Larry Holmes Holmes vs. Cooney When did the fight take place? On June 11, 1982,
Who was considered the underdog?
Who was considered the underdog in the Holmes vs. Cooney fight?
On June 11, 1982, Holmes defended his title against Gerry Cooney, the undefeated #1 contender and an Irish-American. The lead-up to the fight had many racial overtones. Holmes said that if Cooney wasn't white, he would not be getting the same purse as the champion (both boxers received $10 million for the bout). Although Cooney tried to deflect questions about race, members of his camp wore shirts that said "Not the White Man, but the Right Man." In their fight previews, Sports Illustrated and Time put Cooney on the cover, not Holmes. President Ronald Reagan had a phone installed in Cooney's dressing room so he could call him if he won the fight. Holmes had no such arrangement. Lastly, boxing tradition dictates that the champion is introduced last, but the challenger, Cooney, was introduced last.  The bout was held in a 32,000-seat stadium erected in a Caesar's Palace Parking lot, with millions more watching around the world. After an uneventful first round, Holmes dropped Cooney with a right in the second. Cooney came back well in the next two rounds, jarring Holmes with his powerful left hook. Holmes later said that Cooney "hit me so damned hard, I felt it--boom--in my bones." Cooney was tiring by the ninth, a round in which he had two points deducted for low blows. In the tenth, they traded punches relentlessly. At the end of the round, the two nodded to each other in respect. Cooney lost another point because of low blows in the eleventh. By then, Holmes was landing with ease. In the thirteenth, a barrage of punches sent Cooney down. He got up, but his trainer, Victor Valle, stepped into the ring and stopped the fight.  After the fight, Holmes and Cooney became close friends. CANNOTANSWER
Holmes said that if Cooney wasn't white, he would not be getting the same purse as the champion
Larry Holmes (born November 3, 1949) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1973 to 2002. He grew up in Easton, Pennsylvania, which led to his boxing nickname of the "Easton Assassin".

Holmes, whose left jab is rated among the best in boxing history, held the WBC heavyweight title from 1978 to 1983, the Ring magazine and lineal heavyweight titles from 1980 to 1985, and the inaugural IBF heavyweight title from 1983 to 1985. Holmes is the only boxer to have defeated Muhammad Ali via stoppage and the only boxer left alive to have defeated him.

Holmes won his first 48 professional bouts, including victories over Ken Norton (the man he defeated in 1978 for WBC Championship), Muhammad Ali, Earnie Shavers, Mike Weaver, Gerry Cooney, Tim Witherspoon, Carl Williams and Marvis Frazier. He fell one short of matching Rocky Marciano's career record of 49–0 when he lost to Michael Spinks in an upset in 1985. Holmes retired after losing a rematch to Spinks the following year, but made repeated comebacks. He was unsuccessful in four further attempts (against Mike Tyson in 1988, Evander Holyfield in 1992, Oliver McCall in 1995 and Brian Nielsen in 1997) to regain the heavyweight title. Holmes fought for the final time in 2002, aged 52, against the 334lb Eric "Butterbean" Esch, and ended his career with a record of 69 wins and 6 losses, with all of his losses coming in world title fights. He is frequently ranked as one of the greatest heavyweights of all time and has been inducted into both the International Boxing Hall of Fame and World Boxing Hall of Fame.

Early life
Holmes was the fourth of twelve children born to John and Flossie Holmes. After the family moved to Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1954, Holmes's father went to Connecticut. He worked as a gardener there until his death in 1970. He visited his family every three weeks. "He didn't forsake us", said Flossie Holmes. "He just didn't have anything to give." The family survived on welfare. To help support his family, Holmes dropped out of school when he was in the seventh grade and went to work at a car wash for $1 an hour. He later drove a dump truck and worked in a quarry.

Amateur career
When Holmes was nineteen, he started boxing. In his twenty-first bout, he boxed Nick Wells in the semifinals of the 1972 National Olympic Trials in Fort Worth, Texas. Wells, a southpaw known for unprecedently high knockout-to-win percentage for an amateur boxer, with a majority of knockouts coming in the first round, stopped Holmes in the first round. Nevertheless, Holmes was chosen by a selection committee of the National Olympic authorities to fight at the Olympic Box-offs in West Point, New York, where he had a match-up versus a fighting seaman, Duane Bobick. Holmes was dropped in the first round with a right to the head. He got up and danced out of range, landing several stiff jabs in the process. Bobick mauled Holmes in the second round but could not corner him. The referee warned Holmes twice in the second for holding. In the third, Bobick landed several good rights and started to corner Holmes, who continued to hold. Eventually, Holmes was disqualified for excessive holding.

Professional career

Early years
After compiling an amateur record of 19–3, Holmes turned professional on March 21, 1973, winning a four-round decision against Rodell Dupree. Early in his career he worked as a sparring partner for Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Earnie Shavers, and Jimmy Young. He was paid well and learned a lot. "I was young, and I didn't know much. But I was holding my own sparring those guys", Holmes said. "I thought, 'hey, these guys are the best, the champs. If I can hold my own now, what about later?'"

Holmes first gained credibility as a contender when he upset the hard-punching Earnie Shavers in March 1978. Holmes won by a lopsided twelve-round unanimous decision, winning every round on two scorecards and all but one on the third. Holmes's victory over Shavers set up a title shot between Holmes and WBC Heavyweight Champion Ken Norton in Las Vegas on June 9, 1978.

WBC heavyweight champion: Holmes vs. Norton

The fight between Holmes and Norton was a tough, competitive fight. After fourteen rounds, each of the three judges scored the fight dead even at seven rounds each. Holmes rallied late in the fifteenth to win the round on two scorecards and take the title by a split decision.

In his first two title defenses, Holmes easily knocked out Alfredo Evangelista and Ossie Ocasio. His third title defense was a tough one. On June 22, 1979, Holmes faced future WBA Heavyweight Champion Mike Weaver, who was lightly regarded going into the fight sporting an uninspiring 19–8 record. After ten tough rounds, Holmes dropped Weaver with a right uppercut late in round eleven. In the twelfth, Holmes immediately went on the attack, backing Weaver into the ropes and pounding him with powerful rights until the referee stepped in and stopped it. "This man knocked the devil out of me", Holmes said. "This man might not have had credit before tonight, but you'll give it to him now."

Three months later, on September 28, 1979, Holmes had a rematch with Shavers, who got a title shot by knocking out Ken Norton in one round. Holmes dominated the first six rounds, but in the seventh, Shavers sent Holmes down with a devastating overhand right. Holmes got up, survived the round, and went on to punish Shavers in the eleventh round and the referee stopped the fight .

His next three defenses were knockouts of Lorenzo Zanon, Leroy Jones, and Scott LeDoux.

On October 2, 1980, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Holmes defended his title against Muhammad Ali, who was coming out of retirement in an attempt to become the first four-time World Heavyweight Champion. Holmes dominated the 38-year-old Ali from start to finish, winning every round on every scorecard. At the end of the tenth round, Ali's trainer, Angelo Dundee, stopped the fight. It was Ali's only loss without "going the distance" for a judges' decision. After the win, Holmes received recognition as World Heavyweight Champion by The Ring.

Ali blamed his poor performance on thyroid medication which he had been taking, saying that it helped him lose weight (he weighed 217½, his lowest weight since he fought George Foreman in 1974), but it also left him drained for the fight.

Holmes seemed to show signs of sadness in punishing Ali so much during the fight. He appeared in a post-fight interview with tears in his eyes. When asked why he was crying, he said that he respected Ali "a whole lot" and "he fought one of the baddest heavyweights in the world today, and you cannot take credit from him."

After eight consecutive knockouts, Holmes was forced to go the distance when he successfully defended his title against future WBC Heavyweight Champion Trevor Berbick on April 11, 1981. In his next fight, two months later, Holmes knocked out former Undisputed World Heavyweight Champion Leon Spinks in three rounds. On November 6, 1981, Holmes rose from a seventh-round knockdown (during which he staggered into the turnbuckle) to stop Renaldo Snipes in the eleventh.

Holmes vs. Cooney

On June 11, 1982, Holmes defended his title against Gerry Cooney, the undefeated #1 contender and an Irish-American. The lead-up to the fight had many racial overtones, with promoter Don King and others hyping Cooney as the "Great White Hope." Holmes said that if Cooney wasn't white, he would not be getting the same purse as the champion (both boxers received $10 million for the bout). Although Cooney tried to deflect questions about race, members of his camp wore shirts that said "Not the White Man, but the Right Man." In their fight previews, Sports Illustrated and Time put Cooney on the cover, not Holmes. President Ronald Reagan had a phone installed in Cooney's dressing room so he could call him if he won the fight. Holmes had no such arrangement. Lastly, boxing tradition dictates that the champion be introduced last, but the challenger, Cooney, was introduced last.

The bout was held in a 32,000-seat stadium erected in a Caesar's Palace Parking lot, with millions more watching around the world. After an uneventful first round, Holmes dropped Cooney with a right in the second. Cooney came back well in the next two rounds, jarring Holmes with his powerful left hook. Holmes later said that Cooney "hit me so damned hard, I felt it—boom—in my bones." Cooney was tiring by the ninth, a round in which he had two points deducted for low blows. In the tenth, they traded punches relentlessly. At the end of the round, the two nodded to each other in respect. Cooney lost another point because of low blows in the eleventh. By then, Holmes was landing with ease. In the thirteenth, a barrage of punches sent Cooney down. He got up, but his trainer, Victor Valle, stepped into the ring and stopped the fight.

