Hong Kong Phooey (1974)

Directed by

Charles August Nichols

Genre

animation, comedy, kids

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 31 episodes

Rated

NR

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 84 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A dog named Penry works as a janitor at a police station. He secretly turns into a clumsy superhero called Hong Kong Phooey to fight crime, often needing help from his clever pet cat Spot.

goofylightheartedclumsywhimsicalslapstickenergeticaction-comedyretro

What happens

Hong Kong Phooey is an American Saturday morning animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and originally broadcast on ABC. The original episodes aired from September 7 to December 21, 1974, and then in repeats until 1976. The show was brought back in reruns in 1978 and 1981, and was included in the USA Network's Cartoon Express block throughout the 1980s. The main character, Hong Kong Phooey, is the clownishly clumsy secret identity of Penrod "Penry" Pooch, an anthropomorphic dog working at a police station as a "mild-mannered" janitor under the glare of Sergeant Flint, nicknamed "Sarge". Penry disguises himself as Hong Kong Phooey by jumping into a filing cabinet – in so doing he always gets stuck, and is freed by his striped pet cat named Spot – and once disguised, gets equipped with the "Phooeymobile" vehicle that transforms itself into a boat, a plane or a telephone booth, depending on the circumstances. In fighting crime, he relies on his copy of The Hong Kong Book of Kung Fu, a correspondence-course martial-arts instruction handbook. However, his successes are only either thanks to Spot, who provides a solution to the challenges, or the direct result of a comically unintended side effect of his efforts. The humor of the incompetence of Hong Kong Phooey is a recurring theme of each episode. The backgrounds were designed by Lorraine Andrina and Richard Khim. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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