Adventures of Pow Wow
| Adventures of Pow Wow | |
|---|---|
 Adventures of Pow Wow - opening screen | |
| Genre | Children's program |
| Written by | Ben Hardaway |
| Directed by | Sam Singer |
| Presented by |
Leo Minskoff Walter Minskoff |
| Theme music composer | Monty Kelly |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Leon Marcus |
| Running time | 5 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Tempe-Toons |
| Distributor | Screen Gems |
| Release | |
| Original release | January 30, 1949 – May 8, 1955 |
Adventures of Pow Wow is an animated cartoon that was broadcast locally in New York City in 1949 and later on the Captain Kangaroo show during the 1950s.
Plot
The cartoon featured the pre-adolescent Native-American boy Pow Wow, as well as the tribe's medicine man, and a Native-American girl who was a friend of Pow Wow's. The cartoons often centered on Pow Wow's discovery of an animal, hurt or otherwise, and his attempts to protect the forest and wildlife from various threats. When Pow Wow needed help in these missions, he would seek counsel from the wise medicine man.
Broadcast history
The Adventures of Pow Wow first aired on January 30, 1949, on WNBT-TV in New York. With episodes of 15 minutes, the cartoon was broadcast Sunday mornings until March 13, 1949.
The cartoon reappeared on the children's show Captain Kangaroo in 1956 and was syndicated by Screen Gems. It continued on Captain Kangaroo as a series of five-minute episodes until 1958. The cartoons were then once again syndicated and appeared locally in New York and Chicago.
Episodes
- Pow Wow and the Hungry Frog
- Pow Wow and the Grasshopper
- All's Well That Ends Well
- Ruffy Rabbit and His Lucky Foot
- The Snowshoe Rabbit
- Sleepy Head
- Pow Wow and His Lucky Duck
- Pow Wow Builds a Canoe
- The Beaver Boys
- The Little Builders
- Playin' Possum
- The Bad Egg
- The Magic Spigot
- Why Burly Bear Likes Honey
- The Magic Powder
- Pow Wow Gets Even
- The Giant Crow
- Pow Wow in Bear Trouble
- Kangaroo Mouse
- Pow Wow's Picnic
- The Beginning of the Fire
- How the Bear Got a Short Tail
- How the Fox Got His White-Tipped Tail
- Pow Wow and the Shooting Star
- Pow Wow and the Stork
- Percy Pelican's Fish Dinner
- Pow Wow and the Lil' Medicine Man
- The Baby Sitter
- How Ruffy Rabbit Got His Hop
- The Tail of a Tornado
- Pow Wow and the Junior Medicine Man
- Turtle Trouble
- Pow Wow and the Magic Moccasins
- Pow Wow and the Duck Hunter
- The Flying Saucer
- The Pogo Stick
- Pow Wow in Frog Jumping
- The Treasure Hunt
- The Eagle Feathers
- Don't Fence Me In
- The Vagabond Mouse
- Burro'ing Trouble
- Pow Wow's Day of Labor
Song lyrics
The cartoon began with this theme song:
- Pow Wow, the Indian boy,
- Loved all the animals and the woods;
- Pow Wow, the Indian boy,
- Loved all the animals and the woods;
- Pow Wow was a friend
- Of all the animals in the woods;
- If there was any trouble,
- He would help them if he could;
- If Pow Wow couldn't help them,
- He would go to the Medicine Man,
- And he would tell them stories
- Just how it all began,
- All began, all began. . . .
Stations
Alphabetized by city
- KPLR-TV / Channel 11 St. Louis, Missouri
- WJZ-TV / Channel 13 Baltimore, Maryland
- WGN-TV / Channel 9 Chicago, Illinois
- WNBC-TV / Channel 4 New York, New York
- WTTG-TV / Channel 5 Washington, D.C.
External links
- Pow Wow the Indian Boy at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on September 4, 2015.
- Adventures of Pow Wow at Toon Tracker. Archived from the original on July 11, 2001.
- Adventures of Pow Wow at the Internet Movie Database (title sic)
- Adventures of Pow Wow at the Big Cartoon DataBase
- Pow Wow in The Magic Spigot