Clue Club is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and broadcast on CBS from August 14 to December 11, 1976.
22-546: The series follows a group of four teenage detectives, the Clue Club – Larry, Pepper, D.D. and Dottie – who solved mysteries with the help of two talking dogs, a bloodhound and basset hound named Woofer and Wimper. Clue Club mysteries usually involved investigating bizarre crimes such as animals, trains, airports, a movie director and statues vanishing into thin air. Clue Club only had one season's worth of first-run episodes produced, which were shown on Saturday mornings on CBS. In
44-572: A school tablet . Marvel Comics featured Clue Club stories ("Mrs. Macree's Mystery" and "The Root of All Evil!") in two issues of the short-lived anthology comic series Hanna-Barbera TV Stars #2 (October 1978) and #4 (February 1979). Outside of these American comics, Clue Club stories were also featured in Clue Club Annual 1979 hardback book published by World Distributors in the United Kingdom. A board game titled as "The Clue Club Game"
66-626: A plane crew consisting of pilot Chuck Kelly (portrayed by Stephen Parr), computer expert Sue Corwin (portrayed by Lynn Marie Johnston), her younger brother Sandy (portrayed by Larry Volk), and their robot named P.O.P.S. (voiced by Frank Welker ) who stranded on a remote island by the evil scientist Dr. Strange (portrayed by Michael Kermoyan) after he used a tractor beam to bring their airplane down onto Mystery Island. Dr. Strange hopes to capture P.O.P.S. and use it in his quest for world domination. Original CBS broadcast : Broadcast schedules (all EDT ) : The Robonic Stooges The Robonic Stooges
88-402: A segment alongside The Three Robonic Stooges on their half-hour show from January 28 to September 2, 1978, also on CBS. The full-length versions of Clue Club returned to CBS on Sunday mornings from September 10, 1978, to January 21, 1979, concluding the show's original network run. After a mid-1980s re-airing on USA Cartoon Express , it has since resurfaced on Cartoon Network (as part of
110-527: A segment on The Skatebirds from September 10, 1977, to January 21, 1978, on CBS . When CBS canceled The Skatebirds in early 1978, the trio was given their own half-hour timeslot which ran for 16 episodes. This was the second animated series starring the Stooges, following the 1965 series The New 3 Stooges . In 2021, it was announced The Robonic Stooges would become a comic book series with new stories published by American Mythology Productions. Issue #1
132-444: A separate half-hour) and broadcast on Sunday mornings from September 9, 1979, until January 25, 1981. In the late 1980s, a different syndicated half-hour version of The Skatebirds with The Robonic Stooges and Wonder Wheels segments was shown on USA Cartoon Express and later resurfaced on Cartoon Network in the 1990s and Boomerang in the 2000s. The opening credits for the original one-hour version with voice-over narration by
154-485: A woodpecker (voiced by Lennie Weinrib ); Satchel, a pelican (voiced by Bob Holt ) and Scooter, a penguin (voiced by Don Messick ). Their nemesis was a cat named Scat Cat (voiced by Scatman Crothers ). The live-action sequences featuring The Skatebirds mostly revolved around the nasty Scat Cat perpetually chasing the roller-skating trio and trying to get the best of them. Unlike the Banana Splits live-action segments,
176-422: Is a Saturday morning animated series featuring the characters of The Three Stooges in new roles as clumsy crime-fighting cyborg superheroes . It was developed by Norman Maurer and produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions from September 10, 1977, to March 18, 1978, on CBS and contained two segments: The Robonic Stooges and Woofer & Wimper, Dog Detectives . The Robonic Stooges originally aired as
198-683: The Mysteries, Inc. block ) in the 1990s and Boomerang in the 2000s. The series features the following seven main characters throughout its run: Clue Club aired in these following formats on CBS : Broadcast schedules (all EDT ): In 1977–79, merchandising for Clue Club included: a coloring book ( Clue Club Saves the Day ), story book ( Clue Club: The Case of the Missing Racehorse by Fern G. Brown), read & color book ( Clue Club: The Racetrack Mystery ), jigsaw puzzles , rub-on transfers and
220-415: The Clue Club detectives: Larry (voiced by David Jolliffe ), Pepper (voiced by Patricia Stitch ), D.D. (voiced by Bob Hastings ), and Dottie (voiced by Tara Talboy ) which usually ends with the bad guys arrested by Sheriff Bagley (voiced by John Stephenson ). The original half-hour episodes of Clue Club were cut-down to 10 minutes to showcase both dogs as the show's main characters. The adventures of
242-488: The Skatebirds were filmed in a variety of theme-park locations, rather than running around in a single studio. The show was divided into four short segments introduced by live action wraparounds with The Skatebirds characters which included three animated segments ( The Robonic Stooges , Wonder Wheels and Woofer & Wimper, Dog Detectives ) and a 10-minute live-action segment ( Mystery Island ). The appearance of
