Total TeleVision productions

Total TeleVision productions
Company typePrivate
IndustryAnimation
Founded1959 (1959)
FounderTreadwell D. Covington
W. Watts Biggers
Chester "Chet" Stover
Joe Harris
Defunct1969 (1969)
SuccessorLibrary:
DreamWorks Classics
HeadquartersNew York, New York, USA
ProductsTelevision shows
Television commercials
OwnerDancer Fitzgerald Sample

Total TeleVision productions was an American animation studio founded in 1959 by Buck Biggers, Chester "Chet" Stover, Joe Harris, and Treadwell D. Covington. They were executives in the advertising agency Dancer Fitzgerald Sample who had the account for the General Mills food corporation. Total was formed to create cartoon characters encouraging children to buy General Mills breakfast cereals and other products. The company mostly created cartoons for television networks such as NBC. Underdog, King Leonardo and His Short Subjects, and Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales were among the most popular series made by the studio.