The New Shmoo

The New Shmoo
Written by	Gene Ayres Art Browne Jr. Buzz Dixon Donald F. Glut Len Janson Dale Kirby Glenn Leopold Chuck Menville J. Michael Reaves Jim Ryan
Directed by	Ray Patterson Carl Urbano Oscar Dufau George Gordon
Country of origin	USA
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	16
Production
Executive producer(s)	Joseph Barbera William Hanna
Producer(s)	Art Scott Alex Lovy
Running time	30 min.
Production company(s)	Hanna-Barbera Productions
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC
First shown in	22 September 1979
Original airing	22 September 1979

The New Shmoo was a 1979 cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for NBC.

Plot

This show about a group of teenagers — Mickey, Nita and Billy Joe — who solve mysteries and crimes with their friend, Shmoo, a character from Al Capp's newspaper comic strip, Li'l Abner. The teens worked for Mighty Mysteries Comics.

Production

During the original NBC run, the program included a short segment called "Sing Along With The Shmoo". In a manner reminiscent of Screen Songs, Shmoo became a bouncing ball, providing visual guidance to song lyrics so that viewers could sing along with the cartoon. The show's episodes were rerun later that same year on Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo.

Episodes

• The Amazing Captain Mentor
• The Beast of Black Lake
• The Ber-Shmoo-Da Triangle
• The Crystal Ball of Crime
• Dr. Morton's Monster
• The Energy Robbers From Space
• The Flying Disc of Doom
• The Haunting of Atlantis
• Monster Island
• The Pyramid of Peril
• The Return of Dracula
• Swamp of Evil
• The Terror of the Trolls
• The Valley Where Time Stood Still
• The Wail of the Banshee
• The Warlock of Voodoo Island

Voices

• Frank Welker - Shmoo
• Dolores Cantu-Primo - Nita
• Bill Idelson - Mickey
• Chuck McCann - Billy Joe

• Additional voices: Joe Baker, Daws Butler, Bob Hastings, Don Messick, Jim MacGeorge, Margaret McIntyre, Ginny McSwain, Hal Smith, John Stephenson, Janet Waldo, Bill Woodson

External links

• The New Shmoo at the Internet Movie Database