Description:  The Dick Tracy Show , produced by UPA for syndication in 1961, was an animated series in which the title character played a minimal, supervisory role, assigning cases via his two-way wrist radio to a team of subordinate, highly-stereotyped detectives. The show consisted of 130 five-minute episodes and featured many classic villains from the comic strip, such as Flattop, Pruneface, and Mumbles.

Description: The show diverged significantly from the tone of Chester Gould's original, often violent, comic strip. Instead, it was a campy, pun-filled cartoon using limited animation, primarily aimed at a children's audience. Dick Tracy himself (voiced by Everett Sloane) was a square-jawed, semi-realistic character who mostly appeared in the opening and closing segments, or to receive calls from his assistants. The bulk of the action was handled by his comically exaggerated "flatfoot" team:

Joe Jitsu: A Japanese detective who used martial arts while repeatedly apologizing to his victims.

Go-Go Gomez: A lazy Mexican character, often seen in a hammock, but surprisingly fast when needed.

Heap O'Calorie: A overweight, Irish-American beat cop with a penchant for stealing apples from outdoor stands.

Hemlock Holmes: A bumbling, British-accented police bulldog (voiced to parody Cary Grant) who was accompanied by the "Retouchables," a group resembling the Keystone Kops.

The villains were also highly caricatured, with many of their voices parodying famous actors (e.g., Flattop like Peter Lorre, Pruneface like Boris Karloff).