I'm only familiar with Dick Tracy from the Dick Tracy show cartoons, which were apparently from the 1960s but must have been shown on British children's TV in the 1980s.
It seemed like false advertising to me, since Dick Tracy himself didn't do any of the work, instead delegating to an over-the-top comedy underling chosen apparently at random. Wikipedia describes a couple of these as offensive stereotypes, but all of the characters were ludicrous apart from Tracy so I guess I didn't really notice at the time.
It seemed like false advertising to me, since Dick Tracy himself didn't do any of the work, instead delegating to an over-the-top comedy underling chosen apparently at random. Wikipedia describes a couple of these as offensive stereotypes, but all of the characters were ludicrous apart from Tracy so I guess I didn't really notice at the time.