Wake Up Muttley Youre Dreaming Again

Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flight Machines is a Sabbatum morning drawing produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for CBS from 13 September 1969 to 5 September 1971. The prove is unusual in having only ii vocalization actors, Paul Winchell as Dick Dastardly and the indistinctly heard General, and Don Messick as Muttley and everybody else. Each half-hour episode typically features two stories, plus "Fly Dings" (short gags) and "Magnificent Muttley" shorts (Muttley'southward Walter Mitty-fashion daydreams).

Contents

• one Summary
• 2 Characters
  • ii.ane The Vulture Squadron
  • 2.ii Other Characters
• iii Development
• 4 Plot Similarities
• 5 Episodes
• half-dozen Magnificent Muttley
• 7 Trivia
• 8 Phonation Bandage
• ix Production Credits
• 10 Availability
• 11 In Other Languages
• 12 External Links

Summary

Dick Dastardly and Muttley are World State of war I Flying aces and members of the Vulture Squadron, a crew of aviators on a mission to stop a Homing dove named Yankee Doodle Pigeon from delivering messages to the other side.

Characters

The Vulture Squadron

• Dick Dastardly is the leader of the Vulture Squadron, an ex-Wacky Racer turned aviator. He is nonetheless the accident-prone villain he had been in Wacky Races. He is referred to equally "DD" or "Primary" by Zilly and Klunk, and as "Rick Rasterly" past Muttley (especially when he is muttering). Although he's sometimes hateful to Muttley, Zilly and Klunk, he is a nice guy (he says that to himself, numerous times to at-home his fretfulness). When he gets angry, he usually uses his catchphrase "drat, drat and double drat", but before crashing difficult into the ground. Although he does not show that very oftentimes, Dastardly likes Muttley very much... sometimes during the bear witness, he treats Muttley with a lot more than respect than the residue of the squadron.

• Muttley is Dastardly's bungling canine sidekick. He rarely speaks, usually only blasphemous to himself indistinctly or an excited "Yeah-yes-yeah." He has a distinctive rasping laugh which he employs whenever something bad happens to Dick, or whenever Dick is describing his latest "foolproof" plot. Since leaving the Wacky Races, Muttley has learned to fly by spinning his tail like a helicopter rotor. This enables him to save Dastardly from falling (which frequently happens, usually accompanied past a weep from Dastardly of: "MUTTLEY!! DO SOMETHING!!"), although Muttley usually demands a medal for doing so. During Wacky Races, Muttley's popularity had grown, so when Dastardly and Muttley began production, he got his own segment, Magnificent Muttley, in which he daydreams that he is a different hero each calendar week, usually with Dastardly as the villain.

• Zilly is a pilot and a cringing coward.
• Klunk is a pilot and an engineer of shipping and weapons.

Other Characters

• Yankee Putter Pigeon is a mail-carrying homing pigeon the Vulture Squadron tries to intercept.
• The General is Dastardly'southward superior, unseen except for his arm, which occasionally reaches through the telephone earpiece.
• Muttley's girlfriend is merely seen in some of the "Magnificent Muttley" shorts.

Development

The prove's working title was End the Pigeon, and the bear witness's theme song (derived from "Tiger Rag" and sung by Dick Dastardly himself) repeats the phrase and so oftentimes that information technology is piece of cake for that to exist mistaken for the show'due south actual title. Under the working championship, Dastardly and Muttley were not function of the cast; a stubby, heavy-jowled Reddish Baron-esque pilot and a dachshund in flying goggles were the central figures. It appeared that those figures were not going anywhere insofar as development, and so the characters of Dastardly and Muttley were plucked from Hanna-Barbera's earlier Wacky Races for the series.

Like its predecessor, Wacky Races, Dastardly & Muttley in their Flying Machines owes a great deal to the Road Runner cartoons, with Dastardly once again taking the Wile Eastward. Coyote part. Both characters are fanatics, incapable of giving up even in the face of repeated and painful failure. Michael Maltese, who wrote many of the original Road Runner shorts, is besides credited as a writer on Wacky Races, The Perils of Penelope Pitstop and Dastardly and Muttley.

