1956 Crusader Rabbit TV Game MINT Unused in Box NR

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We recently attended an estate sale w we had purchased a large selection of 1950s dolls most of the dolls have been sold, and this week we are offering the last of them - you will find them under our other auctions Also purchased from this same estate sale is a wonderful collection of 1950s Games and Toys Several of the games are in UNUSED condition This week, we are bringing the games to eBay. Available for your consideration through this auction is a wonderful 1956 CRUSADER RABBIT TV GAME this game has NEVER BEEN USED We can tell because the 4 cards with Crusader Rabbit on them have pieces that have to be punched out to play all pieces are intact and have not been punched out Box has some edgewear and dirtiness - but is structurally sound with no rips or tears box is dated 1956 Instructions for play printed on back of box top Also included is a parts list - so we know nothing is missing 1 Crusader Rabbit TV Game Board 4 Crusader Rabbit Cut Out TV Boards 4 Colored Playing Pieces 1 Rags, the Tiger, Spinner Don't miss your chances - these games were sold in a very limited supply and are extremely difficult to find I can find no others on eBay in Open or Closed auctions T can not be a lot of these FIRST TV CARTOON GAMES around and certainly not many in MINT AS NEW CONDITON like this one! Crusader Rabbit History 'Crusader Rabbit' was the first made for TV cartoon, brought to life in 1950 by Alexander Anderson and the immortal Jay Ward (who used the money they made on this show to develop 'Bullwinkle and Rocky'). Lucille Bliss was the voice of Crusader, Verne Loudon was Rags and Russ Coughlin was Dudley. "We wanted the effect of an animated comic strip" Jay Ward explained about the five minute running times, "The commercials would go in between these short episodes." "I don't recall anything special about Saturday morning at that point except that the networks had a vague idea that they wanted programs for kids." The show's producer Jerry Fairbanks commented decades later: "Crusader Rabbit was very limited. They often contained fewer than four cells per foot compared to ten times that or more the amount for full animation. Crusader Rabbit and his companion Rags were do-gooders. They were always doing positive things to influence kids, like teaching kids not to cross the street in the wrong direction." The shows could be broken up into five minute segments, so stations had the option of just running the segments one at a time to fill time, or strung together as a half-hour block. Because of this (and the fact that they were filmed in color), the cartoons were re-run well into the Seventies in some markets. In 1957, the rights to the characters were sold and 260 new Crusader Rabbit cartoons were produced (without Jay Ward) and added to the syndication package. "Ms. Gee Gee Pearson was the second and the last performer to do the voice of "Crusader Rabbit" for the 1958 TV cartoons that were produced and released to national TV syndication in color by Bonsull TV Productions Inc. "The color "Crusader Rabbit" TV Cartoons were seen Saturday mornings on "Children's Theater" with Ray Forrest from 1958 to 1960. The cartoons were shown Saturday mornings without a host on WNBC TV Ch. 4 in NYC from 1960 to 1966. "Chuck McCann and Paul Ashley screened them on "Chuck McCann's Laurel & Hardy Show" weekday afternoons from Monday, September 12, 1966 to Friday June 9, 1967. "The color "Crusader Rabbit" cartoons were shown on WNEW TV Ch.5 in NYC without a host from 1967 to 1968. They have not been seen on TV since." /lostkids4.html Any Questions - Please Ask See My Other Auctions - Win bid on more then one auction, and we will combine to save the buyer on shipping. The amount of the combined shipping is determined based on the weight of the items you are purchasi... read more

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