After the fight, Holmes and Cooney became close friends.

Trouble with the WBC
Holmes's next two fights were one-sided decision wins over Randall "Tex" Cobb and  ex-European champion  Lucien Rodriguez. On May 20, 1983, Holmes defended his title against Tim Witherspoon, the future WBC and WBA  Heavyweight Champion. Witherspoon, a six to one underdog and with only 15 professional bouts to his name, surprised many by giving Holmes a difficult fight. After twelve rounds, Holmes retained the title by a disputed split decision.

On September 10, 1983, Holmes successfully defended the WBC title for the sixteenth time, knocking out Scott Frank in five rounds. Holmes then signed to fight Marvis Frazier, son of Joe Frazier, on November 25, 1983. The WBC refused to sanction the fight against the unranked Frazier. They ordered Holmes to fight Greg Page, the #1 contender, or be stripped of the title. Promoter Don King offered Holmes $2.55 million to fight Page, but the champion didn't think that was enough. He was making $3.1 million to fight Frazier and felt he should get as much as $5 million to fight Page.

Holmes had an easy time with Frazier, knocking him out in the first round. The following month, Holmes relinquished the WBC championship.

IBF heavyweight champion
Despite his no longer being recognized by the WBC as champion, Holmes was still regarded as the lineal champion as well as being recognized as world champion by The Ring. On December 11, 1983, the newly formed International Boxing Federation extended recognition to Holmes, and he accepted.

As 1984 began, Holmes and Gerrie Coetzee, the WBA champion, were signed to unify the titles on June 15, 1984 at Caesars Palace. The fight was being promoted by JPD Inc., but it was canceled when Caesars Palace said the promoters failed to meet the financial conditions of the contract. Holmes was promised $13 million and Coetzee was promised $8 million. Even after cutting the purses dramatically, they still couldn't come up with enough financial backing to stage the fight. Don King then planned to promote the fight, but Holmes lost a lawsuit filed by Virginia attorney Richard Hirschfeld, who said he had a contract with Holmes that gave him right of first refusal on a Holmes-Coetzee bout. Holmes then decided to move on and fight someone else.

On November 9, 1984, after a year out of the ring, Holmes made his first defense of the IBF title, stopping James "Bonecrusher" Smith on a cut in the twelfth round. In the first half of 1985, Holmes stopped David Bey in ten rounds for his 19th title defense. His next against Carl "The Truth" Williams was unexpectedly tough. The younger, quicker Williams was able to out-jab the aging champion, who was left with a badly swollen eye by the end of the bout. Holmes emerged with a close, and disputed, fifteen-round unanimous decision.

Holmes vs. Spinks
Holmes's next fight had the potential to make boxing history. He agreed to terms to fight Michael Spinks, the undisputed champion at light heavyweight, for his twentieth world title defense. A victory for Holmes would have tied Rocky Marciano's mark of 49 consecutive wins without a loss. Spinks, meanwhile, was looking to join Bob Fitzsimmons as the only other boxer at the time to win titles at both light heavyweight and heavyweight. In addition, if he defeated Holmes, Spinks would become the first ever reigning light heavyweight champion to win the heavyweight title.

Before the fight Archie Moore, the long-time light heavyweight champion who unsuccessfully challenged for the heavyweight crown himself twice, predicted an easy win for Holmes: "I'm afraid Larry will chew him up. Michael may be faster than Larry, but you can only go so fast." Despite the assessment, it indeed would be Spinks whose historical destiny would be fulfilled, as he defeated Holmes via unanimous decision to become the first reigning light heavyweight champion to win the heavyweight title. After the fight, a bitter Holmes said, "Rocky Marciano couldn't carry my jockstrap."

Holmes had a rematch with Spinks on April 19, 1986. Spinks retained the title with a disputed fifteen-round split decision. The judges scored the fight: Judge Joe Cortez 144–141 (Holmes), Judge Frank Brunette 141–144 (Spinks) and Judge Jerry Roth 142–144 (Spinks.) In a post-fight interview with HBO, Holmes said, "the judges, the referees and promoters can kiss me where the sun don't shine—and because we're on HBO, that's my big black behind."

On November 6, 1986, three days after his 37th birthday, Holmes announced his retirement.

Comebacks

On January 22, 1988, Holmes was lured out of retirement by a $2.8 million purse to challenge reigning Undisputed World Heavyweight Champion Mike Tyson. Tyson dropped Holmes in the fourth round with an overhand right. Holmes got up, but Tyson put him down two more times in the round, and the fight was stopped. It was the only time Holmes was knocked out in his career. After the fight, Holmes again retired.

Holmes returned to the ring in 1991 and became a much more active fighter, usually fighting on USA Tuesday Night Fights cards every few weeks against up and comers and journeymen. After five straight wins, he fought Ray Mercer, the undefeated 1988 Olympic Gold Medalist, on February 7, 1992. Holmes pulled off the upset and won by a 12-round unanimous decision. (Holmes later claimed that he fought Mercer in spite of having a detached retina.) The win got Holmes a shot at Evander Holyfield for the Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship. On June 19, 1992, Holyfield defeated Holmes by a twelve-round unanimous decision.

On April 8, 1995, he fought Oliver McCall for the WBC title. Holmes lost by a close 12-round unanimous decision. Two of the judges had him losing by one point, while the other judge had him losing by three points.

Holmes was back in the ring five months later, resuming the pace he had set since his comeback. However, he was growing tired of the sport and, after he fought and knocked out Anthony Willis in June 1996 on another USA boxing event, Holmes announced that unless he received a shot at the title, the fight against Willis was likely to be his last.

On January 24, 1997, Holmes got his last opportunity to fight for a heavyweight championship when he traveled to Copenhagen to fight undefeated International Boxing Organization champion Brian Nielsen. Nielsen won by a 12-round split decision to retain the title.

Holmes and George Foreman signed to fight on January 23, 1999 at the Houston Astrodome. Foreman called off the fight several weeks before it was to take place because the promoter failed to meet the deadline for paying him the remaining $9 million of his $10 million purse. Foreman received a nonrefundable $1 million deposit, and Holmes got to keep a $400,000 down-payment of his $4 million purse.

Holmes's next two fights were rematches with old foes. On June 18, 1999, he stopped "Bonecrusher" Smith in eight rounds, and on November 17, 2000, he stopped Mike Weaver in six.

Holmes's final fight was on July 27, 2002 in Norfolk, Virginia. He defeated Eric "Butterbean" Esch by a 10-round unanimous decision.

Life after boxing

Holmes invested the money he earned from boxing and settled in his hometown of Easton. When he retired from boxing, Holmes employed more than 200 people through his various business holdings. In 2008, he owned two restaurants and a nightclub, a training facility, an office complex, a snack food bar and slot machines. Holmes 

In 2014, Holmes sold his business complex in Easton to business entrepreneur Gerald Gorman, CEO of Lawyer.com.

In 2016, Holmes guest starred as himself in an episode of Mike Tyson Mysteries, titled "Unsolved Situations".

Personal life
In 1979, Larry Holmes married Diane Robinson, with whom he has had two children. He also has three daughters from two previous relationships. As of 2019, Holmes lived in Palmer Township, Pennsylvania, near Easton.

Holmes' younger brother, Mark Holmes, was a middleweight boxer from 1980 to 1987.

Honors
Holmes was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2008.

Professional boxing record

See also
List of heavyweight boxing champions
List of WBC world champions
List of IBF world champions
List of The Ring world champions

References

External links

Cyber Boxing Zone
Boxing Hall of Fame
Larry Holmes profile at About.com
Larry Holmes Q&A at BoxingInsider

1949 births
African-American boxers
International Boxing Federation champions
International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees
Living people
Sportspeople from Easton, Pennsylvania
World Boxing Council champions
World heavyweight boxing champions
Boxers from Pennsylvania
People from Cuthbert, Georgia
American male boxers
The Ring (magazine) champions
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American sportspeople
This is a list of the characters in the Underdog series.

Underdog
Underdog is an anthropomorphic dog, who is a superhero parody of Superman and similar heroes with secret identities. The premise was that "humble and lovable" Shoeshine Boy, a cartoon dog, was in truth the superhero Underdog. When villains threatened, Shoeshine Boy ducked into a telephone booth where he transformed into the caped and costumed hero, destroying the booth in the process when his superpowers were activated. In the live action film, he appeared as a beagle who became Jack Unger's pet. In 2008, he appeared in a Super Bowl advertisement for Coca-Cola.

Underdog is voiced by Wally Cox in the television cartoon. In the film adaptation, he is voiced by Jason Lee and portrayed onscreen by a lemon beagle named Leo sporting a red sweater and a blue cape.

Allies

Sweet Polly Purebred
Sweet Polly Purebred is a female anthropomorphic dog TV news reporter and Underdog's love interest; she serves as the damsel in distress of most episodes. When being pursued by an antagonist, Polly is apt to start singing, "Oh where, oh where has my Underdog gone? Oh where, oh where can he be?", in a whiny voice, hoping for the object of her affections to come and rescue her. Polly's face is slightly similar to that of Underdog's, with a large muzzle and nose, she wears her platinum blonde hair styled in a pageboy, and her wardrobe consists of a black skirt, white shirt, red sweater, and black high-heels. In a few episodes it is hinted that Polly shows her love for Underdog. For example, in the episode "March of the Monsters", she is caught by a robot and calls for Underdog. He then saves Polly, but after Underdog uses his supersonic hi-fi voice and breaks all the glass, the townspeople complain about his voice. However, Polly defends the hero and tells the people that they should thank him for saving everyone from the robots. She then goes to reward Underdog with a big kiss, but the hero backs away and flies off. Also, in the episode "The Vacuum Gun", when Polly is caught by Simon Bar Sinister's vacuum gun, she calls for Underdog and her song annoys Simon. Later in the episode, she retrieves Underdog's ring.

