| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids | |
|---|---|
| Genre | animation/ mystery |
| Created by | William Hanna and Joseph Barbera |
| Written by | Joe Bruno, Carl Fallberg, Norman Hudis, Ed Jurist, Nernie Kahn, William Raynor, Don Sheppard, Paul Sommer, Ken Southworth, Dick Wesson, and Miles Wylder |
| Directed by | Earl Klein and Charles A. Nichols |
| Theme music composer | Hoyt Curtin |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | William Hanna and Joseph Barbera |
| Camera setup | Ralph Migliori, Jerry Mills, Norman Stainback, Roy Wade |
| Running time | 30 min |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | NBC |
| Audio format | mono |
| Original run | September 08, 1973 – December 1, 1973 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Scooby Doo, Where Are You? and Josie and the Pussycats |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids was a Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1973 for NBC.
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Plot
Similar to both Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and Josie and the Pussycats, the show depicted the adventures of a teenybopper rock group, led by heartthrob Cassidy, who, while eluding fans, worked undercover with his bandmates as a team of teenage crime fighters (Butch, Merilee, Stephanie, Wally, and Wally's dog Elvis), solving mysteries and apprehending criminals.
The teen musical sleuths were advised by a supercomputer named Mr. Socrates who, strangely enough, was highly allergic to the fleabag Elvis. So when the group visited Mr. Socrates for their latest assignment, Elvis was always made to stay outside the lair. But in each episode Elvis would either find his own way in, or Wally, forgetting Mr. Socrates' allergy, would for one reason or another bring Elvis into the lair. Either way, Elvis' presence would cause the supercomputer to violently sneeze, blowing the group out of the lair and off to their assignment (in one episode the mere mention of Elvis' name aggravated Mr. Socrates allergy!).
Cassidy (designated as "Sundance 1") wore a special ring with a hidden communicator to keep in contact with Mr. Socrates from afar. When they performed their music, Butch sang and played lead guitar, Merilee played tambourine, Stephanie was on bass guitar and Wally was the drummer.
The series title is a word-play on the name of unrelated 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Micky Dolenz, formerly the drummer and most commonly-used singer of the group The Monkees, provided the voice of Wally, drummer for The Sundance Kids.
Episodes
- BC-1. The Scientist (9/8/1973) -
- BC-2. The Counterfeiters (9/15/1973) -
- BC-3. One Of Our Ships Is Missing (9/22/1973) -
- BC-4. Double Trouble (9/29/1973) -
- BC-5. The Pearl Caper (10/6/1973) -
- BC-6. The Gold Caper (10/13/1973) -
- BC-7. Road Racers (10/20/1973 -
- BC-8. Hong Kong Story (10/27/1973) -
- BC-9. Operation G-Minus (11/3/1973) -
- BC-10. Orient Express (11/10/1973) -
- BC-11. The Parrot Caper (11/17/1973) -
- BC-12. The Super Su (11/24/1973) -
- BC-13. The Haunted Castle (12/1/1973) -
Cast
- Cameron Arthur Clarke -
- Henry Corden -
- Hans Conried -
- Mickey Dolenz - Wally
- Paul Robert Engemann -
- Shawn Oro Engemann -
- Michael Evans -
- Virginia Gregg -
- Lloyd Chip Hand II - Butch Cassidy
- Tina Holland - Stephanie
- Loyal Lucas -
- Susannah Olivia Lloyd -
- Ross Martin -
- Frank Maxwell -
- Alan Oppenheimer -
- Pam Peters -
- Ronnie Schell -
- John Stephenson - Mr. Socrates
- Judy Strangis - Merilee
- Franklin Welker - Elvis
Other appearances
- Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kids were also the subject of Issue #11 of Gold Key Comics' Hanna-Barbera Fun-In in 1974; the story, "The Pearl Caper," was adapted from the October 6, 1973 Butch Cassidy TV episode of the same name.
- Characters from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids appeared several times on the Adult Swim animated television series Sealab 2021. The whole band appeared in the episode "All That Jazz" in a long shot at a concert, standing in for MC Chris and performing the song "Fett's Vette". In a later episode, "Let 'Em Eat Corn!", the band appears again as inhabitants of SeaLab Pod Six, with Butch and Wally both sporting mustaches. Then again, in the episode "Butchslapped", the characaters appeared alongside Marco, who was revealed to be one of the Sundance Kids. The character models for Butch and Wally were also used for the animated likeness of John Miller (the series director) and Adam Reed (one of the series writers) in the episodes, "Swimming in Oblivion" and "Return to Oblivion".
DVD Release
Coming Soon to DVD from Warner Home Video as part of
External links
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