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The episode "Speed Buggy Went That-a-Way" was featured on the Warner Bros. Presents DVD compilation Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1970's Volume 1 and released on May 26, 2009. [43] As part of the Warner Bros. Home Entertainment's Archive Collection, the complete Speed Buggy series was made available on DVD as a four-disc set. [3]
Johnson and Buzzi adapted and reprised the roles they had originated in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, with much of the adult innuendo (including Tyrone's original last name Horneigh) being removed to keep the cartoon family-friendly.
The Australian release of Volume 1 and 2 was made available in 2005 and Volume 3 released in 2007. Warner Home Video released the entire series, with commentaries and other extras, in a DVD box set on October 19, 2004. A two-and-a-half-hour VHS video was made available in 1996. All 34 episodes can be purchased on the iTunes Store.
Cartoon Network's first original series was The Moxy Show and the late-night satirical animated talk show Space Ghost Coast to Coast (the latter moving to Adult Swim at launch in September, 2001). The What a Cartoon! series of showcase shorts brought the creation of many Cartoon Network original series collectives branded as " Cartoon Cartoons ...
Like a great deal of Hanna-Barbera's 1970s output, the format and writing for Jabberjaw was similar to that for Scooby-Doo, [3] Josie and the Pussycats and Speed Buggy. [4] The show also drew inspiration (in the use of a shark as a character) from the overall shark mania of the mid-1970s [5] caused by the then-recent film Jaws.
All the human mystery solvers are taken hostage by Lord Infernicus, while Scooby, Jabberjaw, Speed Buggy, Captain Caveman and J. Wellington "Mudsy" Muddlemore try and stop him. They discover that Infernicus has turned the humans into guinea pigs , then discover he's trying to take them out of Crystal Cove via train.
The series premiered as part of the Saturday-morning cartoon program block Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics, which consists of 24 episodes, on ABC on September 10, 1977. [1] The show is a spoof of the Olympics and the ABC primetime series Battle of the Network Stars , [ 2 ] which debuted one year earlier.
The New Adventures of Speed Racer is a 1993 update of the Speed Racer animated series. [1] This new Americanized version was designed as a single 13-episode season (the first episode was entitled “The Mach 5’s First Trial”), with the intent of launching a feature film adaptation.