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JABBERJAW - The Sourpuss Octopus

Air Date/Released Saturday, October 9, 1976
Station/Studio ABC / Hanna-Barbera Prods.
Host/Star Jabberjaw

Hanna-Barbera's 1970s originality is at work here, recycling the formats of JOSIE & THE PUSSYCATS and SCOOBY-DOO, with newly named characters living in the year 2076, a rock band named The Neptunes. Drawing on the mid '70s shark-mania of JAWS, the main character is Jabberjaw, a talking great white shark and The Neptunes' drummer. Frank Welker was Jabber's voice, an impersonation of Jerry 'Curly' Howard; the shark's personality drew on the characterization of Rodney Dangerfield.

The villainous Octopus wants the ancient undersea jungle treasure of Panaqua for his own nefarious ends, and schemes to defeat Professor Acosta's expedition. What he doesn't plan on is the Neptunes accidentally joining the professor's team, so he kidnaps Jabberjaw and sends a replica shark to spy on the expedition.


Voices: Frank Welker (Jabberjaw), Barry Gordon (Cleveland 'Clamhead' Rogers), Pat Parris (Shelly LaMarine), Tommy Cook (Biff Starke), Julie McWhirter (Bubbles Blowton), Keye Luke, Casey Kasem, Ross Martin, Don Messick, John Stephenson, Vic Perrin, Barney Phillips, Hal Smith, Janet Waldo, Lennie Weinrib, Regis Cordic, Ron Feinberg, Gay Hartwig, Hettie Lynn Hurtes

Crew: Bill Hanna, Joe Barbera (Executive Producers), Joe Ruby, Ken Spears (Creators), Iwao Takamoto, Alex Lovy (Producers), Charles A. Nichols (Director), George Atkins, Haskell Barkin, John Bates, Larz Bourne, Tom Dagenais, Robert Fisher, Ray Parker (Writers), Frank Andrina, Tom Barnes, Bill Carney, Rudy Cataldi, Lillian Evans, Otto Feuer, Hugh Fraser, Fernando Gonzalez, Jack Hadley, Bob Hathcock, Dan Mills, Ken Muse, Constantin Mustatea, Floyd Norman Eduardo Olivares, Don Patterson, Tom Ray, Morey Reden, Lenn Redman, Ken Southworth, Leo Sullivan, Dick Thompson, Carlo Vinci, Russ Von Neida, Mike Arens, Dale Barnhart, Hak Ficq, C. L. Hatman, Alex Ignatiev, Ray Jacobs, Homer Jonas, Bill Lignante, Jim Mueller, Tony Rivera, Linda Rowley Tony Sgrol, Al Wilson (Layouts and Animation)
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