Moby Dick - White whale featured on segments of the cartoon series MOBY DICK & THE MIGHTY MIGHTOR/CBS/1967-68. The "Moby Dick" segment of the show (an 8 minute cartoon) followed the adventures of Moby Dick, a great white whale. Initially, Moby rescued two youths named Tommy and Tub who were swept miles away from their uncle's vessel "The Sea Explorer" during a typhoon. Befriending the giant whale, Tommy, Tub and their seal companion Scooby team up to battle injustice and have a lot of fun swimming in the sea. The Moby Dick character is based on the classic white whale in the 1851 novel Moby-Dick; or the White Whale of the Pacific bv Herman Melville.