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Clutch Cargo

All Episodes 1959 - 1960
TV-G

  • Ended
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  • 1959-03-14T05:00:00Z
  • 20m
  • 16h 50m (52 episodes)
  • Clark Haas
  • United States
  • English
  • Cambria Studios
  • Adventure, Animation, Action, Children
Tall, stoutly built, ruggedly handsome Clutch Cargo was a two-fisted troubleshooter/aviator/author who traveled the world with his young ward, a red-haired freckle-faced boy named Spinner, and his dog Paddlefoot. They usually helped Clutch solve the various mysteries and troublesome situations which plagued Clutch's many friends and acquaintances from the South-Seas islands, to the Arctic tundra, to the jungles of South America, to the prairies of the American Southwest, their experiences providing material for Clutch's best-selling adventure Logbook.

53 episodes

Explains animation processes used in Clutch Cargo.

Series Premiere

1959-03-14T05:00:00Z

1x01 The Friendly Head Hunters

Series Premiere

1x01 The Friendly Head Hunters

  • 1959-03-14T05:00:00Z4m

Clutch, Spinner, and Paddlefoot travel to South America, to investigate the disappearances of their old friends Chub Perkins, and his daughter, Mary.

1959-03-21T05:00:00Z

1x02 The Arctic Bird Giant

1x02 The Arctic Bird Giant

  • 1959-03-21T05:00:00Z20m

With the help of an Eskimo friend, Clutch and company travel to the north country, to assist their old friend, Captain Lowtide, in solving the mystery of his missing cargo.

1959-03-28T05:00:00Z

1x03 The Desert Queen

1x03 The Desert Queen

  • 1959-03-28T05:00:00Z22m

Clutch, Spinner, and Colonel Twaddle recover a stolen gem – a priceless, 29-pound ruby – and return it to its rightful owner.

1959-04-04T05:00:00Z

1x04 The Pearl Pirates

1x04 The Pearl Pirates

  • 1959-04-04T05:00:00Z4m

Clutch postpones a trip back home, in order to help some South Sea islanders stop thieves who are raiding their pearl oyster beds.

1959-04-11T05:00:00Z

1x05 The Vanishing Gold

1x05 The Vanishing Gold

  • 1959-04-11T05:00:00Z20m

Clutch and company help find out how and why an old prospector’s gold is disappearing.

1959-04-18T05:00:00Z

1x06 The Race Car Mystery

1x06 The Race Car Mystery

  • 1959-04-18T05:00:00Z20m

After falling victim to sabotage, Clutch investigates some strange goings-on at a county fair race track.

1959-04-25T05:00:00Z

1x07 The Rocket Riot

1x07 The Rocket Riot

  • 1959-04-25T05:00:00Z20m

After their plane crashes, in the desert, Clutch, Spinner, and Paddlefoot nearly die of thirst, before being rescued by an eccentric rocket scientist, and then unwittingly become part of an evil plan concocted by the scientist’s assistant.

1959-05-02T04:00:00Z

1x08 Mystery in the Northwoods

1x08 Mystery in the Northwoods

  • 1959-05-02T04:00:00Z20m

Clutch and company confront a thief who has developed a clever method of stealing timber from a Northwoods logger, who is an old friend of Clutch’s.

1959-05-09T04:00:00Z

1x09 Twaddle in Africa

1x09 Twaddle in Africa

  • 1959-05-09T04:00:00Z20m

Clutch and company travel to Kenya, to search for Colonel Twaddle, who has turned up missing, while searching for a pair of rare Zwootzies – A nearly extinct cat-like animal whose whiskers are very valuable.

1959-05-16T04:00:00Z

1x10 The Lost Plateau

1x10 The Lost Plateau

  • 1959-05-16T04:00:00Z20m

The Science Research Center asks Clutch’s help in finding a rare plant – native to the Amazonian jungle – which is used in making medicine to cure night-blindness.

1959-05-23T04:00:00Z

1x11 The Ghost Ship

1x11 The Ghost Ship

  • 1959-05-23T04:00:00Z20m

Spinner and Paddlefoot help Clutch foil an old miser's plan to frighten fishermen into foreclosure on their homes and fishing boats.

