''Inch High, Private Eye'' is a short-lived American animated television series produced by

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and broadcast on

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from September 8, to December 1, 1973. The character was modeled after Maxwell Smart, the main character of the 1965-1970 comedy ''

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'', and Lennie Weinrib's performance as Inch High is an imitation of

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' character.

Plot

The titular character of ''Inch High Private Eye'' is a miniature detective (literally one inch high), who attained his diminutive stature by way of a secret shrinking potion. Inch often enlists the help of his

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Lori (sometimes written "Laurie"), her muscle-bound sweetheart Gator, and their dog Braveheart to help solve mysteries. Their primary mode of transportation is the Hushmobile, a streamlined car that makes virtually no noise while being driven, making it perfect for following criminals unnoticed. Inch works for The Finkerton Detective Agency (a wordplay lampoon of The

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), where the boss Mr. Finkerton constantly dreams of the day that he will fire him. Unlike most Hanna-Barbera mystery solving cartoons, which feature teen sleuths, the characters in this show are all adults.

Voice cast

* Leonard Weinrib - Inch High * Kathy Gori - Lori * Bob Luttrell - Gator * Don Messick - Braveheart * John Stephenson - Mr. Finkerton *

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- Mrs. Finkerton

Additional voices

Jamie Farr Jamie Farr (born Jameel Joseph Farah; July 1, 1934) is an American comedian and actor. He is best known for playing the cross-dressing Corporal turned Sergeant Maxwell Q. Klinger in the CBS television sitcom ''M*A*S*H''. He was inducted to ...

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Vic Perrin Victor Herbert Perrin (April 26, 1916 – July 4, 1989)Cox, Jim (2007). ''Radio Speakers: Narrators, News Junkies, Sports Jockeys, Tattletales, Tipsters, Toastmasters and Coffee Klatch Couples Who Verbalized the Jargon of the Aural Ether fr ...

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Janet Waldo Janet Waldo (born Jeanette Marie Waldo; February 4, 1919 – June 12, 2016) was an American radio and voice actress. In animation, she voiced Judy Jetson in various Hanna-Barbera media, Nancy in ''Shazzan'', Penelope Pitstop, Princess from '' B ...

Episodes

Other appearances

* Inch High appears in a Cartoon Network commercial, where he teams up with Batman to fight crime, only to be crushed when running to the

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. * Inch High was also featured in an episode of ''

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'', in which he sues his Mr. Finkerton for wrongful dismissal as Mr. Finkerton claims that he is too short to be a P.I. Inch was voiced by

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while Mr. Finkerton was voiced by

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. * Inch High appears in ''

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'' voiced by

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. In the episode "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Rat Rat Race", Inch High was a patron of Morocco Mole's sauna-themed restaurant "Saunas, Sweat & Sandwiches" where he demanded that Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har turn down their only comedy album which he insulted as being bad. They throw him in their chest with the comedy album where they misplaced the chest when Morocco Mole called the police on them for causing a disturbance. When the chest is opened later upon being found by

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, Boo Boo Bear,

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Jabberjaw ''Jabberjaw'' is an American animated television series created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and produced by Hanna-Barbera which aired 16 original episodes on ABC from September 11 to December 18, 1976. Reruns continued on ABC until September 3 ...

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, Augie Doggie, Shag Rugg, and Yakky Doodle, Inch High was found in the chest as Lippy and Hardy recall about the events. After Inch High asks for someone to call his family, Hardy Har Har shuts the chest on him. In "The Box Thief", Inch High was seen in the unboxing videos of Jabberjaw and Mayor

Huckleberry Hound Huckleberry "Huck" Hound is a fictional cartoon character, a blue anthropomorphic coonhound that speaks with a North Carolina Southern drawl. He first appeared in the series ''The Huckleberry Hound Show''. The cartoon was one of six TV shows to ...

. When it comes to the latter's video, he put Inch High back in the box.

Home media

On April 24, 2012,

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released ''Inch High Private Eye: The Complete Series'' on

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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

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References

External links

*
''Inch High, Private Eye''
at Don Markstein's Toonopedia
Archived
from the original on September 1, 2016.

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