December 28 - Ivor the Engine debuts on BBC.

November 19 - Aesop and Son, Dudley Do-Right, Fractured Fairy Tales, Peabody's Improbable History, and The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show debut on ABC and NBC.

November 7 - Cartoon Party debuts on CBC.

October 11 - Matty's Funday Funnies debuts on ABC.

September 27 - The Quick Draw McGraw Show debuts in syndication.

September 19 - Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy and Snooper and Blabber debut in syndication.

September 11 - Noggin the Nog debuts on BBC.

September 8 - Bucky and Pepito debuts in syndication.

September 2 - Herge's Adventures of Tintin debuts on RTB.

March 9 - Clutch Cargo debuts in syndication.

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Gene Deitch establishes Gene Deitch Associates, Inc., funded by William L.

Qian Jiajun's Chuang Tapestry premieres.

Ivan Ivanov-Vano, Dmitriy Babichenko and Mikhail Botov's The Adventures of Buratino premieres.

Yuri Merkulov's I Was a Satellite of the Sun premieres.

The first episode of Capt'n Sailorbird is broadcast.

December 28: The first episode of Ivor the Engine is broadcast.

December 25: Akira Daikubara and Taiji Yabushita's Magic Boy is first broadcast.

December 1: Jack Kinney's 1001 Arabian Nights premieres.

November 19 The first episode of Rocky and Bullwinkle is broadcast.

November 7: The first episode of Cartoon Party is broadcast.

October 11: The first episode of Matty's Funday Funnies is broadcast.

This leads to a revival in popularity for the classic theatrical cartoon character.

October 2: The first episode of Felix the Cat is broadcast.

September 25: Jiří Trnka's A Midsummer Night's Dream premieres.

September 19: The first episode of Hanna-Barbera's The Quick Draw McGraw Show is broadcast which also marks the debuts of the segments Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy and Snooper and Blabber.September 11: The first episode of Noggin the Nog is broadcast.September 8: The first episode of Bucky and Pepito is broadcast.April 6: 31st Academy Awards: Friz Freleng's Knighty Knight Bugs wins an Academy Award for Best Animated Short, being the only Bugs Bunny cartoon to ever win an Oscar.March 9: The first episode of Clutch Cargo is broadcast.January 29: Clyde Geronimi, Eric Larson and Wolfgang Reitherman's Sleeping Beauty, produced by the Walt Disney Company, premieres.

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