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#1732884000092264-442: The Stooges' agent during their lifetimes, worked on both series. The Stooges had previously appeared in another Hanna Barbera-created series: The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972), this time as Moe, Larry and Curly Joe . With the deaths of Fine and Howard in 1975, other actors were engaged to voice the roles of Moe and Larry; neither of the surviving "third" Stooges, Joe Besser or Joe DeRita, was asked to participate (even though Besser
286-620: The Superhero Employment Agency. A high school journalist named Willie Wheeler (voiced by Micky Dolenz ) and his girlfriend Dooley (voiced by Susan Davis) solve crimes with the help of his shape-shifting superhero motorcycle Wonder Wheels. Whenever Willie goes into action, his beat-up motorcycle transforms itself into a flashy version with a mind of its own. A shortened and re-titled version of Clue Club featuring two talking bloodhounds – Woofer & Wimper (voiced by Paul Winchell and Jim MacGeorge ) – who help solve mysteries with
308-572: The characters and the show's format was similar to The Banana Splits . Unlike its similar predecessor and most Saturday morning children's shows produced in the 1970s, The Skatebirds did not contain a laugh track . A total of 16 episodes of The Skatebirds were produced in its original run from September 10, 1977, to January 21, 1978. In the fall of 1979, the show returned to CBS in a shortened half-hour version with Wonder Wheels and Mystery Island segments ( The Robonic Stooges and Woofer & Whimper, Dog Detectives segments had been spun off into
330-585: The closing credits is the CB Bears theme which was also later used as the ending credits for Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels . The characters of The Three Stooges – Moe (voiced by Paul Winchell ), Larry (voiced by Joe Baker ) and Curly (voiced by Frank Welker ) – as clumsy crime-fighting bionic superheroes who are given assignments via film projector from their boss Agent 000 (voiced by Ross Martin ) who runs
352-489: The fall of 1977, cut-down versions of the half-hour episodes of Clue Club appeared under the new title Woofer & Wimper, Dog Detectives to showcase the show's bloodhound and basset hound which aired as a segment on the CBS Saturday morning package program The Skatebirds from September 10, 1977, to January 21, 1978. When The Skatebirds was cancelled in early 1978, Woofer & Wimper, Dog Detectives re-appeared as
374-431: The original Three Stooges had died when production began ( Moe Howard and Larry Fine had both died in 1975, Shemp Howard died in 1955 and Curly Howard died in 1952), other voice actors were used to impersonate them, mostly veteran voice actors from other Hanna-Barbera productions. Paul Winchell voiced Moe, Joe Baker voiced Larry, and Frank Welker voiced Curly (Welker had previously used his Curly impression for
396-612: The show's recording director Wally Burr : It's Skatebird time and here come The Skatebirds –SKATEBIRDS (C) 1977 HANNA BARBERA PRODUCTIONS INC.- Knock-Knock, Scooter, Satchel and Scat Cat. Then, The Robonic Stooges, plus the spine-tingling suspense-filled excitement of Mystery Island, and the doggone it daffy doings of those dog detectives, Woofer & Whimper, and more...the unbelievable adventures of an unbelievable motorcycle, Wonder Wheels. For all-out fun, it's Satch, Knock-Knock, Scooter and Scat Cat...and for suspense, mystery and adventure, it's The Skatebirds Show! The opening credits for
418-474: The syndicated half-hour version with voice-over narration by Ronnie Schell : It's Skatebird time starring Knock-Knock, Satchel and Scooter, those featheared clowns of fantasy. Along with Willie the Wheeler and the superhero cycle known as Wonder Wheels, as well as those three mechanical marbles, The Robonic Stooges. One big collection of wild, wacky and wonderful characters...The Skatebirds! The music featured in
440-507: The titular character in Jabberjaw ). Unlike cartoon series produced by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, The Robonic Stooges did not contain a laugh track . This was the second animated adaptation of the Three Stooges, the first being Cambria Studios ' The New 3 Stooges in 1965, which used the actual Stooges' voices. Norman Maurer , who was married to Moe Howard's daughter and had acted as
462-749: Was released only in Europe in 1979. On August 11, 2015, Warner Archive released Clue Club: The Complete Animated Series on DVD in region 1 as part of their Hanna–Barbera Classics Collection . This is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and Amazon.com. The Skatebirds The Skatebirds (onscreen title: Skatebirds ) is an American live-action / animated package program produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and broadcast on CBS from September 10, 1977, to January 21, 1978. It has many similarities to The Banana Splits . The Skatebirds consisted of three large costumed birds on roller skates: Knock-Knock,
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#1732884000092484-428: Was written by S.A. Check and Jordan Gershowitz with interior art from Philip Murphy and Jorge Pacheco and main cover art by Eric Shanower . Moe, Larry and Curly are junkyard -based superheroes who fight crime with their often malfunctioning bionic powers and are given assignments via film projector from their frustrated boss Agent 000 (pronounced "oh-oh-oh") who runs the Superhero Employment Agency. Since all of
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