Dry Spell
- Studio
- TerryToon Cartoons, CBS Films
- Distributor
- 20th Century Fox
Synopsis
When a serious drought hits the town of Creek Mud, rainmaker Chief Storm Cloud has a bad foot. The sheriff orders Deputy Dawg to turn loose Big Chief No Treaty and have him do a rain dance and bring much-needed waters to the town's reservoirs. In exchange, the chief would get his freedom. But the Chief is only interested in escaping. While trying to catch the fleeing Native American and make sure that he does his rain dance, Deputy Dawg only succeeds in falling on top of the chief... thereby breaking the poor man's ankles and preventing him from doing his rain dance. So the Chief teaches Deputy Dawg his rain dance, and it works out well. A little too well, because a massive rainstorm soon floods the town and washes everything- including the Sheriff and the jailhouse- out to the Mississippi River. The problem is that Deputy Dawg only learned how to start the rain – not stop it!
Characters
Deputy Dawg, Sheriff, Big Chief No Treaty, Chief Storm Cloud
Credits
Directing
- Director
- George Gordon, Bob Kuwahara, Connie Rasinski, Dave Tendlar, Bill Tytla
Producing
- Producer
- Bill Weiss
Writing
- Writer
- Larz Bourne
Animation
- Animator
- Cosmo Anzilotti, Ralph Bakshi, Doug Crane, Mannie Davis
Voices
- Voice
- Dayton Allen (Deputy Dawg, Sheriff, Big Chief No Treaty)
Music
- Music
- Philip A. Scheib
Editing
- Editor
- George McAvoy, Jack MacConnell
Crew
- Created By
- Larz Bourne
- Story Supervision
- Tom Morrison
- Backgrounds
- Bill Focht, John Zago
- Photography
- George Davis, Ted Moskowitz, Joseph Rasinski
- Production Manager
- Frank Schudde
Companies and other credits
- A TerryToons Film Presentation
Production notes
Deputy Dawg was first introduced on television in the fall of 1960. Following CBS's purchase of thew TerryToons studio, it was only a matter of time until the studios output was pointed to the airwaves. The Deputy Dawg Show was the first all-cartoon made-for-TV production of the TerryToons studio.
Deputy Dawg was the loyal but dim-witted Southern lawman from a backwoods Tennessee precinct, Creekmud Junction, and who, despite his own ineptitude, always manages to catch the bad guy. The animals that live in the nearby swamp tend to give Deputy Dawg a hard time. Most of the trouble stems from Muskie Muskrat and his predilection of stealing eggs from the Sheriff's henhouse.
Three incidental characters would be spun off from this show into their own. A little blue space alien would become Astronut, Mischa Mouse would become Macon Mouse for the theatrical Possible Possum series, and the Long Island Duckling would become Duckwood.
He became so popular in the south, that these cartoons were released theatrically two years later.
Many local stations ran Deputy Dawg from 6 to 7 p.m., directly competing with Hanna-Barbera cartoons.
Ralph Bakshi has been credited with directing the last episodes.
Deputy Dawg was the loyal but dim-witted Southern lawman from a backwoods Tennessee precinct, Creekmud Junction, and who, despite his own ineptitude, always manages to catch the bad guy. The animals that live in the nearby swamp tend to give Deputy Dawg a hard time. Most of the trouble stems from Muskie Muskrat and his predilection of stealing eggs from the Sheriff's henhouse.
Three incidental characters would be spun off from this show into their own. A little blue space alien would become Astronut, Mischa Mouse would become Macon Mouse for the theatrical Possible Possum series, and the Long Island Duckling would become Duckwood.
He became so popular in the south, that these cartoons were released theatrically two years later.
Many local stations ran Deputy Dawg from 6 to 7 p.m., directly competing with Hanna-Barbera cartoons.
Ralph Bakshi has been credited with directing the last episodes.