In the live-action film, Polly is a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel owned by a girl named Molly, a classmate of Underdog/Shoeshine's owner, Jack. She is based upon Superman's romantic interest Lois Lane.

In the 1976 Western Comics Underdog #7, it is revealed that Sweet Polly has a young nephew named Wilbur.

She was voiced by Norma MacMillan in the cartoon and voiced by Amy Adams in the live-action film.

Dan Unger
Appearances: Movie

Dan Unger is Jack's father. He was once a police officer, but quit the force after his wife died and worked as a security guard at the scientific institute where Simon Bar Sinister hid out after hours. Using Underdog's stolen collar, Simon and Cad were able to determine where he lived and captured him in order to lure Jack and Underdog to them. After Simon Bar Sinister fed an antidote pill to Underdog and left to forcefully negotiate with the Mayor, Dan learned that Shoeshine was Underdog. After Underdog freed the Mayor, Dan was reinstated and promoted by the Mayor and helped Underdog arrest Simon while Underdog buried a bomb Cad placed on the roof. Dan was later seen placing Simon into solitary confinement where Cad was also held.

In the movie, he is portrayed by James Belushi.

General Brainley
Appearances: Weathering the Storm

General Brainley is in charge of the moon launch at Cape Canaveral. When he was about to send a pair of astronauts and Sweet Polly to the moon, Simon Bar Sinister and Cad Lackey hijacked the spaceship and held Sweet Polly prisoner so they could use the Weather Machine against Earth. When anything goes awry, he deems the problem an outrage.

He is voiced by Allen Swift.

Jack Unger
Appearances: Movie

Jack Unger is Underdog's human companion. He is a teenager and Dan Unger's son. His mother has died some time ago. Although Dan is very understanding, Jack's relationship with him is not very smooth. When Dan brings him the dog Shoeshine which he found in the street, Jack at first does not want him. When the dog talks to him, he is understandably upset and wonders whether he is going crazy. However, soon he decides he wants to keep him.

After Shoeshine defends Molly (Jack's classmate and the teenage female owner of the female dog he fancies) against robbers, Jack convinces him to use his powers to fight more evil, arguing that one cannot always just do what one likes. They decide that for his superhero actions Shoeshine takes on the secret identity of "Underdog", using Dan's college sweater, which has a big U on it, as his hero attire.

Jack is played by Alex Neuberger.

O.J. Skweez
Appearances: Fearo, The Gold Bricks, The Phoney Booths, RiffRaffville, The Vacuum Gun

O.J. Skweez is the owner of the TTV (Total Television) building and is Sweet Polly's employer.

He is voiced by Mort Marshall.

Professor Moby Von Ahab
Appearances: The Bubbleheads

Professor Moby Von Ahab is one of the world's leading scientists who helped Sweet Polly investigate what was happening beneath the sea when the Bubblehead Empire planned to conquer the surface world. His name is a take-off on both Moby-Dick and Captain Ahab.

He is voiced by Allen Swift.

Officer Flim Flanigan
Appearances: A New Villain, Batty-Man 

Officer Flim Flanigan previously appeared frequently on the King Leonardo and His Short Subjects segment "The Hunter". He was included as the chief of police during later episodes.

Villains

Simon Bar Sinister
Appearances: Simon Says, Go Snow, Zot, The Big Shrink, Weathering The Storm, The Phoney Booths, The Forget-Me-Net, Simon Says "No Thanksgiving", The Tickle Feather Machine, The Big Dipper, Simon Says "Be My Valentine", The Vacuum Gun, movie

Simon Bar Sinister is a mad scientist. He is the wickedest man in the world who precedes all his commands with “Simon Says” and has an assistant named Cad Lackey. A "bend sinister", sometimes, inaccurately, called a "bar sinister", is a diagonal line in heraldry that can indicate that the bearer is a bastard by birth. At the same time, for ancient Jews "bar" meant "son of."  In fact, in scripture, "Simon bar Jonah" became the Apostle Peter.  It was Simon's ambition to rule the world, but each time, Underdog defeated him.

He was voiced by Allen Swift impersonating Lionel Barrymore in the cartoon. In the movie, he is portrayed by Peter Dinklage.

Cad Lackey
Appearances: Go Snow, The Big Shrink, Weathering The Storm, The Phoney Booths, The Forget-Me-Net, Simon Says "No Thanksgiving", The Tickle Feather Machine, The Big Dipper, Simon Says "Be My Valentine", The Vacuum Gun, movie

Cad Lackey was Simon's henchman, who, though generally dull-witted, was occasionally capable of pointing out flaws in his boss's plans. Contrary to the mad scientist stereotype, Simon actually paid good attention to Cad's suggestions in these episodes.

In the live-action film, he was portrayed as more intelligent and level-headed. He was Simon's partner and the security guard of a building where Simon hid out after hours.

He is voiced by Ben Stone impersonating Humphrey Bogart in the cartoon. In the movie, he is portrayed by Patrick Warburton.

Riff Raff
Appearances: The Great Gold Robbery, Fearo, From Hopeless to Helpless, The Gold Bricks, Pain Strikes Underdog, Whistler's Father, RiffRaffville, Just In Case, The Vacuum Gun, movie

Riff Raff is an anthropomorphic wolf gangster. He leads an unnamed gang that often carry out various crime waves until they are stopped by Underdog. In "The Vacuum Gun," Riff Raff and his gang were among the criminals that were recruited by Simon Bar Sinister.

In the film, Riff Raff is portrayed as a Rottweiler. When he meets Shoeshine, he and his dog henchmen chase him around an alley in an attempt to eat him until he is found by Dan Unger, when they run away. They meet again with Polly (whom Riff Raff tries to flirt with) on the sidewalk. Around the end of the film, Shoeshine barks at Riff Raff enough to remove some of his fur and he and his henchmen run away again for the last time. In contrast to his role as a major villain on the series, Riff Raff is portrayed as more of a comic relief minor villain.

Riff Raff is voiced by Allen Swift impersonating George Raft in the cartoon. In the film, Riff Raff was voiced by Brad Garrett.

Riff Raff's gang
In addition to some unnamed members, the following are members of Riff Raff's gang:

Dinah Mite 
Appearances: Whistler's Father

Dinah Mite is one of the criminals Riff Raff summoned in the episode "Whistler's Father". She is the best bomb-tosser in the crime business.

Mooch 
Appearances: The Great Gold Robbery, Fearo, From Hopeless to Helpless, Pain Strikes Underdog, Whistler's Father, RiffRaffville, The Vacuum Gun

Mooch is the top gunman in Riff Raff's gang and is Riff Raff's right-hand man.

He is modeled after Walter Matthau and voiced by George S. Irving.

Nails the Carpenter 
Appearances: Just in Case

Nails the Carpenter is one of the new members of Riff Raff's gang. He rebuilt the sunken ship of Captain Kidd as part of Riff Raff's ghost ship plot.

Needles the Tailor 
Appearances: Just In Case

Needles the Tailor is one of the new members of Riff Raff's gang. He sewed a sail as part of Riff Raff's ghost ship plot.

Sandy the Safecracker 
Appearances: Whistler's Father, Riffraffville, The Vacuum Gun

Sandy the Safecracker is the best at breaking banks. He just opens safes with his fingers.

Smitty the Blacksmith 
Appearances: Just In Case

Smitty the Blacksmith is one of the new members of Riff Raff's gang. He hammered out an anchor as part of Riff Raff's ghost ship plot.

Voiced by George S. Irving.

Spinny Wheels 
Appearances: Whistler's Father, Riffraffville, The Vacuum Gun

Spinny Wheels is the best getaway car driver in the crime business.

Witch Doctor 
Appearances: Just In Case

The Witch Doctor is one of the new members of Riff Raff's gang. He was the disguised prisoner who went with Riff Raff during the prison break. When asked by Nails, Needles, and Smitty why they should bring him along during the prison break and give him a share of the loot, Riff Raff kept telling them "Just In Case". When Sweet Polly Purebred ends up captured during her infiltration, Riff Raff reveals the disguised prisoner to be a Witch Doctor. When Underdog arrives, the Witch Doctor puts Underdog under a voodoo spell which was instantly broken by Underdog taking his Super Energy Pill.

Voiced by George S. Irving.

Other villains

Batty-Man
Appearances: Batty-Man, The Vacuum Gun

Batty-Man (voiced by Allen Swift) is a vampire villain who commands a massive army of giant bats and lives in Belfrey Castle.

In "Batty-Man", he and his batty army have caused a crime wave nationwide. Underdog, the police, and everyone in the country were baffled because of these crime waves. The crime wave was arranged to make Underdog powerless enough so Batty-Man cannot be stopped from pulling the crime of the century. Soon, Underdog found out Batty-Man was the crook behind the crime wave after Sweet Polly was taken captive. Underdog had to rescue her and defeat Batty-Man, but he failed and was captured. Batty-Man later planned to steal all the gold in Fort Knox and use it to go to Europe by turning the gold into bowling balls. Underdog and Polly escaped before they could get turned into bowling balls and defeated Batty-Man. Everything was then returned to its rightful owners.

