Editing Dick Tracy (section)

====Animated cartoons====
{{Main|The Dick Tracy Show}}
[[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.