Captain Fathom

{{Short description|1965 animated television series}} {{Italic title}} {{More citations needed|date=November 2022}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} '''''Captain Fathom''''' is an American animated television series produced in 1965 by Cambria Studios.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Perlmutter |first1=David |title=The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows |date=2018 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1538103739 |page=109 }}</ref> Like Cambria's other productions, ''Clutch Cargo'' and ''Space Angel'', it was produced in Synchro-Vox.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Terrace |first1=Vincent |title=Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 Through 2010 |date=2014 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9780786486410 |page=159 |edition=2nd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YX_daEhlnbsC&dq=%22captain+fathom%22&pg=PA159 |accessdate=6 March 2020}}</ref> At least 26 30-minute episodes, all in color, were filmed. The episodes could be broken down into five 5-minute segments in cliffhanger format. Renowned comic book artist Alex Toth was the director.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/36469/classic-sci-fi-tv-150-episodes/ |title=Classic Sci-Fi TV - 150 Episodes : DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video |publisher=Dvdtalk.com |date= |accessdate=2015-03-07}}</ref>

This animated series was broadcast in Italy in syndication in the early 1980s under two different titles: ''Avventure negli abissi'' (that means in English ''Adventures in the Abyss'') and ''Captain Fathom''. This was the last Cambria Studios cartoon show to use the Syncro-Vox.

An attempt at airing a live-action version of ''Captain Fathom'' was done in 1955 starring Don Megowan, Richard H. Cutting, and Barbara Wilson.<ref>Clemens, Samuel. "Good Girl", ''Classic Images''. October 2022</ref> The pilot wasn't purchased by a network and was never aired.

==Plot== Captain Bill Fathom was captain of a submarine called the ''Argonaut''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Markstein |first1=Don |title=Captain Fathom |url=http://www.toonopedia.com/couragos.htm |website=Don Markstein's Toonopedia |accessdate=2 April 2020}}</ref> It was named after the Argonauts of Greek mythology. Fathom and his crew would have various adventures, similar to those of ''Clutch Cargo'' or ''Jonny Quest''.

==Episodes== #A Man Called Guppy #The Loss of the Argonaut (episodes 5–10) #Mission: Thunder Fire Island (episodes 11–15) #One for the Money, One for the Show #The Ice Trap (episodes 31–35) #Wanted Dead or Alive #The Light That Wailed #The Underseas Land Grab #The Shrieking Mountain (episodes 46–50) #Find a Hidden Prize (episodes 51–55) #The Pirates of Global Island #Pursuit of the Dinopisces #The Sub-Enchanted Garden (episodes 71–75) #Rustlers of the Sea Range (episodes 76–80) #Voyage to the Stone Age (episodes 81–85) #The Baron of Shark Island (episodes 86–90) #Ghost Ship (episodes 91–95) #The Whale and W.P. (episodes 96–100) #The Eye of the Mountain (episodes 111–115) #Xerog (episodes 116–120) #Project Meec #Phantom of Port Royal #Seldom Seem Sea Serpent #Deep Marauder #U-2 Rudolph #Pisastro's Private War (episodes 171–175)

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==External links== *[http://www.toonopedia.com/cfathom.htm ''Captain Fathom''] at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. [https://archive.today/20240525212547/https://www.webcitation.org/66nzLq4cT?url=http://www.toonopedia.com/cfathom.htm Archived] from the original on April 9, 2012.

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