Cool McCool

Well, actually the organisation he worked for was "Secret Inc.," but never mind - this was one seriously funny spy spoof ("Created By Bob Kane And Al Brodax," the opening would blare - cartoons with "created by" credits were rare back in the '60s; must have been Bob Kane's cachet). Our hero, the mustachioed, trench-coat wearing spy Cool McCool - "Danger is my business" - fought the likes of Hurricane Harry, the Rattler, Jack-in-the-Box, the Owl (and the Pussycat in one episode) and Madcap; invariably he managed to come out on top, but never without fumbling along the way, and each cartoon ended with his irate - and never seen by us - boss Number One ejecting him from the office, despite crying his other catchphrase ("That will NEVER happen again!")

In between his adventures (two per show), poor Cool would reminisce about his dear old dad Harry McCool, who in days of yore was a cop right at the top of the league... cue the supporting cartoon, with Harry and his partners Tom and Dick (you saw that coming, didn't you?) as equally clumsy but also triumphant policemen. It all made for cheaply animated but frequently entertaining viewing, marred only by the fact that I'm convinced the King Features logo frightened me as a child. But apart from that, this is far more fondly remembered by me than some better known cartoons.