Dynomutt, Dog Wonder | |
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Also known as | 'The Blue Falcon & Dynomutt' |
Created by |
Joe Ruby Ken Spears |
Directed by | Charles A. Nichols |
Voices of |
Frank Welker Gary Owens Larry McCormick Ron Feinberg |
Narrated by | Ron Feinberg |
Composer(s) | Hoyt Curtin |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 20 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
Running time | 22 minutes |
Production company(s) | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
Distributor | Warner Bros. Television |
Release | |
Original network | ABC |
Original release | September 11, 1976 | – October 29, 1977
Chronology | |
Related shows |
The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics |
Dynomutt, Dog Wonder is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The show centers on a Batman-esque super hero, the Blue Falcon, and his assistant, bumbling yet generally effective robot dog Dynomutt, a robotic dog who can produce a seemingly infinite number of mechanical devices from his body. As with many other animated super-heroes of the era, no origins for the characters are ever provided.
Dynomutt was originally broadcast as a half-hour segment of The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour (1976–77) and its later expanded form Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics (1977–78); it would later be rerun and syndicated on its own from 1978 on. The cast of The Scooby-Doo Show appeared as recurring characters on Dynomutt, assisting the Daring Duo in cracking their crimes. Originally distributed by Hanna-Barbera's then-parent company Taft Broadcasting, Warner Bros. Television currently holds the television distribution to the series.
Between January 2 and March 9, 2008, repeats of Dynomutt, Dog Wonder were shown on Boomerang. On June 4, 2009, Dynomutt, Dog Wonder returned to Boomerang and aired Thursdays through Sundays at 10am Eastern. But the show stopped airing on Boomerang due to the re-branding that happened on January 19, 2015 that also removed many other older shows.
Millionaire socialite art dealer Radley Crown (voiced by Gary Owens) and his mechanical mongrel Dynomutt (voiced by Frank Welker who got the inspiration for the voice from the Gertrude and Heathcliff characters of Red Skelton) enjoy leisure time in their base of operations Big City, until alerted by the Falcon Flash. They immediately dash for the Falcon's Lair (situated in Crown's penthouse apartment), where they switch to their secret identities, the Blue Falcon and Dog Wonder, respectively. Blue Falcon and Dynomutt receive the report via TV screen from the secret GHQ of secret agent F.O.C.U.S. One (voiced by Ron Feinberg) and jump into the Falconcar and speed into the fray against assorted evildoers.