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.

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.