Cool McCool

Cool McCool

1966
Cool McCool
Cool McCool

Cool McCool

7 | en | Animation

Cool McCool was an animated series that ran on NBC from September 10, 1966 to August 30, 1969 with three segments per show, running to 60 segments in all. It was created by Bob Kane – most famous as the creator of Batman – and produced by Al Brodax for King Features.

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EP60  Cool McCool in The College of Crooks
Jan. 21,1967
Cool McCool in The College of Crooks

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EP59  Harry McCool in In the Dough
Jan. 21,1967
Harry McCool in In the Dough

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EP58  Cool McCool in The Whistler's Mommy Case
Jan. 21,1967
Cool McCool in The Whistler's Mommy Case

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EP57  Cool McCool in A Tree is a... Tree?
Jan. 14,1967
Cool McCool in A Tree is a... Tree?

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EP56  Harry McCool in Goat Chaser
Jan. 14,1967
Harry McCool in Goat Chaser

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EP55  Cool McCool in Owl's Well That Ends Well
Jan. 14,1967
Cool McCool in Owl's Well That Ends Well

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EP54  Cool McCool in The Box Popper
Jan. 07,1967
Cool McCool in The Box Popper

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EP53  Harry McCool in A Lot of Ballooney
Jan. 07,1967
Harry McCool in A Lot of Ballooney

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EP52  Cool McCool in Birds of a Feather Flop Together
Jan. 07,1967
Cool McCool in Birds of a Feather Flop Together

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EP51  Cool McCool in What Goes Up... Must Come Down
Dec. 31,1966
Cool McCool in What Goes Up... Must Come Down

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EP50  Harry McCool in Green Dragon
Dec. 31,1966
Harry McCool in Green Dragon

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EP49  Cool McCool in Oh Say Can You Seed
Dec. 31,1966
Cool McCool in Oh Say Can You Seed

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EP48  Cool McCool in A Growing Problem
Dec. 24,1966
Cool McCool in A Growing Problem

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EP47  Harry McCool in Monkey Dizziness
Dec. 24,1966
Harry McCool in Monkey Dizziness

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EP46  Cool McCool in Hot McHot
Dec. 24,1966
Cool McCool in Hot McHot

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EP45  Cool McCool in The Wind Goddess
Dec. 17,1966
Cool McCool in The Wind Goddess

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EP44  Harry McCool in Time Out
Dec. 17,1966
Harry McCool in Time Out

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EP43  Cool McCool in High Jacker Jack
Dec. 17,1966
Cool McCool in High Jacker Jack

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EP42  Cool McCool in Rockabye for Rattler
Dec. 10,1966
Cool McCool in Rockabye for Rattler

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EP41  Harry McCool in High Jokers
Dec. 10,1966
Harry McCool in High Jokers

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EP40  Cool McCool in Two Fats and a Fink
Dec. 10,1966
Cool McCool in Two Fats and a Fink

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EP39  Cool McCool in The Moon Goon
Dec. 03,1966
Cool McCool in The Moon Goon

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EP38  Harry McCool in Dog Tired
Dec. 03,1966
Harry McCool in Dog Tired

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EP37  Cool McCool in The Shombrero Affair
Dec. 03,1966
Cool McCool in The Shombrero Affair

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EP36  Cool McCool in Mother Greta's Wrinkle Remover
Nov. 26,1966
Cool McCool in Mother Greta's Wrinkle Remover

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EP35  Harry McCool in McCool Jazz
Nov. 26,1966
Harry McCool in McCool Jazz

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EP34  Cool McCool in Fun and Games
Nov. 26,1966
Cool McCool in Fun and Games

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EP33  Cool McCool in The 500 Pound Canary Caper
Nov. 19,1966
Cool McCool in The 500 Pound Canary Caper

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EP32  Harry McCool in The Jet Set, Yet
Nov. 19,1966
Harry McCool in The Jet Set, Yet

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EP31  Cool McCool in Who Stole my 32 Secret Agents?
Nov. 19,1966
Cool McCool in Who Stole my 32 Secret Agents?

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EP30  Cool McCool in Love is a Gas
Nov. 12,1966
Cool McCool in Love is a Gas

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EP29  Harry McCool in Fowl Play
Nov. 12,1966
Harry McCool in Fowl Play

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EP28  Cool McCool in Jack in the Boxer
Nov. 12,1966
Cool McCool in Jack in the Boxer

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EP27  Cool McCool in The Romantic Rattler
Nov. 05,1966
Cool McCool in The Romantic Rattler

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EP26  Harry McCool in Three Men on a House
Nov. 05,1966
Harry McCool in Three Men on a House

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EP25  Cool McCool in Caps and Robbers
Nov. 05,1966
Cool McCool in Caps and Robbers