1959-05-30T04:00:00Z

1x12 The Rustlers

1x12 The Rustlers

  • 1959-05-30T04:00:00Z20m

While on their way home, Clutch and company stop in to visit a rancher friend, and help stop rustlers who are stealing cattle two at a time.

1959-06-06T04:00:00Z

1x13 The Missing Train

1x13 The Missing Train

  • 1959-06-06T04:00:00Z20m

An entire train – with a shipment of $50,000 in gold – turns up missing, and Clutch, Spinner, and Paddlefoot help a small-town sheriff find out how.

1959-06-13T04:00:00Z

1x14 The Devil Bird

1x14 The Devil Bird

  • 1959-06-13T04:00:00Z20m

Clutch and company go after a giant condor, which has frightened away the entire native population of a South Seas island.

1959-06-20T04:00:00Z

1x15 Pipeline to Danger

1x15 Pipeline to Danger

  • 1959-06-20T04:00:00Z20m

At the request of an old friend, Clutch, Spinner, and Paddlefoot travel to the desert oil fields, to find out why crude oil isn’t making it’s way through a new pipeline.

1959-06-27T04:00:00Z

1x16 Mister Abominable

1x16 Mister Abominable

  • 1959-06-27T04:00:00Z20m

After being forced to make an emergency landing in the Himalayas, Clutch and company help a Mongolian prince find his village’s sacred blue yak, with the help of an odd little hermit from Ohio.

1959-07-04T04:00:00Z

1x17 Operation Moonbeam

1x17 Operation Moonbeam

  • 1959-07-04T04:00:00Z20m

Complications develop, when Clutch, Spinner, and Paddlefoot crew a rocketship to the moon, in order to help a rocket scientist win a contract to build a new Lunar Commuter Transport Vehicle.

1959-07-11T04:00:00Z

1x18 Air Race

1x18 Air Race

  • 1959-07-11T04:00:00Z20m

Clutch and company participate in a North Pacific air race, and, with the help of their old friend, and fellow racer – Hiram Biggs – foil the attempts of a crooked pilot to keep them from finishing.

1959-07-18T04:00:00Z

1x19 The Haunted Castle

1x19 The Haunted Castle

  • 1959-07-18T04:00:00Z20m

At the request of an old friend, Clutch, Spinner, and Paddlefoot travel to the Scottish Highlands, to investigate strange goings-on in an old castle.

1959-07-25T04:00:00Z

1x20 The Elephant-Nappers

1x20 The Elephant-Nappers

  • 1959-07-25T04:00:00Z20m

When crooks steal the prized white elephant of the Rampur of Monsoon Isle, the Rampur summons Clutch and company to investigate the disappearance.

1959-08-01T04:00:00Z

1x21 Dragon Fly

1x21 Dragon Fly

  • 1959-08-01T04:00:00Z20m

When a Native American friend claims that his fur traps were raided by a giant dragonfly, Clutch and company, along with an RCMP Sergeant, help him get to the bottom of the mystery.

1959-08-08T04:00:00Z

1x22 Sky Circus

1x22 Sky Circus

  • 1959-08-08T04:00:00Z20m

When an old farmer needs cash, to save his farm, Clutch and the farmer’s niece – a French high-wire artist – try to win prize money, in an Air Circus.

1959-08-15T04:00:00Z

1x23 The Midget Submarine

1x23 The Midget Submarine

  • 1959-08-15T04:00:00Z20m

A high-tech mini atomic submarine is lost in unfriendly waters, and Clutch is sent to try to raise the sub, before it can fall into unfriendly hands.

1959-08-22T04:00:00Z

1x24 Cliff Dwellers

1x24 Cliff Dwellers

  • 1959-08-22T04:00:00Z20m

After having to make an emergency landing in the american southwest, Clutch and company foil the attempt of a pair of crooks to rob a native american village of it’s ancient treasures.

1959-08-29T04:00:00Z

1x25 Jungle Train

1x25 Jungle Train

  • 1959-08-29T04:00:00Z20m

Clutch, Spinner, Paddlefoot, Swampy, and the friendly headhunters help Chub Perkins – in a very unusual way – to save his banana plantation, when crooks try to shut him down.

