Lights...Camera...Cavey!

Lights...Camera...Cavey!

June 21, 1980 TV Episode Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels

Studio
Hanna-Barbera Studios

Synopsis

The Teen Angels investigate an attack by a masked phantom.

Characters

Captain Caveman, Dee Dee, Brenda, Taffy, Cave Bird

Credits

Directing

Director
Charles Nichols (as Charles A. Nichols)
Unit Direction
Ray Patterson

Producing

Producer
William Hanna, Joseph Barbera (Executive Producers)
Associate Producer
Art Scott, Alex Lovy, Lew Marshall
Creative Producer
Iwao Takamoto

Music

Music
Hoyt Curtin, Ted Nichols

Sound

Sound Direction
Richard Olson, Bill Getty

Music Department

Musical Supervision
Paul DeKorte

Casting

Recording Directors
Wally Burr, Alex Lovy, Art Scott

Production Management

Production Manager
Jayne Barbera
Post-Production Supervision
Joed Eaton

Companies and other credits

  • Musical Supervision: La La Productions
  • A HANNA-BARBERA PRODUCTION
  • Copyright 1977 Hanna-Barbera Productions
  • Inc

Production notes

Captain Caveman was a prehistoric superhero unfrozen by three teenage beauties. They took him around in their van, solving mysteries across the country. And he could fly. Young boys of the world, set your envy-meters to "overload."

The captain's powers of flight came from his multi-purpose club, which could pop open to produce any gadget necessary to defeat the villain. Sidekick Cave Bird was also on hand to keep his master's devices straight. The girls, known collectively as the "Teen Angels," were brainy Brenda, scaredy pants Taffy and easygoing Dee Dee.

Supremely hairy, "Cavey" was also blessed with a great set of lungs, which he would use to belt out his name when flying into action. After two years of being a segment on Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics and Scooby's All-Stars, Cavey and the girls get their own- short-lived- show, it was decided Cavey's outrageous antics were too much to contain to ensemble work. Hanna-Barbera finally gave the shaggy hero his own show in 1980, titled Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels.

The program only ran for 16 episodes, but the Captain found a more fitting home in Bedrock, playing as a supporting character on The Flintstones Comedy Show and later on The Flintstone Kids, this time with son Cavey Jr.