Harris drew Underdog as an unlikely hero, a noodle-armed dog engulfed in a baggy red suit and blue cape. The best known of these characters was Underdog, who was transformed from a canine version of a shoe shiner into a superhero, usually when the reporter Sweet Polly Purebred was threatened by villains, including the evil scientist Simon Bar Sinister and the natty wolf gangster Riff Raff. Harris drew storyboards and designed characters like King Leonardo, Klondike Kat and Tennessee Tuxedo. Stover and Biggers were the main writers Covington handled audio recording and Mr. Watts Biggers, an account manager at Dancer, and Treadwell Covington, who worked at a direct-mail agency, to form Total TeleVision, a company that would make Saturday morning cartoons to compete for General Mills’ business with cartoons by Jay Ward and Bill Scott, who created a show centering on Rocky & Bullwinkle.
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