Sinbad Jr. and his Magic Belt
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{{Infobox television
| image = sinbad jr.jpg
| creator =
| voices = Dal McKennon
Tim Matheson
Mel Blanc
| director = Joseph Barbera
William Hanna
Rudy Cataldi
Reuben Timmins
Edwin Rehberg
Amby Paliwoda
Sid Marcus
Harvey Toombs
| executive_producer = Sam Singer
| producer = Joseph Barbera
William Hanna
| theme_music_composer = Ted Nichols
| country = United States
| runtime = 5 minutes
| company = Hanna-Barbera Productions
{{small|(uncredited in later episodes)}}
| channel = Syndication
| first_aired = {{Start date|1965|9|11}}
| last_aired = {{End date|1966|5|28}}
| num_episodes = 102
}}
Sinbad Jr. and his Magic Belt is a series of five-minute cartoons that originally aired in first-run syndication between 1965 and 1966. They were produced by Hanna-Barbera for the American International Television division of American International Pictures and were shown during local children's television programming.{{cite book |last1=Woolery |first1=George W. |title=Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part 1: Animated Cartoon Series |date=1983 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=0-8108-1557-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/childrenstelevis0000wool |url-access=registration |accessdate=22 March 2020 |page=[https://archive.org/details/childrenstelevis0000wool/page/258 258]}}
Sinbad Jr. (voiced by Dal McKennon and Tim Matheson) is the teenage son of Sinbad, the famous sailor, and he travels the world in his single-masted sailboat seeking adventure and wrongs to the right, fighting such villains as the Bluto-like, big, black-bearded Blubbo and the mad doctor Rotcoddam ("mad doctor" spelt backwards).
Sinbad Jr. gained the strength of 50 men whenever he tightened his magic belt, causing the diamond-shaped buckle to flash like lightning and temporarily transform him into a mighty muscleman.
Sinbad Jr.'s first mate was his feisty and funny feathered friend Salty the Parrot (voiced by Mel Blanc).
Production
The series was conceived by Sam Singer's production company in 1960, with Dal McKennon voicing the title role. Singer Studio produced the initial episodes for the Trans-Arts Company, but the deal fell through.{{cite book |last1=Perlmutter |first1=David |title=The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows |date=2018 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1538103739 |pages=555–556}}
American International Pictures, which had released the film The Magic Voyage of Sinbad, held rights to the "Sinbad" trademark for screen works. AIP's television division eventually negotiated an agreement under which Hanna-Barbera would produce the series, with Tim Matheson replacing McKennon. The final release includes episodes produced by both studios.
Sinbad Jr. and His Magic Belt premiered in first-run syndication on Sept. 11, 1965.[http://toonopedia.com/sinbadjr.htm Sinbad Jr.] at Don Markstein's Toonopedia [https://archive.today/20240528043108/https://www.webcitation.org/6qydz1pr8?url=http://toonopedia.com/sinbadjr.htm Archived] from the original on June 4, 2017. The 102 five-minute shorts aired first-run through 1966*[http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Hanna-Barbera_Studios/S/Sinbad_Jr./ Sinbad Jr. and his Magic Belt]{{dead link|date=January 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} at The Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved on June 4, 2017. within children's television programming.
It was renamed Sinbad Jr., the Sailor, out of deference to the 1962 Toei Studios feature-length cartoon Adventures of Sinbad. MGM's subsidiary Orion Pictures (whose holdings include the AIP library) later acquired the rights to the series.
Theme music
The cartoon's theme song, composed by Ted Nichols, is a variation on the children's song "Sailing, Sailing (Over the Bounding Main)" that was written in 1880 by Godfrey Marks, a pseudonym of British organist and composer James Frederick Swift (1847–1931).{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VhV1u2oIb-QC&pg=PA83 | title=The Americana song reader | first=William Emmett | last=Studwell | page=83 | publisher=Haworth Press | location=New York | year=1997 | isbn=978-0-7890-0150-4 | oclc=35298663}}{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cw62090c3kYC&pg=PA327 | title=Belwin 21st Century Band Method, Level 2: Conductor | first1=Jack | last1=Bullock | first2=Anthony | last2=Maiello | page=327 | publisher=Alfred Publishing | location=New York | year=1997 | isbn=978-0-7692-0160-3 | oclc=44949067 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6_2QbRvM_o |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/B6_2QbRvM_o |archive-date=2021-12-22 |url-status=live|title=sinbad jr.-intro|last=muttley16|date=11 June 2008|publisher=|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} A later version of the theme song has a jazzier beat.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbSMfL5UEZk |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/DbSMfL5UEZk |archive-date=2021-12-22 |url-status=live|title=SINBAD JR. AND HIS MAGIC BELT Cartoon Intro|last=superherocartoonsite|date=13 January 2009|publisher=|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}
Episodes
Each daily package consisted of three five-minute cartoons.
