Editing Dick Tracy (section)

===Television===
* [[Dick Tracy (TV series)|Dick Tracy]] (1950–1951) - live action television series starring Ralph Byrd
* ''[[The Dick Tracy Show]]'' (1961) - animated television series with various voices including [[Everett Sloane]] and [[Mel Blanc]]
* [[The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo|''The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo'', "Dick Tracy and the Mob"]] (1965 animated half-hour TV episode with the voices of Everett Sloane and [[Jim Backus]]
* [[Dick Tracy (TV pilot)|''Dick Tracy'']] (1967) - television pilot starring [[Ray MacDonnell]]
* ''[[Archie's TV Funnies]]'' (1971) - features original Dick Tracy mini-episodes using the classic villains and cast from the strip, more faithful in tone than the earlier animated series
* ''Dick Tracy Special'' (2010) - thirty-minute special featuring Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty) being interviewed by [[Leonard Maltin]]
* ''Dick Tracy Special - Tracy Zooms In'' (2023) - twenty-five-minute special featuring a [[Zoom (software)|Zoom]] conversation between Tracy (Beatty), Maltin, [[Ben Mankiewicz]] and Beatty himself

The strip has had limited exposure on television with one early live-action series, two animated series, one unsold pilot that was never picked up, and a proposed TV series currently held up in litigation.

====First live action series====
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[[Ralph Byrd]], who had played the square-jawed sleuth in all four Republic movie serials and two of the RKO feature-length films, reprised his role in a short-lived live action ''[[Dick Tracy (TV series)|Dick Tracy]]'' series that ran on ABC from 1950 to 1951. Additional episodes intended for first-run [[Broadcast syndication|syndication]] continued to be produced into 1952. Produced by P. K. Palmer, who also wrote many of the scripts, the series often featured Gould-created villains such as [[Flattop Jones|Flattop]], Shaky, the Mole, Breathless Mahoney, Heels Beals and Influence, all of whom appeared on film for the first time on this series. Other cast members included Joe Devlin as Sam Catchem, Angela Greene as Tess Tracy (née Trueheart), Martin Dean as Junior, and [[Pierre Watkin]] as Chief Patton. Criticized for its violence, the series remained popular. It ended, not in response to criticism, but because of Byrd's unexpected, premature death in 1952. The series was filmed on a low budget, with many long hours and a rushed shooting schedule. Many episodes of this series have been released on various public domain TV detective DVD sets.

====Animated cartoons====
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[[File:Dicktracy1961cartoon.jpg|right|thumb|180px|DVD release of the 1961 cartoon.]]
The first cartoon series was produced from 1960 to 1961 by [[United Productions of America|UPA]]. Tracy employed a series of cartoon-like subordinate flatfoots to fight crime each week, contacting them on his two-way wrist radio. [[Everett Sloane]] voiced Tracy and supporting characters and villains were voiced by Jerry Hausner, [[Mel Blanc]], [[Benny Rubin]], Johnny Coons, [[Paul Frees]] and others. These subordinates included "Go-Go" Gomez, [[Joe Jitsu (Dick Tracy)|Joe Jitsu]], Hemlock Holmes and the Retouchables, and Officer Heap O'Calorie. 130 five-minute cartoons were designed and packaged for syndication, usually intended for local children's shows.

UPA was also the production company behind the [[Mr. Magoo]] cartoons, so it was possible for them to arrange a meeting between Tracy and Magoo in a 1965 episode of the season-long TV series ''[[The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo]]''. In the episode "Dick Tracy and the Mob", Tracy persuades Magoo (a well-known actor in the context of the ''Famous Adventures'' series) to impersonate an international hit man named Squinty Eyes, who he resembles, and infiltrate a gang of criminals made up of Flattop, Pruneface, Itchy, Mumbles and others. Unlike the earlier animated Tracy shorts, this longer episode was played relatively straight, with Tracy getting much more screen time. Pitting Tracy against a coalition of several of his foes was adopted more than two decades later in the [[Dick Tracy (1990 film)|1990 film]].

A second cartoon series was produced in 1971 and was a feature in ''[[Archie's TV Funnies]]'', produced by [[Filmation]]. It adhered more closely to the comic strip, although it was hampered by cruder animation than the UPA shorts, typical of the studio's production standards.

====Live action television pilot====
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[[William Dozier]] produced a pilot for a live action Dick Tracy series in 1967 starring [[Ray MacDonnell]] in the title role. (Dozier was the producer responsible for the 1966 ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' TV series.) The pilot was "The Plot to Kill NATO", featuring "Special Guest Villain" [[Victor Buono]] as 'Mr. Memory'.  The series was not purchased by either [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] or [[NBC]]. [[Eve Plumb]], who would later find fame as Jan Brady on ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'', is credited as Bonnie Braids, who does not appear in the pilot, nor does [[Davey Davison]] as Tess.