Batty-Man was later freed from prison by Simon Bar Sinister. He, along with Riff Raff and the Electric Eel were enlisted to help Simon with his Vacuum Gun plan which Underdog later stopped.

In the 1987 Spotlight Comics Underdog #2, Batty-Man was at home watching the news when he noticed Sweet Polly. He instantly fell in love with Sweet Polly and ordered his right-hand man Georgie and his bat minions to kidnap Sweet Polly and bring her over to his castle in order to woo her. But Sweet Polly did not return his feelings and Batty-Man ordered Georgie to take her down to the catacombs. Shoeshine heard Polly's cries for help and changed into Underdog to rescue her. After Polly was rescued, Batty-Man said to her that "their love was never meant to be."

Georgie
Georgie (voiced by George S. Irving) is Batty-Man's assistant.

The Bubblehead Empire
Appearances: The Bubbleheads

The Bubblehead Empire is a society of people who all wear air helmets and live under the sea, in the city of Maldemare (the name being a take-off on the French phrase mal de mer, meaning “seasickness”). They command sea creatures to do their bidding and deal with their prisoners by feeding them to a giant clam. The city is ruled by the Bubblehead Emperor who in turn was ruled by the Bubblehead Empress.

The Bubblehead Empress was tired of living under the sea, so she wanted to take over the dry land. The Bubblehead scientists worked to destroy the land, using earthquakes and volcanoes, but those two evil plans were foiled by Underdog. As a result, the two scientists were fed to the Giant Clam. The third evil plot was to use a machine creating a tidal wave powerful enough to destroy the Earth. Soon, everybody around the world was aware that something peculiar was happening to the ocean. Sweet Polly Purebred, with the aid from one of the world's leading scientists Professor Moby Von Ahab (the name being a take-off on both Captain Ahab and Moby Dick), investigated what was happening under the sea, but were eventually captured and tossed into the giant clam. Underdog got word that his friends were held captive, rescued Sweet Polly and the Professor and destroyed the tidal wave machine.

Irving and Ralph
Appearances: Zot

Irving and Ralph are a two-headed dragon that are known as the legendary enemies of the planet Zot. For every task they do, they do it with teamwork as noted by the quote "Teamwork! Teamwork! That's what counts!". When they attacked while Underdog was to forcibly wed Glissando, Princess of Zot, Underdog easily defeated them and they promised never to bother Zot's inhabitants again. Upon their defeat, Underdog was allowed to return home to Earth, knowing that he had helped Glissando find her future husband: Zot's Prime Minister.

The Magnet Men
Appearances: The Magnet Men, The Flying Sorcerers

The Magnet Men are evil robots from another planet. The Magnet Men feed on metal. They demanded that the Earth give them all of its metal. When the Earth refuses, the Magnet Men use their Great Gravity Gun to pull the Earth towards them. As the Earth moves away from the Sun, the planet plunges into a deep freeze. Underdog defeats the Magnet Men, destroys the Great Gravity Gun, and puts the Earth back in its correct position in space.

In "The Flying Sorcerers," one Magnet Man was abducted by Prince Bric and Prince Brac to make a cake for their father King Cup. Unfortunately, all cakes the Magnet Men make are made of metal.

The Marbleheads
Appearances: The Marbleheads

The Marbleheads are people made of marble. Captain Marblehead (voiced by Allen Swift) is the dictator of their planet. Captain Marblehead holds their most powerful weapon, the Granite Gun, that could turn anyone into solid stone and used it on Underdog, but to Marblehead's shock he breaks free. Underdog defeats the Marbleheads and the Granite Gun and frees all the slaves.

The Molemen
Appearances: The Molemen

The Molemen are an evil society of giant moles who live underground, led by the evil King Mange (voiced by Allen Swift). They plan to conquer the world by stealing all the food in the world, thus making everyone weak, sluggish and without energy. With this advantage, the Molemen and their ants would have no problem conquering the world.

As Sweet Polly was investigating the thefts, she was captured by King Mange and Underdog was called to rescue her, but he succumbed to the Mole-Hole Gun, the Molemen's secret weapon. Afterwards, he was captured. King Mange threatened to destroy Sweet Polly if Underdog did not do what Mange said. Underdog got Sweet Polly free and soon had the answer to everyone's energy problems. He filled every water reservoir in the world with his Super Energy Pills, filling the water with tremendous energy. Soon afterward, the citizens had enough energy to escape the Molemen's attack and the Army had the strength to fight. King Mange was eventually defeated and arrested.

Overcat
Appearances: Underdog vs. Overcat

Overcat (voiced by Allen Swift) is a giant anthropomorphic cat who was once the infamous ruler of the planet Felina. He is a bully, very arrogant and also has all of Underdog's powers.

One day on Felina, the milk wells ran dry, so Overcat stole the cows from the Earth, kidnapped Sweet Polly Purebred and forced her to milk the cows so the giant cats of Felina can have a lifetime supply of milk. After Underdog rescued Polly and the cows, Overcat challenged Underdog to a winner-take-all fight. Unless Underdog fought Overcat, the giant cats of Felina would destroy the Earth. As Underdog fought Overcat, it appeared Overcat had the upper-hand, but due to Overcat's size and lack of speed, Underdog came out the victor. Underdog promised the giant cats of Felina to give them milk growing from coconut trees if the giant cats banished Overcat from Felina and let the other worlds live as they pleased. Underdog carried out the promise and all the cats were happy, because with the coconut trees, the cats will not run out of milk. After being banished from Felina, Overcat swore he would find another planet to conquer, train harder to become stronger and one day return to Earth to wipe out Underdog.

Slippery Eel (a.k.a. The Electric Eel)
Appearances: A New Villain, The Vacuum Gun

Slippery Eel is one of the world's most dangerous criminals. He got the name The Electric Eel after he was electrified by the gates of the prison's electric fence while he was trying to escape. After being electrified, he gained the power to control electricity.

Electric Eel was the only villain who ever actually defeated Underdog, using his electrical powers and apparently killing Underdog. However, before he "died", Underdog requested that he not be thrown into the lake. Eel, being the villain that he was, naturally decided to throw Underdog into the lake – which drained the electricity from Underdog's body and restored him to "life", whereupon he polished off Eel and his gang. Eel was then confined in a glass prison cell.

In "The Vacuum Gun," Electric Eel and his gang were recruited by Simon Bar Sinister when he found Eel's sewer hideout.

Tap Tap the Chiseler
Appearances: From Hopeless to Helpless, Tricky Trap by Tap Tap 

Tap Tap the Chiseler is a criminal that chisels jewelry, making them into smaller pieces of jewelry. He bears an amazing resemblance to Underdog, and Tap Tap can use this advantage to impersonate Underdog. However, unlike Underdog, he does not speak in rhyme. He also seems to be close friends with Riff Raff. He is voiced by George S. Irving.

In "From Hopeless to Helpless", after Riff Raff stole the Hopeless Diamond, Tap Tap was hired to help cut it into little pieces so that Riff Raff could sell it and impersonate Underdog in order to commit crimes all over town. Everyone, including Sweet Polly (this is the only episode in the series where even she begin to doubt about Underdog, due to her being fooled by Tap Tap and mistaking him for Underdog after he snatched her purse), thought Underdog had turned to crime and he was sent to jail, much to Underdog's shock. Tap Tap pulled off the crimes so excellently that even Underdog (thanks to Sweet Polly's biased lecturing) was convinced he was guilty, believing that he had sleepwalked when the crimes were committed. However, Riff Raff needed Underdog to break the Hopeless Diamond into a million pieces after Tap Tap had failed to cut it, so they broke Underdog out of jail and told Underdog that Tap Tap had imitated him and framed him for the crimes all over town. Now knowing that Tap Tap had been responsible for the crimes that were supposedly committed by him, Underdog pretended to really turn to crime in order to fool the gang. When he finally retrieved the Hopeless Diamond from Riff Raff, Mooch and Tap Tap, he apprehended them and explained to the townspeople, including Sweet Polly, how Tap Tap had imitated him and framed him for the crimes. The townspeople, including Sweet Polly apologized to Underdog for the misunderstanding and falsely accusing him, and prior to the episode "Tricky Trap by Tap Tap", Tap Tap was sent to prison.

At that point, Tap Tap once again disguised himself as Underdog again and broke out of jail on the same day Underdog was visiting the prison. Part of his plan was to first purchase a bomb from a bomb factory and borrow a policeman's handcuffs. He used the handcuffs to cuff himself to Sweet Polly and threatened to use the bomb to blow himself and Sweet Polly to bits if Underdog did not do what he said. Underdog stopped him by melting the handcuffs with his cosmic vision, then tackling Tap Tap, accidentally detonating the bomb in the process. Underdog was, of course, unharmed, while Tap Tap was left singed and dazed.

Wicked Witch of Pickyoon
Appearances: The Witch of Pickyoon

The Wicked Witch of Pickyoon is an evil witch who rules over the strange land of the Pickyoons and has enslaved all who inhabit the land. She lives in a castle in the mountains of Pickyoon.

