anyone know the minitour guy on here that is sponsored by Cleveland/Fidra?

onemomentintime · April 10, 2006

there is a guy on this board that claims to play the minitours in the northeast and is sponsored by Cleveland and Fidra. Who is he? I can't place his name but I would like to run something by him. Thanks in advance. What is his screename?

alcap26 · April 10, 2006

maybe homestylz

TightenUpROOKIE · April 14, 2006

alcap26.... love the avitar, that dog is by far the greatest, but what old school cartoon is that from? onemoment..... just send me a PM & ill answer anything you've got or help you out with whatever i can.

hksaikung · April 14, 2006

Dick Dastardly and his dog, Muttley, were first seen in 1968, as part of the ensemble cast of Wacky Races (swiped from the movie The Great Race), where they were the villains. That show didn't take off, but it did spawn two spin-offs, the other being The Perils of Penelope Pitstop (swiped from silent movie serials, the most famous example being The Perils of Pauline). Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines, where the bad guys didn't have to share the limelight with all those others, debuted September 13, 1969 on CBS.

In this show, Dastardly traded in his racing car, The Mean Machine, for a bunch of airplanes of about World War I vintage. That was presumably the war in which he and his cohorts, The Vulture Squadron, operated, but this was never specifically stated — nor was it ever mentioned which side they worked for, tho it was no-doubt the "wrong" one. They took orders over the phone from someone identified only as "The General", and those orders were invariably to keep the only non-villainous recurring character, Yankee Doodle Pigeon, from delivering a message. The mission to "Stop That Pigeon" was so prominent (the phrase was repeated more than a dozen times in the theme song), many young viewers thought that was the name of the show.

Dastardly's voice, and that of The General, were done by Paul Winchell, whose other roles include Winnie the Pooh's friend Tigger, Zummi Gummi and Marmaduke. Don Messick, Hanna-Barbera's go-to man for non-anthropomorphic animal voices (he did Josie's cat Sebastian, Shazzan's flying camel Kaboobie, and Scooby-Doo), did Muttley. Messick also provided voices for the other members of The Vulture Squadron, Klunk Klunk and Zilly. Yankee Doodle Pigeon didn't speak.

The half-hour show consisted of two Dastardly/Muttley adventures, a brief segment in which Muttley daydreamed about adventures of his own, and a few quick, unrelated gags. Seventeen were made, and shown repeatedly over a two-year period. It hasn't been a tremendous success in syndicated reruns, but didn't drop completely off the map either.

Dastardly and Muttley never had their own comic, but were frequently seen in Gold Key's Fun-in, an anthology that also featured The Cattanooga Cats; Inch High, Private Eye; Speed Buggy and other Hanna-Barbera properties. They were licensed as toys, lunch boxes etc., but didn't appear in other story media, such as Little Golden Books.

In 1978, they again became a part of an ensemble cast when they, along with Quick Draw McGraw, Jabberjaw, Snagglepuss and several other Hanna-Barbera characters from defunct series became regulars on Yogi's Treasure Hunt. But they haven't been seen very much in more recent years.