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Created by
  
Joe Ruby & Ken Spears

No. of episodes
  
13

First episode date
  
9 September 1972

Network
  
NBC

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Country of origin
  
United States

Running time
  
22 mins (per episode)

Final episode date
  
2 December 1972

Number of episodes
  
13

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Voices of
  
Michael BellJoe BesserDaws ButlerStu GilliamArte JohnsonAldo RayJoan GerberBob HoltJohn Stephenson

Producer(s)
  
Friz FrelengDavid H. DePatie

Program creators
  
Friz Freleng, David H. DePatie, Joe Ruby, Ken Spears

Cast
  
Daws Butler, Arte Johnson, Joe Besser, Michael Bell, Aldo Ray

Similar
  
Happy Ness: Secret of t, The Barkleys, Wowser, Bôken Korobokkuru, The Oddball Couple

The Houndcats is an American Saturday morning cartoon series produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. The series was broadcast by NBC from September 9 to December 2, 1972, with reruns continuing until September 1, 1973. Thirteen episodes were produced.

Contents

The houndcats intro


Plot

Loosely based on the CBS adventure series Mission: Impossible, it was headed by a combined team of (three) dogs and (two) cats, hence the name.

Each episode begins with the Houndcats receiving their orders from their unseen "Chief", whose message is played on an old-fashioned gramophone, player-piano or other device, parodying the tape recorder scene at the start of most episodes of Mission Impossible. However, the words "this message will self-destruct in five seconds", always takes the Houndcats by surprise, causing them to run away from the explosion.

Members

  • The "Houndcats" were led by cool and confident cat Stutz.
  • Ding Dog was his blue Civil War uniform-wearing right-hand man with bad timing and judgment. He is a Briard.
  • Mussel Mutt was the muscle - a large, bulky, and ever-hungry herding dog whose eyes were almost always hidden under his hat. He is an Old English Sheepdog
  • Putty Puss was a tiny cat - the disguise expert.
  • Dog Rhubarb was the scientist. He wore a long coat and a large sombrero (you usually just saw his nose sticking out from under it) that hid his gadgets. He is a Puli

    • Voices

  • Michael Bell - Stutz, The Raven
  • Joe Besser - Putty Puss
  • Daws Butler - Rhubarb (three episodes), Dr. Strangeless, Grogan
  • Stu Gilliam - Ding Dog
  • Arte Johnson - Rhubarb, Captain Blight
  • Aldo Ray - Mussel Mutt
  • Joan Gerber - Madame X
  • Bob Holt -
  • John Stephenson - Doctor Doll

    • DVD/syndication

    On October 20, 2015, Film Chest Media Group released The Barkleys and The Houndcats - 2 DVD Classic Animation Set on DVD in Region 1. This collection features all 13 episodes of the series.

    Some episodes of the show were previously released onto videocassette in the 1980s by now-defunct Trans World Entertainment.

    (The Houndcats is presumably in the public domain because production company DePatie-Freleng Enterprises folded into Marvel Productions in 1981, and the Marvel empire was purchased by The Walt Disney Company in 2009. Most likely, Marvel failed to renew the copyrights on The Houndcats when they expired in 2000, and Disney - very likely unaware this show was now a part of their vast library - failed to take any further action to renew the copyrights.)

    References

    The Houndcats Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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