Butch Cassidy (TV series)
| Butch Cassidy | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Animation/Mystery |
| Created by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Directed by | Earl Klein Charles A. Nichols |
| Voices of | Chip Hand Micky Dolenz Kristina Holland Judy Strangis John Stephenson Frank Welker |
| Theme music composer | Hoyt Curtin |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Camera setup | Ralph Migliori Jerry Mills Norman Stainback Roy Wade |
| Running time | 30 min. |
| Production company | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | NBC |
| Release | September 8 – December 1, 1973 |
| Related | |
| Scooby Doo, Where Are You? Josie and the Pussycats | |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids (a.k.a. simply Butch Cassidy) was a Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1973 for NBC. The series title is a play on the name of the unrelated 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Plot
Similar to both Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and Josie and the Pussycats, the show depicted the adventures of a teen pop group of the series title. The band consisted of heartthrob Butch Cassidy (lead vocals and lead guitar), blonde beauty Merilee (tambourine), sensible Stephanie (bass guitar), and curly-topped Wally (drums). With Wally's dog, Elvis, the kids led double lives as popular rock stars and a secret crime fighting team.
The teens were advised by a supercomputer named Mr. Socrates, who was inexplicably extremely allergic to dogs, and when the group met with Mr. Socrates in his lair for their latest assignment, Elvis was always told to stay outside. In each episode, however, Elvis would somehow end up inside the lair, either by his own ingenuity or by Wally's forgetfulness; either way, Elvis' presence would cause the supercomputer to violently sneeze, blowing the group out of the lair and off to their assignment. Cassidy, designated as "Sundance 1," wore a special ring with a hidden communicator to keep in contact with Mr. Socrates from afar.
Micky Dolenz, the drummer and most frequent lead singer for the group The Monkees, provided the voice of Wally.
Episodes
| № | Title | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|
| BC-1 | "The Scientist" | 1973 September 8 |
| BC-2 | "The Counterfeiters" | 1973 September 15 |
| BC-3 | "One of Our Ships is Missing" | 1973 September 22 |
| BC-4 | "Double Trouble" | 1973 September 29 |
| BC-5 | "The Pearl Caper" | 1973 October 6 |
| BC-6 | "The Gold Caper" | 1973 October 13 |
| BC-7 | "Road Racers" | 1973 October 20 |
| BC-8 | "Hong Kong Story" | 1973 October 27 |
| BC-9 | "Operation G-Minus" | 1973 November 3 |
| BC-10 | "Orient Express" | 1973 November 10 |
| BC-11 | "The Parrot Caper" | 1973 November 17 |
| BC-12 | "The Super Sub" | 1973 November 24 |
| BC-13 | "The Haunted Castle" | 1973 December 1 |
Cast
- Cameron Arthur Clarke -
- Henry Corden -
- Hans Conried -
- Mickey Dolenz - Wally
- Paul Robert Engemann -
- Shawn Oro Engemann -
- Michael Evans -
- Virginia Gregg -
- Lloyd Chip Hand II - Butch Cassidy
- Tina Holland - Stephanie
- Loyal Lucas -
- Susannah Olivia Lloyd -
- Ross Martin -
- Frank Maxwell -
- Alan Oppenheimer -
- Pam Peters -
- Ronnie Schell -
- John Stephenson - Mr. Socrates
- Judy Strangis - Merilee
- Franklin Welker - Elvis
Other appearances
- Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kids were also the subject of Issue #11 of Gold Key Comics' Hanna-Barbera Fun-In in 1974; the story, "The Pearl Caper," was adapted from the October 6, 1973 Butch Cassidy TV episode of the same name.
- Characters from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids appeared several times on the Adult Swim animated television series Sealab 2021. The whole band appeared in the episode "All That Jazz" in a long shot at a concert, standing in for MC Chris and performing the song "Fett's Vette". In a later episode, "Let 'Em Eat Corn!", the band appears again as inhabitants of SeaLab Pod Six, with Butch and Wally both sporting mustaches. Then again, in the episode "Butchslapped", the characters appeared alongside Marco, who was revealed to be one of the Sundance Kids. The character models for Butch and Wally were also used for the animated likeness of John Miller (the series director) and Adam Reed (one of the series writers) in the episodes, "Swimming in Oblivion" and "Return to Oblivion".
DVD Release
Coming to DVD from Warner Home Video as part of Hanna-Barbera Classics Collection: TBA ??