She wishes to be the most powerful being in all of Pickyoon and she was-that is, until Underdog came along. She planned to capture Sweet Polly and put Underdog in her power. She put a spell on Sweet Polly, causing her to fall asleep for 1,000 years. The Witch was the only one who knew how to break the spell (although, everybody knows the only way to break a spell is as if the hero kisses someone under the spell). If she was going to tell Underdog how to undo the spell, he had to perform three tasks: steal water, steal diamonds and help her assemble an army to conquer the world. Unless Underdog helped the Witch with those tasks, she would not break the spell that had been cast on Sweet Polly. Underdog refused to accomplish the tasks, for it would make him as wicked as the Witch. But every time Underdog refused to do the tasks, the Witch reminded him that Polly would sleep for 1,000 years unless he did what she said. Underdog struck water by burrowing through the underground depths of Pickyoon and made diamonds out of coal. Soon, all that was left was to help the Witch conquer the world. When Underdog refused to perform the final task, he eventually got into a fight with the Witch. After the fight, the Witch disappeared forever after Underdog destroyed her broom. Afterwards, Underdog awakened Polly with a kiss and the people of Pickyoon were freed from the Witch's power.

Zorm
Appearances: Round and Round

Zorm is the ruler of a strange planet. He plans to take over the world, but in order to do that, he needs to keep Underdog from interfering. He sent Cron to Earth. Cron put a charm around Underdog's neck, causing him to fall under his dizzy spell when he is standing up. But when Underdog sits down, he feels perfectly fine. Underdog eventually got the charm off of him and foiled Zorm's plan.

Cron
Appearances: Round and Round

Cron is Zorm's henchman.

Reformed villains
The following villains gave up their evil plans after being thwarted by Underdog:

The Cloud Men
Appearances: The Silver Thieves

The Cloud Men are a race of ghost-like creatures. They live on the Planet Cumulus and are led by King Cumulus Regulus (voiced by Allen Swift). When people "interfere with them" by "attacking them", they lightning jolt them by shooting out electric bolts from their fingers that turn them into silver statues. They steal all the silver on Earth, including Underdog's ring, because everything they have is made of gold and "every Cloud Man must have a silver lining". When Underdog and Sweet Polly head for a conveyor belt, Underdog finds his ring and takes his Underdog Super Energy Pill, then defeats the Cloud Men. In the end, the Cloud Men trade gold for silver with the Earth.

The Flying Sorcerers
Appearances: The Flying Sorcerers

The Flying Sorcerers are a strange alien race led by King Cup (voiced by Allen Swift).

King Cup sent his twin sons Prince Bric and Prince Brac to find someone who can bake a cake for his people after the old royal baker was fired for his cake not being good. The first two baking slaves they found upon King Cup firing a dart at three possible planets were a Magnet Man and an inhabitant of Zot, but they could not bake a cake that tasted like cake (the Magnet Man's cake was made of metal and the Zot's cake didn't taste good) and were imprisoned. Then they made Sweet Polly their new baking slave. Before Underdog could rescue her, Bric and Brac transformed him into a bouncing ball. Sweet Polly was forced to bake 500 cakes for the Flying Sorcerers, but her weariness from baking the cakes made her fall into the giant mixing bowl she was using to make the cakes. Underdog freed himself from Bric and Brac's spell and defeated the Flying Sorcerers. At first, King Cup was upset that Underdog was taking his baking slave home, but after vowing he would not abuse others again, he received one of Sweet Polly's cake recipes so that he could make cakes for his people.

Other characters

Helen Patterson
Appearances: Film

Helen Patterson is the Principal of Molly and Jack's school.

She is portrayed by Samantha Bee.

References

Underdog Underdog is an American Saturday morning animated television series that ran from October 3, 1964, to March 4, 1967 starting on the NBC network until 1966, with the rest of the run on CBS, under the primary sponsorship of General Mills, for a run of 62 episodes. It is one of the early Saturday morning cartoons. The show continued in syndication until 1973.

Underdog, Shoeshine Boy's heroic alter ego, appears whenever love interest Sweet Polly Purebred is being victimized by such villains as Simon Bar Sinister or Riff Raff. Underdog nearly always speaks in rhyming couplets, as in "There's no need to fear, Underdog is here!" His voice was supplied by Wally Cox.

History
In 1959, handling the General Mills account as an account executive with the Dancer Fitzgerald Sample advertising agency in New York, W. Watts Biggers teamed with Chet Stover, Treadwell D. Covington, and artist Joe Harris in the creation of television cartoon shows to sell breakfast cereals for General Mills. The shows introduced such characters as King Leonardo, Tennessee Tuxedo, and Underdog. Biggers and Stover contributed both scripts and songs to the series. When Underdog became a success, Biggers and his partners left Dancer Fitzgerald Sample to form their own company, Total Television, with animation produced at Gamma Studios in Mexico. In 1969, Total Television folded when General Mills dropped out as the primary sponsor (but continued to retain the rights to the series until 1995 and TV distribution rights, through NBCUniversal Television Distribution), to the present day).

Abroad and in syndication
The syndicated version of The Underdog Show consists of 62 half-hour episodes.  The supporting segments differ from the show's original network run.  The first 26 syndicated episodes feature Tennessee Tuxedo as a supporting segment.  (Tennessee Tuxedo originally aired as a separate show and also has its own syndicated adaptation.)  Thereafter, for most of the balance of the package, the middle segments include Go Go Gophers and Klondike Kat for three consecutive half-hours and Tennessee Tuxedo in the fourth.  Commander McBragg is featured in the majority of episodes, replaced by three segments of The Sing-A-Long Family (in shows one-three, 28–30, and 55–57).  The final two syndicated Underdog half-hours feature two one-shot cartoons that were originally part of an unsold pilot for a projected 1966 series, The Champion (Cauliflower Cabbie and Gene Hattree), with Commander McBragg appearing in show 61 and Go Go Gophers in show 62.

The syndicated series, as shown in the United States, is a potpourri of segments from previously aired versions of the show. Prior to a 1994 remaster, each episode included a "teaser" at the top of the show, asking viewers to stay tuned for a clip from "today's four-part story." (This originates from a 1969–1973 NBC Saturday morning rerun version of the show.) However, never more than two parts of the Underdog stories were ever shown in any half-hour program. Prints of such would either be followed by a closing and credits or no credits at all. The closing (which showed the first portion of a variation of the Underdog theme showing a giant terrorizing the city with George S. Irving, the series narrator, saying, "Looks like this is the end! But don't miss our next Underdog Show!" in place of the theme music) followed by the end credits (re-edited from the cast credits for Underdog and Tennessee Tuxedo), originated from a 1965 repackaged syndicated series, Cartoon Cut-Ups, which originally featured Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo, and Commander McBragg.

For many years starting with NBC's last run in the mid-1970s, all references to Underdog swallowing his Super Energy Pill were censored, most likely out of fear that kids would see medication that looked like the Underdog pills (red with a white "U" on them) and swallow them.  Two instances that did not actually show Underdog swallowing the pills remained in the show. In one, he drops pills into water supplies; in the other, his ring is damaged and he explains that it is where he keeps the pill—but the part where he actually swallows it was still deleted.

Most stories had multiple parts, but the first four were stand-alones:
 "Safe Waif", the pilot, featured a rescue from a bank vault, but no villain. Underdog is shown causing major destruction while trying to help people.
 "March of the Monsters", the first appearance of Sweet Polly Purebred, has giant robots running amok.
 "Simon Says" is the first appearance of Simon Bar Sinister. "Simon says HOLD IT!" is the maniacal refrain, as Bar Sinister uses a weird camera to turn his victims into full-sized, two-dimensional photographs.
 "Tricky Trap by Tap Tap" is the epilogue to the multi-part story "From Hopeless to Helpless" featuring Riff Raff.

Reruns of the show aired on Nickelodeon from 1992 to 1994, Cartoon Network from 1996 to 1999, and on Boomerang from 2002 to 2007.

In 1995, Biggers, Stover, Covington, and Harris (with General Mills) negotiated a sale of their creations to Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video, who later sold the rights to Golden Books. When Classic Media took over Golden Books, it acquired the underlying rights to Underdog. In 2012, Classic Media was sold to DreamWorks Animation, and ultimately became the property of the series' current owners, Universal Television.   TV Guide ranked Underdog  as number 23 on its "50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time" list, IGN ranked it as number 74 on its Best 100 Animated Series list.

Characters

Underdog was an anthropomorphic dog superhero. The premise was that "humble and lovable" Shoeshine Boy was in truth the superhero Underdog. George S. Irving narrated and comedy actor Wally Cox provided the voices of both Underdog and Shoeshine Boy. When villains threatened, Shoeshine Boy ducked into a telephone booth, where he transformed into the caped and costumed hero, destroying the booth in the process when his superpowers were activated. Underdog almost always spoke in rhyme:

"When Polly's in trouble (or When help is needed), I am not slow,
It's hip-hip-hip and AWAY I GO!"

Underdog's most frequent saying when he appeared was:

"There's no need to fear—
Underdog is here!"

The majority of episodes used a common template as the final scene. A crowd of people looking up into the sky would say, "Look in the sky!" "It's a plane!" "It's a bird!" After this, a woman wearing glasses would exclaim, "It's a frog!" Another onlooker would respond, "A frog?" To this, Underdog replied with these words:

"Not plane, nor bird, nor even frog,
It's just little old me ... [at this point, Underdog would crash into something, then sheepishly finish] "Heh-heh-heh. Underdog."

Underdog usually caused collateral damage. Whenever someone complained about the damage, Underdog replied:

"I am a hero who never fails;
I cannot be bothered with such details."

