Maybe I didn’t watch Felix but I watched Popeye reruns and Little Lulu. Was Felix before them?
I’m not sure. It was around the time of Rocky and Bulweinkle and the guy that used to tie sweet Nell(?) to the railroad tracks:’)
Now you’ve done it.
Actally (a bit of TV history) Felix was the very first image transmitted by television by RCA in 1928. They uses a paper mache form. http://www.felixthecat.com/history.htm
As far as the cartoon goes, from Wikipedia:
“Oriolo went on to star Felix in 260 television cartoons distributed by Trans-Lux starting in 1958. Like the Van Beuren studio before, Oriolo gave Felix a more domesticated and pedestrian personality, geared more toward children, and introduced now-familiar elements such as Felix’s Magic Bag of Tricks, a satchel that could assume the shape and characteristics of anything Felix wanted. “
“The program is also remembered for its distinctive theme song written by Winston Sharples:”
“Felix the Cat,
The wonderful, wonderful cat!
Whenever he gets in a fix,
He reaches into his bag of tricks!”
“The show did away with Felix’s previous supporting cast and introduced many new characters. These include the sinister, mustachioed Professor; his intelligent but bookish nephew Poindexter (with an IQ of 222); the Professor’s bulldog-faced, bumbling sidekick Rock Bottom; an evil, cylindrical robot and “King of the Moon” named The Master Cylinder; and a small, unassuming and friendly Inuit named Vavoom, whose only vocalization is a literally earth-shattering shout of his own name.”
After reading this article, for the first time in many years I remember Poindexter and the Master Cylinder. Each cartoon was very short.