6.6 /10 1 Votes
5.2/10 TV Developed by M & A. Alexander Country of origin United States Final episode date 8 February 1961 Language English | 8.1/10 IMDb Created by M & A. Alexander Directed by Rudy Cataldi Theme music composer Hoyt S. Curtin First episode date 24 September 1960 Genre Animated cartoon Cast Dal McKennon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Similar Bucky and Pepito, Courageous Cat and Minute M, Sinbad Jr and his Magic Belt, Crusader Rabbit, Roger Ramjet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Q.T. Hush is an American animated cartoon produced in 1960 and appearing in syndication, beginning on 24 September 1960. The show's 100 three and a half minute episodes, all in color, were directed by veteran animator Rudy Cataldi, and produced by a company called Animation Associates. The main character was voiced by veteran voice actor Dallas McKennon. All of the episodes survive. Each 3 1/2 minute episode ended in a "cliff hanger". 10 episodes would equal one 1/2 hour show. Q. T. Hush was the first television cartoon designed to run as a 1/2 hour show hi-lighting a single character. At the time, Hanna Barbera show cased three individual cartoons in a 1/2 program.
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Plot
Q.T. was a private detective with two assistants, his bloodhound Shamus (who, like Q.T., wore a deerstalker hat) and Quincy, who wore a trench coat, slouch hat and smoked cigars. Quincy was actually Q.T.'s shadow and could not only speak but slide under doors as well. As with many private eyes, Hush had a love-hate relationship with the local police in the form of Chief Muldoon.
Aside from the serial aspect and being one of the few color cartoons of its era, Q.T. was famous for inventing the cell phone (a pocket radio that could be used to call conventional land lines) and the fax machine (QT could shove documents into a phone mouthpiece and have the identical document appear in the receiver of who he was speaking with).
His initials reinforced his surname by invoking the old expression for quiet secrecy, "on the Q.T."
Characters
