Car Thieves
- Studio
- Hanna-Barbera Studios
Synopsis
A stolen car ring is operating in town, and it's up to Hong Kong Phooey to break through the ring's sneaky secrets and stop them in their fiendish tracks.
Characters
Penrod Pooch/Hong Kong Phooey, Sergeant Flint, Rosemary, Spot
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Charles Nichols (as Charles A. Nichols)
- Unit Director
- Bill Keil
Producing
- Producer
- William Hanna, Joseph Barbera (Executive Producers)
- Creative Producer
- Iwao Takamoto
Writing
- Writer
- Fred Fox, Seaman Jacobs, Len Janson, Chuck Menville, Larz Bourne, Jack Mendelsohn
- Story Editor
- Bill Raynor
Voices
- Voice
- Scatman Crothers (Penrod Pooch/Hong Kong Phooey), Joe E. Ross (Sgt. Flint), Kathy Gori (Rosemary), Don Messick (Spot), Richard Dawson, Ron Feinberg, Bob Holt, Casey Kasem, Jay Lawrence, Peter Leeds, Allan Melvin, Alan Oppenheimer, Bob Ridgely, Fran Ryan, Hal Smith, Jean Vanderpyl, Lee Vines, Janet Waldo, Franklin Welker, Paul Winchell, Lennie Weinrib, Scatman Crothers, Richard Dawson, Ron Feinberg, Kathy Gori, Bob Holt, Casey Kasem, Jay Lawrence, Peter Leeds, Allan Melvin, Don Messick, Alan Oppenheimer, Bob Ridgely, Fran Ryan, Hal Smith, Jean Vander Pyl, Lee Vines, Janet Waldo, Franklin Welker, Paul Winchell
Music
- Music
- Hoyt Curtin
Animation
- Animator
- Robert Bemiller, Emil Carle, Steve Clark, James Davis, Lillian Evans, Marcia Fertig, Bob Goe, Julie Lackenby, Joan Swanson, Dave Tendlar, Ken Muse, Bill Nunes, Joan Orbison, Rod Parkes, Ed Parks, Tom Ray, Jay Sarbry, Joel Seibel, Hicks Lokey, Bob Maxfield, Russell Von Neida
- Layout Unit Manager
- Willie Ito
- Layouts
- Alvaro Arce, Ed Benedict, Jaime Diaz, Barry Goldberg, Gary Hoffman, Don Jurwich, Lin Larsen, Phillip Mendez, Dardo Valez
- Animation
- Robert Bemiller, Emil Carle, Steve Clark, James Davis, Lillian Evans, Marcia Fertig, Bob Goe, Julie Lackenby, Joan Swanson, Dave Tendlar, Ken Muse, Bill Nunes, Joan Orbison, Rod Parkes, Ed Parks, Tom Ray, Jay Sarbry, Joel Seibel, Hicks Lokey, Bob Maxfield, Russell Von Neida
- Checking and Scene Planning
- Evelyn Sherwood
- Xerography
- Robert "Tiger" West
Art Department
- Production Design
- Bob Singer
- Character Design
- Marty Murphy
- Backgrounds
- Lorraine Andrina, Richard Khim
- Executive Story Consultant
- Myles Wilder
- Storyboard Editors
- Alex Lovy, Lew Marshall, Cullen Houghtaling
- Background Supervision
- Fernando Montealegre
- Ink and Paint Supervision
- Billie Kerns
Camera
- Camera
- Ralph Migliori, Louis Niemeyer, Roy Wade, Dennis Weaver
Editing
- Supervising Film Editor
- Larry Cowan
Sound
- Sound Effects Editor
- Milton Krear
- Sound Direction
- Richard Olson, Bill Getty
Music Department
- Music Editor
- Joe Sandusky
- Music Supervision
- Paul DeKorte, Paul DeKorte
- Musical Director
- Hoyt Curtin
Casting
- Recording Director
- Wally Burr
Production Management
- Production Manager
- Art Scott
- Production Supervision
- Victor O. Schipek
- Post Production Supervision
- Joed Eaton
- Assistant Production Manager
- Jayne Barbera
Crew
- Technical Supervision
- Frank Paiker
- Titles
- Iraj Paran
- Negative Consultant
- William E. DeBoer
Companies and other credits
- Animation Direction: by Charles Nichols (as Charles A. Nichols)
- A HANNA-BARBERA PRODUCTION
- © 1974 Hanna-Barbera Productions
- Inc
Production notes
For his day job, Penrod Pooch worked as a police station janitor, which wasn't nearly as glamorous as it sounds. His fellow employees, clumsy Sgt. Flint and nasal-voiced switchboard operator Rosemary, referred to him as Penry and thought he was a nice enough guy, albeit a mild-mannered one.
