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Crusader Rabbit

Season 1 1950

  • 1950-08-01T04:00:00Z on ABC
  • 4m
  • 4m (1 episode)
  • United States
  • English
  • Animation, Comedy
History, as always, is written by the victors. This is no less true in animation history than it is in military history. We revere the Walt Disneys', the Chuck Jones', and the Jay Wards' because they have a huge legacy of excellence well worthy of our adoration. But none of these giants worked alone or in a vacuum. History is not so kind to those other men, those unsung geniuses of the animation industry. For every Walt Disney, there was an Ub Iwerks working tirelessly to create the first Mickey Mouse cartoons. For every Chuck Jones, there was a Bob Clampett offering philosophical and stylistic counterpoint and contrast. For Jay Ward, there was Alex Anderson. Who? Alex Anderson. That's who. In 1948, Anderson was a young animator working for his uncle Paul Terry's Terrytoon studio in California when he came up with the idea of creating a new cartoon character whose small physical size was in direct and ironic contrast to his aggressive emotional nature. The co

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Series Premiere

1950-08-01T04:00:00Z

1x01 Crusader vs. The State Of Texas, Pt. 1

Series Premiere

1x01 Crusader vs. The State Of Texas, Pt. 1

  • 1950-08-01T04:00:00Z4m

One of the Crusader's first crusades is to rescue a hapless tiger, Ragland T. Tiger from his circus cage. Although Rags is much larger physically and obviously is biologically a tiger (and therefore supposedly a fierce predator), his personality is as docile and meek as Crusader Rabbit is insistent and assertive. This makes the duo a wonderfully ironic and compatible pair.

With his new found sidekick by his, uh….side, Crusader Rabbit learns that his Jackrabbit cousins are being persecuted in the titular State of Texas. It seems th

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