Post by ah3rd on Sept 11, 2006 7:18:53 GMT -5
ABC-TV welcomes a 120½-minute trifecta of new series from Hanna-Barbera Productions:
• The Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape/Mumbly Show (8:00 AM [EDT]) – 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 [CBS, 1968-70] and Dastardly And Muttley In Their Flying Machines [CBS, 1969-71] 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 [EDT]) – 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 [“No respect!”]), which played drums in a teenage rock band called The Neptunes, living in a oceanic world 100 years in the future.
• The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour (9:30 AM [EDT]) – to the first new installments of Scooby-Doo since 1973 are added half-hour exploits of animated derring-do 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.
• The Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape/Mumbly Show (8:00 AM [EDT]) – 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 [CBS, 1968-70] and Dastardly And Muttley In Their Flying Machines [CBS, 1969-71] 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 [EDT]) – 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 [“No respect!”]), which played drums in a teenage rock band called The Neptunes, living in a oceanic world 100 years in the future.
• The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour (9:30 AM [EDT]) – to the first new installments of Scooby-Doo since 1973 are added half-hour exploits of animated derring-do 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.
