Speed Buggy (TV series)


 * This article is about the TV series. For other uses, see Speed Buggy.

Speed Buggy 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 1973, airing 16 episodes.

The entire series has also been released on DVD.

Music
The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Cast

 * Mel Blanc as Speed Buggy
 * Michael Bell as Mark
 * Arlene Golonka as Debbie
 * Phil Luther Jr. as Tinker

Legacy
From 1977 to 1978, Speed Buggy and Tinker represented the Scooby Doobies in Laff-A-Lympics, which is a crossover series itself.

Speed Buggy had a cameo in both "Bravo Dooby-Doo," a 1997 episode of Johnny Bravo, and as a stop motion toy in the live-action horror DTV movie Toys of Terror.

In 2021, Speed Buggy and Tinker appear in the Jellystone! reboot.

Also in 2021, a scene from the first episode was used in The CW prime-time special, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now!

Reading material
In 1975, Charlton Comics published a short-lived ongoing series also called Speed Buggy, which lasted nine issues, ending in 1976.

They appeared as guests in Scooby-Doo #50, published by DC Comics in 2001.

In 2018, DC Comics published rebooted the series in a dramatized one-shot, The Flash/Speed Buggy Special.

Board game
In 1973, a board game was released by Milton Bradley based on the cartoon.