Misterjaw

Plot

Misterjaw (voiced by Arte Johnson) was a blue-colored great white shark (who wore a purple vest with white collar, a black bow tie and black top hat) who liked to leap out of the water and shout "HEEGotcha!" or "Gotcha!" at unsuspecting folks who would run off in terror. He spoke with a German accent and was known to mispronounce words, such as "knucklehead" pronounced as "ka-nucklehead". He also had a sidekick, a green-scaled, brown bowler hatted Brooklyn-accented catfish named Catfish (voiced by Arnold Stang) who usually referred to Misterjaw as "boss" or "chief"; Misterjaw usually called Catfish either "pal-ly", "fella" or "sonny" when in a good mood, or names like "dumbkoff", "knucklehead" or "macaroni brain" when irritated. At times, Misterjaw would mistakenly address his sidekick as "Dogfish", only to correct himself a split second later by saying "I mean, Catfish."

The primary goal of Misterjaw and Catfish was to catch Harry Halibut (voiced by Bob Ogle). In several instances, the duo were pursued by Fearless Freddy the Shark Hunter (voiced by Paul Winchell) in Merry Sharkman, Merry Sharkman and To Catch a Halibut.

All entries were directed by Robert McKimson (who died suddenly after production was completed) with co-direction from Sid Marcus and produced by David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng. The music and score for the series were composed by Doug Goodwin. A brief version of the John Williams Jaws theme was used with the variation of the two note theme. None of the shorts contained any credit information; only the series title, episode title and 1976 copyright, and end titles were shown. All episodes include a laugh track.

Episodes

All episodes directed by Robert McKimson and Sid Marcus

1. Flying Fool
2. Shopping Spree
3. To Catch a Halibut
4. Beach Resort
5. Monster of the Deep
6. Showbiz Shark
7. Aladdin's Lump
8. Little Red Riding Halibut
9. The Codfather
10. Davey Jones' Locker
11. Flying Saucer
12. The Shape of Things
13. Caught In The Act
14. Merry Sharkman, Merry Sharkman
15. Sea Chase
16. Aloha, Hah, Hah!
17. Never Shake Hands With a Piranha
18. Stand-In Room Only
19. The Fishy Time Machine
20. Transistorized Shark
21. The $6.95 Bionic Shark
22. Moulin Rogues
23. Holiday in Venice
24. Shark and the Beanstalk
25. The Aquanuts
26. Cannery Caper
27. Fish Anonymous
28. Maguiness Book of Records
29. Cool Shark
30. Deep Sea Rodeo
31. Mama
32. Easy Come Easy Go
33. No Man's Halibut
34. Sweat Hog Shark

VHS

In Short Monster for Deep was released for VHS on 1987, it is part of Cartoon Festival.

DVD / Blu-ray

The complete series will be digitally remastered, issued (first 17 cartoons on disc 1 and final 17 cartoons on disc 2) on its own two-disc Blu-Ray/DVD collection by Kino International in 2016. But it is unknown if it will be released before the end of the year.