Speedy Buggy
9/8/73 - 8/31/75 ABC
Directed by Charles A. Nichols
Creative Producer: Iwao Takamoto
Executive Producers:
William Hanna & Joseph Barbera.

Speed Buggy featured three wacky teenagers whose means of transportation was a remote controlled, rust-colored dune buggy named Speed Buggy. Speed Buggy had two eyes for headlights, a mouth for a grill, and a heart of chrome.

Meddling kids in their own right, the scary cat Tinker, the leader of the group Mark, and the pretty and smart Debbie would cruise around in Speed Buggy, looking for adventure and getting themselves into and out of trouble, all the while solving mysteries.

Speed Buggy was another rating winner for Hanna-Barbera, airing on and off for ten years on each of the three major networks. Speed himself also made guest appearances on Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics and in an episode of  The New Scooby Doo Movies.

The Villains.Some critics say that Speed Buggy was made a la Scooby Doo.  But I totally disagree. I think that it was more like Speed Racer but with a talking car and with 3 teenagers that solved mysteries.  It was very rare that you can see monsters or ghosts that turned out to be villains in bad Halloween costumes that were later unmask.

Not to mention that most of the villains or bad guys were just mad scientists or criminals that were already too ugly to need a costume =). In the picture of the right, you can see some of the those villains.



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Season 1 (1973-1974)
  1. Speed Buggy Went That-A-Way
  2. Daring Escapades
  3. Taggert's Trophy
  4. Speed Buggy Falls In Love
  5. Kingzilla
  6. Professor Snow and Madam Ice
  7. Out Of Sight
  8. Gold Fever
  9. Island Of Giant Plants
  10. The Soundmaster
  11. The Ringmaster
  12. The Incredible Changing Man
  13. Secret Safari
  14. Oil's Well That Ends Well
  15. The Hidden Valley Of Amazonia
  16. Captain Schemo and The Underwater City.
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 CAST:
Speed Buggy - Mel Blanc
Tinker - Phil Luther, Jr.
Debbie - Arlene Golonka
Mark - Mike Bell

The following drawings are Speed Buggy's Pencil Tests

CLICK ON ANY OF THE DRAWINGS TO VIEW THEM AT NORMAL SIZE

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PRODUCTION CREDITS

Asociative Producer
ART SCOTT

Stories

JACK MENDELSOHN             LARZ BOURNE
LEN JACKSON                      JOEL KANE
NORMAN MAURER               WOODY KLING
RAY PARKER                       LARRY  RHINE
Stories Direction

JOHN AHERN               PHIL BABBIT
LARZ BOURNE               STEVE CLARK
JEAN FRANKLIN                   GEORGE GORDON
JAN GREEN                       CLARK HAAS
HERB JOHNSON            DAN MILLS

Charater Desing

JERRY EISENGER

Layout

JOHN AHERN

HANK FICQ     MOE GOLLUB
FRANK GONZALES  ADAM SZWEJKOWSKI

Production Desing.....BOB SINGER
Production Supervisor...VICTOR O.SCHIPEK
Titles.....IRAQ J PARAM
Musical Director....HOYT CURTIN
Musical Supervisor....PAUL DeKORTE

Animation

        BILL KEIL         

ED BARGE            HARRY HOLT
LARS CALONIUS           RAE McSPADDEN
GEORGE KREISL                  ED PARKS
MARGARET NICHOLS      DICK THOMPSON
DON PATTERSON           OLIVER CALLAHAN
XENIA

   Brackground Styling......F.MONTEALEGRE
   Brackgrounds......ROBERT CAPLES, DENNIS  RURREL, VENETIA EPLIER
   Technical Supervisor.....FRANK PAIKER
   Ink & Paint Supervisor......BILLIE KERNS
   Xeorography......ROBERT "TIGER" WEST
   Sound Director ....Richard Olson, Bill Getty.


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