Dynomutt, Dog Wonder
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| Dynomutt, Dog Wonder | |
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 Syndication Dynomutt, Dog Wonder title card |
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| Genre | Animation |
| Creator(s) | Joe Ruby Ken Spears |
| Starring | Frank Welker as Dynomutt Gary Owens as Blue Falcon |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| No. of episodes | 20 (16 half-hour episodes and eight 11-minute two-part episodes) |
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| Running time | approx. 22 minutes (per episode) |
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| Original channel | ABC |
| Original run | September 11, 1976 – October 22, 1977 |
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- "Blue Falcon" redirects here, for someone who betrays, see minced oath
Dynomutt, Dog Wonder is an American animated television series produced for Saturday mornings by Hanna-Barbera about a Batman-esque super hero, The Blue Falcon and his assistant, a bumbling mechanical robotic dog named Dynomutt.
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[edit] History
The show was created for ABC in 1976 as a companion show for Scooby-Doo, resulting in The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour. In his secret identity, Blue Falcon (who is most likely a parody of Batman, right down to his nearly endless gadgets and his millionaire secret identity) is millionaire Radley Crown, proprietor of Crown Art Gallery, and Dynomutt is his loyal pet. But when called to action, the duo quickly change into their superhero guises. Unlike Scooby-Doo, Dynomutt featured spies and powerful criminals in place of assumedly supernatural villains, although the Scooby gang made three guest appearances on the show.
In 1977, Dynomutt, Dog Wonder became part of the package show Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics. Four new episodes, presented as two-part cliffhangers, were produced for the 1977-78 season. Reruns from the first season of Dynomutt were also broadcast during the Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics block. The Dynomutt segments from both package shows were later rerun on their own during the summer of 1978. Between 1984 and 1992 it reappeared on cable on USA's Cartoon Express (some of the original bridging sequences from The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour had been restored for this purpose and were sometimes seen; other times, the syndicated titles were shown). Cartoon Network and its sister channel Boomerang has repeated the syndicated Dynomutt Dog Wonder since then (without its omnipresent laugh track).
Blue Falcon and Dynomutt have made guest appearances in the modern-day Cartoon Network shows Dexter's Laboratory and Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. Blue Falcon also appeared, without Dynomutt, on an episode of Johnny Bravo, in which he, "Weird Al" Yankovic, and Don Knotts redesign Johnny's show in a parody of overdone cartoon makeovers that are often despised by audiences.
[edit] Episode guide, from The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour
[edit] 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 |
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| 1.1 | "Everyone Hyde!" 1 | September 11, 1976 |
| 1.2 | "What Now, Lowbrow?" 1 | September 18, 1976 |
| 1.3 | "The Great Brain...Train Robbery" | September 25, 1976 |
| 1.4 | "The Day And Night Crawler" | October 2, 1976 |
| 1.5 | "The Harbor Robber" | October 9, 1976 |
| 1.6 | "Sinister Symphony" | October 16, 1976 |
| 1.7 | "Don't Bug Superthug" | October 23, 1976 |
| 1.8 | "Factory Recall" | October 30, 1976 |
| 1.9 | "The Queen Hornet" | November 6, 1976 |
| 1.10 | "The Wizard Of Ooze" 1 | November 13, 1976 |
| 1.11 | "Tin Kong" | November 20, 1976 |
| 1.12 | "The Awful Ordeal With the Head of Steel" | November 25, 1976 2 |
| 1.13 | "The Blue Falcon vs. The Red Vulture" | November 27, 1976 |
| 1.14 | "The Injustice League Of America" | December 4, 1976 4 |
| 1.15 | "The Lighter Than Air Raid" | December 11, 1976 4 |
| 1.16 | "The Prophet Profits" | December 18, 1976 4 |
- 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 1976 (November 25), during ABC's Thanksgiving Funshine Festival.
[edit] Episode guide, from Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics
[edit] Season two (1977 – 1978)
| # | Episode title | Original airdate |
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| 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 |