Little did they know that when a call came in for a crime too difficult for Sgt. Flint to handle, even-keeled Penry leapt into a filing cabinet and emerged as Hong Kong Phooey, Number One Super Guy! Actually, the file cabinet would get stuck in every episode, and Penry would need some help from his faithful cat Spot, who, with a well-placed elbow or a swift kick, would allow Penry to emerge from the cabinet as Hong Kong Phooey, Number One Super Guy!
Unfortunately, the filing cabinet was the only place Penry felt comfortable changing into Hong Kong Phooey. This posed quite a challenge for poor Spot, who was often sent back to the police station to retrieve the cabinet so Penry could change.
After Phooey had escaped the cabinet, he and Spot would leap into the alley behind the police station, landing a dumpster which housed the truly remarkable Phooeymobile. All it took was one crash of Phooey's gong, and the Phooeymobile could transform into any mode of transportation, no matter how primitive (pogo stick, unicycle) or advanced (jet plane, hovercraft).
While Phooey was not the world's greatest crime fighter, he may have been the world's luckiest, as every week either Spot or, by accident, the criminals themselves would make sure that justice prevailed. Phooey, armed with his "Hong Kong Book of Kung Fu," was around just long enough to receive the credit. Switchboard operator Rosemary would then swoon over Phooey, never realizing he was secretly the janitor whom she virtually ignored every day at work.
Veteran character actor Scatman Crothers provided the voice for Penry/Phooey, and his comic timing brought an extra spark to the role. There were only 16 original episodes of the show, which ran from 1974-76 on ABC, but Phooey's klutzy chop-socky style was too popular with the kids to fade away so quickly. The kung fu pooch moved over to NBC, where his nearly-heroic adventures ran off and on until Fall 1981, giving him a chance to back up his theme song's boastful title, "Number One Super Guy!"
Little did they know that when a call came in for a crime too difficult for Sgt. Flint to handle, even-keeled Penry leapt into a filing cabinet and emerged as Hong Kong Phooey, Number One Super Guy! Actually, the file cabinet would get stuck in every episode, and Penry would need some help from his faithful cat Spot, who, with a well-placed elbow or a swift kick, would allow Penry to emerge from the cabinet as Hong Kong Phooey, Number One Super Guy!
Unfortunately, the filing cabinet was the only place Penry felt comfortable changing into Hong Kong Phooey. This posed quite a challenge for poor Spot, who was often sent back to the police station to retrieve the cabinet so Penry could change.
After Phooey had escaped the cabinet, he and Spot would leap into the alley behind the police station, landing a dumpster which housed the truly remarkable Phooeymobile. All it took was one crash of Phooey's gong, and the Phooeymobile could transform into any mode of transportation, no matter how primitive (pogo stick, unicycle) or advanced (jet plane, hovercraft).
While Phooey was not the world's greatest crime fighter, he may have been the world's luckiest, as every week either Spot or, by accident, the criminals themselves would make sure that justice prevailed. Phooey, armed with his "Hong Kong Book of Kung Fu," was around just long enough to receive the credit. Switchboard operator Rosemary would then swoon over Phooey, never realizing he was secretly the janitor whom she virtually ignored every day at work.
Veteran character actor Scatman Crothers provided the voice for Penry/Phooey, and his comic timing brought an extra spark to the role. There were only 16 original episodes of the show, which ran from 1974-76 on ABC, but Phooey's klutzy chop-socky style was too popular with the kids to fade away so quickly. The kung fu pooch moved over to NBC, where his nearly-heroic adventures ran off and on until Fall 1981, giving him a chance to back up his theme song's boastful title, "Number One Super Guy!"