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''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. ==Summary== Tracy employed a series of cartoony subordinate flatfoots to fight crime each week, contacting them on his two-way wristwatch radio. Everett Sloane voiced Tracy, while Mel Blanc and Paul Frees voiced many of the other characters, including: * Joe Jitsu, a parody of Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto (featuring many stereotypes of Chinese and Japanese culture). He is an intelligent detective who fights with martial arts (repeatedly slamming his victim to the ground while saying "So sorry!... Excuse prease!... Begging your pardon!"). He is named after the Japanese martial art of jujitsu. Benny Rubin provided his voice throughout the series. * Hemlock Holmes, a Cockney police bulldog (named in honor of Sherlock Holmes and with a voice patterned after Cary Grant) voiced by Jerry Hausner. He is backed up by his own police squad, The Retouchables (named after The Untouchables, but behaving more like the Keystone Kops). * Heap O'Calorie, a parody of Andy Devine, Voice by "Uncle" Johnny Coons. Cop with a serious weight problem and a penchant for stealing apples from an outdoor fruit stand. Before setting out on an assignment, Heap would invariably get the "word on the street" from a bongo-pounding beatnik (named "Nick") who communicated solely by beating coded messages on his drums. * Manuel Tijuana Guadalajara Tampico "Go-Go" Gomez, Jr., essentially a human version of Speedy Gonzales, another Blanc character, though Frees did his voice for most of the series. A running gag had a gangster's bullet fired point-blank at one of the detectives, who would yell, "Hold everything!" The bullet would obediently screech to a halt and "wait", while the detective called headquarters for further instructions. Action would resume only after the sign-off catchphrase, "Six-two and even, over and out" was spoken at the end of the call. A couple of running gags involved Hemlock. His topper would be popped and he would inflate it back by blowing on his thumb in his mouth, and when the Retouchables would get their assignment from Hemlock, they would hurry out the garage in the squad car, leaving Hemlock to chase after them and begging them to stop, which they do; sending hemlock crashing through two windows of glass and onto the car's hood. Villains included Pruneface who was paired up with Itchy, Mumbles partnered with Stooge Viller, Flattop paired up with B.B. Eyes, The Brow paired with Oodles, The Mole and Sketch Paree. Some times there was an episode where a villain went solo. Each pair of villains had at least one member who smoked either a cigar or a cigarette on an extender. A crook was created for the cartoon (who was never a comic strip villain) named Cheater Gunsmoke (ironically has the same initials as Dick Tracy creator Chester Gould) appeared in two episodes. Gunsmoke was a Texas-sounding cigar smoker with a literal cloud of smoke surrounding his head. Out of all the villains in the cartoon, Stooge (1933) was the first to appear in the comic strip and Oodles appeared last (1955), 6 years before the show was aired. Most of the villains were given voices that parody famous actors. Flattop sounded like Peter Lorre, Pruneface like Boris Karloff, B.B.Eyes like Edward G. Robinson, and The Brow like James Cagney. The cartoons seldom involved the title character. Tracy would always open each film in his office with the dialog, "Okay, Chief! I'll get on it right away. Dick Tracy calling..." He would then hand the case over to one of his comic law-enforcement assistants, who played slapstick games of back-and-forth with the crooks, which compared to their comic strip counterparts were penny ante and not as bright. Tracy showed up at the very end, usually by car or helicopter, to congratulate the assistant on a job well done and take the crooks into custody. It could be argued that Tracy was too stalward and heroic for the comedic roles that the funny subordinates played, or was Chief of Detectives like in the comic and devoted his time and energy catching bigger fish like Big Boy and the Apparatus (conjecture only). Chief Patton and Sam Catchem appeared as "woodwork" characters who had few speaking lines and you only saw a silhouette or the back of their heads. Sam would drive Tracy's squad car (#25 and #502). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Dick Tracy Show」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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