The villains almost always managed to menace Sweet Polly Purebred (voiced by Norma MacMillan), an anthropomorphic canine TV reporter, as part of their nefarious schemes; she was a helpless damsel in distress most of the time and had a habit of singing, "Oh, where, oh, where has my Underdog gone? Oh, where, oh, where can he be?" She would sing this to the music of the song "Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone" whenever in jeopardy. Recurring villains included:
 Simon Bar Sinister, voiced by Allen Swift, is a mad scientist with a voice reminiscent of Lionel Barrymore. He is the wickedest man in the world and has an assistant named Cad Lackey. A bar sinister is a diagonal line, running from top right to bottom left on medieval family coats of arms, a symbol that indicates the person is a bastard by birth; this was an inside joke typical of animation writing at the time.
 Riff Raff, also voiced by Allen Swift, is an anthropomorphic wolf gangster based on noted actor George Raft. His right-hand man is Mooch, while other gang members (seen in one episode each) include Sandy the Safecracker, Spinny Wheels (who drives the gang's getaway car), Dinah Mite (the underworld's greatest bomb tosser), Nails the Carpenter, Needles the Tailor, Smitty the Blacksmith, and the Witch Doctor.

Other villains included The Electric Eel (a.k.a. Slippery Eel), Battyman, Tap Tap the Chisler (an evil look-alike of Underdog who does not speak in rhyme), and Overcat. Underdog also regularly faced enemies from alien worlds, such as the Marbleheads from the planet Granite, the Magnet Men of the Magnet Planet, the aliens from the planet Zot, and the Flying Sorcerers of the Saucer Planet.

The majority of the Underdog adventures were presented in the form of four-part serial episodes. Other cartoons, including Go Go Gophers and The Hunter, filled the middle segments. A 1969–1973 NBC run featured all four parts of an Underdog storyline in one half-hour show. The series was first syndicated in the U.S. in the mid-1960s under the title Cartoon Cut-Ups, which presented two Underdog segments along with Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales and The World of Commander McBragg. This package was revised in the 1970s under the Underdog Show title, now including all 124 Underdog segments and featuring Tennessee Tuxedo, Commander McBragg, Go Go Gophers, and Klondike Kat in various episodes. A syndicated package prepared for distribution outside the United States (which also aired on the Boomerang cable network) usually featured two brief Underdog episodes in a single show along with a wider variety of other Total TV cartoon shorts which appeared  between such segments: Go Go Gophers, The King and Odie, Klondike Kat, Tennessee Tuxedo, The Hunter, Tooter Turtle, and Commander McBragg.

On these interstitial cartoons,  Tennessee Tuxedo, a penguin, was accompanied by two friends, slow-witted walrus Chumley and Professor Phineas J. Whoopie, "the Man With All The Answers". Tennessee Tuxedo was voiced by Don Adams of Get Smart (and later Inspector Gadget) fame; the knowledgeable Professor Phineas J. Whoopee was voiced by Larry Storch of F Troop fame. With the possible exception of Tennessee Tuxedo, none of these characters ever reached Underdog's level of popularity.

Episodes
Episode 301
 Underdog #1 (Episode 1: Safe Waif) (pilot cartoon; no on-screen title shown) Tennessee Tuxedo #2 (The Rain Makers) (902, 972)
 The Sing-A-Long Family #1 (Picnic) (Sing-A-Long Family cartoon titles are unofficial and do not appear on screen) (also appears in syndicated shows #328, 355)
 Underdog #2 (Episode 2: The March Of The Monsters)Episode 302
 Underdog #3 (Episode 3: Simon Says) Tennessee Tuxedo #4 (Telephone Terrors or Dial M For Mayhem) (904, 974)
 The Sing-A-Long Family #2 (Skating) (also appears in syndicated shows #329, 356)
 Underdog #32 (Episode 4: Tricky Trap By Tap Tap) (Note: Tricky Trap By Tap Tap is the epilogue of the four-episode serial From Hopeless To Helpless, which is featured later in the series in shows #315 and #316.)

Episode 303
 Underdog #4 (Go Snow: Episode 1) Tennessee Tuxedo #5 (Giant Clam) (not The Giant Clam Caper) (905, 975)
 The Sing-A-Long Family #3 (Fair) (also appears in syndicated shows #330, 357)
 Underdog #5 (Go Snow: Episode 2)Episode 304
 Underdog #6 (Go Snow: Episode 3) Tennessee Tuxedo #6 (Tick Tock) (906, 976)
 Commander McBragg #4 (The North Pole) Underdog #7 (Go Snow: Episode 4)Episode 305
 Underdog #8 (Zot: Episode 1) Tennessee Tuxedo #7 (Scuttled Sculptor) (907, 977)
 Commander McBragg #5 (Khyber Pass) Underdog #9 (Zot: Episode 2)Episode 306
 Underdog #10 (Zot: Episode 3) Tennessee Tuxedo #8 (Snap That Picture!) (908, 978)
 Commander McBragg #6 (Ace Of Aces) Underdog #11 (Zot: Episode 4)Episode 307
 Underdog #12 (The Great Gold Robbery: Episode 1) Tennessee Tuxedo #9 (Zoo's News) (909, 979)
 Commander McBragg #7 (Niagara Falls) Underdog #13 (The Great Gold Robbery: Episode 2)Episode 308
 Underdog #14 (The Great Gold Robbery: Episode 3) Tennessee Tuxedo #10 (Aztec Antics) (910, 980)
 Commander McBragg #8 (Dodge City Dodge) Underdog #15 (The Great Gold Robbery: Episode 4)Episode 309
 Underdog #16 (Fearo: Episode 1) Tennessee Tuxedo #11 (Coal Minors) (not Coat Minors) (911, 981)
 Commander McBragg #9 (Football By Tex Hex) Underdog #17 (Fearo: Episode 2)Episode 310
 Underdog #18 (Fearo: Episode 3) Tennessee Tuxedo #12 (Hot Air Heroes) (912, 982)
 Commander McBragg #10 (Rabelasia) Underdog #19 (Fearo: Episode 4)Episode 311
 Underdog #20 (The Big Shrink: Episode 1) (not Shrinking Water)
 Tennessee Tuxedo #13 (Irrigation Irritation) (913, 983)
 Commander McBragg #11 (Okefenokee Swamp) Underdog #21 (The Big Shrink: Episode 2)Episode 312
 Underdog #22 (The Big Shrink: Episode 3) Tennessee Tuxedo #14 (TV Testers) (914, 984)
 Commander McBragg #12 (The Flying Machine) Underdog #23 (The Big Shrink: Episode 4)Episode 313
 Underdog #24 (The Bubbleheads: Episode 1) Tennessee Tuxedo #15 (By The Plight Of The Moon) (915, 985)
 Commander McBragg #13 (The Giant Elephant) Underdog #25 (The Bubbleheads: Episode 2)Episode 314
 Underdog #26 (The Bubbleheads: Episode 3) Tennessee Tuxedo #17 (Bridge Builders) (917, 987)
 Commander McBragg #14 (The Great Bird) (not The Giant Bird)
 Underdog #27 (The Bubbleheads: Episode 4)Episode 315
 Underdog #28 (From Hopeless To Helpless: Episode 1) Tennessee Tuxedo #16 (Lever Levity) (916, 986)
 Commander McBragg #15 ("Chicago" Mobster) Underdog #29 (From Hopeless To Helpless: Episode 2)Episode 316
 Underdog #30 (From Hopeless To Helpless: Episode 3) Tennessee Tuxedo #18 (Howl, Howl, The Gang's All Here) (918, 988)
 Commander McBragg #16 (The Monster Bear) Underdog #31 (From Hopeless To Helpless: Episode 4)Episode 317
 Underdog #33 (The Witch Of Pickyoon: Episode 1) (not The Wicked Witch Of Pickyoon)
 Tennessee Tuxedo #19 (Sail Ho!) (not Sail On, Sail On) (919, 989)
 Commander McBragg #17 (The Kangaroo) Underdog #34 (The Witch Of Pickyoon: Episode 2)Episode 318
 Underdog #35 (The Witch Of Pickyoon: Episode 3) Tennessee Tuxedo #20 (Tell-Tale Telegraph) (920, 990)
 Commander McBragg #18 (The Giant Mosquito) Underdog #36 (The Witch Of Pickyoon: Episode 4)Episode 319
 Underdog #37 (Weathering The Storm: Episode 1) Tennessee Tuxedo #21 (Rocket Ruckus) (921, 991)
 Commander McBragg #19 (The Black Knight) Underdog #38 (Weathering The Storm: Episode 2)Episode 320
 Underdog #39 (Weathering The Storm: Episode 3) Tennessee Tuxedo #22 (All Steamed Up) (not Getting Steamed Up) (922, 992)
 Commander McBragg #20 (The Flying Pond) Underdog #40 (Weathering The Storm: Episode 4)Episode 321
 Underdog #41 (The Gold Bricks: Episode 1) Tennessee Tuxedo #23 (Tale Of A Tiger) (923, 993)
 Commander McBragg #21 (The Old Ninety-Two) Underdog #42 (The Gold Bricks: Episode 2)Episode 322
 Underdog #43 (The Gold Bricks: Episode 3) Tennessee Tuxedo #24 (Dog Daze) (Sequel to Tennessee Tuxedo #18/Howl, Howl, The Gang's All Here) (924, 994)
 Commander McBragg #22 (Our Man In Manhattan) (not Secret Agent In New York)
 Underdog #44 (The Gold Bricks: Episode 4)Episode 323
 Underdog #45 (The Magnet Men: Episode 1) Tennessee Tuxedo #25 (Brushing Off A Toothache) (925, 995)
 Commander McBragg #23 (Oyster Island) Underdog #46 (The Magnet Men: Episode 2)Episode 324
 Underdog #47 (The Magnet Men: Episode 3) Tennessee Tuxedo #26 (Funny Honey) (926, 996)
 Commander McBragg #24 (The Steam Car) Underdog #48 (The Magnet Men: Episode 4)Episode 325
 Underdog #49 (The Phoney Booths: Episode 1) Tennessee Tuxedo #1 (Mixed-Up Mechanics) (901, 971)
 Commander McBragg #25 (Swimming The Atlantic) Underdog #50 (The Phoney Booths: Episode 2)Episode 326
 Underdog #51 (The Phoney Booths: Episode 3) Tennessee Tuxedo #3 (The Lamplighters) (903, 973)
 Commander McBragg #26 (Fort Apache) Underdog #52 (The Phoney Booths: Episode 4)

