Underdog — Season 1, Episode 26: The Bubbleheads Part 3
Animation, Comedy • 5 min • 3 seasons, 129 episodes • ★ 6.4/10
Episode synopsis
After being captured by the evil monarchs of Maldemare, Polly and the Professor are taken in front of them and learn of their evil plan. Polly begins to cry for Underdog but is told that he can't hear her down there. Meanwhile, the Navy who was monitoring the expedition, become worried when they lose contact with the bathysphere and Polly and the Professor. They immediately send a message to Underdog who immediately arrives on the scene. Underdog then goes beneath the sea but is monitored by the Empress. She instructs her guards to release the man-eating sharks. After fighting the sharks, Underdog is then grabbed by the 'guard', a giant octopus. Weaken by his fight with the sharks, and almost out of air, he is succumbed and taken to the city where he is thrown into the giant clam with Polly and the professor.
About Underdog
Underdog, also known as The Underdog Show, is an American Saturday morning animated television series that ran from October 3, 1964, to March 4, 1967, starting on the NBC network until 1966, with the rest of the run on CBS, under the primary sponsorship of General Mills, for a run of 62 episodes. It is one of the early Saturday morning cartoons. The show continued in syndication until 1973. Underdog, Shoeshine Boy's heroic alter ego, appears whenever love interest Sweet Polly Purebred is being victimized by such villains as Simon Bar Sinister or Riff Raff. Underdog nearly always speaks in rhyming couplets, as in "There's no need to fear, Underdog is here!"