

#04 (01.27.1962)
Trip to the Schmoon
Grime Doesn't Pay
Beany's Buffalo Hunt 

#05 (02.03.1962)
Monstrous Monster
Tommy Hawk
Yo Ho Ho and Bubble of Gum

#06 (02.10.1962)
7th Voyage of Singood
Cecil Meets Cecilia
Thunderbolt the Wondercolt 

#07 (02.17.1962)
Rat Race for Space
Beany and the Boo Birds
Beany and Cecil Meet Ping Pong 

#08 (02.24.1962)
Greatest Schmoe on Earth
Beany and Cecil Meet Billy the Squid
Capture of the 3-Headed Threep 

#09 (03.03.1962)
Beany & the Jackstalk
Humbug
Custard's Last Stand 

#10 (03.10.1962)
Hero By Trade
Illegal Eagle Egg
Cecil Gets Careless 

#11 (03.17.1962)
Sleeping Beauty and the Beast
Quackers In Bed
D.J. Meets Cowboy Starr 

#12 (03.24.1962)
Beany's Beany Cap Copter
Indiscreet Squeet
Phantom of the Horse Opera 

#13 (04.07.1962)
20,000 Little Leaguers
Malice in Blunderland
Buffalo Billy 

#14 (04.07.1962)
Dirty Birdy
Man Eater Skeeters
Leading Lady Bug 

#15 (04.14.1962)
Rin Tin Can
Vild Vast Vasteland
Invisible Man Has Butterfingers 

#16 (04.21.1962)
Here Comes the Schmoeboat
T'ain't Cricket, Crickett
Cecil Always Saves the Day 

#17 (04.28.1962)
Ain't I a Little Stinger
Warring 20's
Beany and Cecil Meet Invisible Man

#18 (05.05.1962)
Ain't That a Cork in the Snorkel?
Makes a Sea-Serpent Sore
So What and 7 Whatnots 

#19 (05.12.1962)
Cecil's Comical Strip
Beany's Resid-jewels
Wot the Heck 

#20 (05.19.1962)
Dragon Train
10-Foot Tall and Wet
Dirty Pool 

#21 (05.26.1962)
Thumb Fun
Living Doll
Beanyland 

#22 (06.02.1962)
Beany Blows His Top
Beany Flips His Lid
Fleastone Kop Caper 

#23 (06.09.1962)
Mad Isle of Mad-hatten
Hammy Awards
Hare-cules and the Golden Fleecing 

#24 (06.16.1962)
Cheery Cheery Beany
Nya-Ha Ha!
Swingin' Singin' Sea Serpent 

#25 (06.23.1962)
There Goes a Good Squid
Ben Hare
Hare Today, Gone Tomorrow 

#26 (06.30.1962)
Oil's Well That Ends Well
No Such Thing
D.J. the Dee Jay

 

VOICE ACTORS

Scatman Crothers (1910-1986) as Go Man Van Gogh
Paul Frees (1920-1986) as Little Ace
Jim MacGeorge (1928-2021) as Beany, Captain Huffenpuff, Crowy
Irv Shoemaker (1925-1988) as Cecil and Dishonest John

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