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EP24  Cool McCool in How Now Foul Owl
Oct. 29,1966
Cool McCool in How Now Foul Owl

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EP23  Harry McCool in The New Car
Oct. 29,1966
Harry McCool in The New Car

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EP22  Cool McCool in Sniffin, Snoozen, and Sneezen
Oct. 29,1966
Cool McCool in Sniffin, Snoozen, and Sneezen

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EP21  Cool McCool in Owl on the Prowl
Oct. 22,1966
Cool McCool in Owl on the Prowl

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EP20  Harry McCool in Big Top Cops
Oct. 22,1966
Harry McCool in Big Top Cops

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EP19  Cool McCool in Will the Real Cool Mobile Please Stand Up
Oct. 22,1966
Cool McCool in Will the Real Cool Mobile Please Stand Up

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EP18  Cool McCool in Bagging the Windbag
Oct. 15,1966
Cool McCool in Bagging the Windbag

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EP17  Harry McCool in Gym Dandy
Oct. 15,1966
Harry McCool in Gym Dandy

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EP16  Cool McCool in The Box Fox
Oct. 15,1966
Cool McCool in The Box Fox

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EP15  Cool McCool in Shrinking the Slinker
Oct. 08,1966
Cool McCool in Shrinking the Slinker

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EP14  Harry McCool in The Woodchopper
Oct. 08,1966
Harry McCool in The Woodchopper

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EP13  Cool McCool in The Big Brainwash
Oct. 08,1966
Cool McCool in The Big Brainwash

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EP12  Cool McCool in Queen's Ransom
Oct. 01,1966
Cool McCool in Queen's Ransom

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EP11  Harry McCool in Here's Pie in Your Eye
Oct. 01,1966
Harry McCool in Here's Pie in Your Eye

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EP10  Fowl Play
Oct. 01,1966
Fowl Play

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EP9  Cool McCool in Garden of Evil
Sep. 24,1966
Cool McCool in Garden of Evil

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EP8  Harry McCool in The Vanishing Shoehorns
Sep. 24,1966
Harry McCool in The Vanishing Shoehorns

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EP7  Cool McCool in The Odd Boxes Caper
Sep. 24,1966
Cool McCool in The Odd Boxes Caper

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EP6  Cool McCool in The House that Jack Built
Sep. 17,1966
Cool McCool in The House that Jack Built

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EP5  Harry McCool in Horsehide and Go Seek
Sep. 17,1966
Harry McCool in Horsehide and Go Seek

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EP4  Cool McCool in If the Hat Fits... Watch It
Sep. 17,1966
Cool McCool in If the Hat Fits... Watch It

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EP3  Cool McCool in Fine Feathered Fiends
Sep. 10,1966
Cool McCool in Fine Feathered Fiends

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EP2  Harry McCool in The Phantom of the Opera House
Sep. 10,1966
Harry McCool in The Phantom of the Opera House

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EP1  Cool McCool in The Big Blowout
Sep. 10,1966
Cool McCool in The Big Blowout

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Released: 1966-09-10 | Released Producted By: King Features Syndicate , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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Cool McCool was an animated series that ran on NBC from September 10, 1966 to August 30, 1969 with three segments per show, running to 60 segments in all. It was created by Bob Kane – most famous as the creator of Batman – and produced by Al Brodax for King Features.

