WIKIPEDIA: Calvin and the Colonel was an animated cartoon television series in 1961 about Montgomery J.Klaxon, a shrewd fox and Calvin Burnside, a dumb bear. Their lawyer was Oliver Wendell Clutch, who was a weasel. the colonel lived with his wife Maggie Belle and her sister Sue-who did not trust the colonel at all. Colonel Klaxon was in the real estate business,but always tried get-rich-quick-schemes with Calvin's unwitting help.
The series was an animated remake of Amos 'n' Andy and featured the voices of Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll from the radio series. Using animals avoided the touchy racial sensitivenss which had led to "Amos 'n' Andy"'s downfall.
Due to low ratings, the show was canceled after two months, but returned two months later to complete the first season contract. For a year afterward reruns were seen on Saturday mornings. It was also adapted as a comic book by Dell Comics, and as such the first of two issues was the final installment in the company's extremely prolific (more than 1,300 issues published) Four Color anthology series.
