''The Mumbly Cartoon Show'' is a Saturday morning animated series produced by

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and featuring the titular Mumbly, a cartoon dog detective. It was broadcast on

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from September 11, 1976 to September 3, 1977 as part of '' The Tom and Jerry/Grape Ape/Mumbly Show''. This compilation packaged reruns of the 1975 '' The Tom and Jerry/Grape Ape Show'' with Mumbly as a new component. Mumbly is a private eye dog in a trenchcoat, who works with a human detective, Chief Schnooker, to catch criminals who often sport alliterative names. 16 episodes were produced. Mumbly was voiced by

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, and Schnooker by John Stephenson. The show was not a ratings success, and only lasted one season. However, in the next season, Mumbly was included in Hanna-Barbera's crossover show, ''

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'', on the villainous "Really Rottens" team. Mumbly was not a villain in his earlier show, but the character was a substitution for the actually-villainous

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from the 1969 series ''

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'', who could not appear on ''Laff-A-Lympics'' as those characters were co-owned by

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. The show was also broadcast in

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in 1982,

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circa 1985/1986,

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in 1978,

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circa 1983/1984.

Episodes

^* Telecast at Noon (EST), Thursday afternoon, November 25, 1976, a Thanksgiving, as part of ABC's

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Funshine Festival.

Other appearances

* Chief Schnooker makes a cameo in the ''

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'' episode "SPF".

References

External links

*
''The Mumbly Cartoon Show''
at Aaron's New Tom and Jerry Information Site

at

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