The Weed
- Studio
- Ruby-Spears Productions
Synopsis
The Weed, an intelligent, walking plant, steals a secret plant-grow formula to create a giant destructive plant.
Characters
Plastic Man, Penny, Hula-Hula, The Chief, The Weed
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Rudy Larriva, Manuel Perez (as Manny Perez), Charles Nichols (as Charles A. Nichols)
Producing
- Producer
- Jerry Eisenberg
- Executive Producers
- Joe Ruby, Ken Spears
Writing
- Story
- Mark Jones, Cliff Ruby, Elana Lesser, Mark Evanier, Gary Greenfield, Michael Maurer, Jon Kubichan, Steve Gerber, Norman Maurer, Sid Morse, Buzz Dixon, Jeffrey Scott, Ted Pedersen, Christopher Vane (as Chris Vane), Gordon Kent, Shelly Stark, Roy Thomas, Larry Alexander, Larry Parr, Creighton Barnes
- Story Editors
- Mark Jones, Elana Lesser, Cliff Ruby
Voices
- Voice
- Michael Bell (as Mike Bell) (Plastic Man), Melendy Britt (Penny/The Chief), Joe Baker (Hula Hula), John Stephenson (The Weed)
- Additional Voices
- Marlene Aragon, Keith Barbour, Daws Butler, Ruth Buzzi, Henry Corden, Danny Dark, Takayo Dugan, Walker Edmonson, Sam Edwards, Ron Feinberg, Linda Gary, Chuck McCann, Julie McWhirter, Don Messick, Howard Morris, Gene Moss, Alan Oppenheimer, Stanley Ralph Ross, Michael Rye, Hal Smith, Joanie Gerber, Lewis Bailey, Ted Cassidy, Hettie Lynn Hurtes, Larry D. Mann, Allan Melvin
Music
- Music
- Dean Elliott
Animation
- Animation Supervisor
- Ed Solomon
- Animator
- James Davis, Daniel De La Vega, Lillian Evans, Gail Finkeldei, Frank Gonzales, Jeff Hall, John Howley, John Kimball, Norm McCabe, Frank Nakielski, Don Parmele, Bill Pratt, Virgil Raddatz, Bill Reed, Joe Roman, Joanna Romersa, John Shook, Mike Stribling, Martin Taras (as Marty Taras), Bonita Versh, Bill Hutten, Ken Kessel, Tony Love, Walt Kubiak (as Walter Kubiak), Don Orlando, Robert "Tiger" West
- Assistant Animation Supervisor
- Bill Exter
- Assistant Animation
- Al Abrams, Jim Steele, Holly Forsyth, John C. Lange, Sandy Henkin, Lester Pourier, Leonard Johnson, Marion Green, Sammy Kal, Sue Wasem, Philo Barnhart, Karen Warren, Ginny Parmele, Gisele Van Berk, Anna Lois Ray, Jim Simon, Simon Praamsma, Fred Abranz, Ed Falgin, Jim Steel, Mary Robertson, Anneline Liu, Mike Kaweski
- Layout Supervisor
- Larry Huber, Warren Marshall
- Layout
- Peter Alvarado, Dale Barnhart, Carole Beers (as Carol Beers), Jaime Diaz, Tim Elston, Hak Ficq, John Freeman, Bob Givens, John Guerin, Alex Ignatiev, Fred Irvin (as Fred Irwin), Tom Knowles, Bill Lignante, Jack Manning, Darrell McNeil, Jim Mueller, Judy Niver, Bart Seitz, Wallace Sides (as Wally Sides), Kathleen Vaslett (as Kathy Vaslett), Pat Wong, Bruce Zick, Lyle Beddes (as Lyle W. Beddes), Greg Garcia, Richard Graham, Stuart Heimdal, Elaine Hultgren, Boyd Kirkland, Brad Landreth, Harold M. LeFevre, Debra Pugh, Keith Sargent, Roy Smith, Thomas Tholen, Grant Wilson
- Checking
- Myrna Bushman, Rena Cappas, Lisa Lydon, Jerome B. Stocks, Stephen A. Carr
- Animation Stock
- Sandra Benenati
Art Department
- Production Design
- Lew Ott
- Character Design
- Jerry Eisenberg
- Backgrounds
- Gary Conklin, Bill Lorencz, Phil Lewis (as P. S. Lewis), Phil Phillipson, Craig Robertson, Bob Schaefer, Gary Selvaggio, Peter Van Elk, Gloria Wood, Thomas Woodington
- Models
- Alan Huck, Alice Hamm, Edgar Solier, Ruben Procopio
- Background Supervisor
- Eric Semones
- Color Key
- Kit Harper, Bunny Munns
- Xerography and Paint Supervisor
- Laura Craig
Visual Effects
- Editorial Effects
- Ted H. Chapman, Bruce Elliott, Kevin Spears (as Kevin D. Spears), David Stone (as Dave Stone), Ron Sawade
Camera
- Camera
