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"Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines" (1969)
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13 September 1969 (USA)
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Dick Dastardly leads a fighter plane group to try ineffectualy to stop a carrier pigeon. full summary
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These not-so-magnificent men (and dog) are strangely compelling viewing
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(Series Cast Summary - 1 of 2)| Paul Winchell | ... | Dick Dastardly / ... (unknown episodes) |
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Stop the Pigeon (USA) (working title)
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30 min (17 episodes)
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Unusually for a Hanna-Barbera show, only two voice actors (Paul Winchell and Don Messick) provided all the characters' voices.
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Referenced in The 100 Greatest Cartoons (2005) (TV)
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OK, let me see if I've got this straight...
It's World War I, and retired Wacky Racers Dick Dastardly and Muttley the dog have got together with a couple of eccentric aviators, Klunk and Zilly, to form Vulture Squadron. Zilly is a devout coward whose catchphrase is "oh-h-h de-e-ear", and who frequently tries to hide by ducking his head inside his roll-neck sweater like a human tortoise. Klunk, the team's inventive genius, speaks in a mixture of English and bizarre noises which are accompanied by the most extraordinary facial contortions. Between them this not-so-intrepid crew spend all their time manufacturing incredibly elaborate machinery and aircraft designed to block American war reports by catching...wait for it..._a single homing pigeon_. And week after week Vulture squadron are easily outwitted by the bird's superior speed and manoeuvrability, as well as the fact that it has more brains than the lot of them put together. This always results in their planes colliding or blowing up in midair, which leads to some nasty falls for Dick Dastardly. Luckily his old sidekick Muttley has learned how to fly by spinning his tail like a helicopter, and is always willing to use this talent to rescue - in return for a medal or two.
I don't know about you, but it all seems a bit silly to me. But of course that's the point: the show's wild combination of loopy ideas and corny gags combined with cheap and cheerful animation, not to mention those patented Hannah-Barbera sound fx, make these not-so magnificent men (and dog) in their flying machines a strangely compelling viewing experience in a sixties cartoon kind of a way. (And the voice cast always sound as if they're having a lot of fun even if their characters aren't.)
I still think it would have been cheaper to buy a hawk, though....