

The Uninvited Pests (official debut) (November 29).The Talking Magpies (prototypes) (January 4).Heckle and Jeckle were planned to have a cameo in the deleted scene "Acme's Funeral" from the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Dell Comics, New Terrytoons #6–8 (1962).John Publications, Heckle and Jeckle #1–24 (1951–55) The characters also regularly appeared in comic books over the years, including "Mighty Mouse", "Terrytoons" and "Paul Terry's Comics", and even headlined a number of their own comic book titles:
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Selected cartoons from the original series of 52 theatrical titles were briefly made available on VHS home video in the 1990s, but a major DVD release has yet to materialize. Heckle and Jeckle have been licensed for toys, T-shirts, puzzles, games, salt and pepper shakers, Halloween costumes, plush dolls, puppets, coloring books, cookie jars and other consumer products for decades, variously through Terrytoons, CBS Television and Viacom. Gold Key Comics Heckle and Jeckle Issue 2, from February 1962 They were also changed from magpies to crows. In an unreleased 1999 Terrytoons pilot, Curbside, Heckle was voiced by Toby Huss and Jeckle was voiced by comedian Bobcat Goldthwait. Heckle and Jeckle made a cameo in the 1988 Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures episode "Mighty's Wedlock Whimsy", alongside a few other Terrytoons characters. The show was cut to a half-hour for the 1980-1981 season, and featured one Heckle and Jeckle cartoon. The hour-long show featured two Heckle and Jeckle cartoons. The show featured newly-animated 11-minute magpie cartoons, in which the characters were not as abrasive as their theatrical personas.

The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle premiered on CBS Saturday mornings on September 8, 1979. Īfter a hiatus, the show moved to NBC Saturday mornings in September 1969, and aired until September 4, 1971. The show also included shorts starring other Terrytoons characters, including Mighty Mouse, Little Roquefort and Percy the Cat, Gandy Goose, Dinky Duck and the Terry Bears. The Heckle and Jeckle Cartoon Show premiered on CBS Saturday mornings on October 14, 1956, and aired until 1966. In summer 1956, the premiere episode of the primetime CBS Cartoon Theater included the 1947 magpie short Flying South. The early cartoons paired the duo with the popular song of the time, " Listen to the Mocking Bird", as their theme.Īfter Paul Terry sold the Terrytoons studio to CBS in 1955, the studio's cartoons were repackaged in different timeslots. Terrytoons made 52 Heckle and Jeckle theatrical cartoons between 19. Terry was taken with the idea of a pair of identical characters, and followed up with The Uninvited Pests (Nov 29, 1946), which established the pair as new characters. This was a husband-and-wife pair, not the pair of identical birds that they would become. The Talking Magpies, released January 4, 1946, was the first Terrytoons cartoon to feature a pair of wisecracking magpies. This short featured prototypes of the duo. The characters are a pair of identical anthropomorphic yellow-billed magpies they were voiced at different times by Sid Raymond (1946–47), Ned Sparks (1947–51), Roy Halee (1951–61), Dayton Allen (1956–66) and Frank Welker (1979).


Heckle and Jeckle are postwar animated cartoon characters created by Paul Terry, originally produced at his own Terrytoons animation studio and released through 20th Century Fox. Toby Huss and Bobcat Goldthwait ( Curbside) The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckleįrank Welker ( The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle)