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| 1
| align="left"|"Dragon Drubbers / Rock Around the Roc / Ronstermon" | {{Start date|1965|09|11}} |
| style="background:#FFFFDE;"
| 2 | align="left"|"Captain Sly / Caveman Daze / Circus Hi-Jinks" | {{Start date|1965|09|18}} |
| 3
| align="left"|"Look Out, Lookout / Typical Bad Night / Woodchopper Stopper" | {{Start date|1965|09|25}} |
| style="background:#FFFFDE;"
| 4 | align="left"|"Arabian Knights / Moon Madness / Sizemograph Laugh" | {{Start date|1965|10|2}} |
| 5
| align="left"|"Big Belt Bungle / Jack & the Giant / Turnabout is Foul Play" | {{Start date|1965|10|9}} |
| style="background:#FFFFDE;"
| 6 | align="left"|"Elephant on Ice / Jekyll and Hyde / Kooky Spooky" | {{Start date|1965|10|16}} |
| 7
| align="left"|"Belted About / Big Deal Seal / The Gold Must Go Through" | {{Start date|1965|10|23}} |
| style="background:#FFFFDE;"
| 8 | align="left"|"Belt, Buckle & Boom / Birdnapper / Tiny Tenniputians" | {{Start date|1965|10|30}} |
| 9
| align="left"|"Big Bully Blubbo Behaves / Sinbad and the Moon Rocket / The Menace of Venice" | {{Start date|1965|11|6}} |
| style="background:#FFFFDE;"
| 10 | align="left"|"Bat Brain / Invisible Villain / Sad Gladiator" | {{Start date|1965|11|13}} |
| 11
| align="left"|"Hypnotized Guys / Sizemodoodle Poodle / The Adventures of Abou Ben Blubbo" | {{Start date|1965|11|20}} |
| style="background:#FFFFDE;"
| 12 | align="left"|"Faces from Space / Mad Mad Movies / The Truth Hurts" | {{Start date|1965|11|27}} |
| 13
| align="left"|"Bird God / Evil Wizard" | {{Start date|1965|12|4}} |
| style="background:#FFFFDE;"
| 14 | align="left"|"Boat Race Ace / Knight Fright / My Fair Mermaid" | {{Start date|1965|12|11}} |
| 15
| align="left"|"Sea Going Penguin / Sinbad Jr. & the Mighty Magnet / The Adventure of Frozen Fracas" | {{Start date|1965|12|18}} |
| style="background:#FFFFDE;"
| 16 | align="left"|"Tin Can Man / Vulture Culture / Wild Wax Works" | {{Start date|1965|12|25}} |
| 17
| align="left"|"Irish Stew / Sinbad Jr. & the Counterfeiters / Sea Horse Laughs" | {{Start date|1966|1|8}} |
| style="background:#FFFFDE;"
| 18 | align="left"|"Hot Rod Salty / Sunken Treasure / Dodo A Go Go" | {{Start date|1966|1|15}} |
| 19
| align="left"|"Gold Mine Muddle / Paleface Race / Surfboard Bully" | {{Start date|1966|1|22}} |
| style="background:#FFFFDE;"
| 20 | align="left"|"Magic Belt Factory / Ride'em Sinbad / Sinbad Jr. & the Master Weapon" | {{Start date|1966|1|29}} |
| 21
| align="left"|"Fly By Knight / Rainmaker Fakers / Treasure of the Pyramids" | {{Start date|1966|2|5}} |
| style="background:#FFFFDE;"
| 22 | align="left"|"Killer Diller / Railroad Ruckus / Teahouse Louse" | {{Start date|1966|2|12}} |
| 23
| align="left"|"Blubbo Goes Ape / Super Duper Duplicator / The Good Deed Steed" | {{Start date|1966|2|19}} |
| style="background:#FFFFDE;"
| 24 | align="left"|"Blubbo's Goose Goof / Hello Dolphin / The Monster Mosquito" | {{Start date|1966|2|26}} |
| 25
| align="left"|"Cry Sheep / Sea Serpent Secret / Wacky Walrus" | {{Start date|1966|3|5}} |
| style="background:#FFFFDE;"
| 26 | align="left"|"Cookie Caper / Daze of Old / Way Out Manhunt" | {{Start date|1966|3|12}} |
| 27
| align="left"|"Gaucho Blubbo / Claim Jumper / Space Beetles" | {{Start date|1966|3|19}} |
| style="background:#FFFFDE;"
| 28 | align="left"|"Dinosaur Horror / Kangaroo Kaper / Siesta Time" | {{Start date|1966|4|9}} |
| 29
| align="left"|"Bull Antics / Jigsaw Phantom / Kidnapped" | {{Start date|1966|4|23}} |
| style="background:#FFFFDE;"
| 30 | align="left"|"Killer Tiger / Monkey Business / Out West" | {{Start date|1966|4|26}} |
| 31
| align="left"|"Pirate Shark / Shake the Bottle / Sinbad Jr. & the Sun Wizard" | {{Start date|1966|4|30}} |
| style="background:#FFFFDE;"
| 32 | align="left"|"The Fire Dragon / Sinbad Jr. and the Flying Carpet / The Mummy" | {{Start date|1966|5|7}} |
| 33
| align="left"|"The Pluto People Trap / The Tick Bird / The Wind Geni" | {{Start date|1966|5|14}} |
| style="background:#FFFFDE;"
| 34 | align="left"|"Web of Evil / Trap Happy Trapper / Whale of a Tale" | {{Start date|1966|5|21}} |
| 35
| align="left"|"Wicked Whirlpool" | {{Start date|1966|5|28}} |
See also
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0293742|title=Sinbad Jr. and his Magic Belt}}
{{Sinbad the Sailor}}
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Category:American children's animated action television series
Category:American children's animated adventure television series
Category:American children's animated fantasy television series
Category:American English-language television shows
Category:Sinbad the Sailor television series
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Category:Television series by Hanna-Barbera