Speed Buggy (Picture 2). Speed Buggy cartoon images gallery 2. Speed Buggy cartoon pictures collection 2. Although closely patterned after the meddling kids characters of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, at least five Speed Buggy episodes were actually reworkings of Josie and the Pussycats storylines, including "Out of Sight", "Island of the Giant Plants" and "Hidden Valley". A different voice actor portrayed "Tinker" in the first two episodes. It is unclear if the credited voice of Phil Luther, Jr. voiced the first two or the last 14 shows. It is also unclear why the change was made. The first episode, "Speed Buggy Went That-A-Way", is featured on the DVD compilation Saturday Morning Cartoons: the 1970s Volume 1 released on May 26, 2009. Speed Buggy (Picture 2). Speed Buggy cartoon images gallery 2. Speed Buggy cartoon pictures collection 2. Hanna-Barbera, the most successful TV animation studio ever, had an unspoken but inflexible policy regarding any outstanding hits it might produce. It would milk them dry, flooding the market with knock-offs until it was no longer possible to squeeze an audience out of them. Thus, when Scooby Doo proved such a huge success with its four teenagers and a dog tooling around in a van and solving mysteries, the company followed it up with The Funky Phantom (three teens, a dog and two ghosts in a flivver), Josie & the Pussycats (teenage music group with a cat and on-board bad guys in a tour bus), and even a retooled version of The Addams Family (kids plus goofy, kid-like grownups, octopus and large carnivore in a creepy old house on wheels). Speed Buggy (three teens, no dog, but the car, which was the title character, could talk) debuted as a half-hour animated show on September 8, 1973, on CBS. In anthropomorphizing the car, the studio was following another of its common practices, "borrowing" concepts from others — in this case, Disney's The Love Bug (1968), about a living Volkswagen. Its next anthropomorphic car was Wheelie & the Chopper Bunch. Speed Buggy (Picture 2). Speed Buggy cartoon images gallery 2. Speed Buggy cartoon pictures collection 2.
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