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The Half-Hour Version of Deputy Dawg

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On the internet, there is a lot of misinformation about some of the old cartoons we used to watch.  Whether it be from a young soul attempting to fill in the gaps for information that they don't know about, or a vandal trying to intentionally spread misinformation, these false facts end up being easily spread around the web, with everybody taking them at face value and nobody verifying them to see if they hold some water.  Let me be as blunt as I can be, some of the people who have contributed to the Deputy Dawg Wikipedia page got some of their facts wrong or worded some of their facts very poorly. Some of the ones I've noticed are: 1. " The Deputy Dawg Show  first ran weekly [on] January 1, 1960" Checking a couple of Newspaper listings, there are no listings for Deputy Dawg between January and April 1960. There is one listing for a May 22, 1960 airing in Warren, Pennsylvania (possibly as a preview, but I'm not certain), and then a whole bunch of listings in Augu...