Dynomutt, Dog Wonder is an
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animated television series produced for
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by
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about a
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-esque super hero, the Blue Falcon and his assistant, a bumbling yet generally effective
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Dynomutt, who could produce a seemingly infinite number of mechanical devices from his body. As with many other animated super-heroes of the era, no origin for the characters were ever provided.
Recently, between January 2 and March 9, 2008, repeats of
Dynomutt, Dog Wonder were shown on
BoomerangBoomerang is a 24-hour American cable television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System . The network debuted April 1, 2000.- History :...
.
Dynomutt, Dog Wonder is an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
animated television series produced for
Saturday morningsA Saturday morning cartoon is the colloquial term for the animated television programming which was typically scheduled on Saturday mornings on the major American television networks from the 1960s to the 1990s. In the United States, the generally accepted times considered to be Saturday mornings...
by
Hanna-BarberaHanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. , was an American animation studio that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century...
about a
BatmanThe Batman, originally referred to as the Bat-Man, is a fictional character, a comic book superhero co-created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger , appearing in publications by DC Comics...
-esque super hero, the Blue Falcon and his assistant, a bumbling yet generally effective
robotA robot is a virtual or mechanical artificial agent. In practice, it is usually an electro-mechanical machine which is guided by computer or electronic programming, and is thus able to do tasks on its own...
dogThe dog is a domesticated form of the Gray Wolf, a member of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. The term is used for both feral and pet varieties. The domestic dog has been one of the most widely kept working and companion animals in human history...
Dynomutt, who could produce a seemingly infinite number of mechanical devices from his body. As with many other animated super-heroes of the era, no origin for the characters were ever provided.
Recently, between January 2 and March 9, 2008, repeats of
Dynomutt, Dog Wonder were shown on
BoomerangBoomerang is a 24-hour American cable television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System . The network debuted April 1, 2000.- History :...
. On June 4, 2009,
Dynomutt, Dog Wonder returned to Boomerang and airs Thursdays through Sundays at 10am Eastern.
History
Millionaire socialite art dealer Radley Crown (a Bruce Wayne incarnate) and his mechanical mongrel, Dynomutt (who spoke in a hick-like voice reminiscent of
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and very early
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), 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, receive the report via TV screen from the secret GHQ of secret agent Focus One (voiced by the late Ron Feinberg, the tongue-in-cheek narrator of all 20 segments of Dynomutt Dog Wonder), and jump into The Falconcar and speed into the fray against assorted evildoers. In a coup not unsimilar to the 1960s Batman TV series, the first 10 minutes of Dynomutt ended with a cliffhanger wherein The Daring Duo, in the clutches of their foes, were subjected to a perilous fate which would be resolved immediately after the commercial.
The metallic mutt employed a system of miniaturized transistors which allowed him to extend his limbs or neck and use them to perform extraordinary feats; only problem was, none of them ever really worked properly! B.F. (as D.W. would lovingly refer to him), was more Dynomutt's victim than his master, forever being hamstrung by the latter's mechanized mishaps, which would often result in Blue Falcon calling Dynomutt "Dog Blunder". But nevertheless, Dynomutt and The Blue Falcon, who was equipped with his own arsenal of supergadgetry (what superhero wouldn't be?) manage to get the situation well in hand. Sometimes Lt. Mumbly or even Dynomutt's co-stars, Scooby-Doo and his mystery-solving teen consorts Shaggy Rogers, Freddy Jones, Daphne Blake and Velma Dinkley, would drop in to aid The Daring Duo in cracking their toughest crimes. Dynomutt Dog Wonder has the historic significance of casting the first African-American public official in Saturday Morning cartoons, The Mayor (voiced by the late Larry McCormick). Dynomutt has also guest starred in krypto the super dog but he was an actor dog playing him as if he didnt exist for a movie so it was a spinoff.
Season One (1976 – 1977)
The episode titles given reflect Hanna-Barbera studio records. No on-screen titles were given for this series.
| # |
Episode title |
Original airdate |
| SDD-1 |
"Everyone Hyde!" 1 |
September 11, 1976 |
| SDD-2 |
"What Now, Lowbrow?" 1 |
September 18, 1976 |
| SDD-3 |
"The Great Brain...Train Robbery" |
September 25, 1976 |
| SDD-4 |
"The Day And Night Crawler" |
October 2, 1976 |
| SDD-5 |
"The Harbor Robber" |
October 9, 1976 |
| SDD-6 |
"Sinister Symphony" |
October 16, 1976 |
| SDD-7 |
"Don't Bug Superthug" |
October 23, 1976 |
| SDD-8 |
"Factory Recall" |
October 30, 1976 |
| SDD-9 |
"The Queen Hornet" |
November 6, 1976 |
| SDD-10 |
"The Wizard Of Ooze" 1 |
November 13, 1976 |
| SDD-11 |
"Tin Kong" |
November 20, 1976 |
| SDD-12 |
"The Awful Ordeal With The Head Of Steel" |
November 25, 1976 2 |
| SDD-13 |
"The Blue Falcon Vs. The Red Vulture" |
November 27, 1976 |
| SDD-14 |
"The Injustice League Of America" |
December 4, 1976 3 |
| SDD-15 |
"Lighter Than Air Raid" |
December 11, 1976 3 |
| SDD-16 |
"The Prophet Profits" |
December 18, 1976 3 |
- 1 These episodes guest-star Scooby-Doo and the Mystery, Inc. gang.