- Take One, Larry Hogan, Lin-Z Rogers (as Lindsay Roger), Laurie Crill
Editing
- Editor
- Chip Yaras
- Editorial Supervisor
- Richard Allen (as Richard C. Allen)
- Negative Cutting
- Susan Gervay
Music Department
- Editorial Music
- Virginia S. Ellsworth, Kathy Stude
Casting
- Voice Director
- Alan Dinehart
Production Management
- Production Manager
- John Ahern
- Production Supervisor
- Natalie Shirpser
- Assistant to the Producer
- Erika Grossbart
- Production Assistants
- Madlyn Goldberg, Loretta High, Kayte Kuch
- Production Controller
- Jerry Goldstein
- Post Production
- Lenore Nelson
Crew
- Location Director
- Stephen Clark
- Story Direction
- Lew Marshall, Ron Campbell, Gary Goldstein, Chris Jenkyns, Michael O'Connor (as Mike O'Connor), Dick Sebast, Hal Mason, Don Christensen (as Don R. Christensen), Mario Piluso (as Mario Paluzo)
- Consumer Consultants
- Wicke Chambers, Spring Asher
- Model Supervisor
- Jim Willoughby
- Unit Supervision
- Dave High, Lin Larsen
- Assistants to the Executive Producers
- Jodi Berman, Janie Fields
- Studio Manager
- Jeff Cooke
- Unit Auditor
- Henriette Pacile
- Cel Service
- Jim Stocks
- Titles
- Bill Perez
- Lettering
- Robert Schaefer
- Laboratory
- C. F. I
- Recording
- Heider Scoring Service
- Dubbing
- T. V. Recorders
Companies and other credits
- Backgrounds: F (Fernando) Montealegre (as Monte)
- Camera: Animation Camera Service
- © 1979 RUBY-SPEARS PRODUCTIONS
- INC
- A FILMWAYS COMPANY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
- PLASTIC MAN IS THE TRADEMARK OF AND IS AUTHORIZED BY D. C. COMICS
- INC
- © 1979. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Production notes
Plastic Man is able to stretch his body into any shape or size he needs to, at a moments notice. Using his power, he has dedicated his life to fighting crime. Together with his assistants Penny (who thought of Plastic Man as more than just a super hero partner) and Hula-Hula (From Hawai'i), "Plas" fought against such villains as The Weed and Mr. Meteor.
This full show ran 2 hours it's first year. Each show combined two episodes of Plastic Man (one twenty-two minute and one ten and a half minute episodes), two eleven minute Mighty Man and Yukk stories, a ten and a half minute Fangface and a twenty-two minute Rickety Rocket show.
Midway through the season, beginning December 22, 1979, the show was shortened to only ninety minutes by dropping the Rickety Rocket segment.
For the 1980 season, the show was completely reworked. It was shortened even further to just 30 minutes, and renamed The Plastic Man/Baby Plas Super Comedy Show. This new season ran one 10 minute episode of Plastic Man (most as repeats from the first season; only three new episodes were produced), thirteen new 3 minute episodes of Baby Plas and thiteen 6 minute episodes of The Plastic Family.
This full show ran 2 hours it's first year. Each show combined two episodes of Plastic Man (one twenty-two minute and one ten and a half minute episodes), two eleven minute Mighty Man and Yukk stories, a ten and a half minute Fangface and a twenty-two minute Rickety Rocket show.
Midway through the season, beginning December 22, 1979, the show was shortened to only ninety minutes by dropping the Rickety Rocket segment.
For the 1980 season, the show was completely reworked. It was shortened even further to just 30 minutes, and renamed The Plastic Man/Baby Plas Super Comedy Show. This new season ran one 10 minute episode of Plastic Man (most as repeats from the first season; only three new episodes were produced), thirteen new 3 minute episodes of Baby Plas and thiteen 6 minute episodes of The Plastic Family.