This show details the various adventures of Richie Rich, his family, and his friends.
Segments
Richie Rich's adventures are sorted into different segments:
Richie Rich Riches – This segment deals with threats to the Rich family or more specifically Richie.
Richie Rich Treasure Chest – Segments that revolve around Dollar and/or Cadbury.
Richie Rich Gems – Short segments for humor like the Wing Dings of Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines.
Richie Rich Zillion Dollar Adventures – This segment deals with Richie Rich and his friends fighting master criminals, aliens, and other threats to the world.
Adaptation changes
The animated series took a number of liberties from the original comics:
Richie is depicted as slightly older, inconsistently voiced as a child between 10 and 13, and wears a red sweater with a large "R" on the front as well as long trousers. In the comics, he wears a black suit with a red bow tie and short pants.
Gloria is shown as the same age as Richie and wears a white long-sleeved blouse, purple sweater or sweater vest and purple mini skirt.
Dollar is more anthropomorphized with Walter Mitty-like fantasies.
Irona the Robot Maid is given a greater presence in the series with additional duties as Richie's personal bodyguard as seen in the "Zillion Dollar Adventures" segments. To fulfill that role, Irona can convert her body into various alternative modes as necessary. For instance, the moment she receives a summons from Richie, she would change her body into a jet plane mode and immediately fly to the boy.
Broadcast history
Richie Rich was originally broadcast in these following formats on ABC:
The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show (November 8, 1980 – September 18, 1982)
The Pac-Man/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show (September 25, 1982 – September 3, 1983)
The Monchhichis/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show (September 10, 1983 – September 1, 1984)
It later aired on CBS as reruns from January 11 to August 30, 1986, and then again from November 15 to December 27, 1986.
Season 1
Aired as part of the The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show
Season 2
Aired as part of the The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show
Season 3
Aired as part of the The Pac-Man/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show
Season 4
Aired as part of the Monchhichis/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show
Only Zillion Dollar Adventures were produced for this season.
Story: John Bradford, Tom Dagenais, John Dunn, Mark Evanier, Paul Haggis, Bob Kurtz, Jeff Maurer, Joan Maurer, Michael Maurer, Norman Maurer, Bob Ogle, Tom Yakutis
Story Direction: John Dunn, Jan Green, Gary Hoffman, Cullen Houghtaling, Emilie Kong, Bob Ogle, Dick Sebast, Don Sheppard, Howard Swift, Roy Wilson
Recording Directors: Gordon Hunt, Don Jurwich
Assistant to the Recording Director: Ginny McSwain
Voices: Dick Beals, Bill Callaway, Nancy Cartwright, Al Fann, Joan Gerber, Christian Hoff, Joyce Jameson, Stanley Jones, Casey Kasem, Sparky Marcus, Alan Oppenheimer, Marilyn Schreffler, John Stephenson, Frank Welker
Graphics: Iraj Paran, Tom Wogatzke
Title Design: Bill Perez
Titles: Arthur Leonardi, Robert Schaffer
Musical Director: Hoyt Curtin
Musical Supervisor: Paul DeKorte
Design Supervisor: Bob Singer
Character Design: Charles Grosvenor, Willie Ito, Scott Shaw, Sandra Young
Layout Supervisor: Don Morgan
Key Layout: Floyd Norman, Scott Shaw
Layout: Cosmo Anzilotti, Dale Barnhart, Charles Grosvenor, Ray Jacobs, Jack Manning, Phil Ortiz, Tony Rivera
Animation: Tom Ray
Checking and Scene Planning: Larry Smith
Xerography: Roy Lim
Sound Direction: Richard Olson, Joe Citarella
Camera: Gary Smith Donna Wilson
Supervising Film Editor: Joe Sandusky
Music Editor: Joe Sandusky
Sound Effects Editors: Michael Bradley, Sue Brown, Katherine MacKenzie
Show Editor: Gil Iverson
Negative Consultant: William E. DeBoer
Post Production Supervisor: Joed Eaton
Sound by: Glen Glenn PAP
Executives in Charge of Production: Jayne Barbera, Margaret Loesch
A HANNA BARBERA PRODUCTION
This Picture Made Under the Jurisdiction of IATSE-IA Affiliated with A.F.L.-C.I.O.
Season two
Executive Producers: Joseph Barbera and William Hanna
Producer: Oscar Dufau
Story Editors: Mark Evanier, Jack Mendelsohn
Supervising Director: Ray Patterson
Directors: George Gordon, Bob Hathcock, Carl Urbano, Rudy Zamora
Assistant Directors: Bob Goe, Terry Harrison, Bill Hutten
Story: Sharman Divono, Jack Enyart, Paul Haggis, Gorden Kent, Michael Maurer, J. Kenneth Rotcop, David Schwartz, Matt Uitz
Story Direction: Jan Green, Gary Hoffman, Cullen Houghtaling, Larry Latham, Mario Piluso, Jim Simon, Tom Yakutis
Recording Director: Gordon Hunt
Animation Casting Director: Ginny McSwain
Voices: Jared Barclay, Richard Beals, Ed Begley, Jr., Susan Blu, Rodger Bumpass, Bill Callaway, Nancy Cartwright, Victoria Carroll, Brian Cummings, Al Fann, Laurie Faso, John Findlater, Joan Gerber, Ernest Harada, Christian Hoff, Joyce Jameson, Stanley Jones, Paul Kirby, Allan Lurie, James MacGeorge, Tress MacNeille, Dave Madden, Adele Malis-Morey, Sparky Marcus, Kenneth Mars, Chuck McCann, Sidney Miller, Philip Proctor, Robert Ridgely, Stanley Ralph Ross, R.J. Segall, Hal Smith, John Stephenson, Kris Stevens, Andre Stojka, Robert Strom, Jimmy Weldon, Frank Welker
Graphics: Iraj Paran, Tom Wogatzke
Musical Director: Hoyt Curtin
Musical Supervisor: Paul DeKorte
Creative Producer: Iwao Takamoto
Design Supervisor: Bob Singer
Character Design: Geofrey Darrow, Alice Hamm, Gabriel Hoyos, Skip Morgan, Christopher Otsuki, Scott Shaw, Takashi
Layout: Barry Bunce, John Kricfalusi, Floyd Norman, Joel Seibel, Leo Sullivan, Gary Terry, Dean Thompson
Sound Direction: Dick Olson, Joe Wachter
Supervising Film Editor: Larry C. Cowan
Dubbing Supervisor: Pat Foley
Music Editors: Terry Moore, Joe Sandusky, Robert Talboy
Effects Editors: Mike Bradley, Mary Gleason, Carol Lewis, Catherine MacKenzie, Sue Sawade, Kerry Williams
Show Editor: Gil Iverson
Negative Consultant: William E. DeBoer
Post Production Supervisor: Joed Eaton
Executives in Charge of Production: Margaret Loesch and Jayne Barbera
A HANNA-BARBERA PRODUCTION
This Picture Made Under the Jurisdiction of IATSE-IA Affiliated with A.F.L.-C.I.O.
DVD release
On May 20, 2008, Warner Home Video released The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show: Volume 1 on DVD in Region 1.
