Total Television Productions

Company type	Private
Industry	Animation
Founded	1959; 67 years ago (1959)
Founder	Treadwell D. Covington W. Watts Biggers Chester "Chet" Stover Joe Harris
Defunct	1969; 57 years ago (1969)
Successor	Library: DreamWorks Classics
Headquarters	New York, New York,USA
Products	Television shows Television commercials
Owner	Dancer Fitzgerald Sample

Total Television Productions (stylized asTotal TeleVision productions) was an American animation studio founded in 1959 byBuck Biggers, Chester "Chet" Stover,^[1]Joe Harris,^[2][3] and Treadwell D. Covington.^[3] They were executives in the advertising agencyDancer Fitzgerald Sample who had the account for theGeneral Mills food corporation. Total 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.Underdog,King Leonardo and His Short Subjects, andTennessee Tuxedo and His Tales were among the most popular series made by the studio.

Animation for Total Television was originally out sourced to TV Spots, but would switch toGamma Productions asKing Leonardo and His Short Subjects entered its third season (around 1961).^[4]

TV series

• King Leonardo and His Short Subjects
  • The King & Odie (1960–1964)
  • The Hunter (1960–1964)
  • Twinkles the Elephant (1960–1961)
  • Tooter Turtle (1960–1961)
• Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales (1963–1966)
  • Commander McBragg (1964–1966)
• Underdog (1964–1967)
  • Go Go Gophers (1964–1966)
  • Klondike Kat (1966, first 14 episodes)
• The Beagles (1966–1967)
  • The Sing-A-Long Family (1960s)
  • Klondike Kat (1966–1967, last 12 episodes)

TV pilots and specials

• Gene Hattree (1960s) (pilot)
• Cauliflower Cabby (1960s)
• The Colossal Show (1960s) (pilot)

Commercials

• Cocoa Puffs commercials (1960–1969)

Much of Total Television's library for post-network syndication was handled byThe Program Exchange, until the company shut down in 2016. The rights are currently owned byDreamWorks Classics/DreamWorks Animation (viaUniversal Pictures andNBCUniversal).

• Animation in the United States in the television era

• "Whatever Happened to Total TeleVision productions?,"Hogan's Alley #15, 2009

• Arnold, Mark (2009).Created and Produced by Total TeleVision productions: The Story of Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo and the Rest. BearManor Media.ISBN 9781593933456.
• Arnold, Mark (2021).TTV Scrapbook. BearManor Media.ISBN 9781629337784.

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