| 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.
| Nº | Title | Original air date | PC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
