Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch
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Network | NBC |
Production company | Hanna-Barbera |
Original release | September 7–December 21, 1974 |
Run time | 30 minutes |
Starring | Franklin Welker Judy Strangis Paul Winchell Lennie Weinrib Don Messick |
Executive producer(s) | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
Producer(s) | Iwao Takamoto |
Music composed by | Hoyt Curtin |
Writer(s) | Larz Bourne Len Janson Chuck Menville Robert Ogle Dalton Sandifer |
Director(s) | Charles A. Nichols Art Scott (voices) |
Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch is an animated American television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for ABC's Saturday morning children's programming. It ran in 1974, airing 16 episodes.
In a world where only talking cars live, the innocent, but heroic little Volkswagon Beetle named Wheelie and his girlfriend Rota Ree deal with the bad motorcycle gang Chopper Bunch.
The entire series has been released on DVD.
Production
Development
Music
The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin, credited as musical director, with musical supervision from Paul DeKorte.
Episodes
Episode | Number | Air date |
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"Car Thieves" / "Zoo Story" | 1x01 | September 7, 1974 |
"Iron Head the Robot" / "Cotton Pickin' Pocket Picker" | 1x02 | September 14, 1974 |
"Grandma Goody (Cat Burglar)" / "Candle Power" | 1x03 | September 21, 1974 |
"The Penthouse Burglaries" / "Batty Bank Mob" | 1x04 | September 28, 1974 |
"The Voltage Villain" / "The Giggler" | 1x05 | October 5, 1974 |
"The Gumdrop Kid" / "Professor Presto (The Malevolent Magician)" | 1x06 | October 12, 1974 |
"TV or Not TV" / "Stop Horsing Around" | 1x07 | October 19, 1974 |
"Mirror, Mirror on the Wall" / "Great Movie Mystery" | 1x08 | October 26, 1974 |
"The Claw" / "Hong Kong Phooey vs. Hong Kong Phooey" | 1x09 | November 2, 1974 |
"The Abominable Snowman" / "Professor Crosshatch" | 1x10 | November 9, 1974 |
"Goldfisher" / "Green Thumb" | 1x11 | November 16, 1974 |
"From Bad to Verse (Rotten Rhymer)" / "Kong and the Counterfeiters" | 1x12 | November 23, 1974 |
"The Great Choo Choo Robbery" / "Patty Cake, Patty Cake, Bakery Man" | 1x13 | November 30, 1974 |
Cast
- Franklin Welker (yes, Franklin) as Wheelie and Chopper
- Judy Strangis as Rota Lee
- Paul Winchell as Revs
- Lennie Weinrib as Hi-Riser
- Don Messick as Scrambles