Fangface
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| Genre | Animation Mystery |
| Created by | Joe Ruby Ken Spears |
| Written by |
Norman Maurer Mark Jones Cliff Ruby Elana Lesser |
| Directed by | Rudy Larriva |
| Voices of |
Frank Welker Bart Braverman Susan Blu Jerry Dexter |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 32 (1978–80) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Joe Ruby Ken Spears |
| Producer(s) | Jerry Eisenberg |
| Running time | 30 minutes (1978) 15 minutes (1979–80) |
| Production company(s) | Ruby-Spears Productions |
| Distributor |
Filmways (1978–1981) Worldvision Enterprises (1981–1991) Turner Entertainment (1991–1996) Warner Bros. Television Distribution (1996–present) |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | September 9, 1978 – September 27, 1980 |
Fangface is a 30-minute Saturday morning cartoon produced by Ruby-Spears Productions for ABC which aired from September 9, 1978, to September 8, 1979. The executive producers were Joe Ruby and Ken Spears.
Highly derivative of Scooby-Doo (which was also created by Ruby and Spears) with a bit of the Tasmanian Devil and I Was A Teenage Werewolf thrown in, Fangface features four teenagers — buff and handsome leader Biff, his brainy and beautiful dusky-skinned girlfriend Kim, short, stocky and pugnacious Puggsy and tall, skinny simpleton Sherman "Fangs" Fangsworth (Puggsy and Fangs being based on Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall of The Bowery Boys fame), the latter of whom transforms into a wildly whirling werewolf named Fangface whenever he looks at the full moon, a picture of the moon, or anything resembling the moon. Fangface has one large fang in the middle of his upper jaw which protrudes over his lower lip, and he has brown fur with tan paws, muzzle, and lupine tail tip. The four kids drive around in a sleek convertible dune buggy called the Wolf-Buggy and catch crooks and solve crimes involving monsters and evil masterminds. Fangs sits in the backseat next to Puggsy, while Fangface rides on Puggsy's shoulders.
Despite the temporary difficulty of Fangface always attacking Puggsy after he first transforms, the gang never hesitates to initiate the transformation to take advantage of the werewolf's power to cope with any danger. Indeed, they often refer to Fangface as their "secret weapon", even though very few people are afraid of him. Fangface and Fangs are unaware of each other, but Fangface lives in the moment, so he never seems to question why he's suddenly in a new place, whereas Fangs is always bewildered upon reversion.
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