TOUCHE TURTLE AND DUM DUM:
THE COMPLETE SERIES (1962-1963)
Label: Warner Archive
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 275 Minutes
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Fullscreen (1.33:1)
Cast: Bill Thompson, Alan Reed
This is a lesser-known Hanna-Barbera animation series, now arrives as a complete collection on home video for the first-time ever via Warner Archive with the 52-episode run of the swashbuckling hero Touché Turtle and Dum Dum: The Complete Series, an adventure series that aired during the 1962-63 television season, originally airing as part of the The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series, which also featured toons featuring Wally Gator and Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har, both of whom are set to get their own restored Blu-ray editions from Warner Archive as well. The series really had no throughline other than each episode features the swashbuckling and plumed Touché Turtle, voiced by Bill Thompson, perhapa best known for voicing Droopy, and his dim but loyal sheepdog sidekick Dum Dum, voiced by the legendary Alan Reed, the voice Fred Flintstone embarking on new, goofy adventures. The time period seemingly changes without rhyme or reason from episode to episode, one episode were in the Old West, then the Victorian era, Medieval times, and even the then contemporary 1960s, with anachronistic flourishes like Touche's telephone which he keeps ticked away inside his turtle shell, which occasionally ringd with someone looking to hire the swashbuckling turtle for his renknowned fencing skills. Honestly, there's a reason this is one if the more obscure H-B toons, but it is quite charming, and I applaud WAC for the care and restoration they've afforded this lesser-known series, and for pricing this 2-disc as a single-disc release.
Audio/Video: Touché Turtle and Dum Dum arrives on a 2-disc Blu-ray set from Warner Archive in the original 1.33:1 full frame aspect ratio that they were broadcast in. Having just watched stellar looking The Huckleberry Hound Show set from Warner Archive I would say come into this with tempered expectations. These are sourced from the only available source,4k scans of 16mm film negatives and prints, and as such they can be a bit grainy and inconsisten looking, there's some blurriness and fluctuation in density and color, but looking significantly better than I recall it looking in syndicated runs on Boomerang in the '90s. Audio comes by way of English DTS-HD MA 2.0 dual-mono with option English subtitles, the track is clean and free of age-related hiss, but it is flat and non-dynamic, but faithfully renders dialogue, score and effects with out issue.
Sadly, there are no extras for this release, the 2-disc set, 26 episodes per disc, which arrives in a standard dual-hub keepcase with a single-sided sleeve of artwork.
Special Features:
- None
Episodes:
Disc 1:
- Whale of a Tale
- Zero Hero
- Dilly of a Lily
- Missing Missile
- Lake Serpent
- You Bug Me
- Roll-A-Ghoster
- Giant Double Header
- Loser Take All
- Mr. Robots
- Touché at Bat
- Billy the Cad
- Dog Daze
- Ant and Rave
- Black Is The Knight
- Dragon Along
- Satellite Fright
- Sheepy-time Pal
- Hex Marks The Spot
- Catch As Cat Can
- Sea for Two
- High Goon
- Grandma Outlaw
- Duel Control
- Rapid Rabbit
Disc 2:
- Thumb Hero
- Kat-Napped
- Romeo, Touché, and Juliet
- The Big Bite
- Flying Saucer Sorcerer
- Aladdin’s Lampoon
- Haunting License
- The Phoney Phantom
- Touche’s Last Stand
- Chief Beef
- Like Wild, Man
- Dum De Dum-Dum
- Et tu, Touché?
- Dragon Feat
- Red Riding Hoodlum
- Dough Nuts
- Save the last trance for me
- Waterloo for Two
- Robin Hoodlum
- The Shoe Must Go On
- Quack Hero
- Aliblabber and the 40 Thieves
- Out of This Whirl
- Hero in the Half-Shell
- Tenderfoot Turtle
- Peace & Riot
Screenshots from the Warner Archive Blu-ray:
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