"Hong Kong Fuey" redirects here. For the snooker player with this nickname, see Marco Fu.
Hong Kong Phooey
Genre
Comedy
Created by
William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Directed by
Charles A. Nichols
Wally Burr
Voices of
Scatman Crothers
Richard Dawson
Kathy Gori
Don Messick
Joe E. Ross
Theme music composer
Hoyt Curtin
Opening theme
"Hong Kong Phooey" by Scatman Crothers
Ending theme
Hong Kong Phooey (Instrumental)
Composer
Hoyt Curtin
Country of origin
United States
Original language
English
No. of episodes
16 (31 sub-episodes)
Production
Executive producers
William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Producer
Iwao Takamoto (creative producer)
Running time
30 minutes (approximately)
Production company
Hanna-Barbera Productions
Original release
Network
ABC
Release
September 7 (1974-09-07) – December 21, 1974 (1974-12-21)
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Hong Kong Phooey is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and originally broadcast on ABC. The original episodes aired from September 7 to December 21, 1974, and then in repeats until 1976.[1] The show was brought back in reruns in 1978 and 1981, and was included in the USA Network's Cartoon Express block throughout the 1980s.[2] The main character, Hong Kong Phooey, is the clownishly clumsy secret identity of Penrod "Penry" Pooch, working at a police station as a "mild-mannered" janitor under the glare of Sergeant Flint, nicknamed "Sarge".
Penry disguises himself as Hong Kong Phooey by jumping into a filing cabinet – in so doing he always gets stuck, and is freed by his striped pet cat named Spot – and once disguised, gets equipped with the "Phooeymobile" vehicle that transforms itself into a boat, a plane or a telephone booth, depending on the circumstances.[3]
In fighting crime, he relies on his copy of The Hong Kong Book of Kung Fu, a correspondence-course martial-arts instruction handbook.[4] However, his successes are only either thanks to Spot, who provides a solution to the challenges, or the direct result of a comically unintended side effect of his efforts. The humor of the incompetence of Hong Kong Phooey is a recurring theme of each episode. The backgrounds were designed by Lorraine Andrina and Richard Khim.
^Woolery, George W. (1983). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981. Scarecrow Press. pp. 141–142. ISBN 0-8108-1557-5. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
^Hyatt, Wesley (1997). The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television. Watson-Guptill Publications. pp. 216–217. ISBN 978-0-8230-8315-2. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
^Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 414–415. ISBN 978-1-4766-6599-3.
^Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 286–287. ISBN 978-1-5381-0373-9.
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