{{Short description|American animated cartoon}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox television | image = Adventures of Pow Wow - Opening Card (1957).jpg | caption = The series' opening card. | genre = [[Western (genre)|Western]] | runtime = 5 minutes | creator = [[Sam Singer]] | director = Sam Singer | presenter = {{Plainlist| * Leo Minskoff * Walter Minskoff }} | executive_producer = Leon Marcus | producer = | writer = {{Plainlist| * Ed Nofziger * [[Ben Hardaway]] (4 episodes) }} | voices = | animator = Tom Baron | theme_music_composer = Monty Kelly | company = Tempe-Toons | country = United States | language = English | network = [[CBS]] | first_aired = {{Start date|1956}}<ref name="Terrace">{{cite book|last1=Terrace|first1=Vincent|date=10 January 2014|title=Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010, 2d ed.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YX_daEhlnbsC&q=%22Adventures+of+Pow+Wow%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA15|access-date=7 October 2019|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786486410|language=en}}</ref> | last_aired = {{End date|1958}} | num_series = | num_episodes = 45 }} '''''Adventures of Pow Wow''''' is an American animated cartoon that was broadcast on the ''[[Captain Kangaroo]]'' show during the 1950s.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Perlmutter |first1=David |title=The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows |date=2018 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1538103739 |page=12}}</ref> The series is in the [[public domain]] due to failure in copyright renewal.
==Plot== The cartoon features the pre-adolescent Native American boy Pow Wow, as well as the tribe's [[medicine man]], and a Native American girl who is a friend of Pow Wow's.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Markstein |first1=Don |website=Don Markstein's Toonopedia |access-date=2 April 2020 |url=http://www.toonopedia.com/powwowib.htm |title=Pow Wow the Indian Boy}}</ref> The cartoons often center on Pow Wow's discovery of an animal, hurt or otherwise, and his attempts to protect the forest and wildlife from various threats. When Pow Wow needs help in these missions, he seeks counsel from the wise medicine man.
==Broadcast history== The cartoon first aired during the children's show ''Captain Kangaroo'' in 1956<ref name="Terrace">{{cite book|last1=Terrace|first1=Vincent|date=10 January 2014|title=Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010, 2d ed.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YX_daEhlnbsC&q=%22Adventures+of+Pow+Wow%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA15|access-date=7 October 2019|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786486410|language=en}}</ref> and was syndicated by [[Screen Gems]]. It continued on ''Captain Kangaroo'' as a series of five-minute episodes until 1958. The cartoons were then once again syndicated and appeared locally in New York and Chicago.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Woolery |first1=George W. |title=Children's television, the first thirty-five years, 1946-1981 |date=1983 |publisher=The Scarecrow Press |isbn=0-8108-1557-5 |page=13 |url=https://archive.org/details/childrenstelevis0000wool/page/12/mode/2up |access-date=5 March 2020}}</ref>
==Episodes== {{Episode table |background=#1F5F2F |overall= |title= |airdate= |airdateR= |episodes= {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 1 | Title = Pow Wow and the Hungry Frog | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 2 | Title = Pow Wow and the Grasshopper | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 3 | Title = All's Well That Ends Well | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 4 | Title = Ruffy Rabbit and His Lucky Foot | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 5 | Title = The Snowshoe Rabbit | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 6 | Title = Sleepy Head | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 7 | Title = Pow Wow and His Lucky Duck | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 8 | Title = Pow Wow Builds a Canoe | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 9 | Title = The Beaver Boys | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 10 | Title = The Little Builders | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 11 | Title = Playin' Possum | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 12 | Title = The Bad Egg | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 13 | Title = The Magic Spigot | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 14 | Title = Why Burly Bear Likes Honey | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 15 | Title = The Magic Powder | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 16 | Title = Pow Wow Gets Even | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 17 | Title = The Giant Crow | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 18 | Title = Pow Wow in Bear Trouble | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 19 | Title = Kangaroo Mouse | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 20 | Title = Pow Wow's Picnic | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 21 | Title = The Beginning of the Fire | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 22 | Title = How the Bear Got a Short Tail | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 23 | Title = How the Fox Got His White-Tipped Tail | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 24 | Title = Pow Wow and the Shooting Star | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 25 | Title = Pow Wow and the Stork | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 26 | Title = Percy Pelican's Fish Dinner | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 27 | Title = Pow Wow and the Lil' Medicine Man | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 28 | Title = The Baby Sitter | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 29 | Title = How Ruffy Rabbit Got His Hop | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 30 | Title = The Tail of a Tornado | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 31 | Title = Pow Wow and the Junior Medicine Man | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 32 | Title = Turtle Trouble | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 33 | Title = Pow Wow and the Magic Moccasins | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 34 | Title = Pow Wow the Duck Hunter | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 35 | Title = The Flying Saucer | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 36 | Title = The Pogo Stick | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 37 | Title = Pow Wow in Frog Jumping | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 38 | Title = The Treasure Hunt | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 39 | Title = The Eagle Feathers | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 40 | Title = Don't Fence Me In | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 41 | Title = The Vagabond Mouse | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 42 | Title = Burro'ing Trouble | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 43 | Title = Pow Wow's Day of Labor | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 44 | Title = Pow Wow Wins by a Head | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1957}} | ShortSummary = }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 45 | Title = The Uranium Hunt | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1957}} | ShortSummary = }} }} [[File:Sam Singer - Adventures of Pow Wow - Playin' Possum (1957) (raw black-and-white version) 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==References== <references />
==External links== {{Commons}} *[http://toonopedia.com/powwowib.htm Pow Wow the Indian Boy] at [[Don Markstein's Toonopedia]]. [https://archive.today/20240527121853/https://www.webcitation.org/6bIi3Q0H8?url=http://toonopedia.com/powwowib.htm Archived] from the original on September 4, 2015. *[https://web.archive.org/web/20010711142040/http://www.toontracker.com/powwow/powwow.htm ''Adventures of Pow Wow''] at Toon Tracker. Archived from [http://www.toontracker.com/powwow/powwow.htm the original] on July 11, 2001. *{{IMDb title|0286334}} (title ''sic'') *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUHefKQkAYA Pow Wow in ''The Magic Spigot'']
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