The New Shmoo

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The New Shmoo
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The NEW, but never before seen animated adventures of Shmoo.
Network NBC
Production company Hanna-Barbera
Distributor Worldvision Enterprises
Original release September 22, 1979January 5, 1980
Starring Frank Welker
Dolores Cantu-Primo
Bill Idelson
Chuck McCann
Executive producer(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Producer(s) Art Scott
Alex Lovy
Iwao Takamoto
Music composed by Hoyt Curtin
Writer(s) Chuck Menville
Gene Ayres
Doug Booth
Art Browne, Jr.
Buzz Dixon
Donald F. Gut
Len Janson
Dale Kirby
Glenn Leopold
J. Michael Reeves
Jim Ryan
Director(s) Ray Patterson
Carl Urbano
Oscar Dufau
George Gordon
Art Scott (voices)

The New Shmoo, also known as The Shmoo, is an American animated comedy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera for NBC, based on Al Capp's L'il Abner comic strip. It ran from 1979 to 1980, airing 16 episodes that spanned one season; the last five episodes were packaged with The New Fred and Barney Show and The Thing to be released under the banner of Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo.

Mickey, Nita, and Billy Joe, three teens who work for Mighty Mysteries Comics, also solve crime with an unexplainable white blob-like creature called the Shmoo. The series is the eleventh "clone" of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!

Shmoo was later incorporated into The Flintstone Comedy Show, despite the fact it was set a million years beforehand.

Production

Development

Casting

Music

The score was composed and conducted by Hoyt Curtin, who was credited as musical director. The musical supervisor was 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
1x14 December 22, 1979
1x15 December 29, 1979
1x16 January 5, 1980

Cast

References