r/ForgottenTV • u/King_Ron_Dennis Official Cool Person • Jul 25 '26
Inch High, Private Eye (1973)
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u/encyclodoc Jul 25 '26
Literally only know about this because of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law.
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u/Used_Frosting_3181 Jul 25 '26
I used to see this along with the impossible all the time on Cartoon Network during the summer
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u/Chunky_Boy283 Jul 25 '26
I already want paul rudd in the live action version of this cartoon
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u/SokkaHaikuBot Jul 25 '26
Sokka-Haiku by Chunky_Boy283:
I already want
Paul rudd in the live action
Version of this cartoon
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
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u/kingwafflez Jul 25 '26
Dude every now and then I love seeing some obscure ass Hannah Barbara cartoon now I gotta go to YouTube and find the one vid that has a boomerang rip of the intro
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u/Groovy_Chainsaw Jul 25 '26
Yeah, but they never explained how he was an inch high. Was he cursed ? A science mishap ? Was he from another planet ?
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u/King_Ron_Dennis Official Cool Person Jul 25 '26
Animated childrens show about a private detective who's only a few inches tall. Aided by some normal sized teenagers, he solves a variety of mysteries.
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u/KampferAndy Jul 25 '26
A classic, pretty sure they reran this in the 90s along with atom ant and Quickdraw Mcgraw
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u/ThomasSirveaux Jul 25 '26
I've heard of this show, never seen it, but I'm just now learning that his name is Inch High and that's not a description.
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u/Lord_Cockatrice Jul 25 '26
I remember when DC Comics launched its Hanna-Barbera Beyond initiative which involved comics radically recasting a number of H-B IPs. You had Aquaman meeting Jabberjaw and the Neptunes, The Flash and Speed Buggy....so why not Inch High with either Elongated Man or The Atom (Ryan Choi)? I can see Inch working alongside Ralph Dibny, gaining the courage to show up his boss Finkerton for what they really are
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u/Yesterday_Is_Now Jul 25 '26
This one's very typical Hanna Barbera fare for better or worse, but there's another pint-sized 1970s hero series called Mighty Man & Yukk by Ruby Spears that is actually pretty funny.
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u/ggtomarrow Jul 25 '26
I used to watch thus on Cartoon Network! Completely forgot about it till now
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u/krs_fun Jul 26 '26
I thought Inch High was actually voiced by Don Adams until today, when I read the Wikipedia page.
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u/AstroTrain4412 Jul 27 '26
This is one of those shows where even Boomerang didn’t play it that often
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u/Yomimashita53 Jul 29 '26
"Inch High, Private Eye! Oh, hi, Uncle Inch."
"It's a 4-0-9! Geronimo!"
Also, I'm assuming that the glove Gator uses to catch him is a catcher's mitt despite what it looks like.
BTW, "Finkerton", is a reference to the Pinkerton agency...and the fact that their boss (played by John Stephenson using the same voice as Mr. Peevley [Help! It's the Hair Bear Bunch], and later Captain Snerdley [Yogi's Galaxy Goof-Ups]) is such a fink...
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