''Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor'' is an American Saturday morning animated television series produced by

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that ran on CBS from September 9, 1967 to January 6, 1968, airing in reruns until September 6, 1969. Despite Moby's name coming first, he had only one short per half-hour episode, sandwiched between two with Mightor. The same structure was used the previous season for '' Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles''.

Plot

''Mightor''

One day, while on a hunting trip, a teenage

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named Tor (voiced by

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), along with his winged pet

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Tog (vocal effects provided by John Stephenson), rescue an ancient

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from an

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. As a reward, the hermit gives Tor a magical club. When Tor raises his club to the sky, he transforms into the masked and muscular Mightor (voiced by Paul Stewart), a

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superhero who possesses superhuman strength and the power of flight through his club, which can also fire energy blasts. He can also transform Tog into a powerful fire-breathing dragon. Mightor protects his village from evil-doers. Amongst the villagers are the chief Pondo (voiced by John Stephenson) and his daughter Sheera (voiced by

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). Sheera has a younger brother named Little Rok (voiced by Norma MacMillan), who loves pretending to be Mightor which often causes him to be saved from danger by Mightor on different occasions. The characters have several pets, including Little Rok's bird Ork (vocal effects provided by John Stephenson), and Sheera's

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calf Bollo (vocal effects provided by John Stephenson). Mightor had recurring enemies like: * Korg - An exiled member of Tor's tribe. * Serpent Queen (voiced by

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) - A serpent-themed female. * Kragor - The leader of the Cave Creatures. * Rog - The leader of the Stone Men. * Vultar - Leader of the Vulture Men. * Grok-A caveman who unleashed Tyrannor, and later stole the Golden Rock to control the beasts. Mightor bears a number of similarities to the Marvel superhero

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, particularly during the early of run of the latter titular character's series. Both heroes having a secret identity of an ordinary, unassuming man with a superpowered alter ego when possessing a powerful mystical weapon. Their respective names and titles are quite similar as well.

''Moby Dick''

Teenage boys Tom (voiced by Bobby Resnick) and Tubb (voiced by Barry Balkin) are rescued by the great white

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(vocal effects provided by Don Messick) after a shipwreck. Together with their pet

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Scooby (vocal effects provided by Messick), they face the dangers of the undersea world.

Home media

On July 19, 2011, Warner Archive released ''Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor: The Complete Series'' on DVD in region 1 as part of their Hanna-Barbera Classics Collection. This is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and Amazon.com.

Other appearances

Along with other Hanna-Barbera heroes, Mightor and Moby Dick appear in a crossover with a time-traveling

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during the final six episodes ("The Council of Doom") of the latter's original series. Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor and his friends appear in the

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''Hanna-Barbera Super TV Heroes'' #1–7 (April 1968 – Oct. 1969). In 1972, Moby Dick appeared briefly in '' Yogi's Ark Lark'' when Captain Noah and Yogi Bear accidentally landed their flying ark on Moby's back. Characters from ''Moby Dick'' later appear in ''

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'': Tubb as child actor star "Chubby Cox", and Scooby the seal as "Stinky Pete", whose appearances culminate in his eyes becoming near-demonic, uttering his catchphrase "''I'm cha-cha-cha-cha-delicious''". Mightor makes some appearances in the

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show ''

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'', as Judge Hiram Mightor and voiced by

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. Moby Dick appears in the episode "SPF", voiced by Wally Wingert. Tom, Tubb, and Scooby the seal appears in the ''

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'' episode "The Midnight Zone" with Tom and Tubb voiced by

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. Moby Dick is depicted as a submarine piloted by Tom and Tubb. They helped Mystery Incorporated and Cassidy Williams to reach the Midnight Zone (the deepest part of the ocean near Crystal Cove) when World War II robots have been attacking Cassidy Williams. Mightor and Moby Dick have cameos in the film '' Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon''. Mightor appears in '' Space Jam: A New Legacy''. He is among the Warner Bros. 3000 Server-Verse inhabitants that watch the basketball game between the Tune Squad and the Goon Squad. Mightor and Moby Dick appear in ''

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'', voiced by Jim Conroy and Paul F. Tompkins. Mightor was shown as a wrestler who went up against

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in his infamous wrestling match. The Funky Phantom misused his ghostly powers on him causing the referee Gravity Girl to remove The Funky Phantom from the ring. Moby Dick appears in the episode "The Sea Monster of Jellystone Cove". He is mentioned to have a birthday and reside in Jellystone Cove. Moby Dick appears at the end of the episode where he rolls on everybody for being at his cove during his birthday. A new incarnation of Mightor appears in the 2016 DC

series '' Future Quest'', along with several other characters from Hanna-Barbara's action cartoons. This version is a young black boy of modern times who discovers the original's club and is transformed into a new Mightor, with the boy's pet cat becoming a powerful saber-toothed cat. This Mightor is mentored in his new heroic role by Birdman.

References

The Big Cartoon DataBase The Big Cartoon DataBase (or BCDB for short) is an online database of information about animated cartoons, animated feature films, animated television shows, and cartoon shorts. The BCDB project began in 1997 as a list of Disney animated feat ...

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