TV Show Details
Air Date:October 15th, 1960
Last Air Date:April 8th, 1961
Network:NBC
Status:Returning Series
Genres:Animation
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Total Television Productions
Twinkles the Elephant (1960-1961)
TV ShowNBC
Scripted
StarringGeorge S. Irving
Plot
Twinkles the Elephant is an American animated Total Television Productions series that aired as part of the NBC Saturday morning cartoon King Leonardo and His Short Subjects in 1960. The series was a tie-in with Twinkles cereal, and the titular elephant Twinkles served as the mascot. The character was actually created by Total Television.
The segment was the only segment on Short Subjects to not return in later syndication, primarily due to the FCC whom were stern about television shows consisting of cereal brand characters, as well as the character being dated regardless due to the cereal's discontinuation.