Goober and the Ghost Chasers

Goober and the Ghost Chasers
Title card logo from Goober and the Ghost Chasers
Genre	Animation
Directed by	Charles A. Nichols
Voices of	Paul Winchell Jerry Dexter Jo Ann Harris Ronnie Schell
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
Production
Executive producer(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Hanna-Barbera Productions
Distributor	Taft Broadcasting (original) Warner Bros. Television Distribution (currently)
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	September 8 – December 22, 1973
Chronology
Related shows	Fred Flintstone and Friends Partridge Family 2200 A.D.

Goober and the Ghost Chasers is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, animated by Eric Porter Studios in Australia and broadcast on ABC from September 8, 1973 to August 30, 1975. A total of 16 half-hour episodes of Goober and the Ghost Chasers were produced. The show's episodes were later serialized as part of the syndicated weekday series Fred Flintstone and Friends in 1977–78. On cable, it was shown as part of USA Cartoon Express and later on Boomerang.

Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track created by the studio. Cartoon Network and Boomerang airings of the show have the track muted.

Similar to Hanna-Barbera's successful Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, Goober and the Ghost Chasers also features a group of teenagers solving spooky mysteries with their dog Goober. The Ghost Chasers use their equipment from the Apparition Kit (like the Specter Detector, the Poltergeist Powder, etc.) when it comes to determining whether the ghost is real or not. The major differences were that the ghosts they eventually find are real and would help in defeating the fake ghosts. Some of those people behind the mask of some fake ghosts are not criminals. Goober had the power to become invisible when he was scared by ghosts and his closest human companion is reckless instead of cowardly. Also unlike Scooby-Doo, Goober can talk more clearly.

In eight of the first 11 episodes, the Partridge Kids were regular members of the cast, with their live-action counterparts voicing the parts. They disappear after the eleventh episode and did not appear when other guest stars appeared.