Our Hero
- Studio
- Hanna-Barbera Studios
Synopsis
Wheelie hangs with a motorcycle gang called the Chopper Bunch. Wheelie is a stunt racing Volkswagen.
Characters
Wheelie, Chopper, Scrambles, Deputy Fishtail, Rota Ree, Hi-Riser, Revs, Captain Tuff
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Charles Nichols (as Charles A. Nichols)
Producing
- Producer
- Joseph Barbera, William Hanna (Executive Producers)
- Creative Producer
- Iwao Takamoto
Writing
- Writer
- Larz Bourne, Len Larsen, Chuck Menville, Robert Ogle, Dalton Sandifer
- Story Editor
- Ray Parker
- Executive Story Consultant
- Myles Wylder
Voices
- Voice
- Franklin Welker (Chopper), Don Messick (Scrambles, Deputy Fishtail), Judy Strangis (Rota Ree), Lennie Weinrib (Hi-Riser), Paul Winchell (Revs, Captain Tuff), Rolinda Wolk
Music
- Music
- Hoyt Curtin
- Musical Supervisor
- Paul DeKorte
Animation
- Animator
- Frank Andrina, Tom Barnes, Jack Foster, Hugh Fraser, John Garling, Frank Gonzales, Milt Gray, Robert Hathcock Jr, Lawrence Huber, George Jorgenson, Margaret Parkes, Morey Reden, Mike Reyna, Veve Risto, Joanna Romersa, Ken Southworth, Bob Trochim, Rich Trueblood, Carlo Vinci
- Layout Unit Managers
- Owen Fitzgerald, Bob Givens
- Layouts
- Pete Alvarado, Roman Arambula, Jim Fletcher, Bob Foster, Cullen Houghtaling, Homer Jonas, Jack Manning, Floyd Norman
- Checking and Scene Planning
- Evelyn Sherwood
- Xerography
- Robert "Tiger" West
Art Department
- Production Design
- Bob Singer
- Character Design
- Jerry Eisenberg, David High
- Backgrounds
- Fernando Arce, Gino Giudice
- Storyboard Editors
- John Ahern, Carl Fallberg, Gary Hoffman, Earl Klein, Paul Sommer
- Background Supervision
- Fernando Montealegre
- Ink and Paint Supervision
- Billie Kerns
Casting
- Recording Director
- Art Scott
Production Management
- Production Manager
- Art Scott
- Production Supervision
- Victor O. Schipek
- Post Production Supervision
- Joed Eaton
- Assistant Production Manager
- Jayne Barbera
Crew
- Titles
- Iraj Paran
- Unit Director
- Jerry Hathcock
- Technical Supervision
- Frank Paiker
- Sound Direction
- Richard Olson, Bill Getty
- Supervising Film Editor
- Larry Cowan
- Music Editor
- Chip Yaras
- Sound Effects Editor
- Richard C. Allen
- Negative Consultant
- William E. DeBoer
- Camera
- John Curtis Hall, Ron Jackson, Jerry Mills, Norman Stainback
Companies and other credits
- A HANNA-BARBERA PRODUCTION
- © 1974 Hanna-Barbera Productions
- Inc
Production notes
Hanna-Barbera's Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch revolved around a friendly Volkswagen named Wheelie and his Volkswagon girlfriend, Rota Ree. The two amiable vehicles were constantly being antagonized by a rebel gang of evil motorcycles called the Chopper Bunch.
Wheelie, unlike the car in Speed Buggy (another Hanna-Barbera creation), could not talk. Instead, the bug expressed himself through his horn and his windshield, which displayed his inner wishes and feelings (a beating heart, an "idea" lightbulb, the word "CHARGE," etc.) Rota Ree could talk, as could the members of the Chopper Bunch, including the spiked-helmeted leader Chopper and his comic sidekick, Revs. The American Primitive-style background art was drawn by none other than Fernando "Monte" Montealegre, of The Flintstones fame.
Lacking the fan base Speed Buggy, Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch was scrapped after only one season.
Wheelie, unlike the car in Speed Buggy (another Hanna-Barbera creation), could not talk. Instead, the bug expressed himself through his horn and his windshield, which displayed his inner wishes and feelings (a beating heart, an "idea" lightbulb, the word "CHARGE," etc.) Rota Ree could talk, as could the members of the Chopper Bunch, including the spiked-helmeted leader Chopper and his comic sidekick, Revs. The American Primitive-style background art was drawn by none other than Fernando "Monte" Montealegre, of The Flintstones fame.
Lacking the fan base Speed Buggy, Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch was scrapped after only one season.