Jabberjaw (TV series)
- This article is about the TV series. For the main title character, see Jabberjaw.
| Jabberjaw | |
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 On-screen title card. | |
| Network: | ABC |
| Production company: | Hanna-Barbera |
| Original release: | September 11–December 18, 1976
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| Starring: | Frank Welker Tommy Cook Julie McWhirter Pat Parris Barry Gordon |
| Producer(s): | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Music composed by: | Hoyt Curtin |
| Writer(s): | George Atkins Haskell Barkin John Bates Larz Bourne Tom Dagenais Robert Fisher Ray Parker |
| Director(s): | Charles A. Nichols |
Jabberjaw 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 ninth Scooby-Doo "clone" series.
Jabberjaw, a 15-foot amphibious great white shark, is the drummer for The Neptunes, a rock group made up of four teenagers — Biff, Shelly, Bubbles and Clamhead — who live in an underwater civilization in the year 2076. Jabberjaw and The Neptunes travel to various underwater cities where they encounter and deal with assorted megalomaniacs and supervillains who want to conquer the undersea world
In 2021, Jabberjaw and the Neptunes appear in the Jellystone! reboot, in which, Jabberjaw is a female.
The entire series has been released on DVD.
Production
Development
Music
The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin.
Episodes
| Title | Number | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| "Dr. Lo Has Got to Go" | 1x01 | September 11, 1976 |
| "There's No Place Like Outer Space" | 1x02 | September 18, 1976 |
| "Atlantis, Get Lost" | 1x03 | September 25, 1976 |
| "Run, Jabber, Run" | 1x04 | October 2, 1976 |
| "The Sourpuss Octopus" | 1x05 | October 9, 1976 |
| "Hang On to Your Hat, Jabber" | 1x06 | October 16, 1976 |
| "The Great Shark Switch" | 1x07 | October 23, 1976 |
| "Claim-Jumped Jabber" | 1x08 | October 30, 1976 |
| "Ali Jabber and the Secret Thieves" | 1x09 | November 6, 1976 |
| "Help, Help, It's the Phantom of the Kelp" | 1x10 | November 13, 1976 |
| "No Helpin' the Sculpin" | 1x11 | November 20, 1976 |
| "The Bermuda Triangle Tangle" | 1x12 | November 25, 1976 |
| "Malice in Aqualand" | 1x13 | November 27, 1976 |
| "The Fast Paced Chase Race" | 1x14 | December 4, 1976 |
| "The Piranha Plot" | 1x15 | December 11, 1976 |
| "There's No Heel Like El Eel" | 1x16 | December 18, 1976 |
Cast
- Frank Welker as Jabberjaw
- Tommy Cook as Biff
- Pat Parris as Shelly
- Julie McWhirter Dees as Bubbles
- Barry Gordon as Clamhead
