Modern Madcaps

Modern Madcaps is an animated film series produced by Paramount Pictures' Famous Studios animation division between the years 1958 and 1967. The series featured assorted characters that later became part of the Harvey Comics library.

List of shorts

1950s

1958

• Right Off the Bat (1958) (Series premiere; first cartoon directed by Seymour Kneitel)
• Fit to Be Toyed (1958)

1959

• La Petite Parade (1959)
• Spooking of Ghosts (1959)
• Talking Horse Sense (1959)
• T.V. Fuddlehead (1959)

1960s

1960

• Mike the Masquerader (1960)
• Fiddle-Faddle (1960)
• From Dime to Dime (1960)
• Trigger Treat (1960)
• The Shoe Must Go On (1960)
• Electronica (1960)
• Shootin' Stars (1960)
• Disguise the Limit (1960)
• Galaxia (1960)
• Bouncing Benny (1960) (Instead of painting the film on cels, animators Place and Feuer created paper cutouts of the characters to create shadow effects)
• Terry the Terror (1960)

1961

• The Phantom Moustacher (1961)
• The Kid from Mars (1961)
• The Mighty Termite (1961)
• In the Nicotine (1961)
• The Inquisit Visit (1961)
• The Plot Sickens (1961)

1962

• Crumley Cogwheel (1962)
• Popcorn and Politics (1962)
• Giddy Gadgets (1962)
• Hi-Fi Jinx (1962)
• Funderful Suburbia (1962)
• Samson Scrap (1962) (Co-production with Rembrandt Films; only cartoon directed by Gene Deitch)
• Penny Pals (1962)
• The Robot Ringer (1962)
• One of the Family (1962)

1963

• Ringading Kid (1963)
• Drum Up a Tenant (1963)
• One Weak Vacation (1963)
• Trash Program (1963)
• Harry Happy (1963)
• Tell Me a Badtime Story (1963)
• The Pigs' Feat (1963)
• Sour Gripes (1963)
• Goodie's Good Deed (1963) (Final cartoon released in Seymour Kneitel's lifetime)
• Muggy-Doo Boycat: Boy Pest with Osh (1963) (Co-production with Hal Seeger Productions; only cartoon directed by Hal Seeger)

1964

• Robot Rival (1964)
• An So Tibet (1964)
• Reading, Writhing and Rithmetic (1964)
• Near Sighted and Far Out (1964) (Final cartoon directed by Seymour Kneitel due to his death in 1964)

1965

• Cagey Business (1965) (First cartoon directed by Howard Post)
• Poor Little Witch Girl (1965) (Honey Halfwitch's first appearance)
• The Itch (1965)
• Solitary Refinement (1965)
• The Outside Dope (1965)

1966

• I Want My Mummy (1966) (First cartoon directed by Shamus Culhane)
• A Balmy Knight (1966)
• A Wedding Knight (1966)
• Two by Two (1966) (Final cartoon directed by Howard Post)

1967

• The Blacksheep Blacksmith (1967) (Series finale; final cartoon directed by Shamus Culhane)

External links

• Modern Madcaps at the Big Cartoon Database