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[]
1958[]
- Right Off The Bat (Series premiere)
1959[]
- Fit to Be Toyed
- La Petite Parade (featuring Renoir the Matchmaker)
- Spooking of Ghosts
- Talking Horse Sense
- T.V. Fuddlehead
1960[]
- Mike The Masquerader (featuring Mike the Masquerader)
- Fiddle-Faddle
- From Dime to Dime
- Trigger Treat
- The Shoe Must Go On (featuring Luigi)
- Electronica
- Shootin' Stars
- Disguise the Limit (featuring Mike the Masquerader)
- Galaxia
- Bouncing Benny (Instead of painting the film on cels, animators Place and Feuer created paper cutouts of the characters to create shadow effects)
- Terry the Terror (featuring Professor Schmaltz)
1961[]
- The Phantom Moustacher (featuring Sir Percival Prunepit)
- The Kid from Mars (featuring Kozmo the Space Kid)
- The Mighty Termite (featuring Professor Schmaltz)
- In The Nicotine
- The Inquisit Visit
- The Plot Sickens
1962[]
- Crumley Cogwheel
- Popcorn and Politics
- Giddy Gadgets (featuring Professor Schmaltz)
- Hi-Fi Jinx (featuring Ralph and Percy)
- Funderful Suburbia (last cartoon to be packaged in Harvey Films)
- Penny Pals (featuring Ralph and Percy, first cartoon to be owned by Paramount themselves)
- The Robot Ringer
- One of the Family
- Perry Popgun
- Without Time or Reason
1963[]
- Drum Up A Tenant (featuring Luigi)
- One Weak Vacation
- Trash Program
- Harry Happy
- Tell Me A Badtime Story (featuring Goodie the Gremlin)
- The Pig's Feat
- Sour Gripes (featuring Luigi)
- Goodie's Good Deed (featuring Goodie the Gremlin)
- The Ringading Kid
1964[]
- Robot Rival (featuring Zippy Zephyr)
- And So Tibet
- Reading Writhing And 'Rithmetic (featuring Buck and Wingy)
- Near Sighted and Far Out (featuring Squeegee)
1965[]
- Cagey Business
- Poor Little Witch Girl (featuring Halfwitch)
- The Itch
- Solitary Refinement (featuring Boobie Baboon)
- The Outside Dope (featuring Boobie Baboon)
1966[]
- I Want My Mummy (featuring José Jimenez)
- A Balmy Knight (featuring Sir Blur)
- A Wedding Knight (featuring Sir Blur)
- Two by Two (featuring Quacky Whack)
1967[]
- The Blacksheep Blacksmith (Series finale, featuring Sir Blur)
Outsourced shorts[]
- Samson Scrap (1962) (produced by Rembrandt Films)
- Boy Pest with Osh (1963) (produced by Hal Seeger Studios)
External Links[]
- Modern Madcaps at the Big Cartoon Database