The Ringmaster
- Studio
- Hanna-Barbera Studios
Characters
Speed Buggy, Debbie, Tinker, Mark
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Charles Nichols (as Charles A. Nichols)
Producing
- Producer
- William Hanna, Joseph Barbera (Executive Producers)
- Creative Producer
- Iwao Takamoto
- Associate Producer
- Art Scott
Writing
- Writer
- Jack Mendelsohn, Len Janson, Jack Kaplan, Norman Maurer, Ray Parker, Larz Bourne, Joel Kane, Woody Kling, Chuck Menville, Larry Rhine
- Story Directors
- John Ahern, Phil Babbitt, Larz Bourne, Steve Clark, Jean Franklin, George Gordon, Jan Green, Clark Haas, Herb Johnson, Dan Mills
Animation
Voices
- Voice
- Michael Bell (Mark), Arlene Golonka (Debbie), Phil Luther Jr (Tinker), Mel Blanc (Speed Buggy), Chris Allen, Ron Feinberg, Virginia Gregg, Jim MacGeorge, Sid Miller, Alan Oppenheimer, Mike Road, Charlie Martin Smith, Hal Smith, John Stephenson (Dr. Kluge), Janet Waldo
Music
- Music
- Hoyt Curtin
- Musical Supervisor
- Paul DeKorte
Editing
- Editor
- Chip Yaras
- Supervising Film Editor
- Larry Cowan
Crew
- Production Design
- Bob Singer
- Production Supervisor
- Victor O. Schipek
- Titles
- Iraj Paran
- Character Design
- Jerry Eisenberg
- Layout
- John Ahern, Hak Ficq, Moe Gollub, Grank Gonzales, Adam Szwejowski
- Background Styling
- F. Montealegre, Eric Semones
- Backgrounds
- Robert Caples, Dennis Durrel, Venita Epler
- Technical Supervision
- Frank Paiker
- Ink And Paint Supervision
- Billie Kerns
- Xerography
- Robert "Tiger" West
- Sound Direction
- Richard Olson, Bill Getty
- Music Editor
- Joe Sandusky
- Effects Editors
- Clifford Kohlweck, Earl Bennett
- Negative Consultant
- William E. DeBoer
- Post-Production Supervision
- Joed Eaton
- Camera
- Tom Barnes, Ron Jackson, Ralph Migliori, Roy Wade
Companies and other credits
- A HANNA-BARBERA PRODUCTION
- © 1973 Hanna-Barbera Productions
- Inc
Production notes
Add Hanna-Barbera's Speed Buggy to the loveable-animated-cars-who-talk list. Employing a Love-Bug-meets-Scooby-Doo concept, Speed Buggy featured three wacky teenagers whose means of transportation was a remote-controlled, rust-colored dune buggy named Speed Buggy. Speed Buggy had two eyes for headlights, a mouth for a grill, and a heart of chrome.
In giving a voice to Speed Buggy, Mel Blanc took the sputterings he provided for Maxwell (the car on Jack Benny's radio show) one step further- Speed Buggy, unlike Maxwell, could actually talk. He also had the very useful ability to fly. Tinker, who looked eerily similar to Scooby Doo's Shaggy, was the mechanic who raced Speed Buggy, while Mark and Debbie were the show's Freddy and Daphne.
Meddling kids in their own right, Tinker, Mark, and Debbie would cruise around in Speed Buggy, looking for adventure and getting themselves into and out of trouble, all the while solving mysteries.
Apparently, the old Scooby-Doo formula still held up. Speed Buggy was another rating winner for Hanna-Barbera, airing on and off for ten years on each of the three major networks. Speed himself also made guest appearances on Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics.
In giving a voice to Speed Buggy, Mel Blanc took the sputterings he provided for Maxwell (the car on Jack Benny's radio show) one step further- Speed Buggy, unlike Maxwell, could actually talk. He also had the very useful ability to fly. Tinker, who looked eerily similar to Scooby Doo's Shaggy, was the mechanic who raced Speed Buggy, while Mark and Debbie were the show's Freddy and Daphne.
Meddling kids in their own right, Tinker, Mark, and Debbie would cruise around in Speed Buggy, looking for adventure and getting themselves into and out of trouble, all the while solving mysteries.
Apparently, the old Scooby-Doo formula still held up. Speed Buggy was another rating winner for Hanna-Barbera, airing on and off for ten years on each of the three major networks. Speed himself also made guest appearances on Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics.
