The Dick Tracy Show
| The Dick Tracy Show | |
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| Also known as | The Adventures of Dick Tracy |
| Genre | Crime, adventure, comedy |
| Created by | Chester Gould |
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| Presented by | UPA |
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| Theme music composer | Carl Brandt |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 130 |
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| Editor | Ted Baker |
| Running time | 5 minutes |
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| Network | First-run syndication |
| Release | January 1, 1961 – January 1, 1962 |
| Related | |
| The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo | |
The Dick Tracy Show is an American animated television series based on Chester Gould's comic strip crime fighter. The series was produced from 1961 to 1962 by UPA.
In the show, Chief of Detectives Dick Tracy employed a series of cartoony subordinate flatfoots to fight crime each week, contacting them on his two-way wristwatch radio. Tracy himself rarely appeared beyond the opening and closing sequences. The opening was designed so that local TV hosts dressed as policemen could introduce the cartoon by barking orders into a prop intercom, with Tracy answering "Okay, chief, I'll get on it right away."