| Cartoonist: |
William
Hanna and Joseph Barbera |
Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying
Machines was a Saturday morning cartoon produced by
Hanna-Barbera Productions for CBS from 1969 to 1971.
The show features Dick Dastardly and Muttley, the
comic villains from Wacky
Races, as World War I flying
aces and members of the "Vulture Squadron," a
crew of aviators who're on a mission to stop a homing
pigeon named Yankee Doodle Pigeon from delivering messages
to the enemy.
The show was unusual in having only two
voice actors, Paul Winchell as Dastardly and the
indistinctly heard General, and Don Messick as everybody
else.
Each half-hour episode typically features two
stories, plus "Wing Dings" (short, corny gags)
and "Magnificent Muttley" (Muttley's Walter
Mitty-style daydreams).
The show's theme song is notable for repeating the
phrase "Stop the Pigeon" many times, with
the result that many have come to believe that this
was what the show was called. |
