| 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 – September 3, 1977 |
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The Mumbly Cartoon Show is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and featuring the titular character, Mumbly, a cartoon dog detective. It was broadcast on Saturday mornings 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]
In the show, 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 second 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 1968 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, and Poland circa 1983/1984.
- ^ 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.