Clue Club
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| Clue Club | |
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| Genre | Animation |
| Directed by | Charles A. Nichols |
| Voices of | David Joliffe Bob Hastings Patricia Stitch Tara Talboy Jim MacGeorge Paul Winchell |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 16 |
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| Executive producer(s) |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Producer(s) | Alex Lovy |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | CBS |
| Original run | August 14, 1976 – September 3, 1977 |
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Clue Club was a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions from August 14, 1976 to September 3, 1977 on CBS.
Clue Club only had one season’s worth of first-run episodes produced, which were shown on Saturday mornings on CBS (the original home of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, which Clue Club had replaced; Scooby-Doo was being groomed for its move to ABC).
After a mid-1980s revival on USA Cartoon Express, it has since resurfaced on Cartoon Network and Boomerang.
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[edit] Plot
Similar in format to Hanna-Barbera’s Scooby-Doo, the show centered around a group of four teenage detectives, the Clue Club — Larry, Pepper, D.D. and Dotty — who solved mysteries with the help of two talking bloodhounds named Woofer and Wimper. Dotty, the youngest, usually stayed at home and helped solve cases by providing information and results from her minicomputer. Clue Club mysteries usually involved crimes such as a movie director vanishing or a two-ton statue disappearing into thin air.
Much of the comedy would come from Woofer, who would constantly accuse suspects without good reason, then later back-track while proclaiming his genius; and Wimper, a much simpler, easy-going, and less-intelligent dog, who would gently go along with his comrade’s schemes. Unlike Scooby-Doo, the dogs are only able to talk to each other and not to humans.
[edit] Episodes
- CLC-1: The Paper Shaper Caper (August 14, 1976)
- CLC-2: The Case of the Lighthouse Mouse (August 21, 1976)
- CLC-3: The Real Gone Gondola (August 28, 1976)
- CLC-4: Who's to Blame For the Empty Frame? (September 4, 1976)
- CLC-5: The Wild Seaweed Smuggling Caper (September 11, 1976)
- CLC-6: The Green Thumb Caper (September 18, 1976)
- CLC-7: The Disappearing Airport Caper (September 25, 1976)
- CLC-8: The Walking House Caper (October 2, 1976)
- CLC-9: The Solar Energy Caper (October 9, 1976)
- CLC-10: The Vanishing Train Caper (October 16, 1976)
- CLC-11: The Dissolving Statue Caper (October 23, 1976)
- CLC-12: The Missing Pig Caper (October 30, 1976)
- CLC-13: One of Our Elephants is Missing (November 6, 1976)
- CLC-14: The Amazing Heist (November 13, 1976)
- CLC-15: The Circus Caper (November 20, 1976)
- CLC-16: The Prehistoric Monster Caper (November 27, 1976)
[edit] Voices
- David Joliffe - Larry
- Bob Hastings - D.D.
- Patricia Stitch - Pepper
- Tara Talboy - Dotty
- John Stephenson - Sheriffy Bagley
- Paul Winchell - Woofer
- Jim MacGeorge - Wimper
[edit] Woofer & Wimper, Dog Detectives
In the fall of 1977, cut-down versions of the half-hour episodes of Clue Club appeared under the new title Woofer & Wimper, Dog Detectives as part of the CBS Saturday morning package program The Skatebirds from September 10, 1977 to January 28, 1978.
When The Skatebirds was cancelled in early 1978, Woofer & Wimper, Dog Detectives re-appeared as a segment alongside The Robonic Stooges on their half-hour show, also on CBS. The full-length versions of Clue Club returned to CBS for four more months on Sunday mornings from September 1978 to January 1979, concluding the show’s original network run.
[edit] Broadcast history (CBS)
- Clue Club: August 14, 1976 - September 3, 1977, 8:30 - 9:00 am (EDT)
- The Skatebirds (as Woofer & Wimper: Dog Detectives): September 10, 1977 - January 28, 1978, 9:30 - 10:30 am (EDT)
- The Robonic Stooges (as Woofer & Wimper: Dog Detectives): January 28, 1978 - September 2, 1978, 8:00 - 8:30 am (EDT)
- Clue Club (rebroadcast): September 10, 1978 - January 21, 1979, 10:30 - 11:00 am (EDT)
[edit] Production credits
- EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
- DIRECTOR: Charles A. Nichols
- CREATIVE PRODUCER: Iwao Takamoto
- RECORDING DIRECTOR: Wally Burr
- STORY EDITOR: Sid Morse
- WRITERS: Herb Armstrong, Haskell Barkin, Dick Conway, Jack Fox, Gordon Glasco, Orville Hampton, Duane Poole, Dick Robbins, James Scmerer, Lee Sheldon
- CREATIVE STORYBOARD DIRECTOR: Alex Lovy
- STORYBOARD DIRECTION: Jan Green, Don Sheppard, Paul Sommer
- VOICES: Joan Gerber, Virginia Gregg, Bob Hastings, David Joliffe, Julie McWhirter, Jim MacGeorge, Alan Oppenheimer, Vic Perrin, John Stephenson, Patricia Stitch, Tara Talboy, Janet Waldo, Paul Winchell
- GRAPHICS: Iraj Paran
- MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Hoyt Curtin
- MUSICAL SUPERVISOR: Paul DeKorte
- CHARACTER DESIGN SUPERVISOR: Bob Singer
- CHARACTER DESIGN: Alex Toth, Donna Zeller
- UNIT DIRECTOR: Art Scott
- LAYOUT: Bob Fosbery, Steve Lumley, Margaret Parkes, Joe Shearer
- ANIMATION DIRECTOR: Chris Cuddington
- ANIMATION: Sue Beak, John Burge, Geoff Collins, Don Ezard, Warwick Gilbert, Gerry Grabner, Sebastian Hurple, Cynthia Leech, Don MacKinnon, Paul McAdam, Henry Neville, Di Rudder, Jean Tych
- BACKGROUNDS: Milton Zahorsky, Richard Zaloudek
- ANIMATION CHECKING: Narelle Nixon, Terry Smith
- XEROX MANAGER: Ellen Bayley
- PAINTING SUPERVISOR: Lesley Blayney
- CAMERA: Jan Cregan, Mark D'Arcy-Irvine
- SOUND DIRECTION: Richard Olson, Bill Getty
- SUPERVISING FILM EDITOR: Larry Cowan
- MUSIC EDITORS: Pat Foley, James Yaras
- EFFECTS EDITORS: Tom Gleason, Milt Krear
- NEGATIVE CONSULTANT: William E. DeBoer
- POST PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR: Joed Eaton
- PRODUCTION MANAGER: Peter Addison
- A HANNA-BARBERA PRODUCTION
- © 1976 HANNA-BARBERA PRODUCTIONS, INC.
