Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines (1969)

Directed by

William Hanna, Joseph Barbera

Genre

children's television series, adventure television series, comedy television series, fantasy television series

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 89 episodes

Rated

TV-Y7

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 90 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Dick Dastardly and his dog Muttley try to catch a carrier pigeon carrying secret messages. They use various flying machines in their failed attempts.

slapstickzanywhimsicalplayfulfast-pacedlightheartedcartoonishrepetitive

What happens

Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines (or simply Dastardly and Muttley in the UK and Ireland) is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and a spin-off of Wacky Races. The show was originally broadcast as a Saturday morning cartoon, airing from September 13, 1969, to January 3, 1970, on CBS. 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 title is a reference to the film and song Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965). The original working title of the show was Stop That Pigeon, a phrase which is repeated in the theme song. The show had only two voice actors: Paul Winchell as Dick Dastardly, the indistinctly heard General and other characters and Don Messick as Muttley, Klunk, Zilly and other characters. Each 22-minute episode 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). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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