Episode 327
 Underdog #53 (Pain Strikes Underdog: Episode 1)
 Go Go Gophers #1 (Moon Zoom)
 Klondike Kat #1 (Honor At Steak)
 Commander McBragg #27 (The Flying Trapeze)
 Underdog #54 (Pain Strikes Underdog: Episode 2)
Episode 328
 Underdog #55 (Pain Strikes Underdog: Episode 3)
 Go Go Gophers #2 (Trojan Totem)
 Klondike Kat #2 (Secret Weapon)
 The Sing-A-Long Family #1 (Picnic) (also appears in syndicated shows #301, 355)
 Underdog #56 (Pain Strikes Underdog: Episode 4)

Episode 329
 Underdog #57 (The Molemen: Episode 1)
 Go Go Gophers #3 (Introducing General Nuisance)
 Klondike Kat #3 (The Big Fromage)
 The Sing-A-Long Family #2 (Skating) (also appears in syndicated shows #302, 356)
 Underdog #58 (The Molemen: Episode 2)

Episode 330
 Underdog #59 (The Molemen: Episode 3)
 Tennessee Tuxedo #27 (The Treasure Of Jack The Joker) (not The Treasure Of Jack And The Joker) (927, 997)
 The Sing-A-Long Family #3 (Fair) (also appears in syndicated shows #303, 357)
 Underdog #60 (The Molemen: Episode 4)

Episode 331
 Underdog #61 (The Flying Sorcerers: Episode 1) (not The Flying Sorceress)
 Go Go Gophers #4 (Gatling Gophers)
 Klondike Kat #4 (Hard To Guard)
 Commander Mc Bragg #31 (Mystifying McBragg)
 Underdog #62 (The Flying Sorcerers: Episode 2)

Episode 332
 Underdog #63 (The Flying Sorcerers: Episode 3)
 Go Go Gophers #5 (The Cleveland Indians)
 Klondike Kat #5 (The Candy Mine)
 Commander Mc Bragg #32 (Mammouth Cavern)
 Underdog #64 (The Flying Sorcerers: Episode 4)

Episode 333
 Underdog #65 (The Forget-Me-Net: Episode 1)
 Go Go Gophers #6 (Medicine Men)
 Klondike Kat #6 (Rotten To The Core)
 Commander Mc Bragg #33 (The Astronaut) (also appears in syndicated show #358)
 Underdog #66 (The Forget-Me-Net: Episode 2)

Episode 334
 Underdog #67 (The Forget-Me-Net: Episode 3)
 Tennessee Tuxedo #28 (Wreck Of A Record) (928, 998)
 Commander Mc Bragg #34 (Dam Break) (also appears in syndicated show #359)
 Underdog #68 (The Forget-Me-Net: Episode 4)

Episode 335
 Underdog #69 (Whistler's Father: Episode 1) (not Guerilla Warfare)
 Go Go Gophers #7 (Mesa Mess)
 Klondike Kat #7 (The Trap Baiting) (not Baiting The Trap)
 Commander Mc Bragg #35 (The Eclipse) (also appears in syndicated show #360)
 Underdog #70 (Whistler's Father: Episode 2)

Episode 336
 Underdog #71 (Whistler's Father: Episode 3)
 Go Go Gophers #8 (Termite Terror) (not Termite Trainers)
 Klondike Kat #8 (Gravy Train)
 Commander Mc Bragg #36 (Ship Of The Desert) (also appears in syndicated show #361)
 Underdog #72 (Whistler's Father: Episode 4)

Episode 337
 Underdog #73 (Simon Says "No Thanksgiving": Episode 1)
 Go Go Gophers #9 (Who's A Dummy)
 Klondike Kat #9 (Cream Puff Buff)
 Commander Mc Bragg #37 (Egypt)
 Underdog #74 (Simon Says "No Thanksgiving": Episode 2)

Episode 338
 Underdog #75 (Simon Says "No Thanksgiving": Episode 3)
 Tennessee Tuxedo #29 (Miner Forty-Niner) (929, 999)
 Commander Mc Bragg #38 (The Singing Cowboy)
 Underdog #76 (Simon Says "No Thanksgiving": Episode 4)

Episode 339
 Underdog #77 (The Silver Thieves: Episode 1)
 Go Go Gophers #10 (Tapping The Telegraph)
 Klondike Kat #10 (Plane Food)
 Commander Mc Bragg #39 (The Lumberjack)
 Underdog #78 (The Silver Thieves: Episode 2)

Episode 340
 Underdog #79 (The Silver Thieves: Episode 3)
 Go Go Gophers #11 (Bold As Gold)
 Klondike Kat #11 (Banana Skinned)
 Commander Mc Bragg #40 (The Bronco Buster)
 Underdog #80 (The Silver Thieves: Episode 4)

Episode 341
 Underdog #81 (Riffraffville: Episode 1)
 Go Go Gophers #12 (Up In The Air)
 Klondike Kat #12 (Up A Tree)
 Commander Mc Bragg #41 (Echo Canyon)
 Underdog #82 (Riffraffville: Episode 2)

Episode 342
 Underdog #83 (Riffraffville: Episode 3)
 Tennessee Tuxedo #30 (Helicopter Hi-Jinks) (930, 1000)
 Commander Mc Bragg #42 (Tightrope)
 Underdog #84 (Riffraffville: Episode 4)

Episode 343
 Underdog #85 (The Tickle Feather Machine: Episode 1)
 Go Go Gophers #13 (The Big Banger)
 Klondike Kat #13 (Pie Fly)
 Commander Mc Bragg #43 (Lake Tortuga)
 Underdog #86 (The Tickle Feather Machine: Episode 2)

Episode 344
 Underdog #87 (The Tickle Feather Machine: Episode 3)
 Go Go Gophers #14 (He's For The Berries)
 Klondike Kat #14 (Jail Break)
 Commander Mc Bragg #44 (Coney Island)
 Underdog #88 (The Tickle Feather Machine: Episode 4)

Episode 345
 Underdog #89 (Underdog Vs. Overcat: Episode 1) (not Underdog Vs. Overcoat)
 Go Go Gophers #15 (Swamped)
 Klondike Kat #15 (Fort Frazzle Frolics)
 Commander Mc Bragg #45 (Rainbow Island)
 Underdog #90 (Underdog Vs. Overcat: Episode 2)

Episode 346
 Underdog #91 (Underdog Vs. Overcat: Episode 3)
 Tennessee Tuxedo #31 (Oil's Well) (931, 1001)
 Commander Mc Bragg #46 (The Insect Collector)
 Underdog #92 (Underdog Vs. Overcat: Episode 4)

Episode 347
 Underdog #93 (The Big Dipper: Episode 1)
 Go Go Gophers #16 (Tanks To The Gophers)
 Klondike Kat #16 (Sticky Stuff)
 Commander Mc Bragg #47 (Lost Valley)
 Tooter Turtle #1 (Nusuiance/Subscribe)
 Underdog #94 (The Big Dipper: Episode 2)

Episode 348
 Underdog #95 (The Big Dipper: Episode 3)
 Go Go Gophers #17 (Indian Treasure)
 Klondike Kat #17 (Who's A Pill)
 Commander Mc Bragg #48 (The Orient Express)
 Underdog #96 (The Big Dipper: Episode 4)

Episode 349
 Underdog #97 (Just In Case: Episode 1)
 Go Go Gophers #18 (The Carriage Trade) (not The Horseless Carriage Trade)
 Klondike Kat #18 (Getting The Air)
 Commander Mc Bragg #1 (Over The Falls)
 Underdog #98 (Just In Case: Episode 2)

Episode 350
 Underdog #99 (Just In Case: Episode 3)
 Tennessee Tuxedo #32 (Parachuting Pickle) (932, 1002)
 Commander Mc Bragg #2 (Fish Story)
 Underdog #100 (Just In Case: Episode 4)

Episode 351
 Underdog #101 (The Marble Heads: Episode 1)
 Go Go Gophers #19 (Honey Fun)
 Klondike Kat #19 (If I'd-A Known You Was Comin‘)
 Commander Mc Bragg #3 (The Himalayas)
 Underdog #102 (The Marble Heads: Episode 2)

Episode 352
 Underdog #103 (The Marble Heads: Episode 3)
 Go Go Gophers #20 (The Colonel Cleans Up)
 Klondike Kat #20 (The Big Race)
 Commander Mc Bragg #28 (Around The World)
 Underdog #104 (The Marble Heads: Episode 4)

