Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines

Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines is a cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for CBS. Originally the series was broadcast as a Saturday morning cartoon, airing from September 13, 1969 to January 3, 1970. The show focuses on the efforts of Dick Dastardly and his canine sidekick Muttley to catch Yankee Doodle Pigeon, a carrier pigeon who carries messages. The cartoon was a combination of Red Baron Snoopy, Wacky Races, which featured Dastardly and Muttley in a series of car races, and the film Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. Dick Dastardly and Muttley the main villains also return in the cartoon show after the Wacky Races. The show is widely known as Stop the Pigeon based on the show's original working title and the show's theme song, written by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

The cartoon show had only two voice actors: Paul Winchell as Dick Dastardly and the indistinctly heard General, and Don Messick as Muttley, Yankee Doodle Pigeon, and two of the Vulture Squadron pilots Zilly and Klunk.