Casper and the Angels | |
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Genre | Adventure Mystery Comedy horror Sci-fi |
Based on | Casper the Friendly Ghost by Seymour Reit Joe Oriolo |
Written by | Bob Ogle Jack Bonestell Patsy Cameron Gary Greenfield Dick Robbins |
Directed by | Oscar Dufau George Gordon Ray Patterson Carl Urbano |
Voices of | Julie McWhirter Diana McCannon Laurel Page John Stephenson Hal Smith Paul Winchell |
Composer | Hoyt Curtin |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 13 (26 segments) |
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Executive producers | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
Producers | Alex Lovy Art Scott |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production companies | Hanna-Barbera Productions The Harvey Entertainment Company |
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Network | NBC |
Release | September 22 – December 15, 1979 |
Casper and the Angels is an American animated television series based on the Harvey Comics cartoon character Casper the Friendly Ghost, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and broadcast on NBC from September 22 to December 15, 1979. [1]
Casper the Friendly Ghost is a "guardian ghost" to two female Space Police officers named Mini (who is a rather ditzy redhead) and Maxi (who is a much more intelligent African-American woman with a very short temper) who patrol the Jetsons -style Space City on their flying motorcycles in the year 2179. [2]
They are joined by the rambunctious but good-hearted Hairy Scary, a large, shaggy, thousand year old ghost with a red nose and big bow tie who enjoys scaring people, especially villains and other troublemakers, but because he has a great deal of affection for his little pal Casper he, unlike most of their ghostly kind, tries to accept the fact that the gentle ghost does not like to scare people.
Less accepting, especially toward Mini and Maxi, are their fellow officers Nerdley and Fungo, a pair of bumbling, flying patrol car-driving male chauvinists who are always trying to prove that they are superior to their female counterparts, only to have their efforts undone by their own stupidity and cowardice.
The show was Hanna-Barbera's second attempt to cash in on the popularity of Charlie's Angels as well as the popularity of the motorcycle police drama CHiPs , the first being Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels on ABC. [3]
Twenty-six 15-minute segments shown as thirteen 30-minute episodes were produced, as well as two television specials Casper's Halloween Special and Casper's First Christmas .
The series was shown on Cartoon Network and Boomerang for a few years and rarely found on television since 2003 or even earlier. Some of the episodes can be found on YouTube.
Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track.
No. | Title | Original air date | |
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1 | "Casper's Golden Chance" "Space Circus" | September 22, 1979 | |
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2 | "Casper Ghosts West" "Casper's Camp-Out" | September 29, 1979 | |
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3 | "Strike Four" "The Space Pirate" | October 6, 1979 | |
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4 | "Shipwrecked" "The Cat Burglar" | October 13, 1979 | |
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5 | "Something Fishy" "The Smiling Lisa" | October 20, 1979 | |
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6 | "A Pocket Full O' Schemes" "A Tale of Two Trashmen" | October 27, 1979 | |
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7 | "Fatula" "T.V. or Not T.V." | November 3, 1979 | |
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8 | "Gone to the Dogs" "Private Eyeball to Eyeball" | November 10, 1979 | |
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9 | "Champ for a Day" "The Ghost Robbers" | November 17, 1979 | |
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10 | "Aunt Mary Scary" "The Ice Heist" | November 24, 1979 | |
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11 | "A Shoplifting Experience" "The Impossible Scream" | December 1, 1979 | |
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12 | "Prehistoric Hi-Jinx" "The Commander Is Missing" | December 8, 1979 | |
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13 | "Love at First Fright" "Savin' Grace in Outer Space" | December 15, 1979 | |
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On September 5, 1995, Turner Home Entertainment released two volumes The Boo Zoo and Stars & Frights on VHS. [4] This release contained five episodes from the series. In addition, on August 22, 2000, Warner Home Video released Casper Saves Halloween on VHS, which contained the Halloween special as well as six 15-minute episodes of Casper and the Angels.
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