Whale of a Tale (Touché Turtle)


 * This article is about the Touché Turtle and Dum Dum short. For the Sinbad Jr. episode, see Whale of a Tale (Sinbad Jr.). You may also be looking for the Richie Rich episode "A Whale of a Tale."

"Whale of a Tale" is the first episode of Touché Turtle and Dum Dum season one, and came as part of The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series. It aired on September 3, 1962 on NBC. It was produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the founders of Hanna-Barbera.

Touché Turtle helps Captain Ahab in capturing Moby Dick.

Characters

 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Narrator (voice only)
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Captain Ahab
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Doug Young
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Moby Dick
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Operator (voice only)
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Dum Dum
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Alan Reed
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Lion
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Touché Turtle
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Bill Thompson
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Alan Reed
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Lion
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Touché Turtle
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Bill Thompson
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Touché Turtle
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Bill Thompson

Locations

 * Earth
 * United States
 * Captain Ahab's Sea Circus

Vehicles

 * Captain Ahab's ship

Release
Dates are in order of release.


 * United States: September 3, 1962 on NBC

Home availability

 * In the United States:
 * October 27, 2009: Warner Home Video releases Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960s Volume 2 on DVD.