Total Television Productions

Total Television (TTV) Productions was founded in 1959 by Buck Biggers, Chester "Chet" Stover, Joe Harris, and Treadwell D. Covington. They were executives in the advertising agency Dancer Fitzgerald Sample who had the account for the General Mills food corporation. TTV was formed to create cartoon characters encouraging children to buy General Mills breakfast cereals and other products. The company mostly created cartoons for television networks such as NBC. The studio produced animated series from 1959 to 1969 at Gamma Productions, the animation studio whose work included:

• Cocoa Puffs commercials (1960-1969)
• King Leonardo and His Short Subjects (1960–1963)
• The Hunter (1960–1963)
• Commander McBragg (1963–1965)
• Go Go Gophers (1964-1966)
• Klondike Kat (1963–1965)
• Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales (1963–1966)
• The Beagles (1966–1967)
• The Sing A Long Family (1962)
• Tooter Turtle (1960–1962)
• Twinkles the Elephant (1960–1967)
• Underdog (1964–1967)
• Gene Hattree (1964)
• Cauliflower Cabby (1964)
• The Colossal Show (1964)

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Total Television (TTV) Productions was founded in 1959 by Buck Biggers, Chester "Chet" Stover, Joe Harris, and Treadwell D. Covington. They were executives in the advertising agency Dancer Fitzgerald Sample who had the account for the General Mills food corporation. TTV was formed to create cartoon characters encouraging children to buy General Mills breakfast cereals and other products. The company mostly created cartoons for television networks such as NBC. The studio produced animated series from 1959 to 1969 at Gamma Productions, the animation studio whose work included:

• Cocoa Puffs commercials (1960-1969)
• King Leonardo and His Short Subjects (1960–1963)
• The Hunter (1960–1963)
• Commander McBragg (1963–1965)
• Go Go Gophers (1964-1966)
• Klondike Kat (1963–1965)
• Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales (1963–1966)
• The Beagles (1966–1967)
• The Sing A Long Family (1962)
• Tooter Turtle (1960–1962)
• Twinkles the Elephant (1960–1967)
• Underdog (1964–1967)
• Gene Hattree (1964)
• Cauliflower Cabby (1964)
• The Colossal Show (1964)

Much of TTV's library for post-network syndication is handled by The Program Exchange, while underlying rights are owned by DreamWorks Classics/DreamWorks Animation (via Universal Pictures and NBCUniversal).

 

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