About this season
Drawn in a simple style, it features a gee-whiz boy hero, Tom Terrific, who lives in a treehouse and can transform himself into anything he wants thanks to his magic, funnel-shaped "thinking cap," which also enhances his intelligence. He has a comic lazybones of a sidekick, Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog, and an arch-foe named Crabby Appleton, whose motto is, "I'm rotten to the core!" Other foes include Mr. Instant, the Instant Thing King, Captain Kidney Bean, Sweet Tooth Sam, the Candy Bandit and Isotope Feaney, The Meany.
Episodes (13)
1. The Missing Mail Mystery
Aired 22 September 1958 • 5 min
When Tom finds that mail from his pen pals haven't been arriving, he discovers that Crabby Appleton has been confiscating it.
2. The Prince Frog
Aired 29 September 1958 • 5 min
Tom and Manfred visit Fairyland where they meet a handsome prince who was changed from being a frog and wants to be a frog again. The witch that made the spell sends Tom and Manfred on a quest for three... more objects in exchange for turning the prince back into a frog.
3. Isotope Feeny's Foolish Fog
Aired 6 October 1958 • 5 min
Isotope Feeny creates a cloud that turns whoever it engulfs into an idiot.
4. Moon Over Manfred
Aired 13 October 1958 • 5 min
The moon's light has suddenly gone out. Tom and Manfred go to the moon where they find the Man In The Moon, who controls the moon phases, is quitting because he is always being buzzed by Earth's satellites.
5. Go West, Young Manfred
Aired 20 October 1958 • 5 min
Tom and Manfred go back in time where they help the last surviving pioneer to California.
6. The Silly Sandman
Aired 27 October 1958 • 5 min
The Sandman, the entity that puts children to sleep, has taken a vacation from his duties and it makes all the children in the world cranky for lack of sleep.
7. Crabby Park
Aired 4 November 1958 • 5 min
Crabby Appleton steals all the trees and creates his own private park with them.
8. The Million Manfred Mystery
Aired 11 November 1958 • 5 min
While visiting Earth, Martians mistake Manfred for Tom Terrific, take him back to Mars and create a million clones of him.
9. The Flying Sorceror
Aired 18 November 1958 • 5 min
Tom and Manfred must use the riddle posed by the Flying Sorceror in helping a genie return to his magic lamp.
10. The Big Dog Show-Off
Aired 25 November 1958 • 5 min
Tom enters Manfred in a dog show, while Crabby Appleton seeks to sabotage Manfred's chances of winning by disguising himself as a dog.
11. The End Of Rainbows
Aired 1 December 1958 • 5 min
Rainbow painter Rembrandt Van Rainbow has run out of color, so Tom and Manfred travel cross-country in search of more color for him.
12. RobinsNest Crusoe
Aired 8 December 1958 • 5 min
Tom and Manfred travel to the bottom of the sea where they help Robins Nest Crusoe get his baseball uniforms so he can field his baseball team.
13. The Everlasting Birthday Party
Aired 15 December 1958 • 5 min
Crabby Appleton makes time repeat itself so his birthday party will go on forever.