Butch Cassidy (TV series)

Not to be confused with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Butch Cassidy
Also known as	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids (DVD box title)
Genre	Animation/Mystery
Directed by	Earl Klein Charles A. Nichols
Voices of	Lloyd "Chip" Hand II Micky Dolenz Kristina "Tina" Holland Judy Strangis John Stephenson Frank Welker
Theme music composer	Hoyt Curtin
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Executive producer(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Camera setup	Ralph Migliori Jerry Mills Norman Stainback Roy Wade
Running time	30 min.
Production company(s)	Hanna-Barbera Productions
Distributor	Turner Program Services (1991–96) Warner Bros. Television (1996–present)
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	September 8 (1973-09-08) – December 1, 1973 (1973-12-01)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and broadcast on NBC from September 8, 1973 to December 1, 1973. The series title is a play on the name of the unrelated 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The character's music group is called the Sundance Kids.

Plot

Similar to both Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and Josie and the Pussycats on CBS, the show depicted the adventures of a teen pop group of the series title. The band consisted of heartthrob Butch Cassidy (lead vocals, lead guitar and lead singing), blonde beauty Merilee (tambourine), sensible Stephanie (usually referred to by her nickname Steffy) (bass guitar), and curly-topped Wally (drums). With Wally's dog, Elvis, the kids led double lives as popular rock stars and a secret crime fighting team working for the government. The teens were advised by a supercomputer named Mr. Socrates (sock-RAH-tease), who was inexplicably extremely allergic to dogs, and when the group met with Mr. Socrates in his lair for their latest assignment, Elvis was always told to stay outside.

In each episode, however, Elvis would somehow end up inside the lair, either by his own ingenuity or by Wally's forgetfulness; either way, Elvis' presence would cause the supercomputer to violently sneeze, blowing the group out of the lair and off to their assignment. Cassidy, designated as "Sundance 1," wore a special ring with a hidden communicator to keep in contact with Mr. Socrates from afar. Micky Dolenz, the drummer and most frequent lead singer for the group The Monkees, provided the voice of Wally.

Cast

• Cam Clarke -
• Henry Corden -
• Hans Conried -
• Micky Dolenz - Wally
• Paul Robert Engemann -
• Shawn Oro Engemann -
• Michael Evans -
• Virginia Gregg -
• Lloyd "Chip" Hand II - Butch Cassidy
• Kristina "Tina" Holland - Stephanie
• Loyal Lucas -
• Susannah Olivia Lloyd -
• Ross Martin -
• Frank Maxwell -
• Alan Oppenheimer -
• Pam Peters -
• Ronnie Schell -
• John Stephenson - Mr. Socrates
• Judy Strangis - Merilee
• Franklin Welker - Elvis, Wally's dog

Episodes

No.	Title	Original air date	Production code
1	"The Scientist"	September 8, 1973 (1973-09-08)	BC-1
2	"The Counterfeiters"	September 15, 1973 (1973-09-15)	BC-2
3	"One of Our Ships Is Missing"	September 22, 1973 (1973-09-22)	BC-3
4	"Double Trouble"	September 29, 1973 (1973-09-29)	BC-4
5	"The Pearl Caper"	October 6, 1973 (1973-10-06)	BC-5
6	"The Gold Caper"	October 13, 1973 (1973-10-13)	BC-6
7	"Road Racers"	October 20, 1973 (1973-10-20)	BC-7
8	"Hong Kong Story"	October 27, 1973 (1973-10-27)	BC-8
9	"Operation G-Minus"	November 3, 1973 (1973-11-03)	BC-9
10	"Orient Express"	November 10, 1973 (1973-11-10)	BC-10
11	"The Parrot Caper"	November 17, 1973 (1973-11-17)	BC-11
12	"The Super Sub"	November 24, 1973 (1973-11-24)	BC-12
13	"The Haunted Castle"	December 1, 1973 (1973-12-01)	BC-13

Other appearances

• Butch Cassidy was also the subject of Issue #11 of Gold Key Comics' Hanna-Barbera Fun-In in 1974; the story, "The Pearl Caper," was adapted from the October 6, 1973 Butch Cassidy TV episode of the same name.
• Characters from Butch Cassidy appeared several times on the Adult Swim animated television series Sealab 2021. The whole band appeared in the episode "All That Jazz" in a long shot at a concert, standing in for MC Chris as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids and performing the song "Fett's Vette". In a later episode, "Let 'Em Eat Corn!", the band appears again as inhabitants of SeaLab Pod Six, with both Butch and Wally both sporting mustaches on their faces. Then again, in the episode "Butchslap", the characters appeared alongside Marco, who was revealed to be one of the Sundance Kids. The character models for Butch and Wally were also used for the animated likeness of John Miller (the series director) and Adam Reed (one of the series writers) in the episodes, "Swimming in Oblivion" and "Return to Oblivion".

Home Media releases

On January 15, 2013, Warner Archive released Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids: The Complete Series on DVD in region 1 as part of their Hanna–Barbera Classics Collection. This is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and Amazon.com.

External links

• Butch Cassidy at IMDb
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids at TV.com
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids at the Big Cartoon DataBase