Dynomutt, Dog Wonder
Syndication title card
Format	Animation
Created by	Joe Ruby Ken Spears
Starring	Frank Welker as Dynomutt Gary Owens as Blue Falcon
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	20 (16 half-hour episodes and eight 11-minute two-part episodes)
Production
Running time	approx. 22 minutes (per episode)
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Original run	September 11, 1976 – October 22, 1977

Dynomutt, Dog Wonder is an American animated television series produced for Saturday mornings by Hanna-Barbera about a Batman-esque super hero, the Blue Falcon and his assistant, a bumbling yet generally effective robot dog Dynomutt, who could produce a seemingly infinite number of mechanical devices from his body. As with many other animated super-heroes of the era, no origin for the characters were ever provided.

Recently, between January 2 and March 9, 2008, repeats of Dynomutt, Dog Wonder were shown on Boomerang. On June 4, 2009, Dynomutt, Dog Wonder returned to Boomerang and airs Thursdays through Sundays at 10am Eastern.

[edit] History

Millionaire socialite art dealer Radley Crown (a Bruce Wayne incarnate) and his mechanical mongrel, Dynomutt (who spoke in a hick-like voice reminiscent of Bullwinkle J. Moose and very early Big Bird), enjoy leisure time in their base of operations, Big City, until alerted by The Falcon Flash. They immediately dash for The Falcon's Lair (situated in Crown's penthouse apartment), where they switch to their secret identities, The Blue Falcon and Dog Wonder, respectively, receive the report via TV screen from the secret GHQ of secret agent Focus One (voiced by the late Ron Feinberg, the tongue-in-cheek narrator of all 20 segments of Dynomutt Dog Wonder), and jump into The Falconcar and speed into the fray against assorted evildoers. In a coup not unsimilar to the 1960s Batman TV series, the first 10 minutes of Dynomutt ended with a cliffhanger wherein The Daring Duo, in the clutches of their foes, were subjected to a perilous fate which would be resolved immediately after the commercial.

The metallic mutt employed a system of miniaturized transistors which allowed him to extend his limbs or neck and use them to perform extraordinary feats; only problem was, none of them ever really worked properly! B.F. (as D.W. would lovingly refer to him), was more Dynomutt's victim than his master, forever being hamstrung by the latter's mechanized mishaps, which would often result in Blue Falcon calling Dynomutt "Dog Blunder". But nevertheless, Dynomutt and The Blue Falcon, who was equipped with his own arsenal of supergadgetry (what superhero wouldn't be?) manage to get the situation well in hand. Sometimes Lt. Mumbly or even Dynomutt's co-stars, Scooby-Doo and his mystery-solving teen consorts Shaggy Rogers, Freddy Jones, Daphne Blake and Velma Dinkley, would drop in to aid The Daring Duo in cracking their toughest crimes. Dynomutt Dog Wonder has the historic significance of casting the first African-American public official in Saturday Morning cartoons, The Mayor (voiced by the late Larry McCormick). Dynomutt has also guest starred in krypto the super dog but he was an actor dog playing him as if he didnt exist for a movie so it was a spinoff.

[edit] Episode Guide (The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour)

[edit] Season One (1976 – 1977)

The episode titles given reflect Hanna-Barbera studio records. No on-screen titles were given for this series.

• ¹ These episodes guest-star Scooby-Doo and the Mystery, Inc. gang.
• ² Episode 1.12, "There's a Demon Shark In The Foggy Dark/The Awful Ordeal With The Head Of Steel", was originally broadcast not on a Saturday morning, but on Thanksgiving Day 1976 (November 25), during ABC's Thanksgiving Funshine Festival.
• ³ These episodes, and all first-season repeats, were broadcast as part of The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Show, which included an additional half-hour featuring a Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! rerun.

[edit] Episode guide (Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics)

[edit] Season Two (1977 – 1978)

These 4 new episodes were aired under the new title The Blue Falcon & Dynomutt.

[edit] Voices

• Frank Welker - Dynomutt
• Gary Owens - Radley Crowne/The Blue Falcon
• Larry McCormick - Mayor Gaunt
• Ron Feinberg - Narrator, F.O.C.U.S. One

[edit] In popular culture

• Gary Owens and Frank Welker reprise their roles of Blue Falcon and Dynomutt in guest appearances in the Dexter's Laboratory episode "Dyno-Might" (which was considered to be the darkest of the duo's adventures).
• Blue Falcon also appeared, without Dynomutt, on an episode of Johnny Bravo, in which he, "Weird Al" Yankovic, and Don Knotts redesign Johnny's show in a parody of Queer Eye For The Straight Guy. Gary Owens also reprises his role here.
• Blue Falcon appears as a recurring character in the Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law TV series and once in the video game of the same title as a Spanish lawyer named Azul Falcone (voiced by Maurice LaMarche). Dynomutt has also appeared in the two-part episode "Deadomutt" voiced by André Sogliuzzo with a Spanish accent.
• Dynomutt and Blue Falcon appeared in the Robot Chicken episode "Ban on the Fun" with Dynomutt voiced by Victor Yerrid and Blue Falcon voiced by Kevin Shinick.

[edit] External links

• Dynomutt, Dog Wonder at the Internet Movie Database
• Dynomutt, Dog Wonder at TV.com
• THE FALCON'S LAIR: The Unofficial Guide To Dynomutt Dog Wonder
• InternationalHero: Dynomutt
• Cartoon Network: Dept. of Cartoons: Dynomutt - cached copy from Internet Archives