Dragula
- 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
Animation
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
Crew
- Storyboard Editors
- John Ahern, Carl Fallberg, Gary Hoffman, Earl Klein, Paul Sommer
- Production Design
- Bob Singer
- Production Supervision
- Victor O. Schipek
- Titles
- Iraj Paran
- Character Design
- Jerry Eisenberg, David High
- Layout Unit Managers
- Owen Fitzgerald, Bob Givens
- Layouts
- Pete Alvarado, Roman Arambula, Jim Fletcher, Bob Foster, Cullen Houghtaling, Homer Jonas, Jack Manning, Floyd Norman
- Unit Director
- Jerry Hathcock
- Background Supervision
- Fernando Montealegre
- Backgrounds
- Fernando Arce, Gino Giudice
- Technical Supervision
- Frank Paiker
- Checking and Scene Planning
- Evelyn Sherwood
- Ink and Paint Supervision
- Billie Kerns
- Xerography
- Robert "Tiger" West
- Sound Direction
- Richard Olson, Bill Getty
- Recording Director
- Art Scott
- Supervising Film Editor
- Larry Cowan
- Music Editor
- Chip Yaras
- Sound Effects Editor
- Richard C. Allen
- Negative Consultant
- William E. DeBoer
- Post Production Supervision
- Joed Eaton
- Camera
- John Curtis Hall, Ron Jackson, Jerry Mills, Norman Stainback
- Production Manager
- Art Scott
- Assistant Production Manager
- Jayne Barbera
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.