"Matty's Funnies with Beany and Cecil" A Rat Race for Space/Beany and the Boo Birds/Beany and Cecil Meet Ping Pong (????)"Matty's Funday Funnies" A Rat Race for Space/Beany and the Boo Birds/Beany and Cecil Meet Ping Pong (original title)

TV Series:

"Matty's Funnies with Beany and Cecil" (1959)

Original Air Date:

???? (Season 1, Episode 7)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Family

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Anthropomorphic Animal | Ghost | Cartoon Gorilla | Anthropomorphism | Serpent

Cast

Paul Frees

...

Little Ace / Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)

Scatman Crothers	...	Wildman of Wildsville (voice)
Jackson Beck	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Eddie Brandt	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Richard Buckley	...	Wildman of Wildsville / Go Man Van Gogh (voice) (as Lord Buckley)
Robert Clampett	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Jim MacGeorge	...	Beany Boy / Captain Huffenpuff (voice)
Jack Mercer	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Don Messick	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Freddy Morgan	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Sid Raymond	...	Baby Huey / Katnip / Additional Voices (voice)
Irv Shoemaker	...	Cecil / Dishonest John (voice)
Arnold Stang	...	Herman / Additional Voices (voice)
Sody Clampett	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Joan Gerber	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Norma MacMillan	...	Casper (voice)
Mae Questel	...	Casper / Little Audrey / Additional Voices (voice)
Gwen Davies	...	Casper (voice)
Cecil Roy	...	Casper / Additional Voices (voice)

Directed by
Robert Clampett
Seymour Kneitel
Izzy Sparber
Bill Tytla
Dave Tendlar		(1959)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Al Bertino		1962
Jack Bonestell		1962
Dale Hale		1962
Jack Hannah		1962
Dick Kinney		1962
Jack Mercer		writer

Produced by
Sam Buchwald	....	associate producer (vintage cartoon segments 1950-1951)
Robert Clampett	....	producer (1962)
Seymour Kneitel	....	producer (vintage theatrical and TV cartoons 1950-1962)
Izzy Sparber	....	producer (vintage cartoons segments 1950-1958)
A.C.R. Stone	....	executive producer (1962)

Original Music by
Eddie Brandt		(1962)
Hoyt Curtin		(1962)
Melvyn Lenard		(as Melvyn Leonard)
Jack Roberts		(1962)
Winston Sharples

Film Editing by
Dick Elliott		(1962)
John Soh		(1962)

Camera and Electrical Department
Mike Sweeten	....	camera operator (1962)

Animation Department
Bob Abrams	....	background artist (1962) (as Robert Abrams)
Lou Appet	....	animator (1962)
Carl Bell	....	animator (1962)
Frank Gonzales	....	animator (1962)
Harry Hester	....	animator (1962) (as Bud Hester)
Willie Ito	....	layout artist (1962) (as Willie Ito Jr.)
Homer Jonas	....	layout artist (1962)
Bill Nunes	....	animator (1962)
Curt Perkins	....	background artist (1962)
Marie Reed	....	color stylist (1962)
Art Scott	....	animation supervisor (1962)
Tony Sgroi	....	layout artist (1962)
Bill Southwood	....	animator (1962)
Terrell Stapp	....	layout artist (1962)
Al Stetter	....	animator (1962)
Jeanne Thorpe	....	animation checker (1962)

Also Known As:

"Matty's Funday Funnies: A Rat Race for Space/Beany and the Boo Birds/Beany and Cecil Meet Ping Pong (#1.7)" - USA (original title)

Trivia:

In "Beany and the Boo Birds", Cecil stops by the haunted Fountain Boo Hotel to borrow a bucket of ice cubes, unaware that the hotel is staffed entirely by ghostly birds. According to a close-up shot of the key rack behind the front desk, every room at the Fountain Boo is room #13.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs King Kong (1933)