The Nutty Squirrels Present

The Nutty Squirrels Present is a 1960 animated television series that was inspired by characters from The Nutty Squirrels hit 1959 novelty record. The series was produced by Transfilm-Wylde Animation, and aired for one season (1960–1961) on first-run syndication in the United States with over 150 six-minute episodes, being formatted originally into 30 half-hour shows.

The original cartoons themselves were purchased from overseas countries like Eastern Europe, by the Russian born, Fima Noveck, the President of Flamingo Telefilm Sales. After the original cartoons arrived in the United States, they would receive a new soundtrack, including English language and music, that would appeal to American children.

Reception
In his 2019 autobiography, Mr. Know-It-All, John Waters wrote, "I should have told my mother about the Nutty Squirrels. They did jazz and they weren't junkies. This sped-up vocal group who imitated the Chipmunks actually beat them to television with an animated show called The Nutty Squirrels Present, and they looked down on the pop sound of Alvin and his gang. The Nutty Squirrels actually had a big jazz hit with "Uh Oh, Part One and Two," but if you go back and listen to the rest of their discography, you'll be blown away by some of their other riffs. These cats were smoking! If my mom had heard jazz like this at the wrong speed, she might have loved it."

United States

 * WSBK-TV / Channel 38•      Boston, Massachusetts
 * KTVI-TV / Channel 2•       St. Louis, Missouri
 * KYTV-TV / Channel 44•      Springfield, Ohio
 * WKBN-TV / Channel 27•      Youngstown, Ohio
 * WLBC-TV / Channel 49• Muncie, Indiana
 * WGN-TV  / Channel 9•       Chicago, Illinois
 * KVOS-TV / Channel 38•      Bellingham, Washington
 * KHSL-TV / Channel 43•      Chico, California

Canada

 * KVOS-TV / Channel 12• via Bellingham, Washington

Overseas
Australia

Known in Australia simply as The Nutty Squirrels, the series was first transmitted on Australian television during early 1966, on the ABC. It first featured as part of a series called Cartoon Time, which ran on Saturday afternoons at 5pm. This 40-minute program also consisted of other cartoons, including King Leonardo and His Short Subjects and Felix the Cat.

The Nutty Squirrels cartoon series then made frequent appearances over the years, appearing off and on in 1970 and also during 1972. At the time in Australia, these transmissions were in black and white.

From 1976, the Nutty Squirrels series was again shown, this time in its original color format.

The main transmission of the Nutty Squirrels cartoon series in Australia came in the form of a package of at least 80 x 6 minute episodes. From December 1977, the Nutty Squirrels series was permanently adapted to the 5:30pm weekday timeslot, running Monday through to Friday. During this run, the Nutty Squirrels series ran right through to March 1979.


 * ABC-TV Channel 2 Sydney, NSW Australia
 * ABC-TV Channel 3 Canberra, ACT Australia

Through the ABC's facilities in Sydney, the cartoon was relayed and broadcast to all the other Australian state capital cities, plus all the Australian regional areas covered by the ABC.

After broadcast on the ABC, the Nutty Squirrels series, was for a short time, resyndicated to some of Australia's regional commercial television stations. These were mainly in NSW, with the broadcasts occurring during 1981 and 1982.


 * NRN Channel 11 Northern Rivers, NSW Australia
 * RTN Channel 8 Northern Rivers NSW Australia
 * RVN Channel 2 Wagga, NSW Australia
 * CTC Channel 7 Canberra, ACT Australia

