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The Mumbly Cartoon Show

by: Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc.

Publication date: 1976

Topics: Warner Bros., Hanna-Barbera

Language: English

The Mumbly Cartoon Show is a Saturday morning animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and featuring the titular Mumbly, a cartoon dog detective. It was broadcast on ABC from September 11, 1976 to September 3, 1977 as part of Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape/Mumbly Show. This complication packaged reruns of the 1975 The Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape Show with Mumbly as a new component.

Mumbly (voiced by Don Messick) is a private eye dog trenchcoat, who works with a human detective, Chief Schnooker (voiced by John Stephenson), to catch criminals who often sport alliterative names. 16 episodes were produced.

The show was not a ratings success, and only lasted one season. However, in the next season, Mumbly was included in Hanna-Barbera's crossover show, Laff-A-Lympics, on the villainous "Really Rottens" team. Mumbly was not a villain in his earlier show, but the character was a substitution for the actually-villainous Muttley from the 1969 series Wacky Races, who could not appear on Laff-A-Lympics as those characters were co-owned by Heatter-Quigley Productions.

The show was also broadcast in West Germany in 1982, Yugoslavia circa 1985/86, France in 1978, Poland circa 1983/84.