The Funky Phantom was a Saturday morning cartoon, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1971 for ABC.
Plot
Similar to Hanna-Barbera's successful Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, The Funky Phantom featured three teenagers — Skip, April and Augie — and their dog Elmo. These four living beings solved spooky mysteries with the help of two ghostly companions, a Revolutionary War-era ghost named Jonathan Wellington "Mudsy" Muddlemore and his cat, Boo. The two of them allegedly hid from the British inside a longcase clock during the Revolutionary War, but then couldn't get out and eventually died inside; their ghosts emerged from the clock almost two centuries later. The animation was produced for Hanna-Barbera by Australian studio Air Programs International.
The voice of Mudsy was provided by Daws Butler and was identical to his voice work for the character Snagglepuss, even down to the use of Snagglepusses catchphrases, such as appending sentences with the word "Even".
In the 1970s, comic books of The Funky Phantom were released by Western Publishing and Gold Key Comics.
Voices
Episodes
- FP-1. Don't Fool With a Phantom (9/11/1971)
- FP-2. Heir Scare (9/18/1971)
- FP-3. I'll Haunt You Later (9/25/1971)
- FP-4. Who's Chicken (10/2/1971)
- FP-5. The Headless Horseman (10/9/1971)
- FP-6. Spirit Spooked (10/16/1971)
- FP-7. Ghost Town Ghost (10/23/1971)
- FP-8. We Saw a Sea Serpent (10/30/1971)
- FP-9. Haunted in Inn (11/6/1971)
- FP-10. Mudsy Joins the Circus (11/13/1971)
- FP-11. Pigskin Predicament (11/20/1971)
- FP-12. The Liberty Bell Caper (11/27/1971)
- FP-13. April Foolish Day (12/4/1971)
- FP-14. The Forest's Prime-Evil (12/11/1971)
- FP-15. The Hairy Scary Houndman (12/18/1971)
- FP-16. Mudsy and Muddlemore Manor (12/25/1971)
- FP-17. Ghost Grabbers (1/1/1972)
Other appearances
Mudsy appeared in the Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episode "High Speed Buggy Chase" voiced by Chris Edgerly. The question "What makes the Funky Phantom so funky?" is finally asked and answered.
DVD release
Coming soon on DVD from Warner Home Video: To Be Announced.
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