The Missing Chums
- Studio
- Filmation Associates
Characters
Joe Hardy, Frank Hardy, Pete Jones, Fenton Hardy, Chubby Morton, Wanda Kay Breckenridge, Aunt Gertrude Hardy
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Hal Sutherland
- Senior Director
- Anatole Kirsanoff
- Associate Directors
- Don Towsley, Bill Reed
Producing
- Producer
- Lou Scheimer, Norm Prescott
Writing
- Writer
- Ken Sobol, H.F. Mauberly, Eric Blair, David Melmoth
Animation
- Animator
- Jim Brummett, Frank Carr, Butch Davis, Clark Davis, Otto Feuer, Jack Foster, Ed Friedman, Fred Grable, Dick Hall, Laverne Harding, G. Jorgensen, Len Kaluza, George Kreisl, P. Krukowski, Marshall La More, Jack Ozark, Michael O'Conner, Rod Parkes, Bernard Posner, Virgil Raddatz, Bill Pratt, Lenn Redman, Virgil Ross, Louise Sandoval, Ralph Sommerville, Larry Silverman, Reuben Timmins
Voices
- Voice
- Byron Kane (Frank Hardy, Fenton Hardy), Dallas McKennon (Joe Hardy, Chubby Morton, Pete Jones), Jane Webb (Wanda Kaye Breckendridge, Aunt Gertrude Hardy)
Editing
- Editor
- Joseph Simon, Jim Blodgett
Crew
- Art Director
- Don Christensen
- Key Assistant
- Mike Hazey
- Storyboards
- Herman Labby, Oscar Dugau
- Layouts
- Herb Hazelton, Mel Keefer, Carol Marshall, Ray Vinella, Marilee Hever
- Background Director
- Erv Kaplan
- Background Artists
- Paul Xander, Maurice Harvey, Sheila Brown, Pay Frye, Phil Lewis, Jack Healey, Martin Forte, Ralph Penn, Venitia Epler, Barbara Smith, Virgilio Arce, Jim Jones, Ann Gunther, Emerson Terry, Bill Loudenslager
- Production Manager
- Rock Benedict
- Checking Supervision
- Marion Turk, Jane Philippi
- Ink and Paint Supervision
- Martha Buckley, Betty Brooks, Royal Rohrdanz, John Remmel, Barbara Leighton
- Production Coordination
- Ronald W. Duhas
- Music Published by
- Fox Fanfare Music
- Background Music
- Marc Ellis
- Camera Supervisors
- Roger Brown, Ray Lee, Ron Lapeer, Roger Sims
- Film Co-ordinator
- June Gilham
- Sound Effects
- Dan Finnerty, Sam Horta, George Mahaha
- Prints by
- TECHNICOLOR
Companies and other credits
- Music Published by: Inc
- The HARDY BOYS show is based on the HARDY BOYS storys by Franklin W. Dixon
- The HARDY BOYS Songs Produced by Bill Traut
- Jim Golden for Dunwich Production Ltd
- Special Choreography for HARDY BOYS musical groups by Jerry Norman
- Produced at Filmation Associates
- A TelePrompTer Company
- © Filmation Associates 1969
Production notes
The Hardy Boys date from 1927, in serialized books written for young boys. When the first Hardy Boys books were written in the early 1930's, the author probably didn't envision his sleuthsome twosome as a traveling rock band on a TV cartoon show. But then again, neither television nor rock 'n' roll had been invented.
In any case, after the boys Hardy were a segment on the Mickey Mouse Club and before they were portrayed by Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson on primetime's The Hardy Boys, Joe and Frank starred in an animated Saturday show.
The series followed the title lads as they toured the world with their band, Hardy Boys Plus Three. The "three" were their friends—Pete, Chubby and the token cute girl, Wanda. Of course, in between gigs, the group had plenty of opportunities to solve crimes the world over.
Trying to mimic the success of the Archies, an actual album of the Hardy Boys' songs (with different voices than the speaking ones) was released. Although "Here Come the Hardy Boys" did crack Billboard's Top 200 Album Chart, the single "Love and Let Love" failed reach the Top 100. Even tougher competition came from the show's time slot, opposite the now-legendary Scooby-Doo.
In any case, after the boys Hardy were a segment on the Mickey Mouse Club and before they were portrayed by Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson on primetime's The Hardy Boys, Joe and Frank starred in an animated Saturday show.
The series followed the title lads as they toured the world with their band, Hardy Boys Plus Three. The "three" were their friends—Pete, Chubby and the token cute girl, Wanda. Of course, in between gigs, the group had plenty of opportunities to solve crimes the world over.
Trying to mimic the success of the Archies, an actual album of the Hardy Boys' songs (with different voices than the speaking ones) was released. Although "Here Come the Hardy Boys" did crack Billboard's Top 200 Album Chart, the single "Love and Let Love" failed reach the Top 100. Even tougher competition came from the show's time slot, opposite the now-legendary Scooby-Doo.
