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Crusader Rabbit

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The first Animated Series produced specifically for television, Crusader Rabbit was created by Jay Ward and Alex Anderson in 1948. It featured the serialized adventures of a rabbit and his tiger sidekick, Ragland T. Tiger (Rags for short).Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Anderson's original intent was not to create a rabbit or tiger character, but to create characters whose personalities were contrary to their appearance. The rabbit was conceived by Ward as a crusading Don Quixote.Ward and Anderson initially tried to sell the series to NBC as part of a package, The Comic Strips of Television, which included an early incarnation of Dudley Do-Right. When they were turned down, they turned to syndication, where an initial run of 195 episodes, divided into 10 "crusades", aired from 1950 to 1952 (many of the stations who aired it were NBC affiliates, including its O&Os in New York and Los Angeles). note (Many sources mistakenly say the cartoon debuted in 1949 due to the early episodes being produced and copyrighted that year, but the first broadcast did not occur until 1950.)Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })A second run of 260 episodes, divided into 13 "crusades", were syndicated in 1957. This second run was produced in color by Capital Entreprises and Creston Films (a.k.a. TV Spots Inc.) without the involvement of Ward and Anderson, who lost the rights following a legal battle between them, producer Jerry Fairbanks and NBC.Some of the earliest episodes can be found in the Internet Archive's Moving Picture Collection.
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Animated Series: The first one to be produced specifically for television.
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Cliffhanger: Usually twenty episodes made up a "crusade", each episode ending with a single title for the following episode (as opposed to the Either/Or Title that Rocky and Bullwinkle made popular). When Capital and Creston/TV Spots took over making the show, two packages were made available — the serialized episodes and then, around 1960, story arcs re-edited as a 45-minute featurette "movie."
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Art Shift: Crusader started out with droopy jowls. It was later refined and he was made cuter.
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