Animated series showcasing Jim Backus's iconic Mr. Magoo character, presenting half-hour versions of classic children's stories. Praised by critics and educators alike and cherished by fans for its enduring charm, the program earned a prestigious George Foster Peabody Award.
Animated series with Jim Backus's iconic Mr. Magoo featuring half-hour adaptations of classic children's stories. Praised for its quality and remembered by fans. Won the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award in 1965.
Aired: Sep 26, 1964Famed story of how William Tell helped win the Swiss independence from "the t...
2. Mr. Magoo's Treasure Island: Part 1
Aired: Sep 26, 1964Mr. Magoo plays literature's most charismatic one-legged pirate, Long Jong Si...
3. Mr. Magoo's Treasure Island: Part 2
Aired: Oct 3, 1964Mr. Magoo continues to play literature's most charismatic one-legged pirate, ...
Aired: Nov 3, 1964His village destroyed, his grandson and friends enslaved, old Gunda Dim serve...
Aired: Oct 17, 1964Mr. Magoo plays Ishmael, a sailor on the "Pequod", Captain Ahab's ship.
6. Magoo in the King's Service: Mr. Magoo's The Three Musketeers: Part 1
Aired: Oct 24, 1964Mr. Magoo unsheathes a rapier as D'Artagnan in the tale of The Three Musketeers.
7. Magoo in the King's Service: Mr. Magoo's The Three Musketeers: Part 2
Aired: Nov 7, 1964Mr. Magoo continues in the role of D'Artagnan as the tale of The Three Musket...
8. Mr. Magoo's Robin Hood: Part 1
Aired: Nov 14, 1964Mr. Magoo, the nearsighted bungler, plays Robin Hood's friend and ally, Friar...
9. Mr. Magoo's Robin Hood: Part 2
Aired: Nov 21, 1964Mr. Magoo plays Friar Tuck, Robin Hood's friend and ally. When Robin Hood is ...
10. Mr. Magoo's Robin Hood: Part 3
Aired: Nov 28, 1964Mr. Magoo plays Friar Tuck, Robin Hood's friend and ally. Robin Hood has been...
11. Mr. Magoo's Robin Hood: Part 4
Aired: Dec 5, 1964Mr. Magoo plays Friar Tuck, Robin Hood's friend and ally. Robin Hood and his ...
12. Mr. Magoo's Don Quixote de la Mancha: Part 1
Aired: Dec 19, 1964Mr. Magoo predicts the role of stumbling, bumbling Don Quixote will be his mo...
13. Mr. Magoo's Cyrano de Bergerac
Aired: Dec 27, 1964Mr. Magoo tackles the titular proboscisly enhanced poet and swordsman who fac...
14. Mr. Magoo's Little Snow White: Part 1
Aired: Jan 2, 1965For this presentation of Snow White, Mr. Magoo takes on the roles of all seve...
15. Mr. Magoo's Little Snow White: Part 2
Aired: Jan 9, 1965For this continued presentation of Snow White, Mr. Magoo still enacts the rol...
16. Mr. Magoo's Rip Van Winkle
Aired: Jan 16, 1965Mr. Magoo steps into the shoes of henpecked husband Rip Van Winkle.
17. Mr. Magoo's Dick Tracy and the Mob
Aired: Feb 6, 1965Det. Dick Tracy recruits Mr. Magoo's thespian talents against a confederation...
18. Mr. Magoo's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Aired: Feb 13, 1965Mr. Magoo portrays Puck, a fairy whose misapplication of love juice confuses ...
19. Mr. Magoo's The Count of Monte Cristo
Aired: Feb 27, 1965Mr. Magoo plays Edmond Dantes, a man who was imprisoned for a crime he never ...
20. Mr. Magoo's Doctor Frankenstein
Aired: Mar 13, 1965Mr. Magoo (appearing later in the role of Victor Frankenstein) gives us a qui...
21. Mr. Magoo's Don Quixote de la Mancha: Part 2
Aired: Mar 20, 1965Don Quixote de la Mancha rises from his bed lest his adventures, read by all,...
Aired: Mar 27, 1965It's time to watch old pirate Magoo star as Captain Kidd in a salty story fil...
Aired: Apr 3, 1965Mr. Magoo erupts in one final bluster before donning the humble sandals of No...
24. Mr. Magoo's Sherlock Holmes
Aired: Apr 10, 1965In this Sherlock Holmes tale, Mr. Magoo plays not the lead but the sidekick, ...
Aired: Apr 17, 1965Magoo dons the robe of Merlin the magician for a tale of King Arthur set in t...
Aired: Apr 24, 1965Mr. Magoo steps into the buckled shoes of American revolutionary Paul Revere.
