The Missing Pig Caper
- Studio
- Hanna-Barbera Studios
Synopsis
The Clue Club was a cartoon about four precocious young investigators who solved crimes with the help of two bloodhounds, Woofer and Whimper. Dotty was the little redhead who analyzed the data that the rest got from snooping around. Woofer was the older dog who always said how good he was and took all the credit after the case was solved. Whimper and Woofer had an inherent fear of the unknown provided most of the laughs in the show.
Characters
Larry, Sheriff Bagley, Woofer, D.D., Pepper, Dotty, Wimper
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Charles Nichols (as Charles A. Nichols)
- Unit Director
- Art Scott
- Animation Director
- Chris Cuddington
Producing
- Producer
- William Hanna, Joseph Barbera (Executive Producers)
- Associate Producer
- Alex Lovy
- Creative Producer
- Iwao Takamoto
Writing
- Writer
- Herb Armstrong, Haskell Barkin, Dick Conway, Jack Fox, Gordon Glasco, Orville Hampton, Duane Poole, Dick Robbins, James Schmerer, Lee Sheldon, Jeff Maurer, Norman Maurer
- Story Editor
- Sid Morse
Voices
- Voice
- Bob Hastings (D.D.), David Joliffe (Larry), James MacGeorge (Wimper), John Stephenson (Sherrif Bagley), Patricia Stitch (Pepper), Tara Talboy (Dotty), Paul Winchell (Woofer), Julie McWhirter, Joan Gerber, Virginia Gregg, Alan Oppenheimer, Vic Perrin, Janet Waldo
Music
- Music
- Hoyt Curtin
Animation
- Animator
- 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
- Layout
- Bob Fosbery, Steve Lumley, Margaret Parkes, Joe Shearer
- Assistant Animation Supervisor
- Paul Maron
- Animation Checking
- Narelle Nixon, Terry Smith
Art Department
- Character Design
- Alex Toth, Donna Zeller
- Backgrounds
- Milton Zahorsky, Richard Zaloudek
- Storyboard Direction
- Jan Green, Don Sheppard, Paul Sommer
- Graphics
- Iraj Paran
- Character Design Supervisor
- Bob Singer
- Painting Supervisor
- Lesley Blayney
Camera
- Camera
- Jan Cregan, Mark D'Arcy-Irvine, Carole Laird
Editing
- Editor
- Larry Cowan
Sound
- Sound Direction
- Richard Olson, Bill Getty
- Effects Editors
- Tom Gleason, Milt Krear
Music Department
- Music Editor
- Joe Sandusky
- Musical Supervision
- Paul DeKorte
Casting
- Recording Director
- Wally Burr
Production Management
- Production Manager
- Peter Jennings
- Post Production Supervisor
- Joed Eaton
Crew
- Xerox Manager
- Ellen Bayley
- Negative Consultant
- William E. DeBoer
Companies and other credits
- A HANNA-BARBERA PRODUCTION
- © 1976 Hanna-Barbera Productions
- Inc
Production notes
The Clue Club was a cartoon about four precocious young investigators who solved crimes with the help of two bloodhounds, Woofer and Whimper. Dotty was the little redhead who analyzed the data that the rest got from snooping around. Woofer was the older dog who always said how good he was and took all the credit after the case was solved. Whimper and Woofer had an inherent fear of the unknown provided most of the laughs in the show.
The show only had one year of first run episodes, after which it aired in repeats on Skatebirds under the new title Woofer and Whimper, Dog Detectives. These repeats were severely edited, which made the show particularly hard to follow.
After a year on Skatebirds, CBS reinstated the full episodes and re-ran them on Sundays under the original title. The show ran for another four months, canceled at the beginning of 1979.
The show only had one year of first run episodes, after which it aired in repeats on Skatebirds under the new title Woofer and Whimper, Dog Detectives. These repeats were severely edited, which made the show particularly hard to follow.
After a year on Skatebirds, CBS reinstated the full episodes and re-ran them on Sundays under the original title. The show ran for another four months, canceled at the beginning of 1979.
Reviews
The Missing Pig Caper
This is one weird show. At first glance, it appears to be a Scooby rip-off. And it is, only there's 2 dogs and a computer geek little sister helping the gang of teenage investigators.
In this particular episode, the dogs are sniffing around in a vegetable garden when a creepy pumpkin monster chases them around. This monster is never explained. He is NOT unmasked at the end of the episode only to mutter about how he would've gotten away with it if it weren't for them pesky kids. There's just a pumpkin monster for no reason other than to provide a chase scene halfway through the episode. Craziness.