Clue Club
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| Also known as | ''Woofer & Wimper, Dog Detectives'' |
| Genre | Animation |
| Directed by | Charles A. Nichols |
| Voices of | David Jolliffe Bob Hastings Patricia Stich Tara Talboy Jim MacGeorge Paul Winchell |
| Theme music composer | Hoyt Curtin |
| Composer(s) | Hoyt Curtin |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 16 |
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| Executive producer(s) |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Producer(s) | Alex Lovy |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Television Distribution |
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| Original network | CBS |
| Original release | August 14, 1976 – September 3, 1977 |
Clue Club (re-titled Woofer & Wimper, Dog Detectives in 1977–78) is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and broadcast on CBS from August 14, 1976 to September 3, 1977.
Clue Club only had one season's worth of first-run episodes produced, which were shown on Saturday mornings on CBS (the original home of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, which Clue Club had replaced; Scooby-Doo was being groomed for its move to ABC).
In the fall of 1977, cut-down versions of the half-hour episodes of Clue Club appeared under the new title Woofer & Wimper, Dog Detectives to showcase the show's basset and bloodhound which aired as a segment on the CBS Saturday morning package program The Skatebirds from September 10, 1977 to January 21, 1978. When The Skatebirds was cancelled in early 1978, Woofer & Wimper, Dog Detectives re-appeared as a segment alongside The Three Robonic Stooges on their half-hour show from January 28 to September 2, 1978, also on CBS.
The full-length versions of Clue Club returned to CBS on Sunday mornings from September 10, 1978 to January 21, 1979, concluding the show's original network run. After a mid-1980s re-airing on USA Cartoon Express, it has since resurfaced on Cartoon Network (as part of the Mysteries, Inc. block) in the 1990s and Boomerang in the 2000s.
Similar in format to Hanna-Barbera's successful Scooby-Doo, the show centers around four adolescent friends who open the title's private investigation agency out of Larry's suburban residence. They are Larry (19), Pepper (18), D.D. (16) and Dottie (13). They solve mysteries with the help of their two talking hounds, Woofer and Wimper. The dogs only talked to each other and the camera, they were not understood by the human characters. Clue Club mysteries usually involved investigating bizarre crimes such as a movie director vanishing or a two-ton statue disappearing into thin air. Their relationship to the police was closer than most of Hanna-Barbera's variations of the formula, with the local Sheriff often requesting their assistance on cases as well as making arrests at their conclusion.
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