
Funky Phantom - intro (with lyrics)
The Funky Phantom is a cartoon series produced by Hanna-Barbera for ABC in 1971.
Overview[]
Teenagers Augie, Skip and April accidentally released a 200-year-old ghost named Jonathan Wellington Muddlemore, along with his ghostly cat, Boo, from a grandfather clock that they had gotten themselves trapped in, when one of them set the clock's hands to midnight. Mudsy and Boo joined the teens and their dog in a dune buggy called the Looney Duney, solving mysteries in the manner of Scooby Doo Where Are You! Soon enough, the series began to develop its own identity by having the characters meet actual criminals instead of bad guys in masks, and most episodes would also have morals in them. In the comics, the characters encountered other ghosts besides Mudsy and Boo.
Voice Cast[]
- Don Messick as Boo the cat
- Daws Butler as Jonathan Muddlemore
- Tommy Cook as Augie Anderson
- Jerry Dexter as Elmo
- Micky Dolenz as Skip Gilroy
- Kristina Holland as April Stewart
Episodes[]
- Don't Fool with a Phantom
- Heir Scare
- I'll Haunt You Later
- Who's Chicken
- The Headless Horseman
- Spirit Spooked
- Ghost Town Ghost
- We Saw a Sea Serpent
- Haunt in Inn
- Mudsy Joins the Circus
- Pigskin Predicament
- The Liberty Bell Caper
- April's Foolish Day
- The Forest's Prime-Evil
- The Hairy Scarey Houndman
- Mudsy and Muddlemore Manor
- Ghost Grabbers
Trivia[]
- This is the first Hanna-Barbera Australia production. To make this possible, H-B partnered up with Air Programs International in Sydney, Australia, to produce the series. this resulted in considerably sloppier animation and editing than H-B's domestic output of the time. The following year, Hanna-Barbera Australia was officially established by Jerry Smith as Hanna-Barbera Pty. Ltd., and hired many Air Programs International artists and animators.
- New incidental music for the series was composed by Australian jazz composer John Sangster, although the show recycles much of Ted Nichols' underscore (and half the time, the Ted Nichols music doesn't even get used properly).