1959-09-05T04:00:00Z

1x26 Space Station

1x26 Space Station

  • 1959-09-05T04:00:00Z20m

Due to his phenomenal canine IQ, Paddlefoot is chosen to pilot a rocketship, on a special space mission. When his spacecraft is lost, Clutch, Spinner, Professor Knockwurst, and Dr. Hoganweiler launch a tremendous search and rescue mission.

Season Premiere

1960-03-12T05:00:00Z

2x01 The Swamp Swindlers

Season Premiere

2x01 The Swamp Swindlers

  • 1960-03-12T05:00:00Z20m

While in the Florida swamps, searching for some rare turtle eggs, Clutch and company help an old man and his daughter stake a claim to oil land – which is rightfully theirs – before a pair of crooks can claim it as their own.

1960-03-19T05:00:00Z

2x02 The Dinky Incas

2x02 The Dinky Incas

  • 1960-03-19T05:00:00Z20m

While searching for a missing Archaeologist, in the Peruvian jungle, Clutch discovers a race of diminutive natives who are dedicated to protecting the artifacts of their ancestors.

1960-03-26T05:00:00Z

2x03 Kangaroo Express

2x03 Kangaroo Express

  • 1960-03-26T05:00:00Z20m

Swampy joins Clutch, Spinner, and Paddlefoot in a race against two bad guys to the crash site of a treasure-laden plane, in the Australian Outback.

1960-04-02T05:00:00Z

2x04 The Shipwreckers

2x04 The Shipwreckers

  • 1960-04-02T05:00:00Z20m

Clutch and company go after saboteurs who are wrecking the ships of their old friend, Captain Lowtide, and stealing his cargo.

1960-04-09T05:00:00Z

2x05 The Ivory Counterfeiters

2x05 The Ivory Counterfeiters

  • 1960-04-09T05:00:00Z20m

When Swampy is accused of dealing in phony elephant tusks, Clutch, Spinner, and Paddlefoot travel to Africa, to help him clear his name.

1960-04-16T05:00:00Z

2x06 Dynamite Fury

2x06 Dynamite Fury

  • 1960-04-16T05:00:00Z20m

A construction foreman calls on Clutch and company to find out who is trying to stop the construction of a new dam.

1960-04-23T05:00:00Z

2x07 Alaskan Pilot

2x07 Alaskan Pilot

  • 1960-04-23T05:00:00Z20m

Clutch, Spinner, and Paddlefoot travel to Alaska, to help two quarreling old prospectors protect their claim to a gold-producing stream.

1960-04-30T04:00:00Z

2x08 Swiss Mystery

2x08 Swiss Mystery

  • 1960-04-30T04:00:00Z20m

The Greenwich Clock, in Switzerland – from which, all world time is calculated – has a broken mainspring, and, when the supplier of new mainsprings doesn’t reply, Clutch and company trek into the mountains, to find out why.

1960-05-07T04:00:00Z

2x09 Pirate Isle

2x09 Pirate Isle

  • 1960-05-07T04:00:00Z20m

After being lured to the Galapagos Islands, under false pretenses, Clutch, Spinner, and Paddlefoot fall victim to a modern-day pirate, then are helped by the pirate’s fed-up daughter.

1960-05-14T04:00:00Z

2x10 Crop Dusters

2x10 Crop Dusters

  • 1960-05-14T04:00:00Z20m

Clutch and Company help a Southern cotton farmer, whose crops are being attacked by a species of genetically-altered super-bugs.

1960-05-21T04:00:00Z

2x11 The Smog Smuggler

2x11 The Smog Smuggler

  • 1960-05-21T04:00:00Z20m

When a factory begins to dump pollution onto the peaceful valley village of Sunnydale, Clutch, Spinner, and Paddlefoot step in, to put a stop to it.

1960-05-28T04:00:00Z

2x12 Global Test Flight

2x12 Global Test Flight

  • 1960-05-28T04:00:00Z20m

A crooked test pilot tries to sabotage Clutch’s test flight of a new, high-tech fighter plane.

