Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines

Flying men in daring boxes (English Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines ) is an animated series by Hanna -Barbera from 1969 The series is a spin -off of the series Wacky Races -. Race car total from the year 1968.

Content

The villains Dick Dastardly and Muttley duo, flying aces of the First World War, was taken from Wacky Races. You are the leader of the Vulture Squadron, a group of pilots, whose job it is to the pigeon Yankee Doodle Pigeon to prevent it to pass important information to the enemy. Each half-hour episode consists of two stories and a few gags and Muttleys daydreaming between the two parts.

Characters

Members of the Vulture Squadron are:

• Dick Dastardly (engl. Fly Bert view of Mayrhofen ): Ex- Wacky Race racer, the mutant with the pilot, and leader of the group.
• Muttley (German Meutrich ): Dastardlys sidekick. His ferocious laughter is typical of him and made the dog world famous ( later spin-off as The Mumbly Cartoon Show, German detective dog Marbles, please come ).
• Zilly (German Otto ): The coward of the group.
• Klunk (Eng. Einstein): chief mechanic and designer.

Other characters:

• Yankee Doodle Pigeon: A Patriotic American dove, which attempted with a bag full of letters to escape the Vulture Squadron.
• The General: chief of the entire band and a character that the audience never gets to see.
• Muttleys friend, you you only see frequently in the daydream scenes of Muttley.

Production and publication

Directed by Joseph Barbera and William Hanna, the Hanna -Barbera studio produced 1969 to 1971, the 35- part series as a Saturday morning cartoon. The music was composed by Hoyt S. Curtin. The series was broadcast on 13 September 1969 to September 4, 1971 by the CBS in the U.S.. The series was initially released on VHS, 2006 on DVD.

Flying men in daring boxes was translated among others into Finnish, French, Italian and Japanese as well as in ten other languages. In Germany, the series was first shown from 28 July to 21 August 1995 by RTL 2. Several episodes were cut together, so that only 16 episodes were seen. Later followed reps at K- Toon, Junior and Boomerang.

Synchronization

Comic versions

In the 1970s, the series was also produced in a comic version. However, the two main characters were renamed and double decker.