History WesternAnimation / UncleCrocsBlock

* TalkingAnimal: Fraidy Cat, Packy the woolly mammoth and the entire cast of "M*U*S*H".

* DigitalDestruction: The Fraidy Cat shorts were mistakenly believed to be public domain, and have appeared on a lot of public domain compilation dvds.

* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Seven of the nine lives of ''Fraidy Cat'' have costumes that apply to this trope: #2 Kitty Wizard; #3 Captain Kitt, a pirate; #4 Sir Walter Cat, a noble cat; #5 Billy the Kit, a cowboy; #6 Jasper Catdaver, an undertaker; #7 Captain Eddie Cattenbakker, a pilot; #8 Hep Cat, a cat in a zoot suit. The only one who doesn’t is #1, Tinker Elephunt Cat, a caveman.

* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Seven of the nine lives of ''Fraidy Cat'' have costumes that apply to this trope: #2 Kitty Wizard; #3 Captain Kitt, a pirate; #4 Sir Walter Cat, a noble cat; #5 Billy the Kit, a cowboy; #6 Jasper Catdaver, an undertaker; #7 Captain Eddie Cattenbakker, a pilot; #8 Hep Cat, a cat in a zoot suit.

* DigitalDestruction: The Fraidy Cat shorts were mistakenly believed to be public domain, and have appeared on a lot of public domain compilation DVDs.

Charles Nelson Reilly, already a fixture on the Creator/{{CBS}} version of ''Series/MatchGame'', was the crocodile-suited star of this three-month Creator/{{Filmation}} series on Creator/{{ABC}}, a parody of the AnimatedAnthology programs with live presenters that were in nearly every major TV market in the 1950s and 1960s. Reilly's co-stars were Alfie Wise as Uncle Croc's sidekick, Rabbit Ears, and [[Series/LostInSpace Jonathan Harris]] as the director, Basil Bitterbottom. Due to competition with ''Series/{{Shazam}}'', also a Filmation production, the show was such a flop that ABC told Filmation to never sell them another show. Ironically, after ABC canceled ''Uncle Croc's Block'', they replaced it with reruns of Filmation's 1970 show ''[[WesternAnimation/SabrinaAndTheGroovieGoolies The Groovie Goolies]]''.

* DepravedKidsShowHost: Uncle Croc on-camera is an overly exuberant [[LargeHam ham]] while off-camera he's an egotistical PrimaDonna eagerly awaiting the first opportunity to leave the show and become [[SmallNameBigEgo the big star he believes he really is.]]

* DepravedKidShowHost: Uncle Croc on-camera is an overly exuberant [[LargeHam ham]] while off-camera he's an egotistical PrimaDonna eagerly awaiting the first opportunity to leave the show and become [[SmallNameBigEgo the big star he believes he really is.]]

Charles Nelson Reilly, already a fixture on the Creator/{{CBS}} version of ''Series/MatchGame'', was the crocodile-suited star of this three-month Creator/{{Filmation}} series on Creator/{{ABC}}, a parody of the AnimatedAnthology programs with live presenters that were in nearly every major TV market in the 1950s and 1960s. Reilly's co-stars were Alfie Wise as Uncle Croc's sidekick, Rabbit Ears, and [[Series/LostInSpace Jonathan Harris]] as the director, Basil Bitterbottom. Due to competition with ''Series/{{Shazam}}'', also a Filmation production, the show was such a flop that ABC told Filmation to never sell them another show. Ironically, after ABC canceled ''Uncle Croc's Block'', they replaced it with Filmation's 1970 show ''[[WesternAnimation/SabrinaAndTheGroovieGoolies The Groovie Goolies]]''.

* CatsHaveNineLives: This is the premise of ''Fraidy Cat''. Fraidy is already nervous because he's on his final life, and it doesn't help that the ghosts of his eight previous incarnations keep appearing to him if he (even accidentally) intones their number. At least one of these ghosts, who was an undertaker in life, hopes to bring Fraidy over to the afterlife. The worst one is [[{{Cumulonemesis}} Cloud Nine]], a PsychoElectro storm cloud who tries to electrocute poor Fraidy. Pretty morbid for a kids' show, eh?

Charles Nelson Reilly, already a fixture on the Creator/{{CBS}} version of ''Series/MatchGame'', was the crocodile-suited star of this three-month Creator/{{Filmation}} series on Creator/{{ABC}}, a parody of the AnimatedAnthology programs with live presenters that were in nearly every major TV market in the 1950s and 1960s. Reilly's co-stars were Alfie Wise as Uncle Croc's sidekick, Rabbit Ears, and [[Series/LostInSpace Jonathan Harris]] as the director, Basil Bitterbottom. Due to competition with Series/{{Shazam}}, also a Filmation production, the show was such a flop that ABC told Filmation to never sell them another show. Ironically after ABC canceled ''Uncle Croc's Block'', they replaced it with Filmation's 1970 show ''[[WesternAnimation/SabrinaAndTheGroovieGoolies The Groovie Goolies]]''.

* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Seven of the 9 Lives of ''Fraidy Cat'' have costumes that apply to this trope. #2 Kitty Wizard; #3 Captain Kitt, a pirate; #4 Sir Walter Cat, a noble cat; #5 Billy the Kit, a cowboy; #6 Jasper Catdaver, an undertaker; #7 Captain Eddie Cattenbakker, a pilot; #8 Hep Cat, a cat in a zoot suit.

