Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines
| Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines | |
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Written by | Larz Bourne, Dalton Sandifer, Michael Maltese |
| Directed by | William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
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| Starring |
Paul Winchell Don Messick |
| Narrated by | Don Messick |
| Composer(s) | Ted Nichols |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 17 (34 Dastardly & Muttley segments, 17 Magnificent Muttley segments, 34 brief Wing Dings episodes) |
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| Producer(s) |
William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Alex Lovy (associate)
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| Running time | 22 minutes (not including network breaks) |
| Production company(s) | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Television Distribution |
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| Original network | CBS |
| Original release | September 13, 1969 – January 3, 1970 |
Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines (or simply Dastardly and Muttley in the UK) is a cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for CBS. Originally the series was broadcast as a Saturday morning cartoon, airing from September 13, 1969 to January 3, 1970. The show focuses on the efforts of Dick Dastardly and his canine sidekick Muttley to catch Yankee Doodle Pigeon, a carrier pigeon who carries secret messages (hence the name of the show’s theme song "Stop the Pigeon"). The cartoon was a combination of Red Baron-era Snoopy, Wacky Races (which featured Dastardly and Muttley in a series of car races), and the film Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines.
The show is widely known as Catch The Pigeon or Stop the Pigeon based on the show's original working title and the show's theme song, written by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera (and based on the jazz standard "Tiger Rag") which repeats that phrase so often that it is frequently mistaken as the show's actual title.
The show had only two voice actors: Paul Winchell as Dick Dastardly and the indistinctly heard General, and Don Messick as everybody else. Each 22-minute show was broadcast over half an hour on the network, including network breaks, and contained: two Dastardly & Muttley stories, one Magnificent Muttley story (Muttley's Walter Mitty-style daydreams), and two or three short Wing Dings (brief gags to break up the longer stories).
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