- 2 Episode 1.12, "There's a Demon Shark In The Foggy Dark/The Awful Ordeal With The Head Of Steel", was originally broadcast not on a Saturday morning, but on Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving may refer to:*Thanksgiving , the holiday on the fourth Thursday in November.*Thanksgiving , the holiday on the second Monday in October.*Thanksgiving...
1976 (November 25), during ABC's Thanksgiving Funshine Festival.
- 3 These episodes, and all first-season repeats, were broadcast as part of The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Show, which included an additional half-hour featuring a Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is the first incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. It premiered on September 13, 1969 at 10:30 a.m. EST and ran for two seasons on CBS as a half-hour long show...
rerun.
Season Two (1977 – 1978)
| # |
Episode title |
Original airdate |
| 2.1 |
"Beastwoman", Parts 1 and 2 |
September 10, 1977 |
| 2.2 |
"The Glob", Parts 1 and 2 |
September 24, 1977 |
| 2.3 |
"Madame Ape Face", Parts 1 and 2 |
October 8, 1977 |
| 2.4 |
"Shadowman", Parts 1 and 2 |
October 22, 1977 |
These 4 new episodes were aired under the new title The Blue Falcon & Dynomutt
.
Voices
- Frank Welker
Franklin W. "Frank" Welker is a veteran American actor, who specializes in voice acting. He is responsible for a broad spectrum of character voices and other vocal effects that have appeared over the last 40 years in American television and motion pictures.Welker is listed as number one on the...
- Dynomutt
- Gary Owens
Gary Owens is an American disc jockey and voice actor. His polished baritone speaking voice generally offers deadpan recitations of total nonsense, which he frequently demonstrated as the announcer on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In...
- Radley Crowne/The Blue Falcon
- Larry McCormick
Lawrence William "Larry" McCormick was an American television actor, reporter and news anchor, most notably working for Los Angeles television station KTLA-TV.-Biography:...
- Mayor Gaunt
- Ron Feinberg
Ronald A. Feinberg was an American character actor and voice actor who appeared in films and on television. He can be seen playing the character Fellini opposite Don Johnson in the postapocalyptic film A Boy and His Dog. Ron made a number of appearance on Mission: Impossible...
- Narrator, F.O.C.U.S. One
Other appearances
Gary Owens and Frank Welker reprise their roles of Blue Falcon and Dynomutt in guest appearances in the Dexter's LaboratoryDexter's Laboratory is an Annie Award-winning American animated series created by Genndy Tartakovsky and produced by Cartoon Network Studios , about a boy genius named Dexter, who has a secret laboratory hidden behind a bookshelf in his bedroom...
episode "Dyno-Might" (which was considered to be the darkest of the duo's adventures).
Blue Falcon also appeared, without Dynomutt, on an episode of Johnny BravoJohnny Bravo is an American animated series created by Van Partible. It premiered on July 7, 1997 on Cartoon Network and ran for 67 episodes and 4 seasons...
, in which he, "Weird Al" YankovicAlfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic is an American singer-songwriter, music producer, actor, comedian, and satirist. Yankovic is known in particular for his humorous songs that make light of popular culture and that often parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts...
, and Don KnottsJesse Donald "Don" Knotts was an American comedic actor best known for his portrayal of Barney Fife on the 1960s television sitcom The Andy Griffith Show, a role which earned him five Emmy Awards...
redesign Johnny's show in a parody of Queer Eye For The Straight Guy. Gary Owens also reprises his role here.
Blue Falcon appears as a recurring character in the Harvey Birdman, Attorney at LawHarvey Birdman, Attorney at Law is a North American animated television series comedy created by Williams Street and produced by Cartoon Network Studios that aired on Cartoon Network during its Adult Swim late night programming block. It is one of four spin-offs of Space Ghost Coast to Coast. The...
TV series and once in the video game of the same title as a Spanish lawyer named Azul Falcone (voiced by Maurice LaMarcheMaurice LaMarche is a Canadian-born voice actor and former stand up comedian. He is best known for his voicework in Futurama, as Egon Spengler in The Real Ghostbusters, and The Brain in Animaniacs/Pinky and The Brain....
). Dynomutt has also appeared in the two-part episode "Deadomutt" voiced by André SogliuzzoAndré Sogliuzzo is an Italian-American Actor-Animated roles:*American Dad! - Dill* Avatar: The Last Airbender - King Bumi, Hakoda* Brandy & Mr...
with a Spanish accent.
Dynomutt and Blue Falcon appeared in the Robot ChickenRobot Chicken is an American stop motion animated television series created and executive produced by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich along with co-Head Writers Douglas Goldstein and Tom Root...
episode "Ban on the Fun" with Dynomutt voiced by
Victor YerridVictor Yerrid is a puppeteer for the Jim Henson Company and has performed Muppet characters in many TV shows, movies, TV commercials. Yerrid is best known in the Muppet World for his work on the online series Statler and Waldorf: From the Balcony in which he performed Waldorf along with an...
and Blue Falcon voiced by
Kevin ShinickKevin Thomas Shinick is an American actor, writer, director and voice actor. He was the host of the PBS series Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego and is also one of the voice actors, writers and Co-Creative Directors of Adult Swim's Robot Chicken, for which he was nominated for an Emmy for writing...
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