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The Mumbly Cartoon Show

1976-1977 ABC cartoon show

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]

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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

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* Telecast at Noon (EST), Thursday afternoon, November 25, 1976, a Thanksgiving, as part of ABC's Thanksgiving Funshine Festival.

Other appearances

References

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    Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. p. 860. ISBN 978-1476665993.
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    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.
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    Sennett, Ted (1989). The Art of Hanna-Barbera: Fifty Years of Creativity. Studio. p. 250. ISBN 978-0670829781. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
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    Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 697. ISBN 978-1538103739.
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    "Toon Sports: Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics (1977)". Saturday Morning Archives. 22 February 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-15.
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    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.
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