Moby Dick & Mighty Mightor
Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor title screen
Genre	Animated television series
Created by	Hanna-Barbera productions
Directed by	Hanna-Barbera
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	Mightor (36) Moby Dick (18)
Production
Running time	30 mins
Production company(s)	Hanna-Barbera
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Original run	September 9, 1967 – 1969

Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor is a science fiction animated series created by Alex Toth for Hanna-Barbera Productions, which ran on CBS from 1967 to 1969. Despite Moby's name coming first, his shorts served as backup for Mightor's. To date, the series has not been released on DVD.

[edit] Segments

Mightor segment intro card

[edit] Mightor

One day, while on a hunting trip, a teenage caveman named Tor, along with his winged pet dinosaur Tog, rescue an old man who, as a reward, gives Tor a magical club. When Tor raises his club to the sky, he transforms into the masked and muscular Mightor, a prehistoric superhero very much in the Space Ghost mold who is super-strong and can fly and fire ray blasts from his club. Tog is turned into a fire-breathing dragon as well. As Mightor, he protects his village from evil-doers. Amongst the villagers are the chief, Pondo, and his daughter, the beautiful redhead, Sheera. Sheera has a younger brother named Little Rock, who loves pretending to be Mightor. The characters have several pets, including Little Rock's dodo bird Ork and Sheera's mammoth calf Bollo.

Tor is voiced by Bobby Diamond, while Mightor is voiced by Paul Stewart. Pondo, Tog, Ork and Bollo are voiced by John Stephenson. Sheera is voiced by Patsy Garrett. Little Rock is voiced by Norma McMillan.

Moby Dick segment intro card

[edit] Moby-Dick

Teenage boys Tom and Tub are rescued by the great white whale Moby Dick (not to be confused with the titular antagonist of the novel of the same name) after a shipwreck. Together with their pet seal, Scooby, they face the dangers of the undersea world. Tom is voiced by Bobby Resnick, Tub is voiced by Barry Balkin, and Moby and Scooby are voiced by Don Messick.

[edit] Other appearances

Along with other Hanna-Barbera heroes, Mightor and Moby Dick appear in a crossover with a time-traveling Space Ghost during the final six episodes of the latter's original series.

Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor and his friends appear in the Hanna-Barbera Super TV Heroes comic book, issues #1 – 7 (April 1968 – Oct. 1969).

Characters from Moby Dick later appear in Sealab 2021, Tubs 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."

Mighty Mightor makes some appearances in the Adult Swim show Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, as Judge Hiram Mightor and voiced by Gary Cole. Moby Dick appears in the episode "SPF" voiced by Wally Wingert.

[edit] Production credits

Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor video cover

• Produced and Directed by Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
• Animation Director: Charles A. Nichols
• Musical Director: Ted Nichols
• Production Supervisor: Howard Hanson
• Assistant Production Supervisor: Victor O. Schipek
• Character Design: Alex Toth
• Layout: Jerry Eisenberg, Steve Nanagawa, Phil Lewis, Iwao Takamoto, Willie Ito, Lou Apner
• Backgrounds: Robert Gentle, Roland Oliva, Ron Dias
• Camera: Clarence Wogatzke, Roger Sims, Chuck Flekal, George Epperson
• Associate Producer: Art Scott
• Story by David Scott and Ed Brandt
• Voices: Barry Balkin, Bobby Resnick, Don Messick, John Stephenson, Paul Stewart, Bob Diamond, Patsy Garrett
• Animation: George Goepper, George Rowley, Don Patterson, Irv Spence, Sam Jaimes, George Kreisl, Jerry Hathcock, Ed Barge, Dick Lundy, Ken Muse, Dennis Sill, Ron Campbell
• Technical Supervisor: Frank Pakier
• Supervising Film Editor: Warner Leighton
• Film Editing: Donald Douglass, Pat Foley, Gregory W. Watson Jr.
• Sound Direction: Richard Olson, Bill Getty

[edit] Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor in other languages

• Brazilian Portuguese: Moby Dick & O Poderoso Mightor
• Spanish: Moby Dick y el Poderoso Mightor
• Russian: Моби Дик и Могучий Майтор

[edit] External links

• Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor at the Internet Movie Database