King Kong: 001/7 Tom Thumb, or The King Kong show, is the first anime that was an outsourced production for America- Rankin/Bass specifically. The series was produced by Toei for 26 episodes, and the first 10 episodes have been released in America on DVD, with some of the remaining episodes missing. Each episode consists of a a King Kong segment, a Tom Thumb segment, and another King Kong segment.
Our protagonist child Bobby finds King Kong and trains him like a very smart dog whose size varies drastically between scenes. The half minute dance segment in the middle of the first episode was jarring. Kong does fight a giant octopus and t-rex in the first episode if you're craving kaiju fights, and the second episode is a gentler version of the classic Kong on the Empire State Building.
Cheating at this entry, I watched only the first two Kong episodes and episodes 7 and 8 of Tom. Tom has a vintage, inspector gadget, bumbling hero with competent sidekick dynamic, simple and stylized characters in short save the world with bad jokes episodes.
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