The Mumbly Cartoon Show
The Mumbly Cartoon Show | |
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Genre | Comedy |
Directed by | Charles A. Nichols |
Voices of | Don Messick John Stephenson |
Theme music composer | Hoyt Curtin |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 16 |
Production | |
Executive producers | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
Producers | Iwao Takamoto Alex Lovy |
Running time | 30 minutes (6 minutes per segment) |
Production company | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | September 11, 1976 (1976-09-11) – September 3, 1977 (1977-09-03) |
The Mumbly Cartoon Show is a Saturday morning animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and featuring the titular Mumbly, a cartoon dog detective. It was broadcast on ABC from September 11, 1976 to September 3, 1977 as part of The Tom and Jerry/Grape Ape/Mumbly Show. This compilation packaged reruns of the 1975 The Tom and Jerry/Grape Ape Show with Mumbly as a new component.[1]
Mumbly is a private eye dog in a trenchcoat, who works with a human detective, Chief Schnooker, to catch criminals who often sport alliterative names.[1] 16 episodes were produced.[2] Mumbly was voiced by Don Messick, and Schnooker by John Stephenson.[3]
The show was not a ratings success, and only lasted one season.[2] However, in the next season, Mumbly was included in Hanna-Barbera's crossover show, Laff-A-Lympics, on the villainous "Really Rottens" team.[4] Mumbly was not a villain in his earlier show, but the character was a substitution for the actually-villainous Muttley from the 1969 series Wacky Races, who could not appear on Laff-A-Lympics as those characters were co-owned by Heatter-Quigley Productions.[5] A predecessor to Muttley and Mumbly is the dog Mugger, who appears in the 1964 movie Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!.[6]
The show was also broadcast in West Germany in 1982, Yugoslavia circa 1985/1986, France in 1978, Poland circa 1983/1984.
Episodes
Nº | Title | Original air date | PC |
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1 | "Fleetfeet Versus Flat Foot" | September 11, 1976 (1976-09-11) | 85-1 |
2 | "The Great Hot Car Heist" | September 18, 1976 (1976-09-18) | 85-2 |
3 | "The Magical Madcap Caper" | September 25, 1976 (1976-09-25) | 85-3 |
4 | "The Big Breakout Bust" | October 2, 1976 (1976-10-02) | 85-4 |
5 | "The Return of Bing Bong" | October 9, 1976 (1976-10-09) | 85-5 |
6 | "The Super-Dooper Super Cop" | October 16, 1976 (1976-10-16) | 85-6 |
7 | "The Big Ox Bust" | October 23, 1976 (1976-10-23) | 85-7 |
8 | "The Great Graffiti Gambit" | October 30, 1976 (1976-10-30) | 85-8 |
9 | "Taking Stock" | November 6, 1976 (1976-11-06) | 85-9 |
10 | "The Littermugg" | November 13, 1976 (1976-11-13) | 85-10 |
11 | "The Perils of the Purple Baron" | November 20, 1976 (1976-11-20) | 85-11 |
12 | "The Fatbeard the Pirate Fracas" | November 25, 1976 (1976-11-25)* | 85-12 |
13 | "The Big Snow Foot Snow Job" | November 27, 1976 (1976-11-27) | 85-13 |
14 | "Sherlock's Badder Brudder" | December 4, 1976 (1976-12-04) | 85-14 |
15 | "The UFO's a No-No" | December 11, 1976 (1976-12-11) | 85-15 |
16 | "Hyde and Seek" | December 18, 1976 (1976-12-18) | 85-16 |
* Telecast at Noon (EST), Thursday afternoon, November 25, 1976, a Thanksgiving, as part of ABC's Thanksgiving Funshine Festival.
Other appearances
- Mumbly appeared in the syndicated TV film Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose (1987).
- Chief Schnooker makes a cameo in the Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episode "SPF".
- Mumbly is shown on a list in the Velma episode "Velma Makes a List".
References
- ^ a b Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. p. 860. ISBN 978-1476665993.
- ^ a b Woolery, George W. (1983). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946–1981, Part I: Animated Cartoon Series. Scarecrow Press. p. 295. ISBN 0-8108-1557-5. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ Sennett, Ted (1989). The Art of Hanna-Barbera: Fifty Years of Creativity. Studio. p. 250. ISBN 978-0670829781. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
- ^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 697. ISBN 978-1538103739.
- ^ "Toon Sports: Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics (1977)". Saturday Morning Archives. 22 February 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-15.
- ^ Takamoto, Iwao; Mallory, Michael; Ito, Willie (2009). Iwao Takamoto: my life with a thousand characters. UP of Mississippi. p. 104. ISBN 978-1-60473-194-1.
External links
- The Mumbly Cartoon Show at IMDb
- The Mumbly Cartoon Show at Aaron's New Tom and Jerry Information Site
- Mumbly at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on March 10, 2016.
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