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Series · 10 connectionsA team of three dogs and two cats working to serve justice where there is wrong-doing. Each episode begins with the Houndcats receiving orders from their unseen "Chief", whose message is played on an old-fashioned gramophone, player-piano or other devices, parodying the tape recorder scene at the start of most episodes of Mission: Impossible.
Created byDavid H. DePatie, Friz Freleng, Joe Ruby, Ken Spears
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1974 · Animation
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1975 · 30 min · Animation · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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1970 · 30 min · Animation
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1977 · 30 min · Animation
Baggy Pants and the Nitwits is a 1977 animated series, produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and broadcast on NBC.
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1973 · 30 min · Animation
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1972 · 30 min · Animation · Family
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1969 · 22 min · Animation · Comedy · Family · Mystery · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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1975 · 30 min · Animation
The Oddball Couple was an animated half hour Saturday morning show that ran on the ABC TV network from September 6, 1975 to September 3, 1977. The show was a production of DePatie-Freleng Enterprises in association with Paramount Television and was an animated homage to the Neil Simon play-turned movie-turned hit TV series The Odd Couple, which was ironic because this series premiered the same year that the show to which it paid homage was canceled by ABC. The show initially aired at 11:30am ET the first season and was switched to 12 Noon ET the following season.
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1978 · 24 min · Animation · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
The second independent animated adaptation of Marvel's Fantastic Four, consisting of 13 episodes. This series is the premiere for the robot H.E.R.B.I.E., as the Human Torch was unable to be used in the show due to a rights issue.
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1984 · 30 min · Animation · Comedy · Family · Kids · Mystery
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