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6/10 TV Country of origin United States Final episode date 30 August 1969 Number of seasons 1 | 7.9/10 IMDb Created by Bob KaneAl Brodax No. of episodes 20 (half hours) First episode date 10 September 1966 Network NBC Number of episodes 20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Bob McFaddenChuck McCannCarol Corbett Running time 3 episodes per half-hour (30 minutes with Commercials) Cast Bob McFadden, Chuck McCann, Carol Corbett Similar Courageous Cat and Minute M, Milton the Monster, Hey - Landlord, The Jean Arthur Show, Go Go Gophers |
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 one of the creators of Batman – and produced by Al Brodax for King Features.
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Synopsis

Riffing off the then-popular genres of superheroes and James Bond spy adventures, Cool McCool featured the adventures of a hip, trenchcoated spy, who – as on the contemporary TV show Get Smart – defeated villains despite being comically inept. Villains included the Rattler, Hurricane Harry, the Owl, Jack-In-The-Box and Dr. Madcap. McCool's boss was known as Number One, although his face was never seen onscreen; only his arms and a cigar were visible behind his chair (a reference to another contemporary spy show, The Prisoner, which featured a spy looking for Number One who ran the prison he found himself in). Number One's secretary was Friday, a dumpy girl who had an unrequited crush on the secret agent. McCool had three catchphrases: "Danger is my business!" "When you're right, Number One, you're right," and (after bungling something) "That will never happen again."
The show also featured a Keystone Kops-style segment featuring the adventures of McCool's father, Harry McCool, a uniformed police officer, presumed to have taken place decades before Cool's time. Harry was supported by his brothers Dick and Tom. Only 20 Harry McCool episodes were made, each one sandwiched between the two Cool McCool episodes per show.
Cast

Cool and Harry were voiced by Bob McFadden, while most of the other voices were supplied by Chuck McCann. Carol Corbett provided the voices of the female characters. McFadden modeled McCool's voice after comic legend Jack Benny.
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Harry McCool segment (Komedy Kops)
The cartoon is a flashback, supposed to take place decades before Cool's time. At the end of every first Cool McCool segment, Cool sings about his recent missions and that he should be more like his father (a uniformed police officer who was even more of a bumbler), and the flashback segment starts. A
Villains
Cool McCool's enemies. Although each villain normally acts independently (aside from married couple Madcap and Greta Ghoul who work together), the in-between sequences introducing Harry McCool shows them united in their quest to capture Cool McCool (they are usually outwitted nevertheless).
Show 01
Cool McCool in "The Big Blowout"
Harry McCool in "The Phantom of the Opera House"
Cool McCool in "Fine Feathered Fiends"
Show 02
Cool McCool in "If the Hat Fits... Watch It"
Harry McCool in "Horsehide and Go Seek"
Cool McCool in "The House that Jack Built"
Show 03
Cool McCool in "The Odd Boxes Caper"
Harry McCool in "The Vaishing Shoehorns"
Cool McCool in "Garden of Evil"
Show 04
Cool McCool in "Rocket Racket"
Harry McCool in "Here's Pie in Your Eye"
Cool McCool in "Queen's Ransom"
Show 05
Cool McCool in "The Big Brainwash"
Harry McCool in "The Woodchopper"
Cool McCool in "Shrinking the Slinker"
Show 06
Cool McCool in "The Box Fox"
Harry McCool in "Gym Dandy"
Cool McCool in "Bagging the Windbag"
Show 07
Cool McCool in "Will the Real Cool Mobile Please Stand Up"
Harry McCool in "Big Top Cops"
Cool McCool in "Owl on the Prowl"
Show 08
Cool McCool in "Sniffin, Snoozen, and Sneezen"
Harry McCool in "The New Car"
Cool McCool in "How Now Foul Owl"
Show 09
Cool McCool in "Caps and Robbers"
Harry McCool in "Three Men on a House"
Cool McCool in "The Romantic Rattler"
Show 10
Cool McCool in "Jack in the Boxer"
Harry McCool in "Fowl Play"
Cool McCool in "Love is a Gas"
Show 11
Cool McCool in "Who Stole my 32 Secret Agents?"
Harry McCool in "The Jet Set, Yet"
Cool McCool in "The 500 Pound Canary Caper"
Show 12
Cool McCool in "Fun and Games"
Harry McCool in "McCool Jazz"
Cool McCool in "Mother Greta's Wrinkle Remover"
Show 13
Cool McCool in "The Sombrero Affair"
Harry McCool in "Dog Tired"
Cool McCool in "The Moon Goon"
Show 14
Cool McCool in "Two Fats and a Fink"
Harry McCool in "High Jokers"
Cool McCool in "Rockabye for Rattler"
Show 15
Cool McCool in "High Jacker Jack"
Harry McCool in "Time Out"
Cool McCool in "The Wind Goddess"
Show 16
Cool McCool in "Hot McHot"
Harry McCool in "Monkey Dizziness"
Cool McCool in "A Growing Problem"
Show 17
Cool McCool in "Oh Say Can You Seed"
Harry McCool in "Green Dragon"
Cool McCool in "What Goes Up... Must Come Down"
Show 18
Cool McCool in "Birds of a Feather Flop Together"
Harry McCool in "A Lot of Ballooney"
Cool McCool in "The Box Popper"
Show 19
Cool McCool in "Owl's Well That Ends Well"
Harry McCool in "Goat Chaser"
Cool McCool in "A Tree is a... Tree?"
Show 20
Cool McCool in "The Whistler's Mommy Case"
Harry McCool in "In the Dough"
Cool McCool in "The College of Crooks"