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Richard Keith Carson The show is a blend of Get Smart and Batman in the style of the Beatles cartoons (all shows that also were airing at the time). Making the character sound like Jack Benny was a clever way of giving him a vocal inflection similar to Maxwell Smart without imitating Don Adams directly. All of these then-current references were readily apparent at the time even to kids, but because of them, the show is now dated and mainly of historical interest.
CineMage Delightful series, but let's get something out of the way from the start: you do NOT watch this for the generically Saturday morning limited animation.Instead, you watch it for the inventive fun the writers had with the over-the-top eccentricity of the villains: witty asides of social commentary (for the time), shameless puns, parodic elements no child could possibly have noticed, and the occasional innuendo slipped past censors because who censors dialog between a green-complexioned mad scientist/sorcerer with a hat obsession and his lisping femme fatale with green hair and a ghost white death pallor? After all, does anyone think the creators of this cartoon expected the children in the audience to recognize Bob McFadden's homage to Jack Benny in the voice he gave to Cool McCool?It's never laugh-out-loud funny, but it brings a constant smile to one's face.Cool McCool comes from the same Saturday morning tradition as Inspector Gadget, The Inspector, and Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp, all of whom are spiritual descendants from the live-action TV series Get Smart and the film series The Pink Panther.However, unlike the rest of them, Cool McCool has a touch of heart to him. When Cool accidentally hurts Number One, R&D techie Riggs, or his assistant Breezy, he comes across as genuinely remorseful, and he clearly loves his sapient car the Coolmobile like a pet. He has an entire segment devoted each week to his love and admiration for his father, and he introduces the segment with a song in which he regrets how often he disappoints cantankerous father-figure Number One. (Many sequences end with Number One admitting, once Cool is out of range of hearing, "I love that boy!")In contrast, Inspector Gadget and Inspector Clouseau remain cheerfully oblivious to the feelings or needs of almost anyone else (with the obvious exception of niece Penny), while Lancelot Link and Agent 86 will lie to and manipulate their closest friends to shore up their slipping self-delusions of competence. Cool shows more affection to his car than Inspector Gadget shows to his dog Brain!Other enjoyable aspects of this series include fun that the animation artists and the voice actors (Chuck McCann and Carol Corbett) have with the villains in ways that are easier to pick up now as an adult than they had been as children in the 1960s.Mad scientist/sorcerer Doctor Madcap a.k.a. Professor Madcap and femme fatale lover Greta Ghoul flirt in parodic fashion -- he seduces her with "sweet nothings" by purring as he holds her in his arms, "Your eyes are like nothing! Your lips are like nothing! Your face is like nothing!"The Owl is inspired by both Batman's foe The Penguin (in terms of bird mania) and Spider-Man's foe The Vulture (in terms of The Scheming Old Banker type and the fact that both have the means to fly). Of course, his partner in crime is The Pussycat, a Mae West-voiced version of Catwoman. Despite the superficial similarities to The Penguin, The Owl's plots seem more inspired by McCann's voicing of the character in imitation of Lionell Barrymore's scheming banker Mr. Potter from It's a Wonderful Life. (Thanks to this series, I hear Barrymore's Potter voice in my head whenever I read The Vulture's dialog in a Spider-Man comic!) (One amusing visual effect is that the two owls on The Owl's shoulders blink in unison with him.)Hurricane Harry is inspired by the appearance of Goldfinger and the voice of Sydney Greenstreet (but with an out-of-place lisp) but otherwise has nothing in common with them. The Rattler and Jack-in-the-Box also also have voices inspired by celebrities.The animators manage to have a lot of fun with the free-for-all deforming movements of the villains despite the limited animation. Rather than the usual static figures of this sort of animated cartoon, Jack-in-the-Box is constantly springing and swaying, The Rattler is continually coiling and slinking, and Hurricane Harry inflates and deflates even while laughing and talking.As fun as this series is, it has become more of an historical artifact than a series that will attract many new viewers. The moments of witty social commentary have become outdated as well as turned hackneyed from being repeated endlessly in hundreds of cartoons series since this series came out. The parodic elements will probably mean nothing to modern audiences, most of whom have no idea who Jack Benny or Lionell Barrymore might be. Innuendo is a lost art today and thus unrecognizable to most modern viewers, who either never recognize it or imagine it everywhere.As a friend pointed out to me when I showed him this series, even styles of humor wax and wane in popularity, and this style of humor, a quirky blending of vaudeville and campy absurdism and urban wit, so prevalent among live-action and cartoon TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, has not been in style for more than a decade now.Nonetheless, for those of us who still appreciate that style of humor and who can enjoy the charms of a hero with heart despite the Saturday morning limited animation, this remains a delightful series.
Victor Field Well, actually the organisation he worked for was "Secret Inc.," but never mind - this was one seriously funny spy spoof ("Created By Bob Kane And Al Brodax," the opening would blare - cartoons with "created by" credits were rare back in the '60s; must have been Bob Kane's cachet). Our hero, the mustachioed, trench-coat wearing spy Cool McCool - "Danger is my business" - fought the likes of Hurricane Harry, the Rattler, Jack-in-the-Box, the Owl (and the Pussycat in one episode) and Madcap; invariably he managed to come out on top, but never without fumbling along the way, and each cartoon ended with his irate - and never seen by us - boss Number One ejecting him from the office, despite crying his other catchphrase ("That will NEVER happen again!") In between his adventures (two per show), poor Cool would reminisce about his dear old dad Harry McCool, who in days of yore was a cop right at the top of the league... cue the supporting cartoon, with Harry and his partners Tom and Dick (you saw that coming, didn't you?) as equally clumsy but also triumphant policemen. It all made for cheaply animated but frequently entertaining viewing, marred only by the fact that I'm convinced the King Features logo frightened me as a child. But apart from that, this is far more fondly remembered by me than some better known cartoons.
lao-2 I loved this show as a young teen. I was a fan of Batman from way back, and it was either created or written by Bob Kane, the creator of Batman. It featured a humorous James Bond-like trenchcoated spy-private eye (McCool), who fought villains very closely based on Batman's foes: Jack-in-the-Box (Joker), the Owl (Penguin), Dr. Madcap (Mad Hatter). I wish I could remember more about it.