Clutch Cargo

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Clutch Cargo is an animated television series produced by Cambria Productions and syndicated beginning on March 9, 1959. Notable for its very limited animation, yet imaginative stories, the series was a surprise hit at the time, and could be seen on 65 stations nationwide in 1960. This animated series was broadcast in Italy in syndication in the early 1980s with two different titles: Tre contro tutti and Clutch Cargo.

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Seasons

52 Episodes • Premiered 1959

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 1: The Friendly Head Hunters

1. The Friendly Head Hunters

While Clutch is at an in-store signing for his new book he gets a telegraph telling him he must go to South America to find a lost friend.

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2. The Arctic Bird Giant

Clutch's tiny Eskimo friend needs him to save a friend from a bird giant.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 3: The Desert Queen

3. The Desert Queen

A twenty-nine pound ruby is missing and Clutch must find it.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 4: The Pearl Pirates

4. The Pearl Pirates

Clutch's south seas island vacation is cut short when the natives tell him their rare black pearls are being stolen.

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5. The Vanishing Gold

On the way home from a mountain hideaway, Clutch encounters a miner whose gold is disappearing.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 6: The Race Car Mystery

6. The Race Car Mystery

Clutch's friend has his car sabotaged in a race. When Clutch shows up, the same thing happens to him.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 7: The Rocket Riot

7. The Rocket Riot

When their plane has mechanical problems, Clutch and friends are forced to land in the desert. After passing out from the heat, they are rescued by a rocket scientist.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 8: Mystery in the Northwoods

8. Mystery in the Northwoods

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 9: Twaddle in Africa

9. Twaddle in Africa

Colonel Twaddle goes missing while on a secret mission in Africa and Clutch is called on to find him.

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10. The Lost Plateau

The medical association asks Clutch to go to the Amazon to find a rare plant that can cure night blindness.

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11. The Ghost Ship

While relaxing in a small fishing village, Clutch discovers that a ship piloted by ghosts is keeping the locals from fishing.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 12: The Rustlers

12. The Rustlers

On the way home from an adventure, Clutch and friends stop to see a rancher friend and find that someone is stealing her cattle.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 13: The Missing Train

13. The Missing Train

Clutch plans to take Spinner and Paddlefoot to the circus but has to change their plans when a train full of gold goes missing.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 14: The Devil Bird

14. The Devil Bird

After a giant bird makes the natives of Taka Napa flee to Rapa Tapa, Chief Mambo sends a message to Clutch asking for help.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 15: Pipeline to Danger

15. Pipeline to Danger

When Clutch is called upon to find out why a new oil pipeline isn't working, mysterious strangers try to eliminate him.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 16: Mister Abominable

16. Mister Abominable

A storm forces Clutch and friends to land in the Himalayas. There they meet Prince Gung Ho who tells them that a sacred blue yak has gone missing.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 17: Operation Moon Beam

17. Operation Moon Beam

Clutch and company enter a rocket race to the moon.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 18: Air Race

18. Air Race

Clutch Races an airplane against the ace.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 19: The Haunted Castle

19. The Haunted Castle

Clutch goes to Scotland to investigate his friend's haunted castle.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 20: The Elephant-Nappers

20. The Elephant-Nappers

When a rare white elephant goes missing, Clutch is asked to find her.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 21: Dragon Fly

21. Dragon Fly

One of Clutch's old friends is being tormented by a giant dragonfly, or so he thinks.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 22: Sky Circus

22. Sky Circus

Clutch enters a sky circus but the airport manager wants to make sure he doesn't win the $5,000 prize.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 23: The Midget Submarine

23. The Midget Submarine

An atomic submarine is stuck on the ocean floor and Clutch must find it before another country discovers it and it's secrets.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 24: Cliff Dwellers

24. Cliff Dwellers

After crash landing in the desert, Clutch and company stumble upon the village of a lost Indian tribe.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 25: Jungle Train

25. Jungle Train

Chubb Perkins sends a message to Clutch saying he needs help but Whiplash wants to make sure that Clutch doesn't make it to Chubb's plantation.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 26: Space Station

26. Space Station

Paddlefoot is chosen to pilot a spacecraft due to his high dog IQ. However, when the spacecraft gets lost, Clutch and Spinner must journey to find him.

