Courageous Nostalgia Minute

[janradder]

the_slow_train  just posted a Stevie Washington (angry youth) video over on his journal which always reminded me of Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse.  When I was a kid growing up in Connecticut, I lived on top of a hill which gave us better TV reception than most, and on good days I could get Channel 11 out of New York.  Channel 11 had all the good kids' shows -- the Adam West Batman, the George Reeves Adventures of Superman, The Lone Ranger, Deputy Dog, the Banana Splits, Tom and Jerry and Popeye (among others -- on Saturday nights it also showed a creature feature that seemed to invariably be a Hammer Film film Peter Cushing). 

Between shows, if there was time, they used to show episodes of Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse and I used to feel a rush of excitement each time as the cool hepcat bass line would flow out from the television speaker into my living room and I'd watch another installment of the two heroes in their quest to the Frog or Harry Ape or any one of countless other villains.  Part of why I loved it was that it seemed so like Batman and Robin (and, being the über-geek even at the age of seven, anything that remotely resembled one of the DC heroes was the best thing I'd ever seen).  It wasn't until I was an adult that I learned Bob Kane (creator of Batman) was also behind Courageous Cat.

You never knew when Channel 11 would show another episode so I'd sit glued to the TV all afternoon, as soon as I got home from school, enjoying all the shows that were normally on, but also hoping that maybe this was the day I'd see another adventure of Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse.  Whenever it came on, I felt this wonderful sense of delight , the same sense of delight I feel years later when I've finally found the collectible toy I've been looking for or the LP that I just had to have but couldn't find anywhere.

For those of you unfamiliar with the show or for those who are but haven't seen it in awhile, I present to you . . . Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse!