Casper and the Angels

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For the 1985 UK VHS, see Casper and the Angels.
Casper and the Angels
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Network NBC
Production company Hanna-Barbera
Distributor Worldvision Enterprises
Original release September 22December 15, 1979
Starring Julie McWhirter
John Stephenson
Laurel Page
Diana McCannon
Executive producer(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Producer(s) Art Scott
Alex Lovy
Music composed by Hoyt Curtin
Writer(s) Bob Ogle
Jack Bonestell
Patsy Cameron
Gary Greenfield
Dick Robbins
Art Scott (voices)
Director(s) Ray Patterson
Carl Urbano
Oscar Dufau
George Gordon

Casper and the Angels is an American animated space police comedy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera for NBC's Saturday morning children's programming, and based on Harvey Comics' Casper the Friendly Ghost. It ran in 1979, airing 13 episodes that spanned one season.

A little ghost boy named Casper, with help from his older ghost friend, Hairy Scary, acts as a "guardian ghost" to Mini and Max, two female police officers living in the futuristic 22nd century.

Around the same time the series aired, Casper and Hairy Scary also starred in the unrelated present-day specials, Casper's Halloween Special and Casper's First Christmas, which also aired on NBC.

Production

Development

Casting

Music

The music was composed and conducted by Hoyt Curtin, who was credited as musical director, with musical supervision from Paul DeKorte.

Episodes

Episode Original air date
1x01 September 22, 1979
1x02 September 29, 1979
1x03 October 6, 1979
1x04 October 13, 1979
1x05 October 20, 1979
1x06 October 27, 1979
1x07 November 3, 1979
1x08 November 10, 1979
1x09 November 17, 1979
1x10 November 24, 1979
1x11 December 1, 1979
1x12 December 8, 1979
1x13 December 15, 1979

Cast

Merchandise

Home media

On July 29, 1985, in the United Kingdom and Ireland, The Video Collection released Casper and the Angels on VHS. They rereleased it on November 3, 1986.

In 1995, First Independent Films released two VHSes called The Boo Zoo and Stars and Frights.

References