1960-06-04T04:00:00Z

2x13 Dead End Gulch

2x13 Dead End Gulch

  • 1960-06-04T04:00:00Z20m

During a research mission, for the Smithsonian Institution, Clutch is elected Marshal of a lawless frontier town, and cleans up it’s criminal element.

1960-06-11T04:00:00Z

2x14 The Missing Mermaid

2x14 The Missing Mermaid

  • 1960-06-11T04:00:00Z20m

Clutch and company help an old friend find his lovely mermaid friend, and then save her from crooks who want to turn her into a carnival attraction.

1960-06-18T04:00:00Z

2x15 Flying Bus

2x15 Flying Bus

  • 1960-06-18T04:00:00Z20m

Clutch and company help their old friend Hiram Biggs, when three bad guys try to keep him from winning the transportation contract for the village of Middletown, with his new ‘Aero-Bus’.

1960-06-25T04:00:00Z

2x16 Road Race

2x16 Road Race

  • 1960-06-25T04:00:00Z20m

Clutch, Spinner, and Paddlefoot travel to the little country of Bourgonia, with their home-built race car, where an unscrupulous race driver tries to prevent them from winning the Bourgonia Grand Prix.

1960-07-02T04:00:00Z

2x17 Feather Fuddle

2x17 Feather Fuddle

  • 1960-07-02T04:00:00Z20m

While searching for a missing ornithologist, in a game preserve, Clutch and company shut down some outlaws who are illegally hunting birds for their feathers.

1960-07-09T04:00:00Z

2x18 Water Wizards

2x18 Water Wizards

  • 1960-07-09T04:00:00Z20m

Both entered in a boat race, Clutch and Spinner must deal with a crooked race boat driver, and his crooked nephew, who try to keep them from winning.

1960-07-16T04:00:00Z

2x19 The Terrible Tiger

2x19 The Terrible Tiger

  • 1960-07-16T04:00:00Z20m

Clutch, Spinner, Paddlefoot, and Swampy come to the aid of the Rampur of Monsoon Isle, when he and his people are threatened by a monster tiger.

1960-07-23T04:00:00Z

2x20 The Circus

2x20 The Circus

  • 1960-07-23T04:00:00Z20m

Clutch and company step in to help a circus owner – Fifi, the former high-wire artist – when a pair of crooked carnival performers try to put her out of business.

1960-07-30T04:00:00Z

2x21 Bush Pilots

2x21 Bush Pilots

  • 1960-07-30T04:00:00Z20m

At the urgent request of an old friend, Clutch, Spinner, and Paddlefoot travel to the Canadian lake country, where they uncover some dirty doings by a greedy bush pilot.

1960-08-06T04:00:00Z

2x22 Cheddar Cheaters

2x22 Cheddar Cheaters

  • 1960-08-06T04:00:00Z20m

Clutch and company travel to the Netherlands, to help the world’s greatest cheesemaker catch a couple of goofy cow thieves.

1960-08-13T04:00:00Z

2x23 The Blunderbird

2x23 The Blunderbird

  • 1960-08-13T04:00:00Z20m

It’s back to the Amazon, where Clutch, Spinner, Paddlefoot, and Swampy help the friendly headhunters out, by going after a fearsome creature that has been terrorizing the jungle dwellers.

2x24 The Case of Ripcord Van Winkle

  • 1960-08-20T04:00:00Z20m

After 30 years in seclusion, an old Barnstormer stages a comeback, by putting on an air show, so he can have a crack at the crooked pilot who beat him, 30 years earlier.

1960-08-27T04:00:00Z

2x25 The Fortune Cookie Caper

2x25 The Fortune Cookie Caper

  • 1960-08-27T04:00:00Z20m

By way of a message in a fortune cookie, Clutch and company are summoned to Hong Kong, by an old friend who is being held captive by smugglers.

1960-09-03T04:00:00Z

2x26 Big 'X'

2x26 Big 'X'

  • 1960-09-03T04:00:00Z20m

An Astronomer has discovered a giant meteor, headed for the moon, and Clutch, Spinner, and Paddlefoot, with the help of Professor Knockwurst, launch a space mission, in a rickety old rocket, to stop it.

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