Editing Colonel Bleep (section)

{{Short description|First color cartoon series on television}}
{{Infobox television
| image              = Colonel-bleep-video-cover.jpg
| caption            = VHS cover art<br />Top row (L-R): Squeak, Scratch, Colonel Bleep<br />Bottom row (L-R): Black Patch, the Black Knight of Pluto, Bruto the Black Robot
| genre              = [[Science fiction]]
| creator            = [[Robert D. Buchanan]]<br />Jack Schleh<ref name="Streamline notes">''Colonel Bleep #1'' liner notes (1991) Streamline Pictures 90008. Quote: "Created in 1956 by Jack Schleh and Robert D. Buchanan..."</ref>
| writer             = Robert D. Buchanan
| director           = Jack Schleh
| presenter          =
| voices             = 
| narrated           = Noah Tyler
| starring           = Colonel Bleep<br />Squeek<br />Scratch
| composer           = 
| country            = United States
| language           = English
| num_seasons        = 
| num_episodes       = 100<ref name="CWTMM">{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/cantwaittillmond00kemp|title=Can't Wait Till Monday Morning|last=Kempner|first=Marvin|publisher=Rivercross Publishing Inc.|year=1998|isbn=0944957730|location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/cantwaittillmond00kemp/page/70]|oclc=1029261298}}</ref><ref name="Woolery"/><ref name="Broadcasting 1970">https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/70-OCR/1970-03-30-BC-OCR-Page-0084.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref> (45 are known to survive)
| list_episodes      = 
| producer           = 
| executive_producer = 
| company            = [[Robert D. Buchanan|Soundac]]<br>Richard M. Ullcan Inc.
| runtime            = 3–6 minutes
| network            = [[Broadcast syndication|Syndication]]
| first_aired        = {{Start date|1957|09|21}}
| last_aired         = {{End date|1960|05|9}}
| related            =  
}}

'''''Colonel Bleep''''' is a 1957 American [[science fiction]] animated TV series which was the first color [[cartoon]] series made for [[television]].<ref name=Perlmutter>{{cite book |last1=Perlmutter |first1=David |title=The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows |date=2018 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1538103739 |page=131}}</ref> It was created and written by [[Robert D. Buchanan]] and Jack Schleh on June 8, 1956,<ref name="Streamline notes"/> and was animated by [[Soundac]], Inc. of Miami.<ref>{{cite news |last=Dooley |first=Jim |title=What Makes Col. Bleep Blip? |work=[[The Miami News]] |date=1958-01-25}}</ref> The show was originally syndicated on September 21, 1957, as a segment on ''Uncle Bill's TV Club''.<ref name="Erickson2005">{{cite book|author=Hal Erickson|title=Television cartoon shows: an illustrated encyclopedia, 1949 through 2003|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WiLuAAAAMAAJ|date=30 July 2005|publisher=McFarland & Co.|isbn=978-0-7864-2255-5|page=15}}</ref> One hundred episodes,<ref name="CWTMM"/><ref name="Woolery"/><ref name="Broadcasting 1970"/> of varying length of between three and six minutes each, were produced.  Of these episodes, 45 episodes are known to exist in some form, eight of which are only available in black and white.