* TalkingAnimal

Charles Nelson Reilly, already a fixture on the Creator/{{CBS}} version of ''Series/MatchGame'', was the crocodile-suited star of this three-month Creator/{{Filmation}} series on Creator/{{ABC}}, a parody of the AnimatedAnthology programs with live presenters that were in nearly every major TV market in the 1950s and 1960s. Reilly's co-stars were Alfie Wise as Uncle Croc's sidekick, Rabbit Ears, and [[Series/LostInSpace Jonathan Harris]] as the director, Basil Bitterbottom. The show was such a flop that ABC told Filmation to never sell them another show. Ironically after ABC canceled ''Uncle Croc's Block'', they replaced it with Filmation's 1970 show ''[[WesternAnimation/SabrinaAndTheGroovieGoolies The Groovie Goolies]]''.

Charles Nelson Reilly, already a fixture on the Creator/{{CBS}} version of ''Series/MatchGame'', was the crocodile-suited star of this three-month Creator/{{Filmation}} series on Creator/{{ABC}}, a parody of the AnimatedAnthology programs with live presenters that were in nearly every major TV market in the 1950s and 1960s. Reilly's co-stars were Alfie Wise as Uncle Croc's sidekick, Rabbit Ears, and [[Series/LostInSpace Jonathan Harris]] as the director, Basil Bitterbottom. The show was such a flop that ABC told Filmation to never sell them another show. Ironically after ABC canceled ''Uncle Croc's Block'', they replaced it with Filmation's 1970 show ''The Groovie Goolies''.

* CatsHaveNineLives: This is the premise of ''Fraidy Cat''. Fraidy is already nervous because he's on his final life, and it doesn't help that the ghosts of his eight previous incarnations keep appearing to him if he (even accidentally) intones their number. At least one of these ghosts, who was an undertaker in life, hopes to bring Fraidy over to the afterlife. The worst one is Cloud Nine, a PsychoElectro storm cloud who tries to electrocute poor Fraidy. Pretty morbid for a kids' show, eh?

* CatsHaveNineLives: Literally so, in the case of Fraidy Cat.

Charles Nelson Reilly, already a fixture on the Creator/{{CBS}} version of ''Series/MatchGame'', was the crocodile-suited star of this three-month Creator/{{Filmation}} series on Creator/{{ABC}}, a parody of the AnimatedAnthology programs with live presenters that were in nearly every major TV market in the 1950s and 1960s. Reilly's co-stars were Alfie Wise as Uncle Croc's sidekick, Rabbit Ears, and [[Series/LostInSpace Jonathan Harris]] as the director, Basil Bitterbottom.

Charles Nelson Reilly, already a fixture on the Creator/{{CBS}} version of ''MatchGame'', was the crocodile-suited star of this three-month {{Creator/Filmation}} series on Creator/{{ABC}}, a parody of the AnimatedAnthology programs with live presenters that were in nearly every major TV market in the 1950s and 1960s. Reilly's co-stars were Alfie Wise as Uncle Croc's sidekick, Rabbit Ears, and [[Series/LostInSpace Jonathan Harris]] as the director, Basil Bitterbottom.

* "M-U-S-H", a canine parody of ''Series/{{Mash}}'' whose title expands to "Mangy, Unwanted, Shabby Heroes", and

Live-action segments included guests such as Steve Exhaustion [[TheSixMillionDollarMan The $6.95 Man]].

!!''UncleCrocsBlock'' provides examples of:

* CatsHaveNineLives

Charles Nelson Reilly, already a fixture on the Creator/{{CBS}} version of ''MatchGame'', was the crocodile-suited star of this three-month {{Filmation}} series on Creator/{{ABC}}, a parody of the AnimatedAnthology programs with live presenters that were in nearly every major TV market in the 1950s and 1960s. Reilly's co-stars were Alfie Wise as Uncle Croc's sidekick, Rabbit Ears, and [[Series/LostInSpace Jonathan Harris]] as the director, Basil Bitterbottom.

Charles Nelson Reilly, already a fixture on the Creator/{{CBS}} version of ''MatchGame'', was the crocodile-suited star of this three-month {{Filmation}} series on Creator/{{ABC}}, a parody of the AnimatedAnthology programs with live presenters that were in nearly every major TV market in the 1950s and 1960s. Reilly's co-stars were Alfie Wise as Uncle Croc's sidekick, Rabbit Ears, and [[LostInSpace Jonathan Harris]] as the director, Basil Bitterbottom.

Live-action segments included guests such as [[TheSixMillionDollarMan The $6.95 Man]].

* "M-U-S-H", a canine parody of ''{{MASH}}'' whose title expands to "Mangy, Unwanted, Shabby Heroes", and

Live-action segments included [[TheSixMillionDollarMan The $6.95 Man]].

Charles Nelson Reilly, already a fixture on the {{CBS}} version of ''MatchGame'', was the crocodile-suited star of this three-month {{Filmation}} series on {{ABC}}, a parody of the AnimatedAnthology programs with live presenters that were in nearly every major TV market in the 1950s and 1960s. Reilly's co-stars were Alfie Wise as Uncle Croc's sidekick, Rabbit Ears, and [[LostInSpace Jonathan Harris]] as the director, Basil Bitterbottom.