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Subject: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1976 (belated)
Written By: AH3RD on 09/22/08 at 8:19 pm
ABC-TV welcomes a 120½-minute trifecta of new series from Hanna-Barbera Productions:
The Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape/Mumbly Show (8:00 AM ) – The Mumbly Cartoon Show, a new H-B comedy-mystery revolving around the exploits of a snickering plainclothesman detective hound, Mumbly (voiced by the late Don Messick and patterned loosely after Muttley of Wacky Races and Dastardly And Muttley In Their Flying Machines fame) and his schlocky stooge, Shnooker (voiced by John Stephenson), is added to run with 2 reruns each of Tom and Jerry and Grape Ape. The 60-minute show ran for 2 months until The Great Grape Ape parted ways with the cast at midseason and left behind Tom & Jerry and Mumbly (whose main title theme was almost identical to T&J, which was natural, since they ran together) in the half-hour Tom & Jerry/Mumbly Show.
Jabberjaw (9:00 AM ) – capitalizing on the previous year’s summer blockbuster, Jaws, this 30-minute entry concerned a witless Great White shark, Jabberjaw (voiced by Frank Welker, in a style which combined the mannerisms of Jerome “Curly” Howard of The Three Stooges and comic Rodney Dangerfield ), which played drums in a teenage rock band called The Neptunes, living in a oceanic world 100 years in the future. Created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears.
The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour (9:30 AM ) – to the first new installments of Scooby-Doo since 1973 are added half-hour exploits of animated derring-do (another Ruby-Spears creation) concern The Blue Falcon (voiced by Laugh-In alumni Gary Owens), a blue-caped and -cowled superhero and his robotic Doberman, Dynomutt Dog Wonder (voiced by Frank Welker, in a manner that somewhat recalled Bullwinkle J. Moose), not unlike the heroic ilk of Batman and Robin but with a more comical twist. (The hourlong series becomes The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Show at midseason in November when an extra half-hour is added to accommodate Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! repeats.)
Almost a full month before, on August 14, CBS got the jump on The Alphabet Network by replacing the soon-to-be-defected Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! with a new H-B series which in a way took on the exact same theme: Clue Club.
Subject: Re: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1976 (belated)
Written By: whistledog on 09/22/08 at 11:51 pm
May I ask why you title all your topics with dates only? It gets a little confusing
Subject: Re: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1976 (belated)
Written By: Reynolds1863 on 09/23/08 at 7:37 pm
May I ask why you title all your topics with dates only? It gets a little confusing
Aaron just happens to be one of the leading experts in television trivia. He'd done quite a few trivia sections on DVD TV shows. This is his way of being organized. :)