History WesternAnimation / TheDickTracyShow

* AsianSpeakeeEngrish: Joe Jitsu, especially when he's meting out punishment to the villains. ("So solly. Excuse, prease.")

* TheFaceless: Cheater Gunsmoke, who appeared in only one cartoon. His face is always covered with gun smoke and it has a cigar protruding through it.

** Rick, the beatnik who gives Heap O'Calory tips on crimes in progress, may count as he communicates with beats from bongo drums that only Heap can decipher.

* DogStereotype: Hemlock Holmes is an English Bulldog with an English accent

''The Dick Tracy Show'' is an American animated TV series based on [[ComicStrip/DickTracy Chester Gould's comic strip crime fighter.]] The series was produced by UPA for {{syndication}} in the 1961/62 season. The series consisted of 130 five-minute episodes, and each station used its own on-camera presenter, usually dressed in a police uniform.

''The Dick Tracy Show'' is an American animated TV series based on [[ComicStrip/DickTracy Chester Gould's comic strip crime fighter.]] The series was produced by UPA for {{syndication}} in the 1961/62 season. The series consisted of 30 five-minute episodes, and each station used its own on-camera presenter, usually dressed in a police uniform.

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The villain, Pruneface has purple skin.

* Joe Jitsu, an Asian kung-fu master/detective
* Go-Go Gomez, a lazy Mexican master of disguise who solved crimes from his hammock
* Heap O'Calory, a stereotype Irish-American policeman
* Hemlock Holmes, a British-accented bulldog who was accompanied by the Retouchables, a group similar to the Keystone Kops

Despite the show's title, Dick Tracy usually appeared at the beginning of the cartoon to assign the case, then only twice more in each animated segment. Once would be in the middle of the action, when the good guy would shout, "Hold everything!" At that point all the action would freeze, and the hero would call Tracy on his two-way wrist radio to fill Tracy in on how things were progressing. The action would resume when Tracy radioed back, "...Over and out!" The last time Tracy would be seen was at the end, to praise his men for their good work. On rare occasions Tracy showed up on screen during the story to get involved.

The series was revamped and re-syndicated in 1990 to take advantage of the publicity surrounding Warren Beatty's big screen version of the character. The Joe Jitsu and Go-Go Gomaz cartoons were initially rebroadcast as part of the package, although they were soon pulled and only Heap O'Calory and Hemlock Holmes cartoons remained.

* CoolCat: At the end of "Mardi Gras Grab," Joe Jitsu turns into a brown one and plays the saxophone.

* CoolCat: Joe Jitsu turns into a brown one and plays the saxophone.

* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Dick Tracy himself.

* CoolCat: Joe Jitsu turns into one and plays the saxophone.

''The Dick Tracy Show'' is an American animated TV series based on [[ComicStrip/DickTracy Chester Gould's comic strip crime fighter.]] The series was produced by UPA for {{syndication}} in the 1961-62 season. The series consisted of 30 five-minute episodes, and each station used its own on-camera presenter, usually dressed in a police uniform.

The series was revamped and re-syndicated in 1990 to take advantage of the publicity surrounding Warran Beatty's big screen version of the character. The Joe Jitsu and Go-Go Gomaz cartoons were initialy rebroadcast as part of the package, although they were soon pulled and only Heap O'Calory and Hemlock Holmes cartoons remained.

!!Tropes That Appear in ''The Dick Tracy Show ''

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Heap O'Calory was a caricature of actor Andy Devine. Hemlock Holmes' voice was a cheap imitation of CaryGrant.

* NonstandardCharacterDesign

* HeyItsThatVoice: Everett Sloane was the voice of Dick Tracy. MelBlanc and JuneForay did many of the other character voices.

* EthnicScrappy: Joe Jitsu and Go-Go Gomez were drawn just about as stereotypically as you might imagine. Gomez could move very fast, although he did so with lots of "Arriba! Arriba! Yeeha! Yeeha!" yells that turned him into a human Speedy Gonzales.

''The Dick Tracy Show'' is an American animated TV series based on [[DickTracy Chester Gould's comic strip crime fighter.]] The series was produced by UPA for {{syndication}} in the 1961-62 season. The series consisted of 30 five-minute episodes, and each station used its own on-camera presenter, usually dressed in a police uniform.