Episode 353
 Underdog #105 (Simon Says "Be My Valentine": Episode 1)
 Go Go Gophers #21 (The Raw Recruits)
 Klondike Kat #21 (Date On The Desert)
 Commander Mc Bragg #29 (Indianapolis Speedway)
 Underdog #106 (Simon Says "Be My Valentine": Episode 2)

Episode 354
 Underdog #107 (Simon Says "Be My Valentine": Episode 3)
 Tennessee Tuxedo #33 (Wish Wash) (933, 1003)
 Commander Mc Bragg #30 (The Rhino Charge)
 Underdog #108 (Simon Says "Be My Valentine": Episode 4)

Episode 355
 Underdog #109 (Round And Round: Episode 1)
 Go Go Gophers #22 (Tenshun!)
 Klondike Kat #22 (Klondike Goes To Town)
 The Sing-A-Long Family #1 (Picnic) (also appears in syndicated shows #301, 328)
 Underdog #110 (Round And Round: Episode 2)

Episode 356
 Underdog #111 (Round And Round: Episode 3)
 Go Go Gophers #23 (Cuckoo Combat)
 Klondike Kat #23 (Motorcycle Mountie)
 The Sing-A-Long Family #2 (Skating) (also appears in syndicated shows #302, 329)
 Underdog #112 (Round And Round: Episode 4)

Episode 357
 Underdog #113 (A New Villain: Episode 1)
 Go Go Gophers #24 (Kitchen Capers)
 Klondike Kat #24 (Island In The Sky)
 The Sing-A-Long Family #3 (Fair) (also appears in syndicated shows #303, 330)
 Underdog #114 (A New Villain: Episode 2)

Episode 358
 Underdog #115 (A New Villain: Episode 3)
 Tennessee Tuxedo #34 (Telescope Detectives) (934, 1004)
 Commander McBragg #33 (The Astronaut) (also appears in syndicated show #333)
 Underdog #116 (A New Villain: Episode 4)

Episode 359
 Underdog #117 (Batty-Man: Episode 1)
 Go Go Gophers #25 (The Great White Stallion)
 Klondike Kat #25 (The Island Hideout)
 Commander McBragg #34 (Dam Break) (also appears in syndicated show #334)
 Underdog #118 (Batty-Man: Episode 2)

Episode 360
 Underdog #119 (Batty-Man: Episode 3)
 Go Go Gophers #26 (Blankety-Blank Blanket)
 Klondike Kat #26 (The Kat Napper)
 Commander McBragg #35 (The Eclipse) (also appears in syndicated show #335)
 Underdog #120 (Batty-Man: Episode 4)

Episode 361
 Underdog #121 (The Vacuum Gun: Episode 1)
 Cauliflower Cabbie (Introducing The Champion!)
 Commander McBragg #36 (Ship Of The Desert) (also appears in syndicated show #336)
 Underdog #122 (The Vacuum Gun: Episode 2)

Episode 362
 Underdog #123 (The Vacuum Gun: Episode 3)
 Gene Hattree (The Trap)
 Go Go Gophers #27 (The Ironclad) (not The Unsinkable Iron Clad)
 Underdog #124 (The Vacuum Gun: Episode 4)

Superpowers
When he is not Underdog, he is incognito as Shoeshine Boy. Like Superman, when trouble calls, he hurriedly dresses in a phone booth (which would inexplicably explode upon his conversion). On occasion,  to replenish his powers, he would take an "Underdog Super Energy Pill". This pill was first introduced in episode 9.  He keeps one of these pills inside a special ring he wears at all times. (Before taking one, he would often utter the words: "The secret compartment of my ring I fill / With an Underdog Super Energy Pill.") Several episodes, starting with RiffRaffville, show Underdog without his ring and being powerless, since he must take another pill as his super powers begin to fail ("Without my Super Energy Pill / I grow weaker and weaker and weaker still.") and, as a result, he can die; but of course, this being a children's cartoon show, no one actually kills him, even when he is at their mercy. He tells everyone who will listen this secret of his super powers. When the series was syndicated in the 1980s and 1990s, the scenes of him taking his energy pill were edited out. In the recent release Underdog: The Ultimate Collection, the word "Energy" was replaced with "Vitamin".

Underdog is shown to have incredible superhuman powers. However, the number and scope of his superpowers are inconsistent from episode to episode, being subject not only to the conventions of superhero comics, but also to the conventions of humorous cartoons. In one episode, he easily moved planets, safely butting against them with his rear end. In another episode, his Super Energy Pill, diluted billions of times when added to a city's water system, was capable of giving normal humans who drank the water enough strength to easily bend thick steel bars. Among his many powers shown on the show are: super strength, super speed, supersonic flight, physical invulnerability, X-ray vision, super breath, cosmic vision, atomic breath, atomizing eyes, heat vision, ultrasonic hearing, a supersonic high-pitch hi-fi voice and a great calculating brain.

Other media

Books and comics
 Underdog has also appeared in one Little Golden Book, Underdog and the Disappearing Ice Cream in 1975.
 Charlton Comics produced a comic book that ran 10 issues from July 1970 to January 1972, mainly adapting stories from the cartoon.
 Gold Key Comics produced a comic book that ran 23 issues from March 1975 to February 1979. Unlike the Charlton run, these featured original stories.
 Spotlight Comics did three issues in 1987.
 Harvey Comics did a one-shot in 1993, and a five-issue series from November 1993 to July 1994. These issues reprinted comics from the Charlton Comics run.
 American Mythology Comics produced a comic book that ran four issues from September 2017 to September 2018. It was followed by a Halloween ComicFest one-shot in 2019 and Underdog in Space which ran for one issue in 2020. Underdog: 1975 reprinted comics from the Gold Key Comics run.

Theme song
The show is also remembered for its title song, "Underdog," which was arranged and produced by Robert Weitz, with lyrics by Chester Stover, W. Watts Biggers, Treadwell Covington, and Joseph Harris. Several notable covers of the theme song have been made.  The original
song was sung by Robert Ragaini. He explained, "As a struggling singer in New York, I'd gotten a job singing a theme song for a newly proposed TV cartoon series named 'Underdog." I went to the studio, I think "O.D.O." on West 54th Street, sang as part of the backup group (ah-ooo, ah-ooo), then quickly sang the theme song over the track and left. I remember how pleased I was that I'd taken that mouthful of words and made them understandable. Oh yes, they paid me 50 dollars. No contract - I wasn't yet a member of SAG - and I was thrilled to get it. Until I heard it again, year after year. By then I'd become a successful jingle singer and I knew what I should have been making. When it came out as the music track of a Reebok commercial I filed a claim with the Screen Actors Guild, but of course I had no documentation. A friend did give me an Underdog T-shirt. I wore it once, but when a man I passed on West 14th Street started singing the song, I retired it."
 The Butthole Surfers released a version included on the 1995 tribute album Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits, produced by Ralph Sall for MCA Records.
 Ted Kooshian's Standard Orbit Quartet included the song on their 2009 CD Underdog, And Other Stories... .
 An extended a cappella version was done by The Blanks on the TV program Scrubs during the episode titled "My Hero". They later recorded it on their 2004 album Riding the Wave.
 The hip-hop music producer and members of the Wu-Tang Clan the RZA sampled "Underdog" theme in their 1993 song titled "Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuttin To F' Wit". This song was released in Wu-Tang debut album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers).
 The '''Underdog theme was used in a commercial for Reebok ZQuick shoes in 2014.

DVD releases
On June 14, 1996, Sony Wonder released "Underdog" on VHS in region 1 in a four-volume collection, videocassette set released in the 1990s.
On July 24, 2007, Classic Media released Underdog on DVD in region 1 in a three-volume collection, following a previous three-volume set released in the late 1990s. Each volume features six digitally remastered and uncut, original broadcast episodes, each featuring two Underdog segments alongside additional cartoons from the Total TV library.

On February 21, 2012, Shout! Factory (under license from Classic Media) released a 9-disc Complete Series set containing new bonus material, including commentaries. According to Shout! Factory, "they're rebuilding the shows to their original television airing as best as they can".

Film adaptation

In 2005, Variety reported that a live-action Underdog motion picture was in development. As announced, the story introduces "a diminutive hound named Shoeshine [who] gets superpowers after a lab accident. When he's adopted by a 15-year-old boy, the two form a bond around the shared knowledge that Shoeshine is really Underdog." Actor Peter Dinklage was cast to play Simon Bar Sinister, while Alex Neuberger was cast to play Underdog's human companion, Jack Unger. The movie started filming in Providence, Rhode Island, in March 2006 and was released on August 3, 2007. The film was distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Shoeshine/Underdog, voiced by Jason Lee, was played by a golden beagle named Leo sporting a red sweater and a blue cape. The film got mostly negative reviews, despite grossing $65.3 million worldwide.

Radio
In 1999, Biggers created a new episode of Underdog as a half-hour radio show narrated by veteran Boston newsman Tom Ellis with new original music composed by Biggers. Radio stations were asked to participate in Biggers' Victory Over Violence organization by airing the adventure in which the evil Simon Bar Sinister develops a Switchpitch baseball to turn positive people negative. His attempt to become king of Boston is foiled by Underdog (played by Biggers) and Sweet Polly Purebred (portrayed by Nancy Purbeck).

See also

 List of anthropomorphic animal superheroes
 List of Underdog characters
 Suzanne Muldowney

References

Further reading
Mark Arnold. Created and Produced by Total Television Productions. BearManor Media, 2009. 

W. Watts Biggers and Chet Stover. How Underdog Was Born. BearManor Media, 2016.

External links

 Underdog at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on September 1, 2015.
 
 

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