The Film Chest doubles up the animation action with the Oct.
20 DVD debut of the special edition release titled 2 DVD Classic Animation Set: The
Barkleys, The Houndcats.
The Barkleys and The Houndcats were both produced by DePatie-Freleng
Enterprises in 1972. The creative talents
behind this company are better known to the world of animation as David DePatie
and Friz Freleng — for nearly 20 years they combined their extensive
backgrounds in studio animation to form their own animation production
company.
Freleng, for example, was responsible for Bugs Bunny,
Yosemite Sam and Porky Pig, among others, while at Warner Bros. and it is here
that he met DePatie. Their production
company was responsible for The Pink Panther theatrical cartoons
(two Oscar nominations, with a win for The Pink Phink in 1964), the
television spinoff, The Pink Panther Show, The Cat in the Hat and The
Lorax television specials and numerous other animated series and
specials between 1963 and 1981 … that’s when they sold the company to Marvel
Comics.
The Film Chest has gathered together two of these DePatie-Freleng
Enterprises animated series in this special edition release. All 13-episodes of The Barkleys, featuring
the voice talents of Henry Corden as Arnie Barkley (Corden was the voice of
Fred Flintstone for many years) and Joan Gerber as his wife, Arnes (Gerber was
the voice of Mata Hairi in the Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp, plus
numerous series as a voice talent including DuckTales, The
Smurfs and The Fantastic Four) are presented here.
For the record, the members of the Barkley family are
human-like dogs patterned after the All in the Family sitcom.
The companion series is The Houndcats, which are a trio of
dogs — Ding Dog (voice by Stu Gilliam), Mussel Mutt (voice provided by none
other than Aldo Ray) and Rhubarb (Arte Johnson) — and a pair of cats — Stutz
(voice by Michael Bell), the leader of the group, and Putty Puss (Joe Besser) —
who are secret agents in the spirit of the popular Mission: Impossible
television series.
The Film Chest has all 13 episodes that were produced for
the series in this unique animation collection.
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