Old Saturday Morning Cartoons You've Definitely Forgotten About

Dudley Do-Right

Dudley Do-Right is here to save the day. Created by Alex Anderson, Chris Hayward and Allan Burns, Dudley isn't your everyday superhero. Stemming from a segment on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, this Mounties man was actually a spoof. The series parodied early classic 20th-century melodrama tendencies and the notion of silent film, using only a piano as background noise. It debuted in 1961.

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