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Touche Turtle & Dum Dum

by: Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc.

Publication date: 1962

Topics: Warner Bros., Hanna-Barbera

Language: English

Touche Turtle & Dum Dum (pronounced too-shay) is one of the segments from The New Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Series, produced by Hanna-Barbera in 1962. This show was originally on The New Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Series along with Wally Gator and Lippy the Lion & Hardy Har Har.

Touche Turtle and Dum Dum were a pair of heroic fencers who battle villains and heroically save kings, queens, maidens and others in distress. Touche was the brave and dashing leader, whereas Dum Dum was more of a simple-minded follower. Brandishing his trusty sword and exclaiming his phrase, "Touche away!" He wore a plumed musketeer type hat, and his pal Dum Dum wears both a smaller plumed hat and a scarf

During the run of the show, Touche Turtle used a standard fencing foil was a weapon. But in the opening title sequence, Touche Turtle used a firehose against a fire-breathing dragon, quick evasive moves to tie up an octopus, and a fencing foil made of a nonconductive material against a sentient lightning bolt. Though not particularly bright, he was an accomplished fencer and could hold his own against other sword-fighting opponents.

The series did not follow any lasting timeline or continually. Touche had adventures in the Old West and in medieval eras, as well as battling villains during the modern era of the 1960s.

A running gag in nearly every episode showed him keeping a telephone inside his shell, and it would ring at inopportune moments when someone called for help. Touche would politely excuse himself, duck into his shell, and take the call regardless of where he was at the time.

Home Media: The very first episode "Whale of a Tale" became on the DVD Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960s Vol. 2. "Rapid Rabbit" is available on DVD on disc 2 of The Best of Warner Bros.: Hanna-Barbera 25 Cartoon Collection.

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Color: color

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Sound: sound

Year: 1962

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Reviewer: SR99-Kirby - - May 24, 2022
Subject: RE: Missing episode found!

@ Lupine Assassin - Thank you very much for sending me the link to found the missing episode, Touche Turtle & Dum Dum 32 - Aladdin's Lampoon! I've looked everywhere to post just until now it was at KimCartoon all along and it was there since 7 years after! Again, I just want to say, thank you REALLY much. You are a video saver. 😊

Reviewer: Lupine Assassin - - May 24, 2022
Subject: Missing episode found!

Thanks so much for posting these! I just emailed you the episode you need to complete this.

Reviewer: tuskacz - - January 21, 2022
Subject: Hardly watchable on my laptop

Thanks for the upload but quality of episodes is very low. I'd love to see episodes with at least 640 pixels of resolution per video.

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