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| Format | Animation |
| Created by | Joe Ruby Ken Spears |
| Starring | Frank Welker Gary Owens Larry McCormick Ron Feinberg |
| Narrated by | Ron Feinberg |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 20 (16 half-hour episodes and eight 11-minute two-part episodes) |
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| Running time | approx. 22 minutes (per episode) |
| Production company(s) | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Television |
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| Original channel | ABC |
| Original run | September 11, 1976 – October 22, 1977 |
Dynomutt, Dog Wonder is an American animated television series produced for Saturday mornings by Hanna-Barbera about a Batman-esque super hero, the Blue Falcon and his assistant, a bumbling yet generally effective robot dog Dynomutt, who could produce a seemingly infinite number of mechanical devices from his body. As with many other animated super-heroes of the era, no origins for the characters were ever provided. Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained an abridged, inferior laugh track created by the studio. Today, Warner Bros. Television holds the television distribution to the series.
Between January 2 and March 9, 2008, repeats of Dynomutt, Dog Wonder were shown on Boomerang. On June 4, 2009, Dynomutt, Dog Wonder returned to Boomerang and airs Thursdays through Sundays at 10am Eastern.
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Millionaire socialite art dealer Radley Crown (a Bruce Wayne incarnate voiced by Gary Owens) and his mechanical mongrel, Dynomutt (voiced by Frank Welker who got the inspiration for the voice from the Gertrude and Heathcliff characters of Red Skelton), enjoy leisure time in their base of operations Big City, until alerted by the Falcon Flash. They immediately dash for the Falcon's Lair (situated in Crown's penthouse apartment), where they switch to their secret identities, the Blue Falcon and Dog Wonder, respectively, receive the report via TV screen from the secret GHQ of secret agent F.O.C.U.S. One (voiced by Ron Feinberg, the tongue-in-cheek narrator of all 20 segments of Dynomutt, Dog Wonder), and jump into the Falconcar and speed into the fray against assorted evildoers. In a coup not unsimilar to the 1960s Batman TV series, the first 10 minutes of Dynomutt ended with a cliffhanger wherein the Daring Duo, in the clutches of their foes, were subjected to a perilous fate which would be resolved immediately after the commercial.
The metallic mutt employed a system of miniaturized transistors which allowed him to extend his limbs or neck and use them to perform extraordinary feats; only problem was, none of them ever really worked properly! B.F. (as D.W. would lovingly refer to him), was more Dynomutt's victim than his master, forever being hamstrung by the latter's insufferably clumsy mechanized mishaps, which would often result in Blue Falcon calling Dynomutt "Dog Blunder". But nevertheless, Dynomutt and the Blue Falcon, who was equipped with his own arsenal of supergadgetry, manage to get the situation well in hand. Sometimes Lt. Mumbly or even Dynomutt's co-stars, Scooby-Doo and his mystery-solving teen consorts Shaggy Rogers, Freddy Jones, Daphne Blake and Velma Dinkley, would drop in to aid the Daring Duo in cracking their toughest crimes. Dynomutt, Dog Wonder has the historic significance of casting the first African-American public official in Saturday Morning cartoons in the form of Mayor Gaunt (voiced by Larry McCormick).
The episode titles given reflect Hanna-Barbera studio records. No on-screen titles were given for this series.
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| SDD-1 | Everyone Hyde! 1 | September 11, 1976 |
Willie the Weasel has created a formula that turns him into Mr. Hyde. While Blue Falcon and Dynomutt are on the trail of the mysterious Mr. Hyde, they encounter the Mystery Inc. gang and Scooby-Doo (who are unaware that Mr. Hyde is a supervillain and not one of their typical "spooks"). In The New Scooby-Doo Movies-fashion, they team-up with Blue Falcon and Dynomutt (who happens to be Scooby's hero) to stop Mr. Hyde who has threaten to turn the entire city into Mr. Hyde's unless he is proclaimed Mayor. Fred and the others find a clue (which turns out to be Willie the Weasel's glove) and Blue Falcon deduces he is Mr. Hyde. Blue Falcon & Dynomutt have Mr. Hyde proclaimed Mayor and pretend to be turned in so Mr. Hyde will lead them to his secret lair and trick him into showing them the antidote to the Hyde formula. Willie the Weasel and his canine partner-in-crime "Snitch" manage to escape. Blue Falcon and Dynomutt head to the Mayor's Mansion to stop Hyde from retrieving his stolen loot. The Mystery Inc. gang setup one of their infamous "Scooby Traps" while Blue Falcon & Dynomutt confront Mr. Hyde and Snitch. Dynomutt captures Snitch while Blue Falcon and the Mystery Inc. crew capture Willie the Weasel/Mr. Hyde.