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27. The Swamp Swindlers

While in the Florida swamp lands looking for rare turtle eggs Clutch, Spinner and Paddlefoot run into some men trying to claim the oil in the area.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 28: The Dinky Incas

28. The Dinky Incas

An American expedition to a lost Incan temple has gone missing.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 29: Kangaroo Express

29. Kangaroo Express

A plane loaded with treasure is forced to land in the Australian desert and Clutch must recover it.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 30: The Shipwreckers

30. The Shipwreckers

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 31: The Ivory Counterfeiters

31. The Ivory Counterfeiters

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 32: Dynamite Fury

32. Dynamite Fury

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 33: Alaskan Pilot

33. Alaskan Pilot

Klondike Ike and Sourdough Mike are missing, but Gumboot Hogan and Moose Nose Mack don't want Clutch to find them.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 34: Swiss Mystery

34. Swiss Mystery

The Greenwich clock has a broken main spring and the only person who can make one, Hans Clockenspiel has gone missing. Clutch and company must travel to Tickertocken to find out the correct time before they can begin to search for Hans.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 35: Pirate Isle

35. Pirate Isle

Clutch gets a mysterious telegram telling him to go to the Galapagos Islands.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 36: Crop Dusters

36. Crop Dusters

Colonel Greenleaf Julip is losing his cotton crop because of an unusual amount of bugs and now he may lose his plantation to Mr. Hansen.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 37: The Smog Smuggler

37. The Smog Smuggler

A mysterious dirigible is dumping soot on Sunnydale and Clutch has to stop it.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 38: Global Test Flight

38. Global Test Flight

Clutch is test flying a new design for Andy Anderson but the competition tries to sabotage his global trip.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 39: Dead End Gulch

39. Dead End Gulch

When stagecoach bandits come to Dead End Gulch, Clutch decides to run for marshal.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 40: The Missing Mermaid

40. The Missing Mermaid

Minnie the Mermaid has been abducted by spies and Clutch must save her.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 41: Flying Bus

41. Flying Bus

The Smog brothers are trying to sabotage a new airbus design so they won't lose the city bus franchise.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 42: Road Race

42. Road Race

Clutch enters the Forgonia Grand Prix but someone is trying to sabotage him.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 43: Feather Fuddle

43. Feather Fuddle

Professor Chickadee has gone missing at Big Wet Lake.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 44: Water Wizards

44. Water Wizards

Clutch and Spinner enter the boat races at the regatta and Spider Black tries to sabotage them.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 45: The Terrible Tiger

45. The Terrible Tiger

Clutch and company go to the Bingo Bengal jungle to save their friends from a giant tiger.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 46: The Circus

46. The Circus

Someone is trying to wreck the circus and Clutch intends to find out who is responsible.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 47: Bush Pilots

47. Bush Pilots

Pete Moss sends a mayday from the Northern wilds and Clutch must rescue him.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 48: Cheddar Cheaters

48. Cheddar Cheaters

Dutch cows are going missing and Clutch is asked to find them.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 49: The Blunderbird

49. The Blunderbird

The friendly headhunters ask Clutch to come to the Amazon and save them from a giant bird.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 50: The Case of Ripcord Van Winkle

50. The Case of Ripcord Van Winkle

A pilot who has been missing for 30 years suddenly appears and throws an air show.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 51: The Fortune Cookie Caper

51. The Fortune Cookie Caper

Clutch gets a note in his fortune cookie from Chin Chew Chow, saying that he is being held prisoner in a cookie factory.

Still image for Clutch Cargo season 1 episode 52: Big "X"

52. Big "X"

Professor Stargazer sends a paper airplane to Clutch asking for help when a big thing is going to collide with the moon.

Cast

Photo of Margaret Kerry

Margaret Kerry

Spinner / Mary Perkins / Paddlefoot (voice)

Photo of Hal Smith

Hal Smith

Narrator (voice)

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