Blooperman

Blooperman

February 19, 1978 TV Episode The Three Robonic Stooges

Studio
Hanna-Barbera Studios

Synopsis

This show featured the Three Stooges, Larry, Moe, and Curly, as bionic crime-fighters who acted silly and got in their usual mix-ups. Originally a segment on Skatebirds, The Three Robonic Stooges garnered their own show when CBS cancelled The Skatebirds mid-season in late 1977.

Characters

Moe, Larry, Curly, Triple Zero

Credits

Producing

Producer
Terry Morse Jr
Executive Producers
William Hanna, Joesph Barbera
Creative Producer
Iwao Takamoto
Associate Producer
Neil Balnaves

Voices

Voice
Joe Baker (Larry), Paul Winchell (Moe), Frank Welker (Curly)

Music

Music
Hoyt Curtin
Musical Supervision
Paul DeKorte

Editing

Editor
Peter Berger, Warner Leighton, Peter Jennings
Supervising Film Editor
Dick Elliott
Assistant Film Editor
Barry Gold

Crew

Robonic Stooges Created By
Norman Maurer
Recording Director
Wally Burr
Graphics
Iraj Paran
Character Design
Bob Singer, Norman Maurer, Lew Ott, George Wheeler
Layout Supervision
Steve Lumley
Layout
Bob Fosbry, Terry Moesker, Joe Shearer, Mike Trebert
Backgrounds
Richard Zaloudek, Milan Zahorsky, Jerry Liew, Michael King-Prince, Peter Connell, Ken Wright, Michael Chojecki, Lesley Nicholl
Animation Checking
Narelle Nixon
Xerography
Ellen Bayley
Ink And Paint Supervision
Narelle Derrick
Production Managers
R.J. Louis, James Cranston
Production Coordinator
Tobi Singleton
Production Supervision
Doug Patterson, Mark D'Arcy-Irvine, Adrienne Smith
Art Director
Kirk Axtell
Script Supervisors
Mary Jane Ferguson, Lester Hoyle
Sound Direction
Richard Olson, Bill Getty
Sound Mixers
Manuel Topoto, James Pilcher
Animation Photography
Terry Smith, Carole Laird, Mark D'Arcy-Irvine, Kieren Mulgrew, Tom Epperson
Dubbing Supervision
Pat Foley
Negative Consultant
William E. DeBoer
Post Production Supervision
Joed Eaton

Companies and other credits

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  • HANNA-BARBERA
  • PRODUCTION
  • © 1978 Hanna-Barbera Productions
  • Inc

Production notes

In The Three Robonic Stooges, everybody's favorite slapstick comedy team returned to Saturday morning, this time as crime-fighting mechanical superheroes. Originally seen as a short cartoon segment on Skatebirds, the Stooges moved to their own show mid-season when CBS canceled The Skatebirds. The new, half-hour weekly animated show cast Larry, Curly, and hey, Moe as androids, working for their long-suffering boss, Triple Zero in two episodes, combined with one episode of the re-edited Woofer and Wimper, Dog Detectives .

With their stretchable arms and legs (a precursor to Inspector Gadget), there was no shortage of eye-poking, face-slapping, nose-tweaking, and Curly's patented "nyuk, nyuk," but this time around it was in the interest of national security.

Bumbling as always, these android crime-busters were constantly crashing into one another, spouting springs and bolts, and generally malfunctioning- usually while on the job. However, maladroit as they were, they never failed to bring the various villains to justice, whether international master spies or the Giant of the Beanstalk.