Original title
Clutch Cargo
Released
3/9/1959
Origin country
US
Genre
Action & Adventure, Animation, Kids
Production companies
Cambria Studios
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
1
Number of episodes
52
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.
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.
Clutch's tiny Eskimo friend needs him to save a friend from a bird giant.
A twenty-nine pound ruby is missing and Clutch must find it.
Clutch's south seas island vacation is cut short when the natives tell him their rare black pearls are being stolen.
On the way home from a mountain hideaway, Clutch encounters a miner whose gold is disappearing.
Clutch's friend has his car sabotaged in a race. When Clutch shows up, the same thing happens to him.
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.
Colonel Twaddle goes missing while on a secret mission in Africa and Clutch is called on to find him.
The medical association asks Clutch to go to the Amazon to find a rare plant that can cure night blindness.
While relaxing in a small fishing village, Clutch discovers that a ship piloted by ghosts is keeping the locals from fishing.
On the way home from an adventure, Clutch and friends stop to see a rancher friend and find that someone is stealing her cattle.
Clutch plans to take Spinner and Paddlefoot to the circus but has to change their plans when a train full of gold goes missing.
After a giant bird makes the natives of Taka Napa flee to Rapa Tapa, Chief Mambo sends a message to Clutch asking for help.
When Clutch is called upon to find out why a new oil pipeline isn't working, mysterious strangers try to eliminate him.
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.
Clutch and company enter a rocket race to the moon.
Clutch Races an airplane against the ace.
Clutch goes to Scotland to investigate his friend's haunted castle.
When a rare white elephant goes missing, Clutch is asked to find her.
One of Clutch's old friends is being tormented by a giant dragonfly, or so he thinks.
Clutch enters a sky circus but the airport manager wants to make sure he doesn't win the $5,000 prize.
An atomic submarine is stuck on the ocean floor and Clutch must find it before another country discovers it and it's secrets.
After crash landing in the desert, Clutch and company stumble upon the village of a lost Indian tribe.
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.
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.
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.
An American expedition to a lost Incan temple has gone missing.
A plane loaded with treasure is forced to land in the Australian desert and Clutch must recover it.
Klondike Ike and Sourdough Mike are missing, but Gumboot Hogan and Moose Nose Mack don't want Clutch to find them.
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.
Clutch gets a mysterious telegram telling him to go to the Galapagos Islands.
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.
A mysterious dirigible is dumping soot on Sunnydale and Clutch has to stop it.
Clutch is test flying a new design for Andy Anderson but the competition tries to sabotage his global trip.
When stagecoach bandits come to Dead End Gulch, Clutch decides to run for marshal.
Minnie the Mermaid has been abducted by spies and Clutch must save her.
The Smog brothers are trying to sabotage a new airbus design so they won't lose the city bus franchise.
Clutch enters the Forgonia Grand Prix but someone is trying to sabotage him.
Professor Chickadee has gone missing at Big Wet Lake.
Clutch and Spinner enter the boat races at the regatta and Spider Black tries to sabotage them.
Clutch and company go to the Bingo Bengal jungle to save their friends from a giant tiger.
Someone is trying to wreck the circus and Clutch intends to find out who is responsible.
Pete Moss sends a mayday from the Northern wilds and Clutch must rescue him.
Dutch cows are going missing and Clutch is asked to find them.
The friendly headhunters ask Clutch to come to the Amazon and save them from a giant bird.
A pilot who has been missing for 30 years suddenly appears and throws an air show.
Clutch gets a note in his fortune cookie from Chin Chew Chow, saying that he is being held prisoner in a cookie factory.
Professor Stargazer sends a paper airplane to Clutch asking for help when a big thing is going to collide with the moon.
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