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| SDD-2 | What Now, Lowbrow? 1 | September 18, 1976 |
A caveman-like criminal named Lowbrow wants to become the King of Crime and steals some books that will help him in his quest. Blue Falcon and Dynomutt end up assisted by Mystery Inc. into stopping Lowbrow.
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| SDD-3 | The Great Brain... Train Robbery | September 25, 1976 |
| The Gimmick is a criminal mastermind who uses his prowess of gadgets to create havoc in the city and dares the police to stop him from stealing a train car with a prince inside. | ||
| SDD-4 | The Day and Night Crawler | October 2, 1976 |
| A talking worm called Worm and his henchman Grub use a digging machine to spring Bugsy Busby and Roto Chopper from prison in a plot to steal a super-computer. | ||
| SDD-5 | The Harbor Robber | October 9, 1976 |
| An ocean-themed villain named Fishface plans to steal Big City's oil and hold it for ransom. | ||
| SDD-6 | Sinister Symphony | October 16, 1976 |
| Manyfaces uses his hypnotic gadget to hypnotize Dynomutt into arresting Blue Falcon, Mayor Gaunt, and the Chief of Police. | ||
| SDD-7 | Don't Bug Superthug | October 23, 1976 |
| Superthug and his henchman Zorkon have created a super-dynamic steel skeleton and plans to use it to steal the city's steel supply to mass-produce an army of steel skeletons. | ||
| SDD-8 | Factory Recall | October 30, 1976 |
| Blue Falcon loses his Falcon Communicator while he and Dynomutt are fighting Mr. Cool. Mr. Cool then makes Blue Falcon think that he is F.O.C.U.S. One claiming that Dynomutt needs to recalled to where he was made. | ||
| SDD-9 | The Queen Hornet | November 6, 1976 |
| Blue Falcon and Dynomutt attempt to get evidence that will put Queen Hornet in prison. | ||
| SDD-10 | The Wizard of Ooze 1 | November 13, 1976 |
Swamp Rat and his henchman Mudmouth plan to flood Big City by using stolen pumps to send half the water in Bogmyer Swamp into Big City to start a crime spree. Blue Falcon and Dynomutt, team-up once again with Scooby-Doo and Mystery Inc. to stop the villains before Big City becomes Bog City.
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| SDD-11 | Tin Kong | November 20, 1976 |
| A hack movie director named Eric von Flick plans to make a movie called "The Total Destruction of Big City" starring his robotic creation Tin Kong. | ||
| SDD-12 | The Awful Ordeal with the Head of Steel | November 25, 1976 2 |
| A mysterious criminal named Ironface seeks revenge on Big City by capturing the District Attorney, the Warden of Rockatraz, Detective Malloy, Mayor Gaunt, Judge Grater, Chief Grisby, and the Chief Prosecutor as well as Blue Falcon and Dynomutt. Now Blue Falcon and Dynomutt must defeat Ironface and find out her true identity. | ||
| SDD-13 | The Blue Falcon vs. The Red Vulture | November 27, 1976 |
| The Red Vulture steals 2 of the world's most powerful super-jet engines, with plans to use them for his nefarious Vulturejet and in turn dominate the airways. | ||
| SDD-14 | The Injustice League of America | December 4, 1976 3 |
| Fishface, Gimmick, Lowbrow, Queen Hornet, Superthug, and Worm have escaped from Big City Prison and had formed the Injustice League of America. They plan to commit a major crime spree and dispose of Blue Falcon and Dynomutt. | ||
| SDD-15 | Lighter Than Air Raid | December 11, 1976 3 |
| An evil genius of the airways named Blimp is stealing Big City's supply of helium. | ||
| SDD-16 | The Prophet Profits | December 18, 1976 3 |
| The Prophet sets up his own disasters which he can predict for Mayor Gaunt and charge him $500,000 for every prediction he wants to know. | ||
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| 2.1 | Beastwoman Pt. 1 and 2 | September 10, 1977 |
| Beastwoman uses her multifrequency Beast Whistle to have the animals at Big City Zoo break out of their cages and drive the people out of Big City. When Dynomutt falls victim to the Beast Whistle, it's up to Blue Falcon to stop Beastwoman. | ||
| 2.2 | The Glob Pt. 1 and 2 | September 24, 1977 |
| Norbert Prindle (AKA Glob) and his gang plan to steal the Baltese Falcon. | ||
| 2.3 | Madame Ape Face Pt. 1 and 2 | October 8, 1977 |
| Madame Ape Face is using a device to help her steal the faces of beautiful starlets of Big City. | ||
| 2.4 | Shadowman Pt. 1 and 2 | October 22, 1977 |
| Shadowman mysteriously knows all of the plans of the Crime Commission and plans to commit a crime spree where one of them frames Mayor Gaunt. | ||
These 4 new episodes were aired under the new title The Blue Falcon & Dynomutt.
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