Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Clue Club

Clue Club is 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. In the fall of 1977, cut-down versions of the half-hour episodes of Clue Club appeared under the new title of Woofer and Wimper, Dog Detectives to showcase the show's basset and bloodhound which aired as a segment on the CBS Saturday morning package program The Skatebirds from September 10, 1977 to January 28, 1978.

Similar in format to Hanna-Barbera's successful Scooby-Doo, the show centers around four adolescent friends who open the titular private investigation agency out of Larry's suburban residence. They are: Larry, 19; Pepper, 18; D.D., 16; and Dotty, 13. They solve mysteries with the big help of their two talking hounds, Woofer and Wimper. The dogs only talked to each other and the camera, they were not understood by the human characters. Clue Clube mysteries usually involved investigating bizarre crimes such as a movie director vanishing or a two-ton statue disappearing into thin air. Their relationship to the police was closer than most of H-B's variations of the formula, with the local Sheriff often requesting their assistance on cases, as well as making arrests at their conclusion.

The cartoon show features the voices of Tara Talboy as Dotty. Patricia Stitch as Pepper. Bob Hastings as D.D. David Jolliffe as Larry. Paul Winchell and Jim MacGeorge as two hound dogs Woofer and Wimper.
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