Clutch Cargo | Season 1 | Episode 52 | Big "X" (1959)

Professor Stargazer sends a paper airplane to Clutch asking for help when a big thing is going to collide with the moon.
Director: Phil Booth
Writer: Clark Haas
Starring: Richard Cotting, Margaret Kerry, Emil Sitka
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[@ferrisreels66]

Good for them for getting this thing on the air.

[@JackBWatkins]

I loved Clutch Cargo as a kid. How cheesy, drapes in the spaceship, the names and the music.

[@33Donner77]

And thus the channel Nickelodeon was born.

[@jupiterlegrand4817]

"What about Professor Knockwurst?" How many times have I said that same thing...

[@lucymoody4927]

This show is so good!

[@jackalanillar3530]

I would have no idea who clutch cargo was if it wasn't for the Max Headroom incident.

[@JosephTaverna-sm3uk]

I remember watching clutch on the sally star show

[@DVDandFilmBloke]

I still see the X

[@miguelbayonrivera2467]

"Your love is fading"...

[@DVDandFilmBloke]

@@miguelbayonrivera2467 "Catch the wave!"

[@Titan52berg]

That paper airplane must have come equipped with early GPS...

[@spacewolfjr]

Max Headroom :)

[@ralphmodynlosugarteeth3188]

Such a weird Charm tbh. Also the fact that the scientist contacted Clutch by... paper plane🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 mf is a clever dude but does not have a single cable telephone not even Fax

[@spacewolfjr]

I definitely agree about him just picking up a phone but fax machines weren't really a commercial thing until the 1980s and 1990s.. 25-40 years after this show.

[@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648]

Space walk several years before the first actual space walk

[@allenhonaker4107]

When you're done with Clutch can you go to Deputy Dawg? 😂😂😂😂

[@davids3313]

Oh wow, I remember that ship at dock

[@philipmorris4843]

KZbin also has the making of this series. Interesting how the studio Cambria made it on a shoestring budget. Putting the lips of the voice actors over the animated characters and using a real fire and smoke in situations

[@Ikes_online_video_space_78]

Kind of odd how the dog is the smoothest in animation compared to everything else and the fact that they basically recorded there mouths and overlayed them on the characters

[@timhinchcliffe5372]

Pretty good for the '50s.

[@jacobburns9343]

Professor NotWurst 😂 Would Professor NotKraut be too obvious in 1959? And he launched his third rocket, the first model isn't too accurate. Wow - well written references.

[@Staszu13]

Hal Smith as narrator and Professor Stargazer

[@Alexander-wt8dg]

The dog is the only one with an animated mouth movement

[@spacewolfjr]

I wonder if von Braun's secret identity was Professor Knockwurst under Operation Paperclip...

[@litaheffley6990]

Loved this ❤️ cartoon thanks

[@briancoulombe4517]

🎶I don’t wanna close my eyes I don’t wanna fall asleep Cause I’d miss ya, baby And I don’t wanna miss a thing

[@stevengrasmeier8427]

~Insert obligatory Max head room incident~

[@JordanoBortolotto-hc6hz]

I still see the X

[@Vovchgame]

@@JordanoBortolotto-hc6hz Catch the wave

[@Tornado1994]

@@Vovchgame Your love is fading!

[@HooDatDonDar]

I want one of those magic paper airplanes

[@williamnessanbaum7464]

Pew... Wow... That stunk... That was truly horrible.

[@davidgeier5827]

Did he consider a land line phone?

[@sgtsaltstick2729]

Paper planes are cooler and more scientific.

[@kamikazekalamari]

To the 82nd floor?

[@garybovee7474]

Minor goof, two minutes in the professor states an amount of time that will pass ( Mountain Time ) until the asteroid strikes. Does mountain time pass quicker or slower than world time?

[@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648]

It's fantasy scifi... not expected to make scientific sense

[@jupiterlegrand4817]

You wouldn't ask that if you'd ever visited Professor Knockwurst!

[@aluula956]

It's probably the time zone.

[@sanpuru1969]

Maybe it was meant as a joke.

[@iamjacksbrokenfemur8401]

Oh, my! An asteroid is about to destroy the moon! Better make a paper plane and throw it out the window!

[@glennledrew8347]

So 'Big X' is able to blast the Moon to bits, yet it's about 50 feet in diameter. 😂 So instubstantial it can be guided about by a near vaccuum of ionised atoms emitted by a puny rocket. And bringing it back from the Moon at the speed suggested here would have it detonate in the atmosphere like the Chelyabinsk meteor some years back.

[@spacewolfjr]

The Moon belongs to America and eagerly awaits our astromen ... and Democratic hopeful Adlai Stevenson!

[@JohnJohnson-fr5cx]

Is this the episode shown in Pulp Fiction?

[@jomon723]

something that size would have no effect on the moon, Don't they know that??? :LOL

[@dannygaines1352]

He has a dynamite beard!

[@SuperXzm]

Anime: Westerners use too many frames! 10 fps is more than enough! Westerners: Do not underestimate my true power...

[@ericquasney8832]

How about the tech terms. Some Body knew something back then

[@bobbylee2853]

“Craptacular”

[@Chris-on4jp]

18:20 Nickelodeon?!

[@Chilli_Heelers_Doula]

did no one have a stupid telephone?

[@chrisschwenk8972]

😂

[@ptorq]

I get the whole limited animation / "Synchro-Vox" thing, but couldn't they have scaled the mouths more appropriately to the faces? It's really true for all of them to some degree, but Clutch in particular has a HUGE chin and this teeny tiny little mouth, made all the more jarring by the more reasonably sized mouth he's got in the drawing in the credits.

[@scottl.1568]

Whut

[@stephencarter7266]

Something's not right with this whole arrangement.

[@generalgeneric9358]

For 1960... Yeah this still looks bad.

[@followerofjulian1652]

Makes me appreciate Space Angel!