Blue Falcon

Dynomutt, Dog Wonder
Syndication Dynomutt, Dog Wonder title card
Format	Animation
Created by	Joe Ruby Ken Spears
Starring	Frank Welker as Dynomutt Gary Owens as Blue Falcon
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	20 (16 half-hour episodes and eight 11-minute two-part episodes)
Production
Running time	approx. 22 minutes (per episode)
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Original run	September 11, 1976 – October 22, 1977
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

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Dynomutt, Dog Wonder is an American animated television series produced for Saturday mornings by Hanna-Barbera about a Batman-esque super hero, The Blue Falcon and his assistant, a bumbling yet generally effective robot dog Dynomutt, who (not unlike the later Inspector Gadget (although Gadget was a cyborg, not a robot)could produce a seemingly infinite number of mechanical devices from his body. As with many other animated super-heroes of the era, no origin for the characters was ever provided.

History

The show was created for ABC in 1976 as a companion show for Scooby-Doo, resulting in The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour.

In his secret identity, Blue Falcon (in many ways a parody of Batman, right down to his nearly endless gadgets, his millionaire secret identity, his stylized "Falconcar," and (reminiscent of the 1960s Batman TV series, his utterly serious demeanor) is millionaire Radley Crown, proprietor of Crown Art Gallery, and Dynomutt is his loyal pet, smartly dressed in a sweater and ascot (although his "civilian" name, if any, is never revealed). But when called to action in their base of operations, Big City, the duo quickly change into their superhero guises. Unlike Scooby-Doo, Dynomutt featured spies and super-villains in place of assumedly supernatural villains, although the Scooby gang made three guest appearances on the show.

In 1977, Dynomutt, Dog Wonder became part of the package show Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics. Four new episodes, presented as two-part cliffhangers, were produced for the 1977-78 season. Reruns from the first season of Dynomutt were also broadcast during the Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics block. The Dynomutt segments from both package shows were later rerun on their own during the summer of 1978. Between 1984 and 1992 it reappeared on cable on USA's Cartoon Express (some of the original bridging sequences from The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour had been restored for this purpose and were sometimes seen; other times, the syndicated titles were shown). Cartoon Network and its sister channel Boomerang has repeated the syndicated Dynomutt Dog Wonder since then (without its omnipresent laugh track).

Blue Falcon and Dynomutt have made guest appearances in the modern-day Cartoon Network shows Dexter's Laboratory and Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (as a Spanish lawyer). Blue Falcon also appeared, without Dynomutt, on an episode of Johnny Bravo, in which he, "Weird Al" Yankovic, and Don Knotts redesign Johnny's show in a parody of overdone cartoon makeovers that are often despised by audiences.

Episode guide, from The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour

The Blue Falcon and Dynomutt grace the cover of DC Comics' Cartoon Network Presents #21.

Season one (1976 – 1977)

The episode titles given reflect Hanna-Barbera studio records. No on-screen titles were given for this series.

• ¹ These episodes guest-star Scooby-Doo and the Mystery, Inc. gang.
• ² Episode 1.12, "There's a Demon Shark in the Foggy Dark/The Awful Ordeal With the Head of Steel", was originally broadcast not on a Saturday morning, but on Thanksgiving Day 1976 (November 25), during ABC's Thanksgiving Funshine Festival.

Episode guide, from Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics

Season two (1977 – 1978)

Production credits

• Executive Producers: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
• Director: Charles A. Nichols
• Creative Producer: Iwao Takamoto
• Created by: Joe Ruby and Ken Spears
• Associate Producer: Alex Lovy
• Storyboard Direction: David Hannan, Tom Knowles, Michael O'Connor, Paul Sommer, Wendell Washer, Kay Wright
• Recording Director: Wally Burr
• Story Editor: Norman Maurer
• Story: Earl Doud, Jeff Maurer, Lee Orgel, Haskell Barkin, Donald Glut, Orville Hampton, Michael Maurer, Dalton Sandifer, Deidre Starlight
• Voices: Regis Cordic, Joan Gerber, Bob Holt, Ralph James, Gary Owens, Henry Corden, Ron Feinberg, Casey Kasem, Larry McCormick, Julie McWhirter, Don Messick, Heather North, John Stephenson, Pat Stevens, Lennie Weinrib, Frank Welker, Allan Melvin
• Production Design: Bob Singer
• Character Design: Alex Toth, Steve Nakagawa
• Production Supervisor: Victor O. Schipek
• Graphics: Iraj Paran
• Musical Director: Hoyt Curtin
• Musical Supervisor: Paul DeKorte
• Unit Director: Bill Keil
• Layout: Mike Arens, Jack Huber, Larry Huber, Dale Barnhart, Owen Fitzgerald, Alex Ignatiev, Ziggy Jablecki, Bill Lignante, Warren Marshall, Dan Noonan, Linda Rowley, Terry Slade, Adam Szwejkowski, George Wheeler
• Animation: Ed Barge, Steve Clark, Maria Dail, Jim Davis, Bob Goe, Bill Hutten, Tony Love, Rod Parkes, Veve Risto, Jay Sarbry, Bob Bemiller, Robert Bransford, O.E. Callahan, Lars Calonius, Rudy Cataldi, Marcia Fertig, Mark Glamack, Terry Harrison, Margaret Nichols, Ed Soloman, Dave Tendlar
• Backgrounds: Bob Gentle, Al Gmuer, Richard Khim, Marilyn Shimokochi
• Technical Supervisor: Frank Paiker
• Checking and Scene Planning: Evelyn Sherwood
• Ink and Paint Supervisor: Billie Kerns
• Xerography: Star Wirth
• Sound Direction: Richard Olson, Bill Getty
• Supervising Film Editor: Chip Yaras
• Music Editors: Larry Cowan, Pat Foley, Joe Sandusky
• Negative Consultant: William E. DeBoer
• Post Production Supervisor: Joed Eaton
• Camera: George Epperson, Curt Hall, Ron Jackson, Norman Stainback, Roy Wade
• Production Manager: Jayne Barbera

Voices

• Frank Welker - Dynomutt
• Gary Owens - Radley Crowne/Blue Falcon
• Larry McCormick - Mayor Gaunt
• Ron Feinberg - Narrator, F.O.C.U.S. One

External links

• Dynomutt, Dog Wonder at the Internet Movie Database
• THE FALCON'S LAIR: The Unofficial Guide To Dynomutt Dog Wonder
• InternationalHero: Dynomutt
• Cartoon Network: Dept. of Cartoons: Dynomutt - cached copy from Internet Archives

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