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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
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Subject: Underdog
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Date: Sun, 28-Aug-83 21:27:35 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 28 21:27:35 1983
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Oh yeah, I forgot to mention "Underdog"!

The full lyrics to the cartoon intro has appeared in the past
in SF-L, I won't reproduce them here.  The main theme was spoken:

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Look!  Up in the air!
It's a bird!
It's a plane!
It's a frog!

A frog???

Not bird nor plane nor even frog ... it's just little old me ... UNDERDOG!

Narrator:  One of the city's most humble and lovable characters, was
	   "shoeshine boy".
Shoeshine: (finishing shoeshine): All finished, sir.
Man:	   (tossing him a coin): Thanks, shoeshine boy.  You're humble
	   and lovable.
Shoesine:  (testing coin with teeth): Bless you, sir.
Narrator:  Little did anyone know that whenever there was a call for
	   help...
Woman:	   Help!  Help, help!
Narrator:  Shoeshine boy became in real life ... UNDERDOG!

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The voice of Underdog was of course Wally Cox.  The main characters
in the program included Underdog himself, the evil Simon Bar Sinister,
and the TV reporter Miss Polly Purebred.

--Lauren--