Clue Club (TV series)


 * This article is about the TV series. For the main mystery-solving group, see Clue Club.

Clue Club is an American animated mystery comedy TV series produced by Hanna-Barbera (H-B) for ABC's Saturday morning children's programming. It ran in 1976, airing 16 episodes that spanned one season. It was the eighth Scooby-Doo "clone" series.

The series' main purpose was to recreate the success of the Scooby-Doo franchise, like most other Scooby "clones", the series followed a group of teens solving mysteries followed by a few jokes from the mascot(s) of the group.

The series follows a group of teens under the name of Clue Club who solve mysteries with their two dog companions, Woofer and Wimper.

The entire series has been released on DVD.

Development
Iwao Takamoto drew a piece of concept art featuring earlier designs of the Clue Club.

Music
The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin. There they go and on the double! To the spot where there is trouble! Clue Club!
 * Opening theme song lyrics:

Clue Club is on the scene! You better believe boy!

Dottie does her thing computin'. Checking clues and troubleshootin.

Clue Club!

Clue Club, it's routine!

You go in first Wimper!

One trap door, and they go spilling face-to-face another villain.

Clue Club!

Clue Club, just in time! We'll be safe in here Wimp!

No fun runnin' from a mummy, even though he is a dummy!

Clue Club!

Clue Club solves the crime! I knew it all the time!

Clue Club!

Cast

 * Paul Winchell as Woofer
 * Jim MacGeorge as Wimper
 * David Jolliffe as Larry
 * Patricia Stich as Pepper
 * Bob Hastings as D.D.
 * Tara Talboy as Dottie
 * John Stephenson as Sheriff Bagley

Legacy
From 1977 to 1978, the Skatebirds featured a series of shorter, cut down versions of regular Clue Club episodes, entitled Woofer & Wimper, Dog Detectives, in which, Woofer and Wimper are presented as the main characters.

The Clue Club would later appear in the Jellystone! episode "A Coconut to Remember" in which, Woofer is voiced by C.H. Greenblatt.