Crusader Rabbit is the first animated series produced specifically for television. The concept was test marketed in 1948, while the initial episode - Crusader vs. the State of Texas - aired on KNBH in Los Angeles, California on August 1, 1950.
One of the Crusader's first crusades is to rescue a hapless tiger, Ragland T. Tiger from his circus cage. Although Rags is much larger physically and obviously is biologically a tiger (and therefore supposedly a fierce predator), his personality is as docile and meek as Crusader Rabbit is insistent and assertive. This makes the duo a wonderfully ironic and compatible pair.
With his new found sidekick by his, uh….side, Crusader Rabbit learns that his Jackrabbit cousins are being persecuted in the titular State of Texas. It seems th