Episodes

 * 1) A barrel of fun
 * 2) A horse for dinner
 * 3) A recipe for courage
 * 4) A Santa visit
 * 5) A very strange adventure
 * 6) An old fable
 * 7) And so on
 * 8) Animal school
 * 9) Animals in dreamland
 * Bad Company
 * 1) Bear cub at large
 * 2) Big deal
 * 3) Big little hero
 * 4) Brave whistle light
 * 5) Bullies in a Toyshop
 * 6) The Cheese Hunters
 * 7) Chess game in the sky
 * 8) Dangerous dreamland
 * 9) Detective nightmare
 * 10) Dodo and the monster
 * 11) Dog magician hunt
 * 12) Don't be a pig
 * 13) Dumb Dora
 * 14) Enchanted morning
 * 15) Eraser and Pencil
 * 16) Fire and Ice
 * 17) Fire fighters
 * 18) Foxy Wolf
 * 19) Friendship Island
 * 20) Golden feather
 * 21) Gone with the goose
 * 22) Grandpa Caleb's canoe
 * 23) Grandpa whirlwind
 * 24) Happy end
 * 25) His master's mouse
 * 26) Hole in the sky
 * 27) How it all began
 * 28) Hurray for the winner
 * 29) Imp and the angel
 * 30) Just reward
 * 31) Kingdom of color
 * 32) Kings conscience
 * 33) Kitten Blues
 * 34) Life in doggywood
 * 35) Life with Eva
 * 36) Lion and gazelle
 * 37) Lion and the donkey
 * 38) Locomotive
 * 39) Magic mirror
 * 40) Magic mountain
 * 41) Magic penny
 * 42) Magic room
 * 43) Magic wood
 * 44) Malicious ink spot
 * 45) Marsh King
 * 46) Master skier
 * 47) Millie the kid
 * 48) Monkey and the Atom
 * 49) Monkey Business
 * 50) Moon Monster
 * 51) On the moon
 * 52) Once upon a time
 * 53) One and one is two
 * 54) One little pig
 * 55) One sunny day
 * 56) Pedro's Secret
 * 57) Play ball
 * 58) Pole painters
 * 59) Polite neighbors
 * 60) Prehistoric adventure
 * 61) Puppy's pets
 * 62) Rabbit's feet for luck
 * 63) Railroad story
 * 64) Recipe for courage
 * 65) Red riding hood
 * 66) Road pest
 * 67) The Robin and the Bumble Bee
 * 68) Round and Round
 * 69) Scarecrow adventure
 * 70) Shining star
 * 71) Shoo! Fire!
 * 72) Sing sing sparrow
 * 73) Skating follies
 * 74) Sleepy keeper
 * 75) Sticks and stones
 * 76) top thief
 * 77) Storm in a coop
 * 78) Teamwork
 * 79) Teddy wants to sleep
 * 80) The barefoot king
 * 81) The Bargain
 * 82) The Beggars Treasure
 * 83) [The Bouncing Bassoon
 * 84) The Brave Mosquito
 * 85) The Concertina
 * 86) The dinosaur hunt
 * 87) The Drought
 * 88) The faker
 * 89) The first song
 * 90) The Great Bank Robbery
 * 91) The Hold Up
 * 92) Kind orphan
 * 93) The king and the shepherd
 * 94) The lion cub
 * 95) The little cobbler
 * 96) The little glutton
 * 97) The lonely mermaid
 * 98) The magic rainbow
 * 99) The magic wand
 * 100) The old man and the spring
 * 101) The party
 * 102) The peace treaty
 * 103) The puppeteer
 * 104) The racers
 * 105) The rescue
 * 106) The Santa visit
 * 107) The scheme
 * 108) The soccer game
 * 109) The Stable Boy and the Princess
 * 110) The statue
 * 111) The trouble shooter
 * 112) The wind
 * 113) The wolf trap
 * 114) The Wooden Boy
 * 115) Thermometer fever
 * 116) Three clumsy hunters
 * 117) Three lumberjacks
 * 118) Tiger trouble
 * 119) Tit for Tat
 * 120) To Texas and back
 * 121) Treacherous fox
 * 122) Two magicians
 * 123) Wanderlust
 * 124) War and peace
 * 125) War of colors
 * 126) What a Boar
 * 127) Wheels
 * When in Rome, Don't
 * 1) Where There's Smoke, There's Fame
 * 2) Who's cooking
 * 3) Who's Scared
 * 4) Winged wedding
 * 5) Winter palace
 * 6) Woody in toyland
 * 7) Zoo revolution