History WesternAnimation / CrusaderRabbit

** In the first episode, in the circus where is jailed Rags, there are some posters, one of these with the picture of a woman and the text "Have You Seen Maisie?". The [[Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer MGM's]] ''Maisie'' movie series, featured Anne Sothern, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maisie quoting]] Wiki/TheOtherWiki, "as [a] brassy but kindhearted Brooklyn burlesque dancer Mary Anastasia O'Connor, who also goes by the stage name Maisie Ravier". This doubles as a ParentalBonus.

This series provides examples of:

%%* TalkingAnimal

%%* WhiteBunny

[[quoteright:320: https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lt/crusader_rabbit.gif]] The first AnimatedSeries produced specifically for television, ''Crusader Rabbit'' was created by Jay Ward and Alex Anderson in 1948. It featured the serialized adventures of a rabbit and his tiger sidekick, Ragland T. Tiger (Rags for short).

* TalkingAnimal
* WhiteBunny

Ward and Anderson initially tried to sell the series to Creator/{{NBC}} as part of a package, ''The Comic Strips of Television'', which included an early incarnation of ''WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight''. When they were turned down, they turned to UsefulNotes/{{syndication}}, where an initial run of 195 episodes, divided into 10 "crusades", aired from 1950 to 1952 (many of the stations who aired it were NBC affiliates, including its O&Os in New York and Los Angeles).

* ShoutOut: Ragland T. Tiger's name is a reference to the jazz standard "Tiger Rag".

[[quoteright:320: https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lt/crusader_rabbit.gif]] One of (if not [[UrExample the]]) first AnimatedSeries produced for television, ''Crusader Rabbit'' was created by Jay Ward and Alex Anderson in 1948, and subsequently sold to Creator/{{NBC}}. It featured the serialized adventures of a rabbit and his tiger sidekick, Ragland T. Tiger (Rags for short).

Anderson's original intent was not to create a rabbit or tiger character, but to create characters whose personalities were contrary to their appearance. The rabbit was conceived by Ward as a crusading Don Quixote. Some of the earliest episodes can be found in the Internet Archive's Moving Picture Collection.

A total of 195 episodes were produced and released between 1949 and 1951. A second series of ''Crusader Rabbit'' cartoons, this time in color, was produced for UsefulNotes/{{syndication}} in 1957. Another 260 episodes were released. This was after Ward and Anderson lost the rights to the characters to series bankroller Jerry Fairbanks, who had Creston Films make this second batch.

* AnimatedSeries

* CliffHanger: Usually twenty episodes made up a story arc, each episode ending with a single title for the following episode (as opposed to the EitherOrTitle that ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' made popular). When Creston and TV Spots took over making the show, two packages were made available--the serialized episodes and then, around 1960, story arcs re-edited as a 45-minute featurette "movie."

* LimitedAnimation: In the first seasons episode ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3hHQvkUhJo like the first one]]), except for the intro (the titular character appear wearing an armour and riding a horse like a knight) and the brief scenes where Crusader and Rags are walking, only the mouths of the characters are really animated, and the rest are static drawings described for the narrator.

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One of (if not [[UrExample the]]) first AnimatedSeries produced for television, ''Crusader Rabbit'' was created by Jay Ward and Alex Anderson in 1948, and subsequently sold to Creator/{{NBC}}. It featured the serialized adventures of a rabbit and his tiger sidekick, Ragland T. Tiger (Rags for short).

* CliffHanger: Usually twenty episodes made up a story arc, each episode ending with a single title for the following episode (as opposed to the EitherOrTite that ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' made popular). When Creston and TV Spots took over making the show, two packages were made available--the serialized episodes and then, around 1960, story arcs re-edited as a 45-minute featurette "movie."

* ArtShift
* CliffHanger

* RighteousRabbit

One of (if not [[UrExample the]]) the first AnimatedSeries produced for television, ''Crusader Rabbit'' was created by Jay Ward and Alex Anderson in 1948, and subsequently sold to Creator/{{NBC}}. It featured the serialized adventures of a rabbit and his tiger sidekick, Ragland T. Tiger (Rags for short).

A total of 195 episodes were produced and released between 1949 and 1951. A second series of ''Crusader Rabbit'' cartoons, this time in color, was produced for {{syndication}} in 1957. Another 260 episodes were released. This was after Ward and Anderson lost the rights to the characters to series bankroller Jerry Fairbanks, who had Creston Films make this second batch.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Lucille Bliss, who voiced Crusader in the black-and-white episodes, would later voice [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs Smurfette]].

One of the first AnimatedSeries produced for television, ''Crusader Rabbit'' was created by Jay Ward and Alex Anderson in 1948, and subsequently sold to Creator/{{NBC}}. It featured the serialized adventures of a rabbit and his tiger sidekick, Ragland T. Tiger (Rags for short).

* HeyItsThatVoice: Lucille Bliss, who voiced Crusader in the black-and-white episodes, would later voice Smurfette.

One of the first AnimatedSeries produced for television, ''Crusader Rabbit'' was created by Jay Ward and Alex Anderson in 1948, and subsequently sold to {{NBC}}. It featured the serialized adventures of a rabbit and his tiger sidekick, Ragland T. Tiger (Rags for short).

A second series of ''Crusader Rabbit'' cartoons, this time in color, was produced for {{syndication}} in 1957. This was after Ward and Anderson lost the rights to the characters to series bankroller Jerry Fairbanks, who had Creston Films make this second batch.