Dick Dastardly's appearance in this show was based on the English actor Terry-Thomas, the mustache-twirling villain of Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, the motion-picture show which provided the inspiration for Dastardly & Muttley in their Flying Machines.

Plot Similarities

Each story features variations on the same plot elements: the Vulture Squadron tries to trap Yankee Doodle Pigeon using one or more planes equipped with Klunk'south latest contraption(s), but one or more of the Squadron messes upwardly the endeavour and the planes either crash, collide or explode. While they are falling out of the wreckage, Dastardly calls for help, which Muttley either offers or refuses depending on whether Dastardly agrees to requite him a medal. Even when Muttley does agree to wing Dastardly out of trouble, Dastardly seldom has a soft landing. At some point the General calls Dastardly on the phone to need results. Dastardly assures him that they volition soon capture the pigeon, merely the General disbelieves him and either bellows down the phone or reaches through it and pulls Dastardly's mustache or nose. Klunk and so comes up with a new invention and "explains" it in his own unique way. Dastardly says "What'd he say? What'd he say?" and Zilly interprets, before attempting to run away. In one case Muttley has "persuaded" (usually by biting/attacking him) Zilly to render, the Vulture Squadron have off in their new planes to repeat the whole procedure over and over again. Eventually the Squadron are left to lick their wounds equally Yankee Doodle Dove flies off over the horizon, blowing his bugle triumphantly.

Episodes

• Episode one - (13 September 1969)
  • "Fur Out Furlough"
  • "Barn Dance" - Fly Dings
  • "Hot Soup" - Wing Dings
  • "Muttley on the Bounty" - Magnificent Muttley
  • "Sappy Altogether"
• Episode 2 - (xx September 1969)
  • "Follow That Plume"
  • "Barber" - Wing Dings
  • "Empty Hangar" - Wing Dings
  • "What's New Sometime Bean?" - Magnificent Muttley
  • "Operation Anvil"
• Episode 3 - (27 September 1969)
  • "Sky Hi-IQ"
  • "Prop Wash" - Wing Dings
  • "Carpet" - Fly Dings
  • "The Marvelous Muttdini" - Magnificent Muttley
  • "A Patently Shortage of Planes"
• Episode four - (4 October 1969)
  • "Barnstormers"
  • "Arnold" - Wing Dings
  • "Pineapple Sundae" - Wing Dings
  • "The New Mascot" - Wing Dings
  • "The Bad Player" - Magnificent Muttley
  • "Shape Upward or Ship Out"
• Episode 5 - (11 October 1969)
  • "Stop That Pigeon"
  • "Grease Chore" - Wing Dings
  • "Robot" - Wing Dings
  • "The Big Topper" - Magnificent Muttley
  • "Zilly'south a Dilly"
• Episode 6 - (18 October 1969)
  • "The Cuckoo Patrol"
  • "Automated Door" - Wing Dings
  • "Airmail" - Wing Dings
  • "Runway Stripe" - Wing Dings
  • "The Masked Muttley" - Magnificent Muttley
  • "Pest Pilots"
• Episode 7 - (25 October 1969)
  • "The Swiss Yelps"
  • "Eagle-Beagle"
  • "Deep Reading" - Fly Dings
  • "Shell Game" - Wing Dings
  • "Slightly Loaded" - Wing Dings
  • "Movie Stuntman" - Magnificent Muttley
• Episode 8 - (1 November 1969)
  • "Wing by Knights"
  • "There's No Fool Like a Re-Fuel"
  • "Springtime" - Fly Dings
  • "Dog's Life" - Wing Dings
  • "Strange Equipment" - Wing Dings
  • "Coonskin Caper" - Magnificent Muttley
• Episode ix - (8 November 1969)
  • "Movies Are Badder Than Ever"
  • "Home Sweetness Homing Dove"
  • "The Elevator" - Wing Dings
  • "Obedience School" - Wing Dings
  • "Aquanuts" - Magnificent Muttley
• Episode 10 - (15 November 1969)
  • "Lens a Mitt"
  • "Vacation Trip Trap"
  • "Parachute" - Wing Dings
  • "Real Snapper" - Fly Dings
  • "Leonardo de Muttley" - Magnificent Muttley
• Episode xi - (22 November 1969)
  • "Stop Which Pigeon?"
  • "Ceiling Zero Zilch"
  • "Fast Freight" - Wing Dings
  • "Home Run" - Wing Dings
  • "Starting time Your Engines" - Magnificent Muttley
• Episode 12 - (29 November 1969)
  • "Who's Who?"
  • "Operation Birdbrain"
  • "Bowling Pin" - Wing Dings
  • "Shrink Job" - Wing Dings
  • "Ship Ahooey" - Magnificent Muttley
• Episode 13 - (six December 1969)
  • "Medal Muddle"
  • "Get S Young Pigeon!"
  • "The Window Washer" - Fly Dings
  • "Beach Smash" - Fly Dings
  • "Admiral Bird Canis familiaris" - Magnificent Muttley
• Episode xiv - (13 Dec 1969)
  • "Too Many Kooks"
  • "Water ice Encounter You"
  • "Echo" - Wing Dings
  • "Rainmaker" - Wing Dings
  • "Professor Muttley" - Magnificent Muttley
• Episode 15 - (20 December 1969)
  • "Mild Swami"
  • "Camouflage Hop-Aroo"
  • "Mop Up" - Fly Dings
  • "Big Turnover" (a.k.a. Left Hanging) - Fly Dings
  • "Wild Mutt Muttley" - Magnificent Muttley
• Episode 16 - (27 Dec 1969)
  • "Have Plane Volition Travel"
  • "Windy Windmill"
  • "Tough Break" - Fly Dings
  • "The Ice Cream Tree" - Wing Dings
  • "Astromutt" - Magnificent Muttley
• Episode 17 - (3 Jan 1970)
  • "Aeroplane Talk"
  • "Happy Bird Solar day"
  • "Boxing" - Wing Dings
  • "Runaway Rug" (a.k.a. Magic Carpet) - Wing Dings
  • "Super Muttley" - Magnificent Muttley

Magnificent Muttley

The Magnificent Muttley segment is always introduced by Dick Dastardly saying:

Wake up Muttley you're dreaming once more!
You're not Robin Hood and you're not Gunga Din
Yous're non a brave knight or a king who's been crowned;
You're simply manifestly old Muttley, the snickering hound!

In each of the seventeen episodes, Muttley imagines himself in a unlike situation. These are the characters he pretends to exist:

• Sailor
• Jack and the Beanstalk
• Sorcerer
• Theatre Histrion
• Circus Acrobat
• Masked Avenger
• Movie Stuntman
• David Bowie
• Scuba Diver
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Machine Racer
• Olympic Swimmer
• Chill Explorer
• Inventor
• Tarzan
• Astronaut
• Super-Hero

Trivia

• The nationality of the Vulture Squadron is never revealed, but the evidence is set up in WWI and the pigeon is presumably American because of its proper name, thus making it likely that they are High german.
• Although the Wacky Races series is never mentioned, the Hateful Motorcar tin be seen in the numerous episodes of Magnificent Muttley.
• During the unabridged series, the Vulture Squadron destroys 182 planes, ii balloons, 1 ship, one Zeppelin, 1 gas station and 1 train.
• The "Stop That Dove" theme song was covered in:
  • Saturday Morn Cartoons' Greatest Hits (1995)
  • Toon tunes (1996)
  • Cartoon Network Toon a Rama (2003)
• Klunk is a vegetarian (this is seen in one of the "Wing Dings" shorts).
• Muttley'south altogether is on Apr 16 (it is seen in the "Sappy Birthday" episode).
• Dastardly likes ice cream with pineapple pieces, and hates lemon pies (this is seen in one of the "Wing Dings" episodes, and on Magnificent Muttley).
• The series was sponsored by Kellogg's cereals in its original run, and the characters appeared in several commercials for the company.
• Dastardly worked in a circus as a trapezist in 1 of the "Wing Dings" shorts.
• In an episode of Yogi's Treasure Hunt entitled "Yogi's Heroes", in which Yogi Bear and Dastardly were the leaders of warring nations, Dastardly tortured all of Yogi's friends by forcing them to scout episodes of Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flight Machines until the victims were incapable of doing anything more than than stumbling effectually and repeatedly chanting, "Finish the pigeon."

Voice Cast

• Paul Winchell - Dick Dastardly, General, others
• Don Messick - Muttley, Klunk, Zilly, Yankee Doodle Pigeon, Narrator, others

Product Credits

• Produced and Directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
• Acquaintance Producer: Alex Lovy
• Story: Larz Bourne, Dalton Sandifer, Mike Maltese
• Story Direction: Alex Lovey, Bill Perez
• Voices: Paul Winchell, Don Messick
• Animation Manager: Charles A. Nichols
• Product Design: Iwao Takamoto
• Production Supervisor: Victor O. Schipek
• Character Pattern: Jerry Eisenberg
• Layout: Lou Appet, Ed Benedict, Jim Fletcher, Don Jurwich, Lin Larsen, Jack Manning
• Animation: Ed Clomp, Emil Carle, Izzy Ellis, John Garling, Maria Jursic, Carlo Vinci, Jerry Hathcock, Bob Maxfield, Ken Muse, Morey Reden, Veve Risto
• Groundwork Styling: Walt Peregoy
• Backgrounds: Dave Weidman, William Butler, Robert Gentle, Iraj Paran, Curtis Perkins
• Title Desigh: Bill Perez
• Titles: Robert Schaefer
• Music Manager: Ted Nichols
• Technical Supervisor: Frank Paiker
• Ink & Pigment Supervisor: Roberta Greutert
• Xerography: Robert West
• Sound Direction: Richard Olson
• Motion picture Editing: Pat Foley, Richard Allen
• Camera: Dick Blundell, Neb Kotler, Ralph Migliori, Cliff Shipser, Rex Stevens, Roy Wade
• A Hanna-Barbera Productions Product

Availability

Some episodes were distributed on VHS record past Worldvision Enterprises.

On 10 May 2005 Warner Home Video released the complete series on Region ane DVD. On 31 July 2006, the series was released on DVD R2 in the United Kingdom but only in HMV stores and its online site as an HMV Exclusive.

Cover Art	DVD Proper name	Ep #	Release Appointment	Additional Information
	Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines- The Complete Series	35	ten May 2005	Commentary on diverse episodes The Vulture Squadron'due south Greatest Misses - Watch the Pigeon Thwart the Vulture Squadron Dastardly & Muttley's Spin Offs retrospective.

In Other Languages

• Danish: Dastardly og Muttley i Deres Flyvende Maskiner
• Finnish: Kapteeni Sählä ja Matti-koira
• French: Satanas et Diabolo
• High german: Fliegende Männer in tollkühnen Kisten
• Hungarian: Süsü keselyűk
• Italian: Lo squadrone avvoltoi
• Japanese: スカイキッドブラック魔王
• Norwegian: Råttesen og Bumly
• Smooth: Dastardly i Muttley w swych latających maszynach or Wredniak i Bałwan i Eskadra Patałachów
• Portuguese - Br: Dick Vigarista due east Muttley east every bit suas Máquinas Voadoras / A Esquadrilha Abutre
• Castilian: Las Aventuras de Pierre Nodoyuna y Patán en sus Máquinas Voladoras
• Swedish: Stoppa Duvan
• Turkish: Hain Businesswoman ve Kopegi

External Links

• Toonopedia'south entry on Dastardly & Muttley

butlercoutiquather.blogspot.com

Source: https://wackyraces.fandom.com/wiki/Dastardly_%26_Muttley_in_Their_Flying_Machines

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