The Puppy's Further Adventures (originally titled The Puppy's New Adventures for season one) is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series produced by Ruby-Spears Enterprises (in association with Hanna-Barbera Productions for its first season only) and broadcast on ABC from September 25, 1982 to November 10, 1984.[1] It is based on characters created by Jane Thayer about Petey, a young dog who attached himself to a lonely orphan boy named Tommy.[2]
The Puppy's Further Adventures | |
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Based on | The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy by Jane Thayer |
Developed by | Joe Ruby Ken Spears |
Directed by | Charles A. Nichols (1982) Rudy Larriva John Kimball (1983) Norm McCabe (1983) |
Voices of | Billy Jacoby Nancy McKeon Michael Bell Peter Cullen |
Narrated by | Petey the Puppy (voiced by Billy Jacoby) |
Composer | Dean Elliott |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 21 |
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Executive producers | Joe Ruby and Ken Spears Bill Hanna and Joseph Barbera (1982) |
Producers | Joe Ruby and Ken Spears (1982) Mark Jones (1983) |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production companies | Ruby-Spears Enterprises Hanna-Barbera Productions (Season 1) |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | September 25, 1982 November 10, 1984 | –
Petey the puppy was originally introduced in four half-hour television specials which aired as part of ABC Weekend Specials series from 1978 to 1981: The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy, The Puppy's Great Adventure, The Puppy's Amazing Rescue and The Puppy Saves the Circus.[3]
The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy and its three sequels were frequently rebroadcast on ABC Weekend Specials and proved so popular with its annual replays that ABC commissioned a television series. In September 1982, Petey could be seen weekly in The Puppy's New Adventures as part of the second half of The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour block with Billy Jacoby voicing Petey and Nancy McKeon as his female puppy girlfriend Dolly. The following year, Petey and his pals were given their own half-hour timeslot in a follow-up series under the new title The Puppy's Further Adventures. Following the show's original run, a repackaging of both seasons were shown in reruns under the title The Puppy's Great Adventures on ABC in 1984 and resurfaced on CBS in 1986.[4]
The Puppy was originally introduced in four half-hour television specials which aired as part of ABC Weekend Specials.[5]
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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1 | The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy | Rudy Larriva | Barbara Avedon, Barbara Corday | May 6, 1978 | |
Petey the puppy (voiced by Todd Turquand) goes through a series of harrowing adventures as he sets out to the city to adopt a boy of his own. | |||||
2 | The Puppy's Great Adventure | Rudy Larriva | Sheldon Stark | May 12, 1979 | |
Petey (voiced by Bryan Scott) is determined to prove he is an individual when his young owner Tommy is adopted by parents who don't like dogs. | |||||
3 | The Puppy's Amazing Rescue | Rudy Larriva | Sheldon Stark | January 26, 1980 | |
Petey (voiced by Bryan Scott) and Dolly (voiced by Nancy McKeon) have to outwit poachers, a hungry bear and a hawk to rescue their humans from an avalanche. | |||||
4 | The Puppy Saves the Circus | Rudy Larriva | Sheldon Stark | September 12, 1981 | |
When Petey (voiced by Sparky Marcus) suffers a memory loss, he finds fame as a performer which saves the fortunes of a struggling family circus. |
The first season featured Petey and Dolly's family moving overseas by ship; their friends Duke, Dash and Lucky stowed away on the same ship. All five dogs were stranded together when a lightning bolt knocked them overboard. Every episode consisted of the dogs looking for Tommy and his family, winding up in places as diverse as East Berlin, Australia, Hong Kong, Hawaii and usually helping out a local group of people or animals.
No. | Title | Original air date |
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1 | "The Treasure of the Ancient Ruins" | September 25, 1982 |
2 | "The Puppy's Dangerous Mission" | October 2, 1982 |
3 | "An American Puppy in Paris" | October 9, 1982 |
4 | "The Puppy and the Pirates" | October 16, 1982 |
5 | "The Mystery of the Wailing Cat" | October 23, 1982 |
6 | "The Puppy's Australian Adventure" | October 30, 1982 |
7 | "Puppy and the Reluctant Bull" | November 6, 1982 |
8 | "The Puppy's Hong Kong Adventure" | November 13, 1982 |
9 | "Honolulu Puppy" | November 20, 1982 |
10 | "The Puppy's Great Escape" | November 27, 1982 |
11 | "The Puppy's Great Race" | December 4, 1982 |
12 | "The Puppy's Amazon Adventure" | December 11, 1982 |
13 | "Petey and the 101 Seals" | December 18, 1982 |
The second season opened with a two-part episode in which the dogs are finally reunited with Tommy's family. The rest of the season featured the dogs' adventures with the family while travelling all around the United States. The season opener introduced Glyder, a puppy with ears so large he could fly like Dumbo. Glyder re-appeared in two other episodes.
No. | Title | Original air date | |
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14 | "Glyder, the Misfit Puppy" | September 10, 1983 | |
15 | "Puppy Goes Home" | September 17, 1983 | |
16 | "Puppy and the Badlands" | September 24, 1983 | |
17 | "Puppy in Omega World" | October 1, 1983 | |
18 | "Puppy and the Spies" | October 8, 1983 | |
The dogs uncover a plot by enemy spies to sabotage a rocket launch. Note: Fangface and Puggsy have cameos in this episode when the dogs are watching an episode of Fangface on TV. | |||
19 | "Puppy Goes to College" | October 15, 1983 | |
Three siblings steal chemicals from a college chemistry lab as part of their plan to kidnap the Governor, who sent their brother to prison. | |||
20 | "Puppy and the Brown Eyed Girl" | October 22, 1983 | |
21 | "Biggest Diamond in the World" | October 29, 1983 | |
A huge diamond is stolen, and replaced with a fake. Note: Third and final appearance of Glyder. |
The Puppy series was originally broadcast in